Games like Ellen
If Ellen is your kind of game, the closest matches are Notch - The Innocent LunA: Eclipsed SinnerS, Chicken Feet and The Horror Of Salazar House — 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 Ellen: Help young investigator James uncover the dark truth behind the murder of the Smiths' and their missing daughter Ellen in this thrilling 2D pixel horror game.
Players who liked Ellen also play
Steam players who put hours into Ellen 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.
Notch - The Innocent LunA: Eclipsed SinnerS
WHY THIS
Top pick for Ellen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ellen.
This is an isolated town, a town of memories that have been forgotten by its people. However, this small town has not been quiet and peaceful since the murders began... Time passes by, where are the sinful spirits going? Are my memories reality, or just a dream?
Chicken Feet
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Ellen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ellen.
Chicken Feet is a first person survival-stealth horror game about a giant, angry chicken. Descend into the depths of GOOBER laboratories and uncover the horrors that lie beneath the lab's shiny façade.
The Horror Of Salazar House
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Ellen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ellen.
Will you solve the mystery of the Salazar manor or will you become another permanent inhabitant? An Italian horror inspired adventure game!
CORPSE FACTORY
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Ellen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ellen.
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.
Nevermind
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Ellen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ellen.
Nevermind ushers you into dark and surreal worlds within the minds of trauma patients. When played with supported biofeedback technology, Nevermind picks up on indications of fear—lashing out if you allow your feelings of anxiety to get the better of you.
Butcher of the North
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Ellen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ellen.
You never received any New Year's gifts. This year, you decided to take what is yours. After tracking Santa down by his IP address, you head to his lair to take what is rightfully yours.
Wounded - The Beginning
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Ellen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ellen.
Wounded is a first-person survival horror game, bringing you the old-school indie horror vibe through a detailed and eerie environment.
Gray Dawn
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Ellen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ellen.
Embark on a terrifying adventure of a priest accused of murdering an altar boy. Gray Dawn is a psychological thriller infused with religious elements and combines story-driven quests with an artistic experience.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Ellen at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ellen on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Ellen.
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 Ellen on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Ellen.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ellen on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Ellen.
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 Ellen on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Ellen.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Ellen on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ellen.
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 Ellen on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ellen.
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 Ellen on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Ellen.
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.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ellen on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ellen.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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 and Casual with Ellen.
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 Ellen.
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 Ellen.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ellen.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ellen.
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 and Casual with Ellen.
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 Ellen.
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.
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Frequently asked about Ellen
- How much does Ellen cost?
- Ellen is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Ellen?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ellen are Notch - The Innocent LunA: Eclipsed SinnerS, Chicken Feet, The Horror Of Salazar House.
- Who developed Ellen?
- Ellen was developed by Red Mount Media, Antarsoft and published by Red Mount Media.
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 Ellen.
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