Games like The Caretaker
If The Caretaker is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hearts Gone Black, The Colony: New Haven Chronicles and What The Maze — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Caretaker: The Caretaker is a Top Down, Dungeon-Crawler style survival game. Search your way through streets, buildings and sewers for anything you can use to keep you moving and keep you alive!
Players who liked The Caretaker also play
Steam players who put hours into The Caretaker 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.
Hearts Gone Black
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Top pick for The Caretaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Caretaker.
Hearts Gone Black is a top-down survival horror game set in a post-apocalyptic open world. Manage your base and survivors, scavenge, gather resources, craft equipment, and defend against infected while endure a broken world where weather, hunger, sanity, and moral choices slowly wear you down.
The Colony: New Haven Chronicles
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Caretaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Caretaker.
New Haven is a utopia under a red moon, turned into a dystopian nightmare. You are a prisoner with no name, waking up in the middle of an emergency. Fight for survival guided by an enigmatic voice in your head, explore a falling world, solve puzzles, and unravel dark secrets.
What The Maze
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Caretaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Caretaker.
"What The Maze" is a horror survival and puzzle game in one. You have to fight for survival as you search for the exit of the huge maze. Register for the experiment today!
REFICUL 666
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Ranked #4 for The Caretaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Caretaker.
A town swallowed by darkness. A towering entity watches from the storm. In Reficul 666, light is your only defence. Explore, survive, and uncover the truth as something ancient hunts you in the night.
QuietMansion1
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Ranked #5 for The Caretaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Caretaker.
Explore a dark and creepy mansion crawling with terrifying monsters, find keys, and use weapons to fight back as you try to find your way out!
Zombie Hunter
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Caretaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Caretaker.
Clean up the constantly infected zombies! Select the buff type to strengthen yourself, and kill the super boss to obtain the skill chest. Strategy skill Buff combination! Each layer lasts for 3 minutes. The higher the level, the more difficult it is. Each layer is the ultimate Roguelike experience!
蛊婆 Lady in Tomb
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Caretaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Caretaker.
Gu Lady is a cartoon style third person action game. In the game, you'll have an adventure of nightmares and there are also puzzles for you to solve. You'll act Gu JiuXun, a Miao girl, to explore the grave filled with monsters,puzzles and traps,to save her younger sister！
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Caretaker at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Caretaker on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with The Caretaker.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Caretaker on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Caretaker.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~70% under The Caretaker on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Caretaker.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Caretaker on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with The Caretaker.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
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Priced ~50% under The Caretaker on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Caretaker.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™
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Priced ~50% under The Caretaker on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Caretaker.
Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~60% under The Caretaker on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Caretaker.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
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Priced ~60% under The Caretaker on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Caretaker.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
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 Action and Adventure with The Caretaker.
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 Action with The Caretaker.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Caretaker.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Caretaker.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Caretaker.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Caretaker.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
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Frequently asked about The Caretaker
- How much does The Caretaker cost?
- The Caretaker is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Caretaker?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Caretaker are Hearts Gone Black, The Colony: New Haven Chronicles, What The Maze.
- Who developed The Caretaker?
- The Caretaker was developed by Squid Monkey Studios.
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