Games like Ancra
If Ancra is your kind of game, the closest matches are Downware, iBLiS and The Gretlow Tapes — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its reality breaks enhance immersion, atmospheric and contemplative. 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 Ancra: A narrative driven, puzzle-horror game. Solve cryptic puzzles, embrace or evade vengeful specters, decide who to trust and unravel a mystery.
Players who liked Ancra also play
Steam players who put hours into Ancra 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.
Downware
WHY THIS
Top pick for Ancra fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Ancra.
Where is Lucy? Your girlfriend is not at home at the time of your meeting. Could the Mark-13 cyclops, who enforces martial law, have something to do with it? Find out by diving into the dark and immersive world of Downware, a first-person Cyberpunk horror game.
iBLiS
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ancra.
Second-strongest match for Ancra fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Ancra.
Demon is a first-person psychological horror game. How much can a game affect your real life? Enjoy a realistic home environment and terrifying moments of being immersed in a real-life story.
The Gretlow Tapes
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Ancra fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Ancra.
Armed with nothing but your camera, investigate the abandoned Gretlow House in this short, atmospheric horror game. Uncover a chilling mystery through a realistic found-footage lens.
Last Report
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ancra.
Ranked #4 for Ancra fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Ancra.
Last Report is a dark horror game where you play as a night shift park ranger. While monitoring the camera footage, you start noticing strange events. Uncover the terrifying secret of the National Park. Something moved in the window, but don’t worry it’s probably just another deer, right?
LOST ZION
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Ancra fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Ancra.
Lost Zion is an atmospheric cyberpunk horror game. Awakened by a faint signal as a service bot, explore the forsaken megacity of Lost Zion. Uncover the Emperor's horrific secrets. Obey your sole command: Activate the Gravity Core.
Lucid Dream Adventure
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ancra.
Ranked #6 for Ancra fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Ancra.
Lucid Dream is the story of little Lucy, who goes on an adventure into the world of dreams with the mission to save her mother.
DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ancra.
Ranked #7 for Ancra fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Ancra.
DISTRAINT is a 2D psychological horror adventure game for PC. In order to secure a partnership in a famous company, Price seizes the property of an elderly woman. In that very moment, he finds out the price of his humanity.
The Test
WHY THIS
Shares a mysterious mood with Ancra.
Ranked #8 for Ancra fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Ancra.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Ancra at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Ancra on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ancra.
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 ~50% under Ancra on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ancra.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
WHY THIS
Shares a mysterious mood with Ancra.
Priced ~67% under Ancra on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ancra.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Ancra on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ancra.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ancra on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ancra.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Super Hexagon
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ancra on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ancra.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Nodebuster
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ancra on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ancra.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
Sally Face - Episode One
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ancra on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ancra.
Delve into a dark adventure following the boy with a prosthetic face and a tragic past. Unravel the sinister mysteries of Sally's world to find the truth that lies hidden beneath the shadows.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Ancra.
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 with Ancra.
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 Indie with Ancra.
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 Ancra.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ancra.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ancra.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Last Report
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ancra.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Ancra.
Last Report is a dark horror game where you play as a night shift park ranger. While monitoring the camera footage, you start noticing strange events. Uncover the terrifying secret of the National Park. Something moved in the window, but don’t worry it’s probably just another deer, right?
DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ancra.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Ancra.
DISTRAINT is a 2D psychological horror adventure game for PC. In order to secure a partnership in a famous company, Price seizes the property of an elderly woman. In that very moment, he finds out the price of his humanity.
The Test
WHY THIS
Shares a mysterious mood with Ancra.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Ancra.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Frequently asked about Ancra
- How much does Ancra cost?
- Ancra is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Ancra?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ancra are Downware, iBLiS, The Gretlow Tapes.
- Who developed Ancra?
- Ancra was developed by For7s.
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 Ancra.
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