Games like Pentiment
If Pentiment is your kind of game, the closest matches are Expelled!, Sarawak and Tron: Identity — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its art mimics medieval manuscripts, choices ripple across decades and historical research feels authentic. 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 →Pentiment is a historical adventure that tasks players with solving a murder mystery across 25 years in a Bavarian Alpine community during the 16th century. Developed by Obsidian Entertainment and priced at $19.99, the game combines dialogue-driven choices with environmental evidence gathering, as decisions made in one era ripple into the next. Reviewers describe the experience as atmospheric and contemplative, with hand-drawn visuals that deliberately mimic medieval manuscript aesthetics. Players note the historical research feels authentic and that there is no illusion of control over the community's fate as events unfold. Currently verified on Steam Deck, the game holds a 95% positive rating from nearly 5,000 Steam reviews.
About Pentiment: Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.
Players who liked Pentiment also play
Steam players who put hours into Pentiment 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.
Expelled!
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Pentiment.
Top pick for Pentiment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
Tron: Identity
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Pentiment.
Third-strongest match for Pentiment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Pentiment.
Something has been taken. Enter a new Grid and forge alliances via visual novel gameplay, uncovering truths through Identity Disc puzzles. Make critical decisions and plot your own course in a world without a creator.
Gerda: A Flame in Winter
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Pentiment.
Ranked #4 for Pentiment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Pentiment.
You have five days to save your husband, who has just been arrested by the Gestapo. Investigate, explore and form allegiances in this story-rich RPG-lite. Who will you trust?
Chronique des Silencieux
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Pentiment.
Ranked #5 for Pentiment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
Set in 1970s southern France, you play a rookie private eye tasked to dig out the secrets of a stubborn old man. Think on your feet while you follow your leads : ask questions to witnesses, detect their lies, hypothesize why and finally confront the silent ones running from their past.
Night Book
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Pentiment.
Ranked #6 for Pentiment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
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.
江华号
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Pentiment.
Ranked #7 for Pentiment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
《江华号》是一款国风水墨横版卷轴叙事游戏。1928年，武汉的大街小巷流传着一则“头七夜死者还魂”的诡异消息，引发各界关注。《楚城时报》新人记者虞慧龄奉命前去采访，却误打误撞，被种种谜团指引着登上了一艘名为“江华号”的豪华客轮。在那里，一段不为人知的隐秘往事渐渐浮出水面……
The Séance of Blake Manor
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Pentiment.
Ranked #8 for Pentiment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
The Séance of Blake Manor is a supernatural detective mystery, set in 1897 Ireland, where you investigate the disappearance of Evelyn Deane in a remote hotel full of secrets and other-worldly occurrences.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Pentiment
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Elysium
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Pentiment cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
Wake up on a paradise-like abandoned island with your friends. Explore the lands of an ancient civilization and uncover the mysteries behind their collapse as you build, craft, and tame corrupted machines. Most importantly, survive the unwelcome lands of Elysium!
The Banner Saga
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Pentiment.
Reviewers of Pentiment cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Live through an epic role-playing Viking saga where your strategic choices directly affect your personal journey. Make allies as you travel with your caravan across this stunning yet harsh landscape. Carefully choose those who will help fight a new threat that jeopardizes an entire civilization.
Night in the Woods
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Pentiment.
Reviewers of Pentiment cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
NIGHT IN THE WOODS is an adventure game focused on exploration, story, and character, featuring dozens of characters to meet and lots to do across a lush, vibrant world.
Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Pentiment.
Reviewers of Pentiment cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and Casual with Pentiment.
12th century, England: In a time of poverty and war, a small town begins the construction of a cathedral to claim wealth and safety for its people. In their struggle to survive, lives and destinies intertwine. Based on Ken Follett's world-bestseller ‘The Pillars of the Earth’.
Citizen Sleeper
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Pentiment.
Reviewers of Pentiment cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.
Card Shark
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Pentiment.
