Games like Puppet House
Below are 17 hand-picked alternatives to Puppet House for fans of action, indie, adventure, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Puppet House also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, and Steam Deck–friendly options. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About Puppet House: Puppet House is a puzzle-adventure horror with escape room elements. A freak ritual creates a killer puppet, murdering anyone who enters the ventriloquist’s mansion. Detective Rick, seeking missing locals, will soon face his greatest horror.
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Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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Sanity of Morris
Top pick for Puppet House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Puppet House.
Sanity of Morris: a psychological horror adventure game. Your flashlight reveals the clues you need to stay sane in the search for your father. Discover the truth. Could aliens be real?
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Martha Is Dead
Second-strongest match for Puppet House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Puppet House.
Set in 1944 Italy, Martha Is Dead is an award-winning dark psychological thriller where the lines between truth, superstition, and tragedy blur. Explore a haunting countryside, uncover disturbing memories, and peel back layers of mystery. Every choice shapes the nightmare…are you ready to face it?
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INDIKA
Third-strongest match for Puppet House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Puppet House.
Play a third-person, story-driven game set in alternative Russia at the turn of the XIX century where religious visions clash with harsh reality. INDIKA tells the story of a young nun who sets off on a journey of self-discovery with the most unusual companion by her side, the devil himself.
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Alan Wake's American Nightmare
Ranked #4 for Puppet House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Puppet House.
A thrilling new storyline, hordes of creepy enemies, serious firepower and beautiful Arizona locations, combined with a fun and challenging new game mode!
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GET EVEN
Ranked #5 for Puppet House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Puppet House.
Take a deep breath... Try to remember: a girl, a chair, a bomb. Just keep... calm. Follow the voice into the depths of you memory. Relax... and search for the darkest memories in the deepest recesses of your mind. Can you find her? The clock is ticking... And this is just a part of the treatment.
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Go Home Annie: An SCP Game
Ranked #6 for Puppet House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Puppet House.
A twisted psychological thriller and an original story set in the SCP universe. As an employee of the SCP Foundation, test artificially created paranormal events, solve puzzles, interact with anomalies, and uncover the secrets of the Replication Division.
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REVEIL
Ranked #7 for Puppet House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Puppet House.
REVEIL is a narrative first-person psycho-thriller game that focuses on story, puzzles and exploration. Find out what’s going on inside Walter Thompson and what his dark past at the Nelson Bros Circus has to do with it.
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Alone in the Dark
Ranked #8 for Puppet House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Puppet House.
Return to Derceto Manor in this reimagination of Alone in the Dark, a love letter to the 90’s cult classic horror game.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Puppet House
Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.
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The Evil Within
Reviewers of Puppet House cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Puppet House.
Developed by Shinji Mikami -- creator of the seminal Resident Evil series -- and the talented team at Tango Gameworks, The Evil Within embodies the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story are combined to create an immersive world that will bring you to the height of tension.
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Resident Evil
Reviewers of Puppet House cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Puppet House.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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Goosebumps: The Game
Reviewers of Puppet House cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Puppet House.
The walk home from school today is going to be a lot spookier than usual… Your sleepy neighborhood’s been overrun by monsters! Werewolves prowl the woods, Gnomes roam underfoot, and scarecrows walk at midnight. But these aren’t ordinary monsters—they’re R.L.
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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.
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INDIKA
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Puppet House.
Play a third-person, story-driven game set in alternative Russia at the turn of the XIX century where religious visions clash with harsh reality. INDIKA tells the story of a young nun who sets off on a journey of self-discovery with the most unusual companion by her side, the devil himself.
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Alan Wake's American Nightmare
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Puppet House.
A thrilling new storyline, hordes of creepy enemies, serious firepower and beautiful Arizona locations, combined with a fun and challenging new game mode!
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GET EVEN
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Puppet House.
Take a deep breath... Try to remember: a girl, a chair, a bomb. Just keep... calm. Follow the voice into the depths of you memory. Relax... and search for the darkest memories in the deepest recesses of your mind. Can you find her? The clock is ticking... And this is just a part of the treatment.
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Go Home Annie: An SCP Game
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Puppet House.
A twisted psychological thriller and an original story set in the SCP universe. As an employee of the SCP Foundation, test artificially created paranormal events, solve puzzles, interact with anomalies, and uncover the secrets of the Replication Division.
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REVEIL
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Puppet House.
REVEIL is a narrative first-person psycho-thriller game that focuses on story, puzzles and exploration. Find out what’s going on inside Walter Thompson and what his dark past at the Nelson Bros Circus has to do with it.
Frequently asked about Puppet House
- Does Puppet House run on Steam Deck?
- Puppet House 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 Puppet House cost?
- Puppet House is listed on Steam at 17.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Puppet House?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Puppet House are Sanity of Morris, Martha Is Dead, INDIKA.
- Who developed Puppet House?
- Puppet House was developed by Vecube Studio, Spirit Games Studio and published by Gaming Factory.
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 Puppet House.
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