Games like The Inspector
If The Inspector is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Gardens Between, Gone Home and Anamorphine — 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.
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The Gardens Between
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Inspector fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Inspector.
The Gardens Between is a surreal puzzle adventure that follows best friends, Arina and Frendt, as they fall into a mysterious world of beautiful garden islands. Manipulate time to solve puzzles and discover the secrets of each island.
Gone Home
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Inspector fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Inspector.
June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.
Anamorphine
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Inspector fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Inspector.
Explore the past as you resolve the present in Anamorphine, a surreal adventure of rendered emotions. Journey into the mind of the main character, a young man in denial. His subconscious is pushing him to face his past - or be consumed by it.
Firewatch
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Inspector fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Inspector.
Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.
Adios
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Inspector fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Inspector.
A pig farmer decides he no longer wants to dispose of bodies for the mob. What follows is a discussion between him and his would-be killer.
As Long As You're Here
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Inspector fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Inspector.
What if you lost all your memories? An emotional family drama seen through the eyes of a woman with Alzheimer's disease. As Annie’s life slowly unravels, uncover memories of her deceased brother as her past bleeds into the present.
Thirty Flights of Loving
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Inspector fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Inspector.
This surprising first-person story tells the tale of a heist gone wrong. Encounter high-flying schemers, lovelorn criminals, and more stray kittens than you can shake a stick at.
SEASON: A letter to the future
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Inspector fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Inspector.
Leave home for the first time to collect memories before a mysterious cataclysm washes everything away. Ride, record, meet people, and unravel the strange world around you in this third-person meditative exploration game.
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 The Inspector.
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 The Inspector.
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 The Inspector.
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 The Inspector.
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 The Inspector.
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 The Inspector.
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 The Inspector.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
The Gardens Between
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Inspector.
The Gardens Between is a surreal puzzle adventure that follows best friends, Arina and Frendt, as they fall into a mysterious world of beautiful garden islands. Manipulate time to solve puzzles and discover the secrets of each island.
Gone Home
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Inspector.
June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.
Firewatch
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Inspector.
Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.
As Long As You're Here
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Inspector.
What if you lost all your memories? An emotional family drama seen through the eyes of a woman with Alzheimer's disease. As Annie’s life slowly unravels, uncover memories of her deceased brother as her past bleeds into the present.
SEASON: A letter to the future
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Inspector.
Leave home for the first time to collect memories before a mysterious cataclysm washes everything away. Ride, record, meet people, and unravel the strange world around you in this third-person meditative exploration game.
Frequently asked about The Inspector
- What games are most similar to The Inspector?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Inspector are The Gardens Between, Gone Home, Anamorphine.
- Who developed The Inspector?
- The Inspector was developed by Edoardo Ventisette, Lappi Soft and published by Edoardo Ventisette, Lappi Soft.
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 Inspector.
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