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Games like Faraday Protocol

If Faraday Protocol is your kind of game, the closest matches are Kredolis, THE MULLER-POWELL PRINCIPLE and Pillars of Light — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative 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.

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About Faraday Protocol: Faraday Protocol is a first person puzzle game that will test your wits and intelligence. Use the Bia-Tool, an ancient pistol-like relic of an alien civilization, to solve puzzles by bending energy and manipulating enigmatic machinery.

2021IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedWindows · Linuxby Red Koi Box
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Steam players who put hours into Faraday Protocol 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.

  1. Kredolis

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Faraday Protocol.

    Top pick for Faraday Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Faraday Protocol.

    You find yourself shipwrecked on a beautiful unsunken island that was once part of Atlantis. Explore the mysteries of the island, and solve unique puzzles to enter the sunken lighthouse into the depths of Atlantis.

    2022IndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. THE MULLER-POWELL PRINCIPLE

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Faraday Protocol.

    Second-strongest match for Faraday Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Faraday Protocol.

    Welcome to a breathtaking storyline full of portals, solving puzzles with an energy-absorbing weapon, and other adventures in a sci-fi atmosphere! Can you travel through parallel dimensions and uncover the secrets of your past?

    2023ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Pillars of Light

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Faraday Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Faraday Protocol.

    Pillars of Light is a first person action / puzzle game where you will have to continue what your family have done since the beginning of times : protect the world from shadows and make friend with Utu, the light god.

    2022IndieAdventure8.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Astro Link

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Faraday Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Faraday Protocol.

    Astro Link is a Portal-like puzzle game that takes place within the mysterious Astro Link facility. What happened to this place? Will test subject #602 be able to find out?

    2024ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Leap of Phase: Samantha

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Faraday Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Faraday Protocol.

    You thought it would be the chance of a lifetime when tech giant IRT hired you to work in their new testing facility. But now… you’re a guinea pig for experimental teleporting technology and suspect that something is wrong with this company. Very wrong...

    2022ActionIndieAdventure12.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. 11 Years Ago

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Faraday Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Faraday Protocol.

    11 Years Ago is a puzzle-solving single player adventure game made with Unreal Engine 5 and it is the final project of the Red 32 team of BigRock School.

    2023IndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Black Submarine: deep seek

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Faraday Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Faraday Protocol.

    Descend as the AI mind of a cutting-edge submarine, tasked with safeguarding mysterious waters. A narrative-driven tale blending sci-fi, underwater mythology, and a chilling exploration of Artificial Intelligence’s moral evolution.

    2024StrategyIndieCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Examination Chambers

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Faraday Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Faraday Protocol.

    In this short narrative puzzle adventure, you play as a tester who has to overcome increasingly harder logic puzzles. Room by room, your actions will be commented on by a test supervisor. Place different sizes of cubes on buttons in first person to solve logic-gate-like riddles.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Faraday Protocol

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. The Entropy Centre

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Faraday Protocol.

    Reviewers of Faraday Protocol cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Faraday Protocol.

    Think in reverse. Outsmart the impossible. A mind-bending first-person adventure where you solve ingenious and complex puzzles by rewinding objects through time.

    2022Adventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Quantum Conundrum

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Faraday Protocol.

    Reviewers of Faraday Protocol cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    Find and rescue your uncle by using his newest invention to work your way through a crazy complex mansion as you switch between dimensions and solve puzzles!

    2012StrategyCasual8.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Talos Principle

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Faraday Protocol.

    Reviewers of Faraday Protocol cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Faraday Protocol.

    The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).

    2014ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Turing Test

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Faraday Protocol.

    Reviewers of Faraday Protocol cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Faraday Protocol.

    The Turing Test is a challenging first-person puzzle game set on Jupiter’s moon, Europa. You are Ava Turing, an engineer for the International Space Agency (ISA) sent to discover the cause behind the disappearance of the ground crew stationed there.

    2016Adventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Spectrum Retreat

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Faraday Protocol.

    Reviewers of Faraday Protocol cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Faraday Protocol.

    Check-in to The Spectrum Retreat for a stay you won’t forget. Manipulate your way to the truth in this captivating narrative-driven puzzler.

    2018StrategyIndieAdventure12.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Relicta

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Faraday Protocol.

    Reviewers of Faraday Protocol cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Faraday Protocol.

    Relicta is a first-person physics-based puzzle game where you need to creatively combine magnetism and gravity to unravel the secrets of Chandra Base.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Portal

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Faraday Protocol.

    Reviewers of Faraday Protocol cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.

    2007Action9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Lightmatter

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Faraday Protocol.

    Reviewers of Faraday Protocol cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Faraday Protocol.

    A first-person puzzler where shadows kill you. Watch your step or be swallowed by the darkness.

    2020IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Faraday Protocol at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Faraday Protocol on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Faraday Protocol.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Faraday Protocol on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Faraday Protocol.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Faraday Protocol on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Faraday Protocol.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Faraday Protocol on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Faraday Protocol.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Portal 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Faraday Protocol on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Faraday Protocol.

    The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

    2011ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Undertale

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Faraday Protocol on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Faraday Protocol.

    UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

    2015IndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Faraday Protocol on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Faraday Protocol.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Faraday Protocol on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Faraday Protocol.

    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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Faraday Protocol.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Faraday Protocol.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Faraday Protocol.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Faraday Protocol.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Faraday Protocol.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. 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 Faraday Protocol.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Faraday Protocol.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Faraday Protocol.

    Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Faraday Protocol

Is Faraday Protocol verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — Faraday Protocol is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
How much does Faraday Protocol cost?
Faraday Protocol is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Faraday Protocol?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Faraday Protocol are Kredolis, THE MULLER-POWELL PRINCIPLE, Pillars of Light.
Who developed Faraday Protocol?
Faraday Protocol was developed by Red Koi Box and published by Deck13.

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