Games like Minds Beneath Us
If Minds Beneath Us is your kind of game, the closest matches are Citizen Sleeper, Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector and Gods of the Twilight — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and immersive. 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 Minds Beneath Us: MINDS BENEATH US is an emotional sci-fi narrative game. Through the eyes of a humble individual, experience a mad world where humans are exploited as computing devices for AI. Listen to the concerns of those you meet and offer guidance. Together, face challenges and confront an uncertain destiny.
Players who liked Minds Beneath Us also play
Steam players who put hours into Minds Beneath Us 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.
Citizen Sleeper
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Minds Beneath Us.
Top pick for Minds Beneath Us fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Minds Beneath Us.
Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
WHY THIS
Shares branching narrative and an atmospheric mood with Minds Beneath Us.
Second-strongest match for Minds Beneath Us fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Minds Beneath Us.
A dice-driven RPG, in a human and heartfelt sci-fi world. You are an escaped android, with a malfunctioning body, a price on your head and no memory of your past. Get a ship, find a crew, and take on contracts while you navigate across the Starward Belt.
Gods of the Twilight
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Minds Beneath Us.
Third-strongest match for Minds Beneath Us fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Minds Beneath Us.
How will you end the world? Play as Althea and Farkas as old Norse magic returns to their world of tech, and they realize they're more than human. Encounter gods, monsters, governments, corporations, and criminals... decide who to trust, and prepare for Ragnarök.
A Line Held Tight
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Minds Beneath Us fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Minds Beneath Us.
Tensions both political and personal are rising at the Brightworld mining colony. In this dynamic sci-fi visual novel you must decide where your heart and loyalties lie if you’re to shape the future and save yourself.
s[TOR-Y]telling
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Minds Beneath Us fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Minds Beneath Us.
Release your creativity in a local generative AI sandbox where every interaction matters. Evaluate sentient s[TOR-Y]s to shape a cinematic Visual Novel. Featuring 50 built-in stories and custom creation support, s[TOR-Y]telling is an infinite narrative experiment. How far are you going to test it?
Remembering Emily - Mystery visual novel
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Minds Beneath Us fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Minds Beneath Us.
Relive Thomas’s memories in this mystery-filled visual novel. What really happened to Emily? Make choices, explore different versions of events, and uncover two complementary endings that reveal the full truth.
Let Bions Be Bygones
WHY THIS
Shares branching narrative and an atmospheric mood with Minds Beneath Us.
Ranked #7 for Minds Beneath Us fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Minds Beneath Us.
Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest parts of the dystopian city-planet Terrahive. Choose your unique path in this atmospheric narrative future-noir thriller.
Sense - 不祥的预感: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Minds Beneath Us.
Ranked #8 for Minds Beneath Us fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Minds Beneath Us.
A 2.5D horror game inspired by Clock Tower and Fatal Frame, mixing cyberpunk with traditional Cantonese folklore. With careful attention to pacing, atmosphere and storytelling, Sense hopes to return the horror genre to its roots by celebrating visceral horror and the slow, fearful creep of dread.
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Reviewers mention these as similar to Minds Beneath Us
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Pentiment
WHY THIS
Shares dialogue driven choices and an atmospheric mood with Minds Beneath Us.
Reviewers of Minds Beneath Us cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Minds Beneath Us.
Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.
Cyberpunk 2077
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Minds Beneath Us.
Reviewers of Minds Beneath Us cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Minds Beneath Us.
Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world, action-adventure RPG set in the dark future of Night City — a dangerous megalopolis obsessed with power, glamor, and ceaseless body modification.
Detroit: Become Human
WHY THIS
Shares branching narrative and an immersive mood with Minds Beneath Us.
Reviewers of Minds Beneath Us cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Minds Beneath Us.
Detroit: Become Human puts the destiny of both mankind and androids in your hands, taking you to a near future where machines have become more intelligent than humans. Every choice you make affects the outcome of the game, with one of the most intricately branching narratives ever created.
Elysium
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Minds Beneath Us cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Minds Beneath Us.
Wake up on a paradise-like abandoned island with your friends. Explore the lands of an ancient civilization and uncover the mysteries behind their collapse as you build, craft, and tame corrupted machines. Most importantly, survive the unwelcome lands of Elysium!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Minds Beneath Us at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Minds Beneath Us on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Minds Beneath Us.
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 Minds Beneath Us on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Minds Beneath Us.
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 Minds Beneath Us on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Minds Beneath Us.
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 Minds Beneath Us on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Minds Beneath Us.
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 Minds Beneath Us on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Minds Beneath Us.
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 Minds Beneath Us on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Minds Beneath Us.
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 Minds Beneath Us on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Minds Beneath Us.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Minds Beneath Us on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Minds Beneath Us.
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.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Minds Beneath Us.
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 Minds Beneath Us.
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 Minds Beneath Us.
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 Minds Beneath Us.
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 Minds Beneath Us.
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 Minds Beneath Us.
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 Minds Beneath Us.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about Minds Beneath Us
- Is Minds Beneath Us verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Minds Beneath Us is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Minds Beneath Us cost?
- Minds Beneath Us is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Minds Beneath Us?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Minds Beneath Us are Citizen Sleeper, Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector, Gods of the Twilight.
- Who developed Minds Beneath Us?
- Minds Beneath Us was developed by BearBoneStudio.
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