Games like INDIKA
If INDIKA is your kind of game, the closest matches are Martha Is Dead, Delirium and Close Your Eyes — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, bleak 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 →INDIKA is a 2024 adventure game set in an alternative 19th-century Russia where religious visions collide with daily life. Players guide a young nun on a journey of self-discovery through a world of shifting realities, engaging with dialogue-driven exploration, puzzle sequences, and prayer-based interactions. The game features 2D-to-3D transitions and minigame elements woven throughout its narrative. Reviewers describe the story as a philosophical deep dive that balances weighty themes with sharp humor. Players highlight that the music and atmosphere immerse them in a bleak yet beautiful world, while the reality-shifting mechanics add depth to exploration. The short but dense narrative avoids filler, making every moment purposeful. INDIKA is available for $24.99, runs verified on Steam Deck, and holds an 89% positive rating from 2,313 Steam reviews.
About INDIKA: Play a third-person, story-driven game set in alternative Russia at the turn of the XIX century where religious visions clash with harsh reality. INDIKA tells the story of a young nun who sets off on a journey of self-discovery with the most unusual companion by her side, the devil himself.
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Martha Is Dead
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with INDIKA.
Top pick for INDIKA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with INDIKA.
Set in 1944 Italy, Martha Is Dead is an award-winning dark psychological thriller where the lines between truth, superstition, and tragedy blur. Explore a haunting countryside, uncover disturbing memories, and peel back layers of mystery. Every choice shapes the nightmare…are you ready to face it?
Close Your Eyes
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with INDIKA.
Third-strongest match for INDIKA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with INDIKA.
An anthology of 7 horror tales within a connected universe. Join a murderous marshmallow bound by their past down an atmospheric descent, brought into question by an odd game show host. Follow a Witch trying to seduce her love with sweet things. Plus 5 other surprisingly twisted yet emotional tales.
Incredulity
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for INDIKA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with INDIKA.
Descend into mind of detective Zara Moreland in this dark, moody, short, story emphasized adventure game with fixed camera angles. Talk with people from her past, solve old school puzzles and try to figure out what is happening.... or what has happened.
Luto
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with INDIKA.
Ranked #5 for INDIKA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with INDIKA.
Luto is a psychological horror experience where you take on the role of someone unable to leave their home. Every attempt to escape will lead you deeper into the unknown, where nothing is as it seems and everything will test your senses.
Keeper
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with INDIKA.
Ranked #6 for INDIKA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with INDIKA.
From Lee Petty and Double Fine Productions, Keeper is an atmospheric puzzle adventure in which a long-forgotten lighthouse is awakened and, joined by a spirited seabird, it embarks upon a heartening tale of unlikely companionship, and an unexpected journey into realms beyond understanding
Superliminal
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with INDIKA.
Ranked #7 for INDIKA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with INDIKA.
Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with INDIKA.
Ranked #8 for INDIKA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with INDIKA.
The sequel to the award winning Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, Senua returns in a brutal journey of survival through the myth and torment of Viking Iceland. Intent on saving those who have fallen victim to the horrors of tyranny, Senua faces a battle of overcoming the darkness within and without.
Reviewers mention these as similar to INDIKA
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Pathologic 2
WHY THIS
Reviewers of INDIKA cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with INDIKA.
Pathologic 2 is a groundbreaking open-world horror RPG. Resist the plague. Make medicine. Heal people. Perform an autopsy. Trade to get what you need. Fight and kill if necessary. Survive. Struggle with an outbreak in a secluded rural town that is rapidly turning into hell.
Portal
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with INDIKA.
Reviewers of INDIKA 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.
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with INDIKA.
Reviewers of INDIKA cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with INDIKA.
From the makers of Heavenly Sword, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, and DmC: Devil May Cry, comes a warrior’s brutal journey into myth and madness. Set in the Viking age, a broken Celtic warrior embarks on a haunting vision quest into Viking Hell to fight for the soul of her dead lover.
Pathologic 3
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with INDIKA.
Reviewers of INDIKA cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with INDIKA.
In this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite the past. Hold yourself together while it all falls apart.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below INDIKA at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under INDIKA on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with INDIKA.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under INDIKA on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with INDIKA.
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
Shares an atmospheric mood with INDIKA.
Priced ~68% under INDIKA on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with INDIKA.
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...
It Takes Two
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under INDIKA on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with INDIKA.
Embark on the craziest journey of your life in It Takes Two. Invite a friend to join for free with Friend’s Pass and work together across a huge variety of gleefully disruptive gameplay challenges. Winner of GAME OF THE YEAR at the Game Awards 2021.
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under INDIKA on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with INDIKA.
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.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~96% under INDIKA on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with INDIKA.
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?
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.
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 INDIKA.
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.
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 Adventure with INDIKA.
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 Adventure with INDIKA.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about INDIKA
- Is INDIKA verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — INDIKA 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 INDIKA cost?
- INDIKA is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to INDIKA?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside INDIKA are Martha Is Dead, Delirium, Close Your Eyes.
- Who developed INDIKA?
- INDIKA was developed by Odd Meter and published by 11 bit studios.
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 INDIKA.
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