Games like Buddy Simulator 1984
If Buddy Simulator 1984 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Castle of Terror, 告死天使招魂令 Death Angel Requiem and Stories Untold — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its bleak, contemplative and dark. 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 →Buddy Simulator 1984 is a 2021 indie adventure RPG set in the 1980s, featuring retro pixel graphics and a psychological horror narrative centered on artificial friendship. The game employs free-text entry, allowing players to interact with a buddy AI that learns and evolves based on their input, creating a personalized experience. It features multiple endings, RPG-style quests, and text-adventure segments that drive the progression. Players describe the experience as bleak, contemplative, and emotionally intense, with the writing exploring themes of friendship and loneliness rather than relying on scares. Released at $9.99, the game is marked Playable on Steam Deck and holds a 94% positive rating from 3,155 Steam reviews.
About Buddy Simulator 1984: Thanks to next generation AI technology, BUDDY SIMULATOR 1984 simulates the experience of hanging out with a best buddy! Your buddy learns from you, constantly adapting to your interests and personality. But most importantly, your buddy can play games with you!
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Castle of Terror
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Top pick for Buddy Simulator 1984 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Buddy Simulator 1984.
In this classic graphical text adventure, originally released in 1985 for the Commodore 64 by the same studio that brought you The Hobbit, explore an adventure in the world of Count Dracula.
告死天使招魂令 Death Angel Requiem
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Buddy Simulator 1984 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Buddy Simulator 1984.
Your story begins to kill people after you "die". The genius and notorious creator "Gasai Kanju" met her social demise. Six years later, the investigator "Igarashi" was entrusted by the police to step into the scene of the murder. She investigated the bizarre crime scene, to identified the culprit.
Stories Untold
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Third-strongest match for Buddy Simulator 1984 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Buddy Simulator 1984.
Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental adventures, including a remaster of the original hit episode “The House Abandon”.
At Home Alone
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Shares multiple endings and a contemplative mood with Buddy Simulator 1984.
Ranked #4 for Buddy Simulator 1984 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Buddy Simulator 1984.
This is a recreational healing Mini-plot game explored at home. Players will play and wander around the house from the perspective of a little girl. What will she do when she is alone? What strange stories will happen in the process, and in the process of exploration, you may find some strange secrets....
Eyes Of Memes
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Ranked #5 for Buddy Simulator 1984 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Buddy Simulator 1984.
Explore the level and find the eight pictures before the monster finds you.
The Sweet Spot
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Ranked #6 for Buddy Simulator 1984 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Buddy Simulator 1984.
The Sweet Spot is a cozy horror game where you work the last shift at an 80s ice cream shop. Make ice cream, serve customers and watch out for strange things.
PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo
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Shares a contemplative mood with Buddy Simulator 1984.
Ranked #7 for Buddy Simulator 1984 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Buddy Simulator 1984.
How far would you go to bring someone back from the dead? Discover the depths that some will go to in this horror-adventure game.
Choose Your Own Alternative
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Ranked #8 for Buddy Simulator 1984 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Buddy Simulator 1984.
A text-based adventure where you're tasked to exorcise your friend’s Inner Demon. You have 30 days to analyze objects filled with memories, discover which one is the reason for her possession and sacrifice it. Do not deviate from your mission. Save your friend no matter the cost.
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Undertale
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Shares multiple endings and an emotional mood with Buddy Simulator 1984.
Reviewers of Buddy Simulator 1984 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Buddy Simulator 1984.
UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.
Pony Island
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Shares a dark mood with Buddy Simulator 1984.
Reviewers of Buddy Simulator 1984 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Buddy Simulator 1984.
Pony Island is a suspense puzzle game in disguise. You are in limbo, trapped in a malevolent and malfunctioning arcade machine devised by the devil himself. It is not a game about ponies.
OneShot
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Shares multiple endings and an emotional mood with Buddy Simulator 1984.
Reviewers of Buddy Simulator 1984 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Buddy Simulator 1984.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
The Hex
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Reviewers of Buddy Simulator 1984 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Buddy Simulator 1984.
In a creaky old tavern, in a forgotten corner of the video-game universe, a storm is raging. An anonymous caller suggests that there is a murder plot. Six video game protagonists are the only plausible suspects...
DELTARUNE
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Shares an emotional mood with Buddy Simulator 1984.
Reviewers of Buddy Simulator 1984 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Buddy Simulator 1984.
Dive into the parallel story to UNDERTALE! Fight or spare your way through action-packed battles as you explore a mysterious world alongside an endearing cast of new and familiar characters. Chapters 1-4 will be available on launch, with more planned as free updates!
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
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Shares multiple endings and a contemplative mood with Buddy Simulator 1984.
Reviewers of Buddy Simulator 1984 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Buddy Simulator 1984.
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is an expanded re-imagining of 2013's The Stanley Parable. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will make a choice, and you will become powerless. You are not here to win. The Stanley Parable is a game that plays you.
KinitoPET
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Reviewers of Buddy Simulator 1984 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Buddy Simulator 1984.
KinitoPET is a psychological horror experience that takes place through Kinito, an early 2000s virtual assistant. Kinito is able to walk, talk, browse, adapt, and play games as Kinito is like no other with its adaptive technology!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Buddy Simulator 1984 at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under Buddy Simulator 1984 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Buddy Simulator 1984.
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
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Priced ~50% under Buddy Simulator 1984 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Buddy Simulator 1984.
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!
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~50% under Buddy Simulator 1984 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Buddy Simulator 1984.
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
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Priced ~50% under Buddy Simulator 1984 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Buddy Simulator 1984.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Buddy Simulator 1984 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Buddy Simulator 1984.
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
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Priced ~70% under Buddy Simulator 1984 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Buddy Simulator 1984.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~50% under Buddy Simulator 1984 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Buddy Simulator 1984.
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.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
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Priced ~50% under Buddy Simulator 1984 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Buddy Simulator 1984.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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. Shares Indie and Casual with Buddy Simulator 1984.
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 Buddy Simulator 1984.
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. Shares Indie with Buddy Simulator 1984.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Buddy Simulator 1984.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Buddy Simulator 1984.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Buddy Simulator 1984.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Buddy Simulator 1984.
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.
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Frequently asked about Buddy Simulator 1984
- Does Buddy Simulator 1984 run on Steam Deck?
- Buddy Simulator 1984 is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Buddy Simulator 1984 cost?
- Buddy Simulator 1984 is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Buddy Simulator 1984?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Buddy Simulator 1984 are Castle of Terror, 告死天使招魂令 Death Angel Requiem, Stories Untold.
- Who developed Buddy Simulator 1984?
- Buddy Simulator 1984 was developed by Not a Sailor Studios.
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