Reviewers of Pentiment cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
Card Shark is an adventure game full of cunning, intrigue, and delectable deceit. Enter a world where you’ll need to play your opponents better than you play your cards.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Pentiment.
Reviewers of Pentiment cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
Story-driven open-world RPG that immerses you in an epic adventure in the Holy Roman Empire. Avenge your parents' death as you battle invading forces, go on game-changing quests, and make influential choices. Explore castles, forests, villages and other realistic settings in medieval Bohemia!
The Case of the Golden Idol
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Pentiment.
Reviewers of Pentiment cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
A new kind of detective game that allows you to think and investigate freely. Discover clues surrounding 12 strange and gruesome deaths and build your own theory. Pick your suspect, deduce the motive, unmask the awful truth.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Pentiment at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Pentiment on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Pentiment.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Pentiment on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Pentiment on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Pentiment.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Pentiment on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Pentiment.
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 ~60% under Pentiment on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Pentiment on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
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...
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 Casual with Pentiment.
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 Pentiment.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
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 Casual with Pentiment.
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 Adventure with Pentiment.
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.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Pentiment.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Pentiment.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Obsidian Entertainment
Other recommendable Steam games by Obsidian Entertainment, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Pentiment.
Another title from Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind Pentiment.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Grounded
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Pentiment.
Another title from Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind Pentiment. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
South Park™: The Stick of Truth™
WHY THIS
Another title from Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind Pentiment. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
From the perilous battlefields of the fourth-grade playground, a young hero will rise, destined to be South Park’s savior. From the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, comes an epic quest to become… cool. Introducing South Park™: The Stick of Truth™.For a thousand years, the battle has been waged.
The Outer Worlds
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Pentiment.
Another title from Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind Pentiment.
The Outer Worlds is an award-winning single-player RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division. As you explore a space colony, the character you decide to become will determine how this player-driven story unfolds. In the colony's corporate equation, you are the unplanned variable.
STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™ II - The Sith Lords™
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Pentiment.
Another title from Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind Pentiment.
5 years after the events of the award winning original, the Sith are on the verge of crushing the Old Republic. As a lone Jedi, will you follow the light side or succumb to the dark?
Grounded 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Pentiment.
Another title from Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind Pentiment. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.
Pillars of Eternity
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Pentiment.
Another title from Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind Pentiment.
Prepare to be enchanted by a world where the choices you make and the paths you choose shape your destiny. Obsidian Entertainment, the developer of Fallout: New Vegas™ and South Park: The Stick of Truth™, together with Paradox Interactive is proud to present Pillars of Eternity.
Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Pentiment.
Another title from Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind Pentiment.
Patch 5.0 - Turn-based mode and The Ultimate challenge out now! Pursue a rogue god over land and sea in the sequel to the multi-award-winning RPG Pillars of Eternity. Captain your ship on a dangerous voyage of discovery across the vast unexplored archipelago region of the Deadfire.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Expelled!
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Pentiment.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
Gerda: A Flame in Winter
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Pentiment.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and Casual with Pentiment.
You have five days to save your husband, who has just been arrested by the Gestapo. Investigate, explore and form allegiances in this story-rich RPG-lite. Who will you trust?
Chronique des Silencieux
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Pentiment.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
Set in 1970s southern France, you play a rookie private eye tasked to dig out the secrets of a stubborn old man. Think on your feet while you follow your leads : ask questions to witnesses, detect their lies, hypothesize why and finally confront the silent ones running from their past.
Night Book
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Pentiment.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
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.
The Séance of Blake Manor
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Pentiment.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Pentiment.
The Séance of Blake Manor is a supernatural detective mystery, set in 1897 Ireland, where you investigate the disappearance of Evelyn Deane in a remote hotel full of secrets and other-worldly occurrences.
Frequently asked about Pentiment
- Is Pentiment verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Pentiment 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 Pentiment cost?
- Pentiment is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Pentiment?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Pentiment are Expelled!, Sarawak, Tron: Identity.
- Who developed Pentiment?
- Pentiment was developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Xbox Game Studios.
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