Games like A Sceptic's Guide to Magic
If A Sceptic's Guide to Magic is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Deed II, The Deed and The Deed: Dynasty — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its character driven occult worldbuilding, 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 A Sceptic's Guide to Magic: Birmingham, England: 1993. A shocking ritual murder compels a world-weary forensic investigator to discover a hidden realm of witchcraft, gods and demons. Follow clues and use magic to solve the case, with moral choices leading to multiple possible endings.
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The Deed II
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Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
Top pick for A Sceptic's Guide to Magic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
Can you commit the perfect murder? Outside a brothel in 1930s Paris, a man recognises one of the orderlies who had cruelly abused him while he was in a mental asylum. Some deeds cannot be forgiven ...
The Deed
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
Second-strongest match for A Sceptic's Guide to Magic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
A keenly dark twist on the traditional murder mystery setting, The Deed is an Adventure/RPG game about getting away with murder. Arran Bruce, the rightful heir to Dunshiel House, returns home to settle a score with his estranged family.
The Deed: Dynasty
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
Third-strongest match for A Sceptic's Guide to Magic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
Getting away with murder has never been easy. These three members of a proud and noble family are separated by five centuries, but have in common a vengeful and murderous intent. Plans must be formed, blood must be spilled and evidence must be planted ...
Meat Grinder: Hotdog Simulator
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Ranked #4 for A Sceptic's Guide to Magic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
You’ve opened your own hot dog shop. Prepare, cook, and serve sausages to your customers. But if you run out of stock… you’ll have to get creative. Discover the town’s dark secrets and decide how far you are willing to go to keep your shop running.
Charon's Staircase
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Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
Ranked #5 for A Sceptic's Guide to Magic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
In this first-person horror mystery game, you set out to bury the horrible past of a tyrannical government. Retrieve and destroy the documents that unravel the secrets that lie beneath Oack Grove. Will you discover the terrifying truth and find your way out?
Roman's Christmas / 罗曼圣诞探案集
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Shares an atmospheric mood with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
Ranked #6 for A Sceptic's Guide to Magic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
Roman, the wolf detective plans to spend his Christmas vacation in his favorite tavern, but murder cases happened in the tavern put him to work again.
夜弦之音 - Echoes of Nocturnal Chords
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
Ranked #7 for A Sceptic's Guide to Magic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
On a rainy night, Xiaoyin disappears searching for the legendary “Miracle Grass.” Yixuan follows clues into a trap-filled cave where bodies, monsters, lies, and warmth intertwine. Multiple endings guide you through fairy tale and reality, revealing a fate woven from hope and loss.
Raging Loop
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Shares an atmospheric mood with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
Ranked #8 for A Sceptic's Guide to Magic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
The feast has begun, can you escape the village alive?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below A Sceptic's Guide to Magic at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~80% under A Sceptic's Guide to Magic on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
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
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Priced ~60% under A Sceptic's Guide to Magic on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
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
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Priced ~70% under A Sceptic's Guide to Magic on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
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
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Priced ~80% under A Sceptic's Guide to Magic on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
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
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Priced ~80% under A Sceptic's Guide to Magic on Steam right now. Shares Indie with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
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
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Priced ~60% under A Sceptic's Guide to Magic on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
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
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Priced ~60% under A Sceptic's Guide to Magic on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
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
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Priced ~80% under A Sceptic's Guide to Magic on Steam right now. Shares Indie with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
"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 A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
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 A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
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 A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
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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The Deed
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
Another title from Pilgrim Adventures, the studio behind A Sceptic's Guide to Magic. Shares Adventure with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
A keenly dark twist on the traditional murder mystery setting, The Deed is an Adventure/RPG game about getting away with murder. Arran Bruce, the rightful heir to Dunshiel House, returns home to settle a score with his estranged family.
Space Pilgrim Episode I: Alpha Centauri
WHY THIS
Shares inventory management and a contemplative mood with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
Another title from Pilgrim Adventures, the studio behind A Sceptic's Guide to Magic. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
Captain Gail Pilgrim has been flying starships since she was a kid, ferrying passengers between planets and space stations across the galaxy. She has no reason to expect that this latest trip to Alpha Centauri will be anything special, even if her passengers are a little more diverse than usual....
The Deed: Dynasty
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
Another title from Pilgrim Adventures, the studio behind A Sceptic's Guide to Magic. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
Getting away with murder has never been easy. These three members of a proud and noble family are separated by five centuries, but have in common a vengeful and murderous intent. Plans must be formed, blood must be spilled and evidence must be planted ...
Space Pilgrim Episode II: Epsilon Indi
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
Another title from Pilgrim Adventures, the studio behind A Sceptic's Guide to Magic. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
One year after the events of Episode I, Captain Pilgrim is once again carrying a shipload of passengers between star systems. This time her guests include a mysterious priestess, a wayward youth and a robotics genius.
Space Pilgrim Episode IV: Sol
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
Another title from Pilgrim Adventures, the studio behind A Sceptic's Guide to Magic. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
Locked away in the most secure prison in the galaxy, with little hope of escape, Gail Pilgrim faces the most difficult ordeals of her life. Her only hope lies in trusting those who she has come to regard as her friends.
Space Pilgrim Episode III: Delta Pavonis
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
Another title from Pilgrim Adventures, the studio behind A Sceptic's Guide to Magic. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
Still reeling from the life-changing events of the previous episode, Gail seeks out a safe haven with her father in the Delta Pavonis system. However, she soon learns that the politics of Planet Leto can be as treacherous and unpredictable as the local weather.
Gladiator Trainer
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
Another title from Pilgrim Adventures, the studio behind A Sceptic's Guide to Magic. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
Rise through the ranks and lead your band of Gladiators to glory. Can you build the ultimate fighting force and a kingdom to rule all! Be careful who you trust. Becoming a Gladiator Trainer isn't easy.
Crown Champion: Legends of the Arena
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
Another title from Pilgrim Adventures, the studio behind A Sceptic's Guide to Magic. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
"Crown Champion: Legends of the Arena" is a fantasy RPG/Management simulator set in the ruthless world of gladiatorial combat. Develop your academy and train your fighters. Increase your power and influence in the realm. Reap the rewards of your labours.
Frequently asked about A Sceptic's Guide to Magic
- How much does A Sceptic's Guide to Magic cost?
- A Sceptic's Guide to Magic is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to A Sceptic's Guide to Magic?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside A Sceptic's Guide to Magic are The Deed II, The Deed, The Deed: Dynasty.
- Who developed A Sceptic's Guide to Magic?
- A Sceptic's Guide to Magic was developed by Pilgrim Adventures and published by GrabTheGames.
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 A Sceptic's Guide to Magic.
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