Games like Trauma
If Trauma is your kind of game, the closest matches are What Never Was, MaryPark St. and Color Soul: Memories — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its dreamlike atmosphere feels immersive, gestures unlock interactions 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 Trauma: An elaborate puzzle challenge combined with an unconventional story.
Players who liked Trauma also play
Steam players who put hours into Trauma 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.
What Never Was
WHY THIS
Top pick for Trauma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Trauma.
What Never Was is a short, story-driven first-person game focused on exploration and puzzle-solving about Sarah, having to shoulder the arduous task of clearing out her grandfathers attic, and soon finds that not everything about the attic is what it seems.
MaryPark St.
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Trauma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Trauma.
MaryPark St. is a short story telling indie game, set in a black and white dream-like world. Featuring two interpretations of the same story, The Dream & The Nightmare.
Color Soul: Memories
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Trauma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Trauma.
A short stylized game set in a colorless world... in the beginning. Unlock colors as you visit the three different areas of the world and unveil the question of who you are and where you are from after losing your memories.
First Response
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Trauma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Trauma.
Welcome to your new job at the Extreme Containment Security Company! You've been selected by Malcolm Monaghan himself as the first subject in their brand new learning initiative! Upon your arrival, K.A.R.A. will guide you through the concepts of Cybersecurity and the important work you'll be doing!
Tengami
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Trauma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Trauma.
Tengami is an atmospheric adventure game set inside a Japanese pop-up book. Fold and slide the beautifully crafted paper world to solve puzzles and discover secrets.
Lume
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Trauma.
Ranked #6 for Trauma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Trauma.
With a set built entirely out of paper and cardboard, and sumptuously filmed, Lume is a game with a style unlike any other.
The Beginner's Guide
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Trauma.
Ranked #7 for Trauma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Trauma.
The Beginner's Guide is a narrative video game from Davey Wreden, the creator of The Stanley Parable. It lasts about an hour and a half and has no traditional mechanics, no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand.
Silence
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Trauma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Trauma.
Can you save Silence, the grim, but also serene world between life and death? Can you help Noah find his little sister Renie in this suffering world? Can you bring her home? Explore Silence and join the siblings on their adventurous journey.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Trauma
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The Void
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with Trauma.
Reviewers of Trauma cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Trauma.
Only brought to life by scarce sparks of Color, the bleak, grey Void is a peculiar place. The player gets to explore it, get to know the Sisters, Brothers, and other weird creatures inhabiting it, and learn the ways of Color, harvesting it and drawing sigils that change the world around them.
To the Moon
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Trauma cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Trauma.
A story-driven experience about two doctors traversing backwards through a dying man's memories to artificially fulfill his last wish.
Papers, Please
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Trauma cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Trauma.
Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.
Retention
WHY THIS
Shares an unsettling mood with Trauma.
Reviewers of Trauma cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Trauma.
This game is about a person who kept running through his life, never looking back at the past. Once during a trip, he gets into trouble. Now he's lying on the cold ground, buried beneath his bicycle. Slides of various moments fly through his head.
Make it indie!
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Trauma.
Reviewers of Trauma cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Trauma.
Claw your way through the abyss of the mind and survive the horrors that stalk you as you attempt to survive seven days as... an Indie Developer.
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Trauma cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Trauma.
Become Phoenix Wright and experience the thrill of battle as you fight to save your innocent clients in a court of law. Play all 14 episodes, spanning the first three games, in one gorgeous collection.
Myst
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Trauma cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Trauma.
Welcome to Myst: a starkly beautiful island, eerily tinged with mystery and shrouded in intrigue. Built from the ground up to play in 2D & VR, explore Myst in a whole new dimension! Journey to the Ages, unravel puzzles, and be a part of the surrealistic adventure that will become your own.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Trauma at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Trauma on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Trauma.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Trauma on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Trauma.
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.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Trauma on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with Trauma.
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.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Trauma on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Trauma.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Trauma on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Trauma.
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 ~67% under Trauma on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Trauma.
"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!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Trauma on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Trauma.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
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 Trauma.
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 Trauma.
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 Trauma.
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 Trauma.
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 Trauma.
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 Trauma.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Trauma.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
What Never Was
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Trauma.
What Never Was is a short, story-driven first-person game focused on exploration and puzzle-solving about Sarah, having to shoulder the arduous task of clearing out her grandfathers attic, and soon finds that not everything about the attic is what it seems.
Tengami
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Trauma.
Tengami is an atmospheric adventure game set inside a Japanese pop-up book. Fold and slide the beautifully crafted paper world to solve puzzles and discover secrets.
Silence
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Trauma.
Can you save Silence, the grim, but also serene world between life and death? Can you help Noah find his little sister Renie in this suffering world? Can you bring her home? Explore Silence and join the siblings on their adventurous journey.
Frequently asked about Trauma
- How much does Trauma cost?
- Trauma is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Trauma?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Trauma are What Never Was, MaryPark St., Color Soul: Memories.
- Who developed Trauma?
- Trauma was developed by Krystian Majewski.
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 Trauma.
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