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Cat In A Jar Games · 2015 · 64 % positive of 299

24 games that play like Nyctophilia and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Home, Night Reverie and Night Reverie: Prologue.

Player tags

  • Free to Play
  • Indie
  • Adventure
  • Horror
  • 2D
  • Pixel Graphics
  • Thriller
  • Soundtrack

At a glance

What games like Nyctophilia have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Nyctophilia: Horror (22 of 24), Psychological Horror (15) and Indie (12).
  • They came out between 2012 and 2025, 18 of them after Nyctophilia (2015).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Fran Bow (97 % positive of 19,016).
  • 4 games both play and look like Nyctophilia, among them Home, Midnight Scenes: A Safe Place and Midnight Scenes: From the Woods.

By gameplay

Plays like Nyctophilia

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Hazy Mind87 % positive of 248Shared: Horror · Psychological Horror · Indie
  2. The Flayed Man94 % positive of 227Shared: Horror · Pixel Graphics · Psychological Horror
  3. Silence of the Sleep74 % positive of 684Shared: Horror · Psychological Horror · Indie
  4. Midnight Scenes: From the Woods85 % positive of 169Shared: Horror · Pixel Graphics · Thriller
  5. Cat in the Box94 % positive of 1,373Shared: Horror · Pixel Graphics · Thriller
  6. Knock-knock86 % positive of 1,918Shared: Horror · Psychological Horror · Adventure
  7. Irony Of Nightmare87 % positive of 683Shared: Horror · Indie · Adventure
  8. Fran Bow97 % positive of 19,016Shared: Horror · Psychological Horror · Indie
  9. Nightmare knock84 % positive of 226Shared: Horror · Psychological Horror · Indie
  10. Firewood75 % positive of 159Shared: Horror · Pixel Graphics · Psychological Horror
  11. Insomnis91 % positive of 259Shared: Horror · Psychological Horror · Indie
  12. Neverending Nightmares76 % positive of 2,916Shared: Horror · Psychological Horror · Indie

By look

Looks like Nyctophilia

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. The Darkside Detective94 % positive of 4,724
  2. Lakeview Cabin Collection92 % positive of 1,870
  3. Midnight Scenes: A Safe Place94 % positive of 191
  4. The Long Reach84 % positive of 456
  5. Uncanny Valley55 % positive of 491
  6. Midnight Scenes: The Nanny97 % positive of 205
  7. The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark96 % positive of 1,716
  8. The Dark Rites of Arkham97 % positive of 698
  9. Don't Chat With Strangers49 % positive of 169
  10. Knuckle Sandwich85 % positive of 644
  11. The Happyhills Homicide 2: Out For Blood95 % positive of 321
  12. Murder50 % positive of 412

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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