Games like Ghost in the pool
If Ghost in the pool is your kind of game, the closest matches are Concealed, Weirdo and 乌合之罪 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its distorting comic panel visuals, japanese urban legend premise and atmospheric. 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 Ghost in the pool: A bizarre campus legend, take you into the traditional Japanese black-and-white comic horror story. Witness the familiar scenes and contemplate the terrifying moments.
Players who liked Ghost in the pool also play
Steam players who put hours into Ghost in the pool 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.
Concealed
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ghost in the pool.
Top pick for Ghost in the pool fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ghost in the pool.
At Di Yingling High, rumors of missing girls run rampant. Exchange student Meng Jiangnan uncovers the school’s hidden darkness. The Remake heightens the suspense with black-and-white comic visuals and upgraded systems. Will you face the truth?
Weirdo
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Ghost in the pool fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ghost in the pool.
Parallel-Weirdo is a Japanese manga-style visual novel set in DYL High School. It follows Wang Zhe, an ordinary and frail boy, who tries to win the hearts of girls and complete his experiments. He gets entangled in bizarre events, plunging into darkness. Each choice you make determines his fate.
乌合之罪
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Ghost in the pool fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ghost in the pool.
《乌合之罪》是一款集霸凌复仇X悬疑惊悚x真相还原的沉浸式AVG，你（玩家）所饰演的主人公将在与外界彻底断连隔绝的诡异岛屿上历经一场极端恶意的厮杀游戏，请寻找线索，推进剧情，抵达十四年前那件校园事件的真相……
ComicKingdom
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Ghost in the pool fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ghost in the pool.
Comic Kingdom is a text-based adventure game primarily featuring a black-and-white comic style. It tells the story of a group of young manga artists who are trapped in a suburban farm.
残雪凝辉录-Truth in Turbulent
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Ghost in the pool fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ghost in the pool.
Truth in Turbulent "Truth in Turbulent" is an AVG mystery set in a chaotic era. As Meng Xubai, uncover truths behind your uncle's disappearance and find the truth with wit and courage.
Coffee flavor of love 咖啡甜恋
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Ghost in the pool fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ghost in the pool.
Sweet love begins in the coffee shop. Office romances of coffee shop employees. This is a visual novel game with two endings.
Peculiar Tales of Mid-Lake Pavilion
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ghost in the pool.
Ranked #7 for Ghost in the pool fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Ghost in the pool.
On a sultry night in late August, I ran into a man carrying a peony lantern at the Mid-Lake Pavilion. In the hazy and dim light, the man told the odd and bizarre stories. Under the overcast rainy sky, the moon setting horizontally, you will be brought into a perplexing, weird, and supernatural world
Omen Exitio: Hunger
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Ghost in the pool fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ghost in the pool.
A Lovecraftian investigative gamebook. New York, 1927. A case pulled from real history, wrapped in cosmic horror. His name was Billy Gaffney. The man who took him was real. But his purpose was from another plane of existence. You play a journalist. You make choices. The story remembers all of them.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Ghost in the pool at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ghost in the pool on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ghost in the pool.
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?
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ghost in the pool on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Ghost in the pool.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ghost in the pool on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ghost in the pool.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ghost in the pool on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ghost in the pool.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ghost in the pool on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ghost in the pool.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ghost in the pool on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ghost in the pool.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
TYRONE vs COPS
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ghost in the pool on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ghost in the pool.
Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.
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 Ghost in the pool.
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.
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 Ghost in the pool.
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 Ghost in the pool.
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.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ghost in the pool.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ghost in the pool.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ghost in the pool.
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 Ghost in the pool
- How much does Ghost in the pool cost?
- Ghost in the pool is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Ghost in the pool?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ghost in the pool are Concealed, Weirdo, 乌合之罪.
- Who developed Ghost in the pool?
- Ghost in the pool was developed by CASCHA 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 Ghost in the pool.
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