Games like Apparition
If Apparition is your kind of game, the closest matches are Agony, Wounded - The Beginning and The Backrooms Project — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its documenting paranormal evidence, atmospheric 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.
Get personalized picks →About Apparition: First-person survival horror with ghosts and demons. Find yourself smack in the middle of a haunted forest in the dead of night. Talk to spirits through your Spirit Board. Capture evidence of the paranormal, but beware, fiercely aggressive demons are on the hunt.
Players who liked Apparition also play
Steam players who put hours into Apparition 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.
Agony
WHY THIS
Top pick for Apparition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Apparition.
Agony is a first-person, survival horror set in hell. You will begin your journey as a tormented soul within the depths of hell without any memories about your past. The special ability to control people on your path, and possess demons, gives you the measures to survive.
Wounded - The Beginning
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Apparition.
Second-strongest match for Apparition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Apparition.
Wounded is a first-person survival horror game, bringing you the old-school indie horror vibe through a detailed and eerie environment.
The Backrooms Project
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Apparition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Apparition.
Scientists made a new discovery about the Backrooms. Noclipping out of bounds in normal reality was a myth for long, but now it can be real! Now they are looking for subjects to test it on civil people. There are already scientists inside, so you have nothing to worry about, they say. Or do you?
A-Tech Cybernetic VR
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Apparition.
Ranked #4 for Apparition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Apparition.
Built exclusively for VR, A-Tech Cybernetic's Story Mode will offer hours of explosive fun, while Swarm Mode will test your grit in a sci-fi nightmare scenario. Stop the mutant invasion at a futuristic megacorp, controlling an arsenal of weapons with real life movements!
Pacify
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Apparition.
Ranked #5 for Apparition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Apparition.
An online co-op horror game where you pacify, weaken and capture supernatural creatures for PAH Inc. Each level has a different story, unique monsters, and multiple endings. Play single player or together with up to 6 friends. Includes proximity voice chat with fun effects.
Maid of Sker
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Apparition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Apparition.
Maid of Sker is a first-person survival horror, set in a remote hotel with a gory and macabre history from Welsh folklore. Brave the nightmares of the Quiet Ones. Do not panic…don’t even breathe!
The Beast Inside
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Apparition.
Ranked #7 for Apparition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Apparition.
The Beast Inside is a unique, gripping twist on thriller and survival horror. Immerse in the story of long-buried secrets, personal tragedies, and madness. Play as two protagonists bounded by dark heritage. Combat the enemies, solve riddles and experience real terror in the 3D-scanned environment.
Condemned: Criminal Origins
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Apparition.
Ranked #8 for Apparition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Apparition.
What twists the mind of an ordinary human into a serial killer?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Apparition at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Apparition on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Apparition.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Apparition on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Apparition.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Apparition on Steam right now. Shares Action with Apparition.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Apparition on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Apparition.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Apparition on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Apparition.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Apparition on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Apparition.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Apparition on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Apparition.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Apparition on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Apparition.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Apparition.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Apparition.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Apparition.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Apparition.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Apparition.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Apparition.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Apparition.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Apparition.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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Frequently asked about Apparition
- How much does Apparition cost?
- Apparition is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Apparition?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Apparition are Agony, Wounded - The Beginning, The Backrooms Project.
- Who developed Apparition?
- Apparition was developed by MrCiastku and published by No Gravity Games.
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