Games like The Rewinder
If The Rewinder is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Darkside Detective, Xi and Paper Bride — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its rewind puzzles feel satisfying, 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 The Rewinder: The Rewinder is an adventure puzzle game based on Chinese mythology. You play as Yun, the last known Rewinder, who can communicate with spirits and explore other people's memories to alter the past.
Players who liked The Rewinder also play
Steam players who put hours into The Rewinder 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.
The Darkside Detective
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Rewinder.
Top pick for The Rewinder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Rewinder.
Grab your trench coat, tune your sixth sense and join the Darkside Division as they investigate the outright bizarre, the downright dangerous and the confusing cases of Twin Lakes. Flesh-hungry tentacles, mafian zombies, and the occasional missing sock are no match for The Darkside Detective.
Xi
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with The Rewinder.
Second-strongest match for The Rewinder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Rewinder.
"Xi" is a horror puzzle game set in the context of modern Chinese folklore. The story takes place in an long-abandoned mountain mansion. This immersive escape room experience feels a bit too real, with eerie and strange elements everywhere—an empty banquet, an endless corridor.
Paper Bride
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with The Rewinder.
Third-strongest match for The Rewinder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Rewinder.
Paper Bride is a Chinese horror mystery puzzle game. You will play as the groom to search for the truth and have bizarre encounters, gradually learning about the dark mystic custom in the bride's home village and a story from the past...
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with The Rewinder.
Ranked #4 for The Rewinder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Rewinder.
Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, it’s time to re-enter Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 9 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.
Vlad Circus: Descend Into Madness
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Rewinder.
Ranked #5 for The Rewinder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Rewinder.
Vlad Circus: Descend into Madness puts your sanity to the test, challenging you to escape a labyrinth of nightmares and torment. Test your mind against a slow burn of puzzles, light survival mechanics, and methodical action.
Night Book
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Rewinder.
Ranked #6 for The Rewinder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Rewinder.
Tricked into reading an ancient book, Loralyn summons a demon into her home. Night Book is an interactive occult thriller movie, created in lockdown, from the publishers of The Complex, Five Dates and Maid of Sker.
Firework
WHY THIS
Shares narrative branching, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with The Rewinder.
Ranked #7 for The Rewinder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Rewinder.
An accidental fire at a funeral forces the police to re-investigate a closed case of massacre. Lin Lixun participates the re-investigation by chances. As the investigation goes deeper, the past of the victims gradually emerges. However, the case becomes more bewildering.
노베나 디아볼로스
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Rewinder.
Ranked #8 for The Rewinder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Rewinder.
Novena diabolos is an Ocult mystery adventure game. The main character, Park Joon-sung, has to find a single human woman who doesn't know who she is and get out of town safely.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Rewinder at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Rewinder on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Rewinder.
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 ~67% under The Rewinder on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Rewinder.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Rewinder on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Rewinder.
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?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under The Rewinder on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Rewinder.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Rewinder on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Rewinder.
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...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Rewinder on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Rewinder.
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 ~67% under The Rewinder on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Rewinder.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Rewinder on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Rewinder.
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.
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 Rewinder.
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 Rewinder.
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 Indie with The Rewinder.
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 The Rewinder.
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 and Casual with The Rewinder.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Rewinder.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Rewinder.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
The Darkside Detective
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Rewinder.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Rewinder.
Grab your trench coat, tune your sixth sense and join the Darkside Division as they investigate the outright bizarre, the downright dangerous and the confusing cases of Twin Lakes. Flesh-hungry tentacles, mafian zombies, and the occasional missing sock are no match for The Darkside Detective.
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with The Rewinder.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Rewinder.
Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, it’s time to re-enter Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 9 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.
Vlad Circus: Descend Into Madness
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Rewinder.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Rewinder.
Vlad Circus: Descend into Madness puts your sanity to the test, challenging you to escape a labyrinth of nightmares and torment. Test your mind against a slow burn of puzzles, light survival mechanics, and methodical action.
Night Book
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Rewinder.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Rewinder.
Tricked into reading an ancient book, Loralyn summons a demon into her home. Night Book is an interactive occult thriller movie, created in lockdown, from the publishers of The Complex, Five Dates and Maid of Sker.
Frequently asked about The Rewinder
- Is The Rewinder verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The Rewinder 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 The Rewinder cost?
- The Rewinder is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Rewinder?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Rewinder are The Darkside Detective, Xi, Paper Bride.
- Who developed The Rewinder?
- The Rewinder was developed by MistyMountainStudio and published by Gamirror Games.
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 Rewinder.
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