Games like Clean Slate
If Clean Slate is your kind of game, the closest matches are Murder in Crayontopia, Expelled! and Zombie Apocalypse Survival Simulator — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its flowchart system enhances replayability, multiple endings to uncover 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 Clean Slate: A suspense visual novel replete with life-or-death situations, puzzles and six different endings. Make your own decisions, solve riddles and reach the truth about the disappearance of the world's leading geneticist - and your best friend.
Players who liked Clean Slate also play
Steam players who put hours into Clean Slate 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.
Murder in Crayontopia
WHY THIS
Top pick for Clean Slate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Clean Slate.
Grab your crayons and delve into the world of Crayontopia in this murder mystery visual novel. Become an adept or inept detective as you gather evidence, get to know your fellow crayon-lovers, and seek to uncover the colorful secrets behind the murders that plague this seemingly perfect world.
Expelled!
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Clean Slate.
Second-strongest match for Clean Slate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Clean Slate.
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
Zombie Apocalypse Survival Simulator
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Clean Slate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Clean Slate.
From the creators that brought you The Test Trilogy & many other experiences, comes Zombie Apocalypse Survival Simulator. Will you survive in the new world? Or will you become just another victim to looters, bandits, or worst of all... The Voracious Dead. There's only one way to find out...
The Test: Secrets of the Soul
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Clean Slate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Clean Slate.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."
Quarantine Circular
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Clean Slate.
Ranked #5 for Clean Slate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Clean Slate.
In the middle of a world-ending pandemic, a group of scientists discover the galaxy has been watching. From the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Subsurface Circular, Quarantine Circular is the next mutation in text-based adventure.
Blake: The Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Clean Slate.
Ranked #6 for Clean Slate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Clean Slate.
Graphic Novel meets Visual Novel in this story-rich, choice-driven thriller. Experience Blake’s journey as he encounters a clandestine nemesis, sparking a series of events that force him to choose between losing his sanity or rising to the challenge. Make the right decisions and save New Stone.
Subsurface Circular
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Clean Slate.
Ranked #7 for Clean Slate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Clean Slate.
When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.
Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Clean Slate.
Ranked #8 for Clean Slate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Clean Slate.
Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll: the romanticism of the Eighties, mystery and intrigues, betrayal and sacrifice, hatred and passion — all this and more in the new game from the creators of the legendary visual novel Everlasting Summer!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Clean Slate
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Zero Escape: The Nonary Games
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Clean Slate.
Reviewers of Clean Slate cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Kidnapped and taken to an unfamiliar location, nine people find themselves forced to participate in a diabolical Nonary Game by an enigmatic mastermind called Zero. Why were they there? Why were they chosen to put their lives on the line? And more importantly, who can be trusted?
999
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Clean Slate cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Clean Slate.
999 is a puzzle platformer style game in which you must fling your character to the exit through 999 difficult levels. Throw your character around gruelingly addictive, funky, psychedelic, colourful and thrillingly rage-enduing levels and get as far as you can.
Escape Floor Zero
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Clean Slate cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Trapped in an infinite parking lot, your only escape is through Floor Zero. Detect subtle anomalies and make crucial decisions in this mind-bending, psychological horror experience. Dare to escape the unescapable? If you see an anomaly... turn back.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Clean Slate at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Clean Slate on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Clean Slate.
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 Clean Slate on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Clean Slate.
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 Clean Slate on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Clean Slate.
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.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Clean Slate on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Clean Slate.
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 Clean Slate on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Clean Slate.
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 Clean Slate on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Clean Slate.
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 Clean Slate on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Clean Slate.
"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.
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 Clean Slate.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Clean Slate.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Clean Slate.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Clean Slate.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Clean Slate.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Clean Slate.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Clean Slate.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Clean Slate.
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.
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Expelled!
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Clean Slate.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Clean Slate.
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
The Test: Secrets of the Soul
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Clean Slate.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."
Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Clean Slate.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Clean Slate.
Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll: the romanticism of the Eighties, mystery and intrigues, betrayal and sacrifice, hatred and passion — all this and more in the new game from the creators of the legendary visual novel Everlasting Summer!
Frequently asked about Clean Slate
- How much does Clean Slate cost?
- Clean Slate is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Clean Slate?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Clean Slate are Murder in Crayontopia, Expelled!, Zombie Apocalypse Survival Simulator.
- Who developed Clean Slate?
- Clean Slate was developed by Mariano Jar and published by Time Ajar.
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