Games like Keyword: A Spider's Thread
If Keyword: A Spider's Thread is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cyber Manhunt, The Operator and Greyhat - A Digital Detective Adventure — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and eerie. 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 Keyword: A Spider's Thread: Become an investigator in Keyword, a narrative thriller where you’ll depend on skills of logical deduction, hacking, and social engineering to solve challenging puzzles as the only means of finding your missing daughter.
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Cyber Manhunt
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Keyword: A Spider's Thread.
Top pick for Keyword: A Spider's Thread fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Keyword: A Spider's Thread.
Cyber Manhunt is a story-oriented puzzle game focusing on big data, hacking, citizen privacy, and social workers. It focuses on social issues such as cyber violence and privacy breaches.
The Operator
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Keyword: A Spider's Thread.
Second-strongest match for Keyword: A Spider's Thread fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Keyword: A Spider's Thread.
Welcome to the FDI. As our newest Operator, your role is to use your detective skills to assist our field agents and investigate mysterious crimes. Use cutting-edge FDI software to dig for clues, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth.
Greyhat - A Digital Detective Adventure
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Keyword: A Spider's Thread.
Third-strongest match for Keyword: A Spider's Thread fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Keyword: A Spider's Thread.
How far would you go to save your daughter? As an infamous hacker-for-hire you have the skills to steal almost any secret. But when your daughter is taken, will you be able to use these skills to uncover a dark conspiracy that goes further than you could ever imagine?
Murders on the Yangtze River
WHY THIS
Shares hint system and an atmospheric mood with Keyword: A Spider's Thread.
Ranked #4 for Keyword: A Spider's Thread fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Keyword: A Spider's Thread.
"Murders on Yangtze River" is an Ace Attorney-like detective game that takes you on a journey through early 20th century China as you solve a series of intriguing cases. Use your logical reasoning and deduction skills to uncover clues, interrogate suspects, and solve the mysteries.
Unheard - Voices of Crime
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Keyword: A Spider's Thread.
Ranked #5 for Keyword: A Spider's Thread fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Keyword: A Spider's Thread.
What if you could hear every word spoken at the scene of a crime? “Acoustic Detectives” wanted for testing our new device! Return aurally to crime scenes and use the voices you hear to identify potential suspects and solve the mysteries. What is it that’s connecting these seemingly unrelated cases?
Telling Lies
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Keyword: A Spider's Thread.
Ranked #6 for Keyword: A Spider's Thread fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Keyword: A Spider's Thread.
Four private lives. One big lie. Search through secretly recorded video conversations to discover the truth. The successor to the acclaimed Her Story.
Orwell: Ignorance is Strength
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Shares a contemplative mood with Keyword: A Spider's Thread.
Ranked #7 for Keyword: A Spider's Thread fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Keyword: A Spider's Thread.
Step into the shoes of a government official in a top-secret department of the Orwell surveillance program. Given the power to both uncover and fabricate "the truth", how far will you go in the service of your country? Season 2 of Orwell, the award-winning surveillance thriller.
The Occupation
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Keyword: A Spider's Thread.
Ranked #8 for Keyword: A Spider's Thread fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Keyword: A Spider's Thread.
The Occupation is a fixed-time, investigative thriller set in North West England on Saturday 24th October, 1987.
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Return of the Obra Dinn
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Keyword: A Spider's Thread.
Reviewers of Keyword: A Spider's Thread cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Keyword: A Spider's Thread.
Lost at sea 1803 ~ The good ship Obra Dinn.
Cyber Manhunt
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Keyword: A Spider's Thread.
Reviewers of Keyword: A Spider's Thread cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Keyword: A Spider's Thread.
Cyber Manhunt is a story-oriented puzzle game focusing on big data, hacking, citizen privacy, and social workers. It focuses on social issues such as cyber violence and privacy breaches.
Greyhat - A Digital Detective Adventure
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Keyword: A Spider's Thread.
Reviewers of Keyword: A Spider's Thread cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Keyword: A Spider's Thread.
How far would you go to save your daughter? As an infamous hacker-for-hire you have the skills to steal almost any secret. But when your daughter is taken, will you be able to use these skills to uncover a dark conspiracy that goes further than you could ever imagine?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Keyword: A Spider's Thread at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~71% under Keyword: A Spider's Thread on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Keyword: A Spider's Thread.
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
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Priced ~41% under Keyword: A Spider's Thread on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Keyword: A Spider's Thread.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
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Priced ~41% under Keyword: A Spider's Thread on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Keyword: A Spider's Thread.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~71% under Keyword: A Spider's Thread on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Keyword: A Spider's Thread.
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 ~53% under Keyword: A Spider's Thread on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Keyword: A Spider's Thread.
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?
Kerbal Space Program
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Priced ~41% under Keyword: A Spider's Thread on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Keyword: A Spider's Thread.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
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 with Keyword: A Spider's Thread.
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.
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 Keyword: A Spider's Thread.
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 with Keyword: A Spider's Thread.
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 with Keyword: A Spider's Thread.
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 with Keyword: A Spider's Thread.
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 Keyword: A Spider's Thread.
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 Keyword: A Spider's Thread
- Does Keyword: A Spider's Thread run on Steam Deck?
- Keyword: A Spider's Thread 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 Keyword: A Spider's Thread cost?
- Keyword: A Spider's Thread is listed on Steam at 16.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Keyword: A Spider's Thread?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Keyword: A Spider's Thread are Cyber Manhunt, The Operator, Greyhat - A Digital Detective Adventure.
- Who developed Keyword: A Spider's Thread?
- Keyword: A Spider's Thread was developed by City From Naught Inc. and published by City From Naught Inc., Gamirror Games, idealCat.
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