Games like Heliophobia
If Heliophobia is your kind of game, the closest matches are ANIMAL WELL, CONTROL Ultimate Edition and DreadOut 2 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative 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 Heliophobia: Heliophobia is a first-person horror/mystery adventure presented through a surreal, non-linear narrative. You awake on a vacant plane, given only a singular task: kill the one with the initials "J.R.".
Players who liked Heliophobia also play
Steam players who put hours into Heliophobia 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.
ANIMAL WELL
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Heliophobia.
Top pick for Heliophobia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heliophobia.
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
CONTROL Ultimate Edition
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Heliophobia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Heliophobia.
Winner of over 80 awards, CONTROL is a visually stunning third-person action-adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
DreadOut 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Heliophobia.
Third-strongest match for Heliophobia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heliophobia.
A third-person horror adventure that draws inspiration from Indonesian urban legend. Play as Linda, a high school student with the ability to sense and see ghosts. This spine-chilling sequel expands on the cult hit original, making DreadOut 2 another terrifying addition to the horror genre.
Fear the Spotlight
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Heliophobia.
Ranked #4 for Heliophobia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heliophobia.
Fear the Spotlight is an atmospheric third-person horror adventure with a disturbing mystery to unravel. Sneak into school after hours with Vivian and Amy, survive a séance gone wrong, solve tactile puzzles, and, whatever you do, stay out of the spotlight…
YUMENIKKI -DREAM DIARY-
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Heliophobia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heliophobia.
As long as I have dreams in my heart, I can never escape. I can never awaken from my dreams. Maybe if I follow the dream just past this doorway, then someday I can wake up again...
Visage
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Heliophobia.
Ranked #6 for Heliophobia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heliophobia.
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice VR Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Heliophobia.
Ranked #7 for Heliophobia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heliophobia.
The VR Edition of the critically acclaimed BAFTA award-winning Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice. From the makers of Heavenly Sword, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, and DmC: Devil May Cry, comes a warrior’s brutal journey into myth and madness.
Remothered: Tormented Fathers
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Heliophobia.
Ranked #8 for Heliophobia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heliophobia.
Remothered: Tormented Fathers is the pure and realistic survival horror videogame
Reviewers mention these as similar to Heliophobia
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SOMA
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Heliophobia.
Reviewers of Heliophobia cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Heliophobia.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
The Crow's Eye
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Heliophobia.
Reviewers of Heliophobia cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heliophobia.
In an abandoned medical university, test your intellectual might as you unravel a 20-year-old mystery in this depraved first-person puzzle adventure, doing what it takes to escape your fate as a macabre scientist's human experiment. The ends justify the means in The Crow’s Eye.
AMNESIA
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Heliophobia.
Reviewers of Heliophobia cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heliophobia.
After a series of events now shrouded in mystery, our protagonist - a young man - fell into a coma, losing all recollection of the person he used to be. He is given a clean slate. All that’s left to do now is to carefully and thoroughly investigate every facet of your former self.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Heliophobia at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Heliophobia on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heliophobia.
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 Heliophobia on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Heliophobia.
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 Heliophobia on Steam right now. Shares Action with Heliophobia.
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 Heliophobia on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heliophobia.
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 Heliophobia on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heliophobia.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Heliophobia on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Heliophobia.
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 Heliophobia on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Heliophobia.
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 Heliophobia on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Heliophobia.
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 Heliophobia.
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 and Adventure with Heliophobia.
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 Heliophobia.
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 Heliophobia.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Heliophobia.
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 Heliophobia.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heliophobia.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Heliophobia.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Glass Knuckle Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Glass Knuckle Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Noir Syndrome
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Heliophobia.
Another title from Glass Knuckle Games, the studio behind Heliophobia. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heliophobia.
Noir Syndrome is a procedurally generated Detective Murder-Mystery with a new story every time! Featuring slick pixel art animations and a jazzy soundtrack, the player is thrown right in to a highly stylized vision of film noir.
Defragmented
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Heliophobia.
Another title from Glass Knuckle Games, the studio behind Heliophobia. Shares Action and Indie with Heliophobia.
Defragmented is a lightning-fast cyberpunk action RPG with a pulsing synth soundtrack. Welcome to Entropolis – New World, Bad Blood.
Ad Infernum
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Heliophobia.
Another title from Glass Knuckle Games, the studio behind Heliophobia. Shares Action and Indie with Heliophobia.
Stranded at an abandoned gas station in the middle of the desert. Losing your grip on reality. Dark rituals. Demonic pursuers. No escape.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
ANIMAL WELL
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Heliophobia.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Heliophobia.
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
CONTROL Ultimate Edition
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Heliophobia.
Winner of over 80 awards, CONTROL is a visually stunning third-person action-adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Fear the Spotlight
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Heliophobia.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Heliophobia.
Fear the Spotlight is an atmospheric third-person horror adventure with a disturbing mystery to unravel. Sneak into school after hours with Vivian and Amy, survive a séance gone wrong, solve tactile puzzles, and, whatever you do, stay out of the spotlight…
YUMENIKKI -DREAM DIARY-
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Heliophobia.
As long as I have dreams in my heart, I can never escape. I can never awaken from my dreams. Maybe if I follow the dream just past this doorway, then someday I can wake up again...
Frequently asked about Heliophobia
- How much does Heliophobia cost?
- Heliophobia is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Heliophobia?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Heliophobia are ANIMAL WELL, CONTROL Ultimate Edition, DreadOut 2.
- Who developed Heliophobia?
- Heliophobia was developed by Glass Knuckle 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 Heliophobia.
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