Games like STAY
If STAY is your kind of game, the closest matches are Advent: Dawn, Morse Academy and The Game of Fourtune — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, emotional and immersive. 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 STAY: Award-winning, innovative puzzle-adventure. By communicating through your PC, you must help a kidnapped man escape captivity - in real-time. While you sleep, he is alone. When you return to your PC he has hope. Your encouragement and advice will be the difference between his salvation or despair.
Players who liked STAY also play
Steam players who put hours into STAY 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.
Advent: Dawn
WHY THIS
Top pick for STAY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with STAY.
Seven strangers. One collapsed cave. No escape. A sci-fi mystery visual novel where every route toward survival draws you closer to a different companion—and a different lie.
Morse Academy
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for STAY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with STAY.
Three operatives return to their abandoned boarding school to hunt a sinister fugitive. As old traumas awaken and paranoia takes hold, will they survive their own fears?
The Game of Fourtune
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with STAY.
Third-strongest match for STAY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with STAY.
How far will you go to get your deepest wish granted? In The Game of Fourtune, help guide Clyde & Devon through this cruel game of life and death. Only one participant will get their wish granted. Four rounds and four deaths each round, are you ready to see if fortune is on your side?
The Wolf of Derevnya
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with STAY.
Ranked #4 for STAY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with STAY.
When the villagers of Derevnya begin turning up maimed, suspicion falls on you. Track down the beast to clear your name and save the village—but to unravel the mystery, you will need to confront your own past. A survival-horror choose your own adventure set in Kievan Rus'.
時折記 -Tokioriki-
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for STAY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with STAY.
I can't do this anymore -- but I've decided to choose. There are people I want to protect, but I can't save them all. One old book shatters an ordinary life -- a visual novel of despair and love, where your choices shape the story. Japanese voice / English subtitles / ~10hrs
Pikabuu: STOP!
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for STAY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with STAY.
Beni, a loving husband to Nadia and father to Kaila, always ensured his family's needs were met with simple contentment. However, one day, an unwitting decision dragged his small family into a spiral that threatens everything.
This Is Not Your House
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for STAY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with STAY.
Crush someone's skull, Suffer from Hypothermia, Transcend your Mortal Frame, Find all 10 Endings. GET YOUR HOUSE BACK.
Mothmen 1966
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with STAY.
Ranked #8 for STAY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with STAY.
Mothmen 1966 is a 'Pixel Pulp' - a visual novel fusing exceptional writing and stunning illustration, inspired by mid-20th century pulp fiction and 80s home computer graphics - set amongst the strange occurrences of the Leonid meteor shower of 1966.
Reviewers mention these as similar to STAY
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Zero Escape: The Nonary Games
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with STAY.
Reviewers of STAY cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with STAY.
Kidnapped and taken to an unfamiliar location, nine people find themselves forced to participate in a diabolical Nonary Game by an enigmatic mastermind called Zero. Why were they there? Why were they chosen to put their lives on the line? And more importantly, who can be trusted?
Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island
WHY THIS
Reviewers of STAY cross-mention this title as a similar play.
A new adventure for Shiren and Koppa begins!
Escape Floor Zero
WHY THIS
Reviewers of STAY cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with STAY.
Trapped in an infinite parking lot, your only escape is through Floor Zero. Detect subtle anomalies and make crucial decisions in this mind-bending, psychological horror experience. Dare to escape the unescapable? If you see an anomaly... turn back.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below STAY at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under STAY on Steam right now. Shares Indie with STAY.
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 ~58% under STAY on Steam right now. Shares Indie with STAY.
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!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under STAY on Steam right now. Shares Indie with STAY.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under STAY on Steam right now. Shares Indie with STAY.
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 ~58% under STAY on Steam right now. Shares Indie with STAY.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under STAY on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with STAY.
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 ~75% under STAY on Steam right now. Shares Indie with STAY.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under STAY on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with STAY.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
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 STAY.
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 Adventure with STAY.
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 Indie with STAY.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with STAY.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with STAY.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with STAY.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with STAY.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about STAY
- Is STAY verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — STAY is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does STAY cost?
- STAY is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to STAY?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside STAY are Advent: Dawn, Morse Academy, The Game of Fourtune.
- Who developed STAY?
- STAY was developed by Appnormals Team.
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 STAY.
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