Games like Entity Researchers
If Entity Researchers is your kind of game, the closest matches are Entity Researchers: Prologue, Darkest Dungeon® II and Ziggurat — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its permadeath mode adds tension, atmospheric 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 Entity Researchers: You just got hired by EIRI; researching and battling the Visitors, a dark sci-fi RPG with themes of exploration and survival.
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Entity Researchers: Prologue
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Entity Researchers.
Top pick for Entity Researchers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Entity Researchers.
You just got hired by EIRI; researching and battling the Visitors, a dark sci-fi RPG with themes of exploration and survival.
Darkest Dungeon® II
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Entity Researchers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Entity Researchers.
Darkest Dungeon II is a roguelike road trip of the damned. Form a party, equip your stagecoach, and set off across the decaying landscape on a last gasp quest to avert the apocalypse. The greatest dangers you face, however, may come from within...
Ziggurat
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Entity Researchers.
Third-strongest match for Entity Researchers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Entity Researchers.
Dungeon-Crawling First Person Shooting at its finest! Fast-paced combat! Dozens of perks, spells and enemies! Level ups! Random Dungeons! Traps! Badass bosses! Carrots!
One Deck Dungeon
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Entity Researchers.
Ranked #4 for Entity Researchers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Entity Researchers.
The hit roguelike adventure that captures all the fun of a dungeon crawl in a single deck of cards!
Trials of Fire
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Entity Researchers.
Ranked #5 for Entity Researchers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Entity Researchers.
A Tactical, Deck-Building Roguelite. Choose 3 Heroes and adventure into a post-Cataclysmic wasteland. Engage enemies in a unique meld of card-play and tactical, positional combat. Level up and scavenge what you can to customise your decks and build a party to take on any challenge!
WazHack
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Entity Researchers.
Ranked #6 for Entity Researchers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Entity Researchers.
Time moves forward only when you do in the dungeons of WazHack. Think your way out of problems instead of just spamming 'attack' and 'drink healing potion'.
Dungeon Rushers
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Entity Researchers.
Ranked #7 for Entity Researchers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Entity Researchers.
A Heroic-Parody tactical RPG combining dungeon crawler’s gameplay and turn-based fights. Dive in an off-beat universe, manage your team and craft mighty gear to equip them! Build your own dungeon by hiding traps and monsters in your galleries, then challenge other players to clean it!
Escape The Mad Empire
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Entity Researchers.
Ranked #8 for Entity Researchers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Entity Researchers.
Escape the Mad Empire is a party-based, rogue-like dungeon crawler with intense and deeply tactical combat. Overcome the challenges as a band of heroes, and preserve their lives and sanity by managing resources and growing your base. Can you Escape the Mad Empire?
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Hearth & Shadow
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Entity Researchers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Entity Researchers.
Hearth & Shadow - is a card-based strategy game where you develop your settlement and defend it from monster invasions. Try different combinations, unlock new buildings and outposts, or upgrade them, and monitor your settlement's and defenses to defeat the monsters and save your human settlement!
Roadside
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Entity Researchers cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Start your own in-game store/business and sell to other players! Cause in-game crime and havoc but don't get caught! In this game, you get to experience a MASSIVE open world to explore!
Foundation
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Entity Researchers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Entity Researchers.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne HD Remaster
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Entity Researchers.
Reviewers of Entity Researchers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Entity Researchers.
Reawaken your inner demon in a modernized version of the acclaimed ATLUS classic, Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne HD Remaster.
SCP Foundation: ITTLG - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Entity Researchers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Entity Researchers.
SCP Foundation: ITTLG Chapter 1 is a visual novel about, SCP-105 & SCP-105-B and her friendship with you. Trying to escape the foundation, in the end. They find out the dark truth behind their existence.
Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Entity Researchers.
Reviewers of Entity Researchers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Entity Researchers.
Become a mighty demigod and battle through a decimated Tokyo in a war between angels and demons. Make new allies along your journey, engage in intense, turn-based combat, recruit hundreds of demons and forge your own path to dictate the fate of all existence.
Diablo® IV
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Entity Researchers.
Reviewers of Entity Researchers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Entity Researchers.
Join the fight for Sanctuary in Diablo® IV, the ultimate action RPG adventure. Experience the critically acclaimed campaign and new seasonal content.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Entity Researchers at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Entity Researchers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Entity Researchers.
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 ~50% under Entity Researchers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Entity Researchers.
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!
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Entity Researchers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Entity Researchers.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Entity Researchers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Entity Researchers.
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 ~50% under Entity Researchers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Entity Researchers.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Entity Researchers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Entity Researchers.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Entity Researchers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Entity Researchers.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Entity Researchers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Entity Researchers.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Entity Researchers.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Entity Researchers.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Entity Researchers.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Entity Researchers.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Entity Researchers.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Entity Researchers.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Saihate Station
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Entity Researchers.
An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.
Silly Linguine Cat Simulator Deluxe Online
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Entity Researchers.
Silly Linguine Cat Simulator Deluxe Online is a clicker game where progression is replaced with gambling, where the goal is simply to collect the rarest silly linguine cats.
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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.
Darkest Dungeon® II
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with Entity Researchers.
Darkest Dungeon II is a roguelike road trip of the damned. Form a party, equip your stagecoach, and set off across the decaying landscape on a last gasp quest to avert the apocalypse. The greatest dangers you face, however, may come from within...
Ziggurat
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Entity Researchers.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with Entity Researchers.
Dungeon-Crawling First Person Shooting at its finest! Fast-paced combat! Dozens of perks, spells and enemies! Level ups! Random Dungeons! Traps! Badass bosses! Carrots!
One Deck Dungeon
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Entity Researchers.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with Entity Researchers.
The hit roguelike adventure that captures all the fun of a dungeon crawl in a single deck of cards!
Trials of Fire
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Entity Researchers.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with Entity Researchers.
A Tactical, Deck-Building Roguelite. Choose 3 Heroes and adventure into a post-Cataclysmic wasteland. Engage enemies in a unique meld of card-play and tactical, positional combat. Level up and scavenge what you can to customise your decks and build a party to take on any challenge!
Frequently asked about Entity Researchers
- Does Entity Researchers run on Steam Deck?
- Entity Researchers 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 Entity Researchers cost?
- Entity Researchers is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Entity Researchers?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Entity Researchers are Entity Researchers: Prologue, Darkest Dungeon® II, Ziggurat.
- Who developed Entity Researchers?
- Entity Researchers was developed by Newbuild-C.
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