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Games like Heartbeat: Regret

If Heartbeat: Regret is your kind of game, the closest matches are No ESC, WAVER: A Typing Adventure and Qwerty Quest — 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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About Heartbeat: Regret: This short & challenging horror adventure will drive you nuts! Type your way out of this cursed mansion and avoid the regret monster by hiding, running and setting traps. But don’t lose the rhythm of your heartbeat or make typos, they may cause you a heart attack… Fully playable without visuals.

2021ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDWindowsby Janne Soikkeli
Heartbeat: Regret — Steam game cover

Players who liked Heartbeat: Regret also play

Steam players who put hours into Heartbeat: Regret 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.

  1. No ESC

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Heartbeat: Regret fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heartbeat: Regret.

    A first-person survival horror game where movement, combat, and all other actions are performed by typing. Explore a procedurally generated dungeon, evade or fight enemies, solve puzzles, and find what you need to escape. Featuring hand-painted watercolor artwork.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. WAVER: A Typing Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Heartbeat: Regret fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heartbeat: Regret.

    WAVER is the world's greatest typing adventure game. Control a passionate crowd of 26 characters as they follow their favourite sports team around the world. Love your keyboard.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Qwerty Quest

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Heartbeat: Regret fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heartbeat: Regret.

    Type your way to the top of the leaderboard as an epic Wordslayer! Hone your skills and become a faster and more accurate typist while protecting the Kingdom of Knowledge from the Curse of Silence.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. ABC Flappy

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Heartbeat: Regret fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heartbeat: Regret.

    Learn how to spell and assemble words to unlock prizes. You can trace and colour the letters of the alphabet too. Swoop deeply into this amazing adventure alongside Albert, the eager for knowledge albatross, flying through the many levels to save his silly friends while learning the alphabet.

    2021ActionStrategyIndie1.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Heartbeat: Regret fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heartbeat: Regret.

    DISTRAINT is a 2D psychological horror adventure game for PC. In order to secure a partnership in a famous company, Price seizes the property of an elderly woman. In that very moment, he finds out the price of his humanity.

    2015IndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. ASTRAL

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Heartbeat: Regret fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heartbeat: Regret.

    The future came. You'd think that means the apex of the progress and science, but no. After the epidemic spread all over the world in 2022, 95% of the whole population mutated into horrible creatures without any moral values or humanity and started hunting everything that moves. The planet became empty.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure8.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Monochroma

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Heartbeat: Regret fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heartbeat: Regret.

    Monochroma is a cinematic puzzle platformer. It’s a game about being a kid, growing up with a little brother that needs your help, facing obstacles and solving unique puzzles in a dystopian 1950's setting.

    2014ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Viola: The Heroine's Melody

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Heartbeat: Regret fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heartbeat: Regret.

    Viola: The Heroine's Melody is the musical Platformer/RPG! After failing at violin practice for the hundredth time, Viola becomes trapped inside her instrument's fantastical world. Join her adventure to find her way back home, aided by the diverse ensemble of friends she meets along the way.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Heartbeat: Regret at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Heartbeat: Regret on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Heartbeat: Regret.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Heartbeat: Regret on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Heartbeat: Regret.

    This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Heartbeat: Regret on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heartbeat: Regret.

    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!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Heartbeat: Regret on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Heartbeat: Regret.

    "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!

    2015ActionIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Montaro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Heartbeat: Regret on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heartbeat: Regret.

    Montaro is a DOGE.

    2016IndieCasual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Bit Blaster XL

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Heartbeat: Regret on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Heartbeat: Regret.

    Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!

    2016ActionIndieCasual0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Dictators:No Peace Countryballs

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Heartbeat: Regret on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heartbeat: Regret.

    Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. TYRONE vs COPS

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Heartbeat: Regret on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Heartbeat: Regret.

    Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.

    2022ActionIndie0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Heartbeat: Regret.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Heartbeat: Regret.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heartbeat: Regret.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Heartbeat: Regret.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Heartbeat: Regret.

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Heartbeat: Regret.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heartbeat: Regret.

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Heartbeat: Regret.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Heartbeat: Regret

How much does Heartbeat: Regret cost?
Heartbeat: Regret is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Heartbeat: Regret?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Heartbeat: Regret are No ESC, WAVER: A Typing Adventure, Qwerty Quest.
Who developed Heartbeat: Regret?
Heartbeat: Regret was developed by Janne Soikkeli and published by myTrueSound.

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 Heartbeat: Regret.

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