Games like The Sundew
If The Sundew is your kind of game, the closest matches are Drown the Bride, Whispers of a Machine and VirtuaVerse — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its cyberpunk japanese dystopia setting, layered environmental storytelling and meaningful decisions shape dialogue. 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 Sundew: You are Anna Isobe, a cyborg cop abandoned by progress and thrust into the midst of a global conspiracy. Experience classic point and click gameplay as you travel across the dark future, and make choices that will seal the fate of the world.
Players who liked The Sundew also play
Steam players who put hours into The Sundew 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.
Drown the Bride
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Sundew fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Sundew.
A short interactive adventure about a young actress who must use her wits to prevent her best friend from being murdered.
Whispers of a Machine
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Sundew.
Second-strongest match for The Sundew fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Sundew.
Whispers of a Machine is a Sci-Fi Nordic Noir that tells the story of Vera, a cybernetically augmented detective in a post-AI world, who investigates a string of murders and unravels a dark conflict over forbidden technology.
VirtuaVerse
WHY THIS
Shares pixel art environment exploration and an atmospheric mood with The Sundew.
Third-strongest match for The Sundew fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Sundew.
VirtuaVerse is a challenging old school cyberpunk point & click adventure set in a future not so far away narrating tales of technomancers, AVR graffiti writers, hacker groups, tribes of cryptoshamans, digital archeology, epic cyberwars and virtual reality debauchery.
The Captain
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Sundew.
Ranked #4 for The Sundew fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Sundew.
In this retro-inspired adventure game you will have to race back home across the galaxy. Collect new friends on your journey. Make new enemies. You won't be able to save everyone. Who will you leave behind? Which civilizations will you save - or destroy - along the way?
The Abandoned Planet
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Sundew.
Ranked #5 for The Sundew fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Sundew.
A throw-back, retro-inspired, point and click adventure with chunky and beautiful pixel art
Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Sundew.
Ranked #6 for The Sundew fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Sundew.
Between Horizons is a narrative 2.5D sci-fi detective adventure. 33 years into the Zephyr's journey, its mission is suddenly jeopardized. Can you find the culprit before it's too late? Experience an enthralling story set in a semi-open world that branches and ends based on your choices.
Heaven's Vault
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Sundew.
Ranked #7 for The Sundew fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Sundew.
An archaeologist uncovers a lost history in an ancient space Nebula. Award-winning narrative adventure game with hieroglyphic language puzzles, from the creators of 80 DAYS.
Death of the Reprobate
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Sundew.
Ranked #8 for The Sundew fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Sundew.
Explore a world built from the luscious landscapes, turbulent townscapes and preposterous portraits of real Renaissance paintings. Death of the Reprobate is a Rabelaisian adventure game from the creator of Four Last Things and The Procession to Calvary.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Sundew at current Steam store prices.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Sundew on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Sundew.
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
Priced ~47% under The Sundew on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Sundew.
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...
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Sundew on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Sundew.
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 ~93% under The Sundew on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Sundew.
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?
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Sundew on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Sundew.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Human Fall Flat
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Sundew on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Sundew.
Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Sundew on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Sundew.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~87% under The Sundew on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Sundew.
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?
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 The Sundew.
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 The Sundew.
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.
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 Adventure with The Sundew.
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 Sundew.
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.
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Frequently asked about The Sundew
- Does The Sundew run on Steam Deck?
- The Sundew 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 The Sundew cost?
- The Sundew is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Sundew?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Sundew are Drown the Bride, Whispers of a Machine, VirtuaVerse.
- Who developed The Sundew?
- The Sundew was developed by 2054.
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 The Sundew.
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