Games like The Room VR: A Dark Matter
If The Room VR: A Dark Matter is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mansion Mystery, I Expect You To Die 2: The Spy and the Liar and The Room 4: Old Sins — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, immersive and mysterious. 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 →The Room VR: A Dark Matter is an adventure game developed and published by Fireproof Games, released in 2020 at a price of $24.99. Set in Victorian London in 1908, the experience casts players as investigators examining artifacts and uncovering hidden mechanisms in ornate handcrafted environments as they explore a supernatural mystery surrounding a missing Egyptologist. Players manage inventory systems while puzzles escalate in difficulty through progression, with physical VR interaction making the solving feel tactile and realistic. Reviewers describe the atmosphere as immersive and unsettling, with understated storytelling supporting an eerie tone, and they highlight that the hint system balances challenge without frustration. The title holds a 97% positive rating from 2,439 Steam reviews.
About The Room VR: A Dark Matter: The British Institute of Archaeology, London, 1908: The disappearance of an esteemed Egyptologist prompts a Police investigation into the unknown. Explore cryptic locations, examine fantastic gadgets and uncover an otherworldly discovery which blurs the line between reality and illusion.
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Mansion Mystery
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Top pick for The Room VR: A Dark Matter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
Dive into 'Mansion Mystery,' an immersive VR puzzler. In a haunted mansion governed by real-world physics, ignite matches, shatter plates, solve intricate puzzles. Will you unravel the secrets and escape or be trapped forever?
I Expect You To Die 2: The Spy and the Liar
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
Second-strongest match for The Room VR: A Dark Matter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
Become an elite super spy ready for espionage, explosives, and gadgets galore. This popular escape-the-room VR franchise is back with more ingenious puzzles, cunning villains, and dangerous locales.
The Room 4: Old Sins
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
Third-strongest match for The Room VR: A Dark Matter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
The disappearance of an ambitious engineer and his high-society wife provokes a hunt for a precious artefact. The trail leads you to the attic of their home, and the discovery of an old, peculiar dollhouse. What secrets lie within these walls?
Escape Together: Secrets of the Professor
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Ranked #4 for The Room VR: A Dark Matter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
Gather your best mystery solving friends or go in alone in this VR Escape Room game, that features both singleplayer and multiplayer with VR cross platform support. Can you uncover the secrets of the professor and escape?
Another Door: Escape Room
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Ranked #5 for The Room VR: A Dark Matter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
The goal is simple : Open the Door and Escape. From the moment you enter, you'll face a series of devious puzzles, perfect for solo or collaborative play with friends. Built from the ground up for immersive VR, this episodic adventure brings the thrill of real-world escape rooms to virtual reality.
Detective VR: NFT secret Files
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Ranked #6 for The Room VR: A Dark Matter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
The mysterious missing of a collector challenges you to start your own investigation. Explore secret locations, pick up details like a detective, build logic chains and solve riddles. Use vintage gadgets and incredible alchemical compounds. Resist the digital spirits of the NFT. Be careful!
Grandma's Legacy VR – The Mystery Puzzle Solving Escape Room Game
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Ranked #7 for The Room VR: A Dark Matter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Mystery, puzzle solving, challenges and secrets surround your grandmother's disappearance. Explore the different rooms and unravel the unsolved secret that your grandma keeps in Grandma’s Legacy. Check our first escape room experience in VR.
HINGE VR
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Shares vr physical interaction and an atmospheric mood with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
Ranked #8 for The Room VR: A Dark Matter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
HINGE is a psychological horror VR adventure. You suddenly find yourself in an abandoned skyscraper, devoid of all your senses and memories. The laws of physics are distorted, and time has collapsed. The only way out is to step into the terrifying unknown and piece together the fragmented clues
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A Fisherman's Tale
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Shares vr physical interaction and an atmospheric mood with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
Reviewers of The Room VR: A Dark Matter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
Bend and twist reality in A Fisherman's Tale, the mind-bending VR puzzle adventure game in which being turned upside down and inside out is not merely a play on words.
Red Matter
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
Reviewers of The Room VR: A Dark Matter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
Red Matter is a story-driven VR puzzle adventure game set during a dystopian sci-fi Cold War. Take on the role of Agent Epsilon, an astronaut of the Atlantic Union dispatched to an abandoned Volgravian moon base on a faraway planet. Your mission: to investigate a shady top secret research project.
The Room 4: Old Sins
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
Reviewers of The Room VR: A Dark Matter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
The disappearance of an ambitious engineer and his high-society wife provokes a hunt for a precious artefact. The trail leads you to the attic of their home, and the discovery of an old, peculiar dollhouse. What secrets lie within these walls?
