Games like Brukel
If Brukel is your kind of game, the closest matches are Martha Is Dead, Tombeaux and Grief like a stray dog — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, immersive and melancholic. 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 Brukel: A first-person exploration game based on the actual memories of a 92-year-old grandmother, told to players in her own voice. Take pictures of what remains of her abandoned childhood home to uncover the dark, traumatic events that she had to fight through as a teenage girl.
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Martha Is Dead
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Brukel.
Top pick for Brukel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Brukel.
Set in 1944 Italy, Martha Is Dead is an award-winning dark psychological thriller where the lines between truth, superstition, and tragedy blur. Explore a haunting countryside, uncover disturbing memories, and peel back layers of mystery. Every choice shapes the nightmare…are you ready to face it?
Tombeaux
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Brukel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Brukel.
A short, interactive historical experience set in a historically accurate 3D environment. Explore the convergence between cultures and the environment across a few hundred years of American history.
Grief like a stray dog
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Brukel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Brukel.
An isolated village during the war. Men leave one by one, along the winding forest path painted crimson by distant fires, and do not return. Young Nadia becomes a part-time postwoman filling in for her sick mother. She is now a messenger of hope and of trouble.
Ship Explorer
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Brukel.
Ranked #4 for Brukel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
You know their stories. Now it's time to step aboard! Board iconic ocean liner and warships from history like SS United States, Morro Castle and more as you explore and learn about the secrets that made them into legends.
Time Machine Bronzeville
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Brukel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Brukel.
A storytelling game that explores the stories, cityscape, and legend and lore of Chicago’s South Side ca. 1940. Encounter both heroes and scoundrels in 3D interactive scenes that transport the visitor into detailed recreations of this vanished community as it was between the World Wars.
Home is Where One Starts...
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Brukel.
Ranked #6 for Brukel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Brukel.
Home is Where One Starts... is a short, first-person exploration game in the same vein as Dear Esther or Gone Home. It’s a story about childhood, hope, and the miracle of memory. You play as a little girl from a broken home somewhere in the American South.
红楼梦 Stone Story
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Brukel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Brukel.
This product is the world's first artifical intelligent noval game. This game is adapted from one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, "Dream of the Red Chamber." "Dream of the Red Chamber." is summit of the Chinese traditional Noval.
The Town of Light
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Brukel.
Ranked #8 for Brukel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Brukel.
12 March 1938, Renée, 16, was ripped out of her world, her only fault was that of not knowing her place in the world.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Brukel at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Brukel on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Brukel.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Brukel on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Brukel.
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 ~70% under Brukel on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Brukel.
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.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Brukel on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Brukel.
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!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Brukel on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Brukel.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Brukel on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Brukel.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Brukel on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Brukel.
"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!
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 Brukel.
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.
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 Brukel.
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 Brukel.
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 with Brukel.
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 with Brukel.
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 Brukel.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Brukel.
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.
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Frequently asked about Brukel
- How much does Brukel cost?
- Brukel is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Brukel?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Brukel are Martha Is Dead, Tombeaux, Grief like a stray dog.
- Who developed Brukel?
- Brukel was developed by Bob De Schutter and published by Lifelong Games.
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