Games like The Pillar
If The Pillar is your kind of game, the closest matches are Chiyo, SOTANO - Mystery Escape Room Adventure and Road To Devadatta — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its colorful and pleasant visuals, atmospheric and chill. 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 Pillar: Welcome to The Pillar! Escape room game leading throughout mystery islands. Solve dozens of puzzles in the first-person adventure.
Players who liked The Pillar also play
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Chiyo
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Pillar.
Top pick for The Pillar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Pillar.
[Chiyo] is a first-person hardcore escape room horror game set in Japan's Edo era. As Idate Chiyo, a paranormal investigator possessing supernatural abilities, you are tasked with investigating an abandoned mansion and unveiling a family's dark history and it's ultimate secret.
SOTANO - Mystery Escape Room Adventure
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Pillar.
Second-strongest match for The Pillar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Pillar.
Sotano is a first person 3d escape room puzzle adventure. Explore areas, collect items and take in your surroundings. You will need all of your puzzle solving skills to put together a plan to make your way through the house, solving riddles and through the many rooms to escape the house of Sotano.
Road To Devadatta
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Pillar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Pillar.
Road to Devadatta is a first-person adventure game focused on story and puzzle solving to advance. Explore ancient ruins Use your wits to escape from them, solve their ingenious puzzles and avoid being killed by the creatures that inhabit them.
Sins From Magdala
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Pillar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Pillar.
Enjoy this puzzle game in first person, escape room style, in which you will have to discover 7 enigmas, each related to a different deadly sin using our virtues as humans.
Sneaky Kitten
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Pillar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Pillar.
Play as a fluffy cat and sneak around your mortal enemies, The Dogs! Steal their trinkets and work your way around their mansion without being seen! Sneaky Kitten is a non-violence game, that focuses on problem solving and sneakiness!
Escape Yourself
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Pillar.
Ranked #6 for The Pillar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Pillar.
You will take on the role of Danny Bent, a boy who wakes up in a train car. Without memories and without knowing why he is there, he soon realizes that something strange is going on. Can you solve all the puzzles? Of discovering the truth? Will you be able to escape?
Faraway: Jungle Escape
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Pillar.
Ranked #7 for The Pillar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Pillar.
Faraway: Jungle Escape is a relaxing adventure escape game full of new puzzles to solve. The second sequel of the Faraway trilogy.
Escape Simulator 2
WHY THIS
Shares environmental interaction and an atmospheric mood with The Pillar.
Ranked #8 for The Pillar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Pillar.
Sequel to the best-selling escape room game, brings a fresh take on first-person puzzles with a variety of new rooms to explore solo or with friends. Solve intricate puzzles, uncover hidden secrets, or craft your own escape rooms with Room Editor 2.0.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Pillar at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Pillar on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Pillar.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Pillar on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Pillar.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under The Pillar on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Pillar.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Pillar on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Pillar.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Pillar on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Pillar.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under The Pillar on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Pillar.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under The Pillar on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Pillar.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Pillar on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Pillar.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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 and Casual with The Pillar.
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 Action and Adventure with The Pillar.
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 Action and Indie with The Pillar.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Pillar.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Pillar.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Pillar.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Pillar.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Pillar.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about The Pillar
- How much does The Pillar cost?
- The Pillar is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Pillar?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Pillar are Chiyo, SOTANO - Mystery Escape Room Adventure, Road To Devadatta.
- Who developed The Pillar?
- The Pillar was developed by Paper Bunker s.r.o..
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 Pillar.
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