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Games like Foolish Mortals

If Foolish Mortals is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sleepytime Village, The Wardrobe - Even Better Edition and PRIM — 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.

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About Foolish Mortals: Louisiana, 1933. Thirty years ago an entire wedding suddenly & mysteriously vanished on the island of Devil's Rock, and with it went the location of the lost treasure of Bellemore Manor. To find it, you might need to die too. A cozy, story-driven, point & click adventure game of the merry & macabre.

2025Adventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableMetacritic 90Windows · macOSby Inklingwood Studios
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Dynamic hint system respects player preferenceEerie yet charming atmospheric worldFully voiced characters with hand drawn visualsAtmosphericContemplativeImmersive

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Steam players who put hours into Foolish Mortals 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. Sleepytime Village

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Foolish Mortals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Foolish Mortals.

    Sleepytime Village is the story of a workaholic father who makes one wrong choice too many and becomes trapped in a children’s storybook reality, haunted by the residents of Sleepytime Village, its formless narrator and visions of his childhood. What is the Village and what does it want from him?

    2026AdventureSteam ↗
  2. The Wardrobe - Even Better Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares inventory puzzle solving and a whimsical mood with Foolish Mortals.

    Second-strongest match for Foolish Mortals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Foolish Mortals.

    Inspired by the great ‘90s classics such as 'Monkey Island', 'Day of the Tentacle', 'Tony Tough' and 'Sam & Max: Hit the Road', "The Wardrobe" has a strong sense of humour, but isn't shy about dealing with mature and non-politically correct themes.

    2017IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. PRIM

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Foolish Mortals.

    Third-strongest match for Foolish Mortals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Foolish Mortals.

    PRIM is a creepy-but-cute point’n’click adventure game full of dark humor. When her mother dies, Prim finds out she’s Death’s daughter and now has to live with her father. But the Grim Reaper has strict rules and when Prim breaks them, things take a fatal turn. Can you breathe life into her misery?

    2024Adventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Spiritless Ltd.

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Foolish Mortals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Foolish Mortals.

    Do you sometimes hear scratching, scraping or rumbling noises? Then you might have a poltergeist in your home. But don’t panic. Spiritless Ltd. is here to help you and expel the ghost from your home.

    2023IndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. The Drifter

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Foolish Mortals.

    Ranked #5 for Foolish Mortals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Foolish Mortals.

    A Pulp Adventure Thriller - A murdered drifter awakens. Alive again, seconds before his death. Hunted and haunted, help him untangle a mad web of conspiracy in this fast-paced point 'n click thrill-ride.

    2025IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Rock 'n' Roll Will Never Die!

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Foolish Mortals.

    Ranked #6 for Foolish Mortals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Foolish Mortals.

    Hair metal's not dead, it just smells funny! Get your denim vest, bandana and makeup, and dive into a point-and-click adventure as a middle-aged teddy bear planning a comeback with his old glam metal band – in a world where glam metal has been dead and buried for decades.

    2022IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Creaks

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Foolish Mortals.

    Ranked #7 for Foolish Mortals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Foolish Mortals.

    The ground starts shaking, light bulbs are breaking - and something rather unusual is happening right behind the walls of your very room. Equipped with nothing but wit and courage, you slowly descend into a world inhabited by avian folk and seemingly deadly furniture monsters.

    2020IndieAdventureCasual19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers 20th Anniversary Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Foolish Mortals.

    Ranked #8 for Foolish Mortals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Foolish Mortals.

    Revisit of one of adventure gaming’s greatest classics by master storyteller Jane Jensen! Struggling bookstore owner Gabriel Knight investigates the sinister Voodoo Murders in New Orleans, discovering the secrets of his family history and unfolding his destiny in this tale of horror and suspense.

    2014Adventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Foolish Mortals

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.

  1. Return to Monkey Island

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Foolish Mortals.

    Reviewers of Foolish Mortals cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Foolish Mortals.

    Return to Monkey Island is an unexpected, thrilling return of series creator Ron Gilbert that continues the story of the legendary adventure games.

    2022AdventureCasual24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Foolish Mortals.

    Reviewers of Foolish Mortals cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Foolish Mortals.

    Back by popular demand, The Secret of Monkey Island™: Special Edition faithfully re-imagines the internationally-acclaimed classic game (originally released in 1990) for original and new audiences alike.

    2009Adventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Broken Sword: Director's Cut (2009)

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Foolish Mortals.

    Reviewers of Foolish Mortals cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Foolish Mortals.

    One of the all-time classic adventures, multi award winning "Broken Sword: Director's Cut" pitches sassy journalist Nico Collard, and intrepid American George Stobbart into a mysterious journey of intrigue and jeopardy.

    2010AdventureDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Tales of Monkey Island Complete Pack: Chapter 3 - Lair of the Leviathan

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Foolish Mortals.

    Reviewers of Foolish Mortals cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Foolish Mortals.

    About Chapter One The saga begins with a heated battle involving the brave but often bumbling Mighty Pirate™ Guybrