Games like The Woods
If The Woods is your kind of game, the closest matches are Slashers, Blood Trail and The Backrooms Project — picked from the ranked list below. 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 The Woods: A nerve-wracking Psycho Game with breathtaking ambient elements and innovative gameplay. Lost in the hunting ground of a notorious killer, you need to fight for your life. Sneak, run, hide, fight or play his mad games - the choice is yours only!
Players who liked The Woods also play
Steam players who put hours into The Woods 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.
Slashers
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Top pick for The Woods fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Woods.
Slashers is a 1-4 player cooperative horror game, you are explorers of abandoned and seemingly cursed places, your goal is to see what happened there.
Blood Trail
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Second-strongest match for The Woods fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Early Access with The Woods.
You are Wendigo. A hard-hearted contract killer tasked with annihilating a fanatical cult. With your trusted arsenal at the ready, experience what has been called "The most violent game in VR". EARLY ACCESS includes RAID, ARENA and SANDBOX modes with a story campaign and much more on the way.
The Backrooms Project
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Third-strongest match for The Woods fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Woods.
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?
Carnival Hunt
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Ranked #4 for The Woods fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Woods.
Carnival Hunt is an asymmetric multiplayer horror game set inside a living, ever-shifting mechanical carnival designed by the Puppetmaster. One player becomes the Carnival Monster, while others play as puppet Bunnies struggling to survive, ascend, and escape the hunt.
Manhunt
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Ranked #5 for The Woods fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Woods.
You awake to the sound of your own panicked breath. In Manhunt, you must run, hide and fight to survive. If you can stay alive long enough, you may find out who did this to you. This is a brutal blood sport.
Autopsy Simulator
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Ranked #6 for The Woods fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with The Woods.
Autopsy Simulator is a first-person horror-sim hybrid where players take on the role of a practice pathologist and study case files, created in collaboration with real-world forensic doctors, to help guide their dissection of anatomically accurate bodies to determine each subject’s cause of death.
RAGDORE
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Ranked #7 for The Woods fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with The Woods.
RAGDORE is a physics-driven sandbox where limbs fly, bones snap, and movement changes with every injury. Experiment with traps, crushers, trampolines, and more in colorful maps designed for creative destruction and dynamic ragdoll mayhem.
Psychopathy Assessment
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Ranked #8 for The Woods fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with The Woods.
Psychopathy Assessment is a retro-80s V.H.S PS1 style analog horror game that blurs the line between reality and delusion. Step into a universe where you're not just playing a game; you're taking a psychopathy test, but the stakes are considerably higher than a straightforward diagnosis.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with The Woods.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Woods.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Woods.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with The Woods.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Woods.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with The Woods.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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Frequently asked about The Woods
- What games are most similar to The Woods?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Woods are Slashers, Blood Trail, The Backrooms Project.
- Who developed The Woods?
- The Woods was developed by Moonware Games.
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 The Woods.
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