Games like A Guidebook of Babel
If A Guidebook of Babel is your kind of game, the closest matches are Who Summoned It?, Ramas' Call: Twisted timing and Alien Function — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its butterfly effect rewriting matters, puzzles click together satisfyingly and atmospheric. 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 A Guidebook of Babel: A narrative-driven puzzle adventure game with the butterfly effect at its core. Board the Babel, a mysterious cruise ship that takes you on a whimsical journey to the afterlife. Use a special pen to help fellow travelers fulfill their wishes by rewriting the past, changing how the future unfolds.
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Steam players who put hours into A Guidebook of Babel 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.
Who Summoned It?
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with A Guidebook of Babel.
Top pick for A Guidebook of Babel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Unravel the Knotgud disaster in this point and click deduction mystery. Explore the kingdom of Knotgud, interrogate townsfolk, and investigate with magical tools. Use your discoveries to piece the events together word by word in your scroll of truth to find out, Who Summoned It?
Ramas' Call: Twisted timing
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for A Guidebook of Babel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with A Guidebook of Babel.
Point and Click adventure in a medieval fantasy ambience. Imagine you are a random tabletop geek looking for new adventures and your friend makes a tiiny mistake with his time machine... Now add an adventurer, a noble and a detective and mix them all together in yourself. Adventure awaits!
Alien Function
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with A Guidebook of Babel.
Third-strongest match for A Guidebook of Babel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with A Guidebook of Babel.
A suspenseful surreal comedy in the depths of space. Typhil and his companions set out to unravel the many mysteries of this enigmatic starship, facing aliens, killer robots, and more on a quest for the truth about their mission, and their lives.
The Jewel of Monostructure
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for A Guidebook of Babel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Guidebook of Babel.
Sanator: The Jewel of Monostructure is a dark fantasy visual novel that combines deep lore with exciting adventures. Who is behind the mysterious thefts and why are the gates of the Monostructure open again? Take control of Richard Murdock, the plague doctor, and find the answer.
Tales of the Neon Sea
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with A Guidebook of Babel.
Ranked #5 for A Guidebook of Babel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Guidebook of Babel.
Welcome to a world of intrigue and suspicion. Where humans and robots contend with escalating tensions and mutual distrust. And where gangster felines scheme their way to the top of the food chain. Welcome to the Tales of the Neon Sea!
noRma
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for A Guidebook of Babel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Guidebook of Babel.
"noRma" immerses you in the role of private detective Augustus Pinkerton. The game takes place in June 2240, your mission is to unravel the mystery surrounding the disappearance of Norma X, a 19-year-old young woman.
Your Computer Might Be At Risk
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for A Guidebook of Babel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Guidebook of Babel.
Your Computer Might Be At Risk is a first-person narrative puzzle game. Locked up in a room after a mysterious car accident, you must figure out how to escape while surviving dangerous trials.
GRUNND
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for A Guidebook of Babel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Guidebook of Babel.
You fell asleep on the train... Now a strange town, fully voice-acted characters, and choices that reshape the mystery stand between you and home.
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The Witness
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with A Guidebook of Babel.
Reviewers of A Guidebook of Babel cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Guidebook of Babel.
You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.
Antichamber
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with A Guidebook of Babel.
Reviewers of A Guidebook of Babel cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Guidebook of Babel.
Antichamber is a mind-bending psychological exploration game where nothing can be taken for granted. Discover an Escher-like world where hallways wrap around upon each other, spaces reconfigure themselves, and accomplishing the impossible may just be the only way forward.
The Talos Principle
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with A Guidebook of Babel.
Reviewers of A Guidebook of Babel cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Guidebook of Babel.
The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below A Guidebook of Babel at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under A Guidebook of Babel on Steam right now. Shares Indie with A Guidebook of Babel.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under A Guidebook of Babel on Steam right now. Shares Indie with A Guidebook of Babel.
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 ~47% under A Guidebook of Babel on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Guidebook of Babel.
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?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under A Guidebook of Babel on Steam right now. Shares Indie with A Guidebook of Babel.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under A Guidebook of Babel on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Guidebook of Babel.
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...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under A Guidebook of Babel on Steam right now. Shares Indie with A Guidebook of Babel.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under A Guidebook of Babel on Steam right now. Shares Indie with A Guidebook of Babel.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under A Guidebook of Babel on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Guidebook of Babel.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with A Guidebook of Babel.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Guidebook of Babel.
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 A Guidebook of Babel.
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 A Guidebook of Babel.
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 A Guidebook of Babel.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with A Guidebook of Babel.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with A Guidebook of Babel.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
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Frequently asked about A Guidebook of Babel
- Does A Guidebook of Babel run on Steam Deck?
- A Guidebook of Babel 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 A Guidebook of Babel cost?
- A Guidebook of Babel is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to A Guidebook of Babel?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside A Guidebook of Babel are Who Summoned It?, Ramas' Call: Twisted timing, Alien Function.
- Who developed A Guidebook of Babel?
- A Guidebook of Babel was developed by StarryStarry and published by Thermite Games.
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