Games like Perceptions of the Dead
If Perceptions of the Dead is your kind of game, the closest matches are Scarlet Hollow — Episode 1, CORPSE FACTORY and The Falconers: Moonlight — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, eerie and mysterious. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
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Steam players who put hours into Perceptions of the Dead also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Scarlet Hollow — Episode 1
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Perceptions of the Dead.
Top pick for Perceptions of the Dead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perceptions of the Dead.
The free-to-play first episode of a horror-mystery game with dark humor and hand-drawn art by Black Tabby Games. Note — we are retiring this store page. While the build here is still up-to-date, please download the DEMO from the main Scarlet Hollow store page. Thank you and have fun!
CORPSE FACTORY
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Perceptions of the Dead.
Second-strongest match for Perceptions of the Dead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perceptions of the Dead.
Discard your sense of morality and enter the world of CORPSE FACTORY. An obscure website allows users to request a death. Victims supposedly receive a photograph of their own corpse before they are killed! With English voice acting by an all-star cast.
The Falconers: Moonlight
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Perceptions of the Dead.
Third-strongest match for Perceptions of the Dead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perceptions of the Dead.
The Falconers: Moonlight is a supernatural thriller visual novel set in the 19th Century West Coast of New Zealand. Falconer, Cassandra Winter, is on her first solo mission. Can she save the people of Moonlight from their plight? Or will she disappear into the mist like so many others before her?
Lake of Voices
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Perceptions of the Dead.
Ranked #4 for Perceptions of the Dead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Free To Play with Perceptions of the Dead.
A free horror Visual Novel about an ill-fated journey across Sinnlos, a lake where gruesome monsters lurk just beneath the surface. With times being so dire you'll need to decide what, and who, is going to be sacrificed. Anyone can be saved, but not everyone can be.
TELEFORUM
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Perceptions of the Dead.
Ranked #5 for Perceptions of the Dead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perceptions of the Dead.
TELEFORUM is a found-footage-styled horror game exploring the unknown side of media. You’re visiting a widow’s apartment to conduct an interview about her husband's death. But that’s not the main reason why you’re here. It’s all about the tape, isn’t it?
Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Perceptions of the Dead.
Ranked #6 for Perceptions of the Dead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perceptions of the Dead.
From Dischan Media, creators of the highly acclaimed Juniper's Knot, comes Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.Dysfunctional Systems is a visual novel series featuring Winter Harrison, a student mediator from a utopian world. Learning to Manage Chaos is the first entry in the series.What is a mediator?
The Sad Story of Emmeline Burns
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Perceptions of the Dead.
Ranked #7 for Perceptions of the Dead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perceptions of the Dead.
A short lesbian / yuri visual novel set in England. Our heroine, Toma Andrews, meets a ghost girl wearing an old-fashioned nightgown in a graveyard who calls herself Emmeline. Just who is she, and how did she die?
The House in Fata Morgana: A Requiem for Innocence
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Perceptions of the Dead.
Ranked #8 for Perceptions of the Dead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Perceptions of the Dead.
"A Requiem for Innocence" is a companion to the visual novel "The House in Fata Morgana." It tells the tale of a young man dragged down by his ambitions and a girl both worshiped as a saint and maligned as a witch. For them, there is no happily ever after.
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More from Ithaqua Labs
Other recommendable Steam games by Ithaqua Labs, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Brilliant Shadows - Part One of the Book of Gray Magic
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Perceptions of the Dead.
Another title from Ithaqua Labs, the studio behind Perceptions of the Dead. Shares Adventure and Casual with Perceptions of the Dead.
Brilliant Shadows is a visual novel that follows the story of Veronica Ashmar, a new graduate of the Mountain and a necromancer. Tradition dictates that upon graduation, necromancers and paladins are to perform the pairing ritual.
Embers of Magic
WHY THIS
Another title from Ithaqua Labs, the studio behind Perceptions of the Dead. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perceptions of the Dead.
Embers of Magic is a short, adventure visual novel that tells the story of Liana the witch. She takes an airship down to the surface of the dangerous and corrupt earth beneath her flying city home.
Pale Spectrum - Part Two of the Book of Gray Magic
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Perceptions of the Dead.
Another title from Ithaqua Labs, the studio behind Perceptions of the Dead. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perceptions of the Dead.
The Ryuusian Royal Cabal thought that the discovery and research of five new forms of magic would be the greatest undertaking of their lives. Unfortunately, they drastically underestimated the difficulties of love, mental health, family, and the occasional mad demigod.
Perceptions of the Dead 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Perceptions of the Dead.
Another title from Ithaqua Labs, the studio behind Perceptions of the Dead. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perceptions of the Dead.
Three months ago, Jill learned ghosts are real. Now she has to save the only Acolyte who can help her live in a world of the dead.
Stars and Snowdrops
WHY THIS
Another title from Ithaqua Labs, the studio behind Perceptions of the Dead. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perceptions of the Dead.
Spend a day in a rainy castle and befriend, or fall for, a non-binary dragon
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
TELEFORUM
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Perceptions of the Dead.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perceptions of the Dead.
TELEFORUM is a found-footage-styled horror game exploring the unknown side of media. You’re visiting a widow’s apartment to conduct an interview about her husband's death. But that’s not the main reason why you’re here. It’s all about the tape, isn’t it?
The Sad Story of Emmeline Burns
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Perceptions of the Dead.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perceptions of the Dead.
A short lesbian / yuri visual novel set in England. Our heroine, Toma Andrews, meets a ghost girl wearing an old-fashioned nightgown in a graveyard who calls herself Emmeline. Just who is she, and how did she die?
The House in Fata Morgana: A Requiem for Innocence
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Perceptions of the Dead.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Perceptions of the Dead.
"A Requiem for Innocence" is a companion to the visual novel "The House in Fata Morgana." It tells the tale of a young man dragged down by his ambitions and a girl both worshiped as a saint and maligned as a witch. For them, there is no happily ever after.
Frequently asked about Perceptions of the Dead
- Is Perceptions of the Dead verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Perceptions of the Dead is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- Is Perceptions of the Dead free to play?
- Yes — Perceptions of the Dead is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to Perceptions of the Dead?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Perceptions of the Dead are Scarlet Hollow — Episode 1, CORPSE FACTORY, The Falconers: Moonlight.
- Who developed Perceptions of the Dead?
- Perceptions of the Dead was developed by Ithaqua Labs.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Perceptions of the Dead.
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