I Expect You To Die
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
Reviewers of The Room VR: A Dark Matter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
Test your problem-solving skills in this virtual reality escape-the-room puzzle game. Play as a secret agent armed with telekinetic abilities on a mission to stop Zoraxis, an evil corporation with plans for world domination.
The Last Clockwinder
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
Reviewers of The Room VR: A Dark Matter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
A VR puzzle-automation game. Create intricate clockwork contraptions out of your own clones and restore life to an ancient tree using automation, a collection of rare plants from across the galaxy and a team of clockwork gardeners.
Red Matter 2
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
Reviewers of The Room VR: A Dark Matter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
Red Matter 2 is an immersive, puzzle-adventure game that will transport you to the far reaches of space. Step into the shoes of Sasha, an agent awakened in a lunar base by an undercover operative and tasked with uncovering the secrets of the mysterious Red Matter.
The 7th Guest
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
Reviewers of The Room VR: A Dark Matter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
Henry Stauf's mansion has been abandoned for as long as anyone dare remember. Stauf was a master toy maker, a maker of amazing puzzles and this strange house was his greatest creation. Now the mansion stands empty, rotting ever since the children started dying, ever since the six guests came.
The Room
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
Reviewers of The Room VR: A Dark Matter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
A mysterious invitation leads to the attic of an abandoned house. In the room is a cast-iron safe laced with strange carvings and on top, a note from your distant companion. It promises something ancient and astonishing concealed in the iron chamber - you need only find a way in.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Room VR: A Dark Matter at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~60% under The Room VR: A Dark Matter on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
PEAK
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Priced ~68% under The Room VR: A Dark Matter on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Inscryption
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Priced ~68% under The Room VR: A Dark Matter on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
It Takes Two
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Priced ~44% under The Room VR: A Dark Matter on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
Embark on the craziest journey of your life in It Takes Two. Invite a friend to join for free with Friend’s Pass and work together across a huge variety of gleefully disruptive gameplay challenges. Winner of GAME OF THE YEAR at the Game Awards 2021.
Noita
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Priced ~68% under The Room VR: A Dark Matter on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~96% under The Room VR: A Dark Matter on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
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.
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 Adventure with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
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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More from Fireproof Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Fireproof Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
The Room
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
Another title from Fireproof Games, the studio behind The Room VR: A Dark Matter. Shares Adventure with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
A mysterious invitation leads to the attic of an abandoned house. In the room is a cast-iron safe laced with strange carvings and on top, a note from your distant companion. It promises something ancient and astonishing concealed in the iron chamber - you need only find a way in.
The Room Two
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
Another title from Fireproof Games, the studio behind The Room VR: A Dark Matter. Shares Adventure with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
Unique events transport you to the halls of a long-forgotten crypt. The only means of escape lies locked within a stone pedestal, along with a note from your mysterious ally. His words promise assistance, but only serve to entice you into a compelling world of mystery and exploration.
The Room 4: Old Sins
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
Another title from Fireproof Games, the studio behind The Room VR: A Dark Matter. Shares Adventure with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
The disappearance of an ambitious engineer and his high-society wife provokes a hunt for a precious artefact. The trail leads you to the attic of their home, and the discovery of an old, peculiar dollhouse. What secrets lie within these walls?
The Room Three
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
Another title from Fireproof Games, the studio behind The Room VR: A Dark Matter. Shares Adventure with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
Lured to a remote island, you find yourself confined within the rooms of an ominous mansion. You must draw upon all your puzzle-solving ability to navigate a series of trials devised by a mysterious figure known only as “The Craftsman”. Do you have what it takes to escape?
Ghost Town
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
Another title from Fireproof Games, the studio behind The Room VR: A Dark Matter. Shares Adventure with The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
Ghost Town is a single player VR puzzle-adventure from the makers of The Room. London, 1983. Edith Penrose is a ghost hunter, busy exorcising her way through the city's restless spirits. But after her brother goes missing Edith must draw upon her wits & supernatural talents to unravel the mystery.
Omega Agent
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Another title from Fireproof Games, the studio behind The Room VR: A Dark Matter.
Strap into your very own nuclear-powered jetpack and blast into the skies of Omega Island, a volcanic sea enclave converted to a vast, intricate super-spy training facility.
Frequently asked about The Room VR: A Dark Matter
- Does The Room VR: A Dark Matter work on Steam Deck?
- The Room VR: A Dark Matter is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does The Room VR: A Dark Matter cost?
- The Room VR: A Dark Matter is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Room VR: A Dark Matter?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Room VR: A Dark Matter are Mansion Mystery, I Expect You To Die 2: The Spy and the Liar, The Room 4: Old Sins.
- Who developed The Room VR: A Dark Matter?
- The Room VR: A Dark Matter was developed by Fireproof Games.
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