Games like Puppet House
If Puppet House is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sanity of Morris, Nowhere Near and The Ecdysis — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and mysterious. 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 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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Steam players who put hours into Puppet House 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.
Sanity of Morris
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Puppet House.
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?
Nowhere Near
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Puppet House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Puppet House.
Do you believe in ghosts? As a skeptical video blogger, you will travel to France to one of the most cursed places - the abandoned Lagarde psychiatric hospital. Will you be able to capture something. or someone.
The Ecdysis
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Puppet House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Puppet House.
The Ecdysis is an episodic Action/ Adventure game that immerses players in the life of Robin Jr., a professional photographer, guiding them through the thrilling adventures and enigmatic mysteries he experiences on his journey.
INDIKA
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Puppet House.
Ranked #4 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.
Martha Is Dead
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Puppet House.
Ranked #5 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?
Alan Wake's American Nightmare
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Puppet House.
Ranked #6 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!
Echoes Of The House
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Puppet House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Puppet House.
Christopher arrives at his grandmother's countryside home late at night for a seemingly ordinary visit. But soon after reuniting, he begins to notice something isn't right. The familiar setting warps into a place of unease, and the mystery that unravels is far more complex than anyone could expect.
Sherlock Holmes The Awakened
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Puppet House fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Puppet House.
Experience a nerve-racking Lovecraftian adventure, rebuilt from the ground up with modern graphics and gameplay. Become Sherlock Holmes, and find yourself at the heart of the terrifying Cthulhu Mythos as you investigate a series of mysterious disappearances in Europe and the US.
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The Evil Within
WHY THIS
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.
Resident Evil
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Puppet House.
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.
SILENT HILL 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Puppet House.
Reviewers of Puppet House cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Puppet House.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
Grudge
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Puppet House cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Puppet House.
Grudge is a thrilling fantasy MMO sandbox where your choices shape a living world. Explore, fight, build, and conquer in an adventure that fuses MMORPG depth, survival crafting, and real-time strategy. Forge your legacy alone or with friends—will you rise as a hero, a warlord, or a legend?
Goosebumps: The Game
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Puppet House.
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.
Outlast
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Puppet House cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Puppet House.
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Puppet House at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Puppet House on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Puppet House.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Puppet House on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Puppet House.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Puppet House on Steam right now. Shares Action with Puppet House.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Puppet House on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Puppet House.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Puppet House on Steam right now. Shares Action with Puppet House.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
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 Puppet House.
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 Action and Adventure with Puppet House.
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 Action and Indie with Puppet House.
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 Puppet House.
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 Puppet House.
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 Action and Indie with Puppet House.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Puppet House.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Puppet House.
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 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, Nowhere Near, The Ecdysis.
- 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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