Games like The Poisoner
If The Poisoner is your kind of game, the closest matches are L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files, Shadows of Truth VR and The Journey Down: Chapter Two — picked from the ranked list below. 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 The Poisoner: Immerse yourself into a dark virtual thriller as a police detective on the case of a deranged serial killer on the loose. Don't leave anything unturned, and finally uncover the mystery of the Poisoner before they find you.
Players who liked The Poisoner also play
Steam players who put hours into The Poisoner 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.
L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files
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Top pick for The Poisoner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Poisoner.
L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files places you directly in the shoes of Detective Cole Phelps as you solve brutal crimes, plots and conspiracies inspired by real cases from 1947 Los Angeles, one of the most corrupt and violent times in L.A. history.
Shadows of Truth VR
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Second-strongest match for The Poisoner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Poisoner.
As a detective you need to find clues and plotted them in your mind and got close to the answers, but things took different turn someone is chasing you in your nightmares and it keeps coming! Back in reality someone else is also trying to reach to John. You need to escape and get to the answers!
The Journey Down: Chapter Two
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Poisoner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Poisoner.
Chapter Two of The Journey Down, a classic point-and-click saga with an Afro-Caribbean vibe. Get ready to embark on an epic journey of brain-teasing adventure!
NightClub Simulator
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Ranked #4 for The Poisoner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Early Access with The Poisoner.
Step into the wild world of Nightclub Simulator VR! Experience an exclusive party where you can dance, mingle, fight, or flirt your way through a chaotic nightclub scene. Interact with lifelike NPCs, build relationships, cause a little mayhem, or just enjoy the music. Your night, your rules.
Blues and Bullets
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Ranked #5 for The Poisoner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Poisoner.
Blues and Bullets is a dark and violent crime thriller. Set in an alternative Eliot Ness & Al Capone story, Blues and Bullets blends a stunning script with detective work to deliver an amazing interactive experience.
The Slaughter: Act One
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Poisoner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Poisoner.
The Slaughter is a noir point-and-click adventure set in Victorian London, laced with adult themes and dark humour. Follow the trail of a killer through atmospheric London locations and surreal dream worlds, meeting a cast of interesting, insane and eccentrically British characters along the way.
The Detail
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Ranked #7 for The Poisoner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Poisoner.
The Detail, a crime noir adventure in a modern American city. This is a city where cases matter, clearance rates matter, and on a good day even justice matters.
Murdered: Soul Suspect
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Poisoner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Poisoner.
MURDERED: SOUL SUSPECT™ takes players into a whole new realm of mystery where the case is personal and the clues just out of reach, challenging gamers to solve the hardest case of all… their own murder.
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 The Poisoner.
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 The Poisoner.
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 The Poisoner.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 The Poisoner.
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.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Poisoner.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Poisoner.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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More from PlatformaVR
Other recommendable Steam games by PlatformaVR, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
The Poisoner (Prelude)
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Another title from PlatformaVR, the studio behind The Poisoner. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Poisoner.
Immerse yourself in a dark atmospheric thriller. You are a police detective on the trail of a dangerous criminal. You must solve a challenging logic puzzle to escape from the basement before it’s too late.
MATCH
WHY THIS
Another title from PlatformaVR, the studio behind The Poisoner. Shares Indie and Early Access with The Poisoner.
Get your gun and stage a VR bloodbath. Invite your friends and dominate them in VR battlefield. MATCH is a multiplayer first-person shooter made in best traditions of person-vs-person deathmatches.
Wave Circles: Rhythm Dance Music
WHY THIS
Another title from PlatformaVR, the studio behind The Poisoner. Shares Indie and Early Access with The Poisoner.
Submerge yourself into a flowing combination of music beats, visual effects, and challenges in Wave Circles’ unparallel gameplay. Challenge friends in a virtual rhythmic dance-off or share your own vibes.
Mace and Grace: action fight blood fitness arcade
WHY THIS
Another title from PlatformaVR, the studio behind The Poisoner. Shares Indie with The Poisoner.
Protect your Grace and Kingdom. Have a blast dodging bombs and smashing enemy knights. Seize the day and go for another round. Play the most furious Medieval arcade ever!
Frequently asked about The Poisoner
- What games are most similar to The Poisoner?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Poisoner are L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files, Shadows of Truth VR, The Journey Down: Chapter Two.
- Who developed The Poisoner?
- The Poisoner was developed by PlatformaVR.
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 The Poisoner.
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