Games like SHUT IN
If SHUT IN is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cataplexy, The Remission of Sins and The Liquid Jet — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmosphere is oppressively immersive, multiple endings reward exploration and bleak. 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 SHUT IN: SHUT IN is a dark comedy/psychological horror adventure game which explores depression and isolation by trapping you inside your own house. Explore a hostile home, solve puzzles, and withstand sarcasm from a rude and unreliable narrator. Idiot.
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Cataplexy
WHY THIS
Top pick for SHUT IN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SHUT IN.
Waking up at night, the main character realizes that he cannot move. A terrible sense of panic gradually overtakes his mind, and the imagination begins to paint frightening pictures.
The Remission of Sins
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for SHUT IN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SHUT IN.
The Remission of Sins is a fully-voiced, multi-ending short horror visual novel. Depending on the player’s choice, it branches to 12 different endings.
The Liquid Jet
WHY THIS
Shares an unsettling mood with SHUT IN.
Third-strongest match for SHUT IN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SHUT IN.
A slimy, psychedelic adventure about a girl attending a warehouse rave party with her friends, where she'll go to experience a long, profound bad (?) trip.
Chiral
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for SHUT IN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SHUT IN.
A sci-fi puzzle adventure for all non-smooth brains. Solve mind-bending spatial puzzles in a sprawling corporate labyrinth as a disembodied brain in a jar, paired with a digital AI companion.
THE CORRIDOR
WHY THIS
Shares narrator interaction and a contemplative mood with SHUT IN.
Ranked #5 for SHUT IN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SHUT IN.
THE CORRIDOR is a 20-30 minute experience about the relationship between player and game.
Wall
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for SHUT IN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SHUT IN.
A short narrative adventure about friendship, loneliness, and staring at surfaces for meaning. Join your personal upright companion through an exploration into what it means to be Human, and what it means to be Wall.
Robotherapy
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for SHUT IN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SHUT IN.
An emotional dark comedy about robots doing therapy. In Robotherapy, you're a robot therapist in a dystopian society that killed all the humans, but is still not happy. Treat patients, meet weird robots and enter their minds. If killing all humans doesn't bring happiness, then what does?
Viewfinder
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for SHUT IN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SHUT IN.
Challenge perception, redefine reality, and reshape the world around you with an instant camera. Viewfinder is a new single player game offering gamers hours of interesting and fun experiences while uncovering the mysteries left behind.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below SHUT IN at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under SHUT IN on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with SHUT IN.
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 SHUT IN on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with SHUT IN.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under SHUT IN on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with SHUT IN.
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 SHUT IN on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with SHUT IN.
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.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under SHUT IN on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SHUT IN.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under SHUT IN on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with SHUT IN.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under SHUT IN on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with SHUT IN.
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".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under SHUT IN on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SHUT IN.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
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 SHUT IN.
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 SHUT IN.
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 SHUT IN.
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 and Adventure with SHUT IN.
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 SHUT IN.
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 Indie and Adventure with SHUT IN.
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 SHUT IN.
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 SHUT IN
- How much does SHUT IN cost?
- SHUT IN is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to SHUT IN?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside SHUT IN are Cataplexy, The Remission of Sins, The Liquid Jet.
- Who developed SHUT IN?
- SHUT IN was developed by Cael O'Sullivan and published by Hidden Track.
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 SHUT IN.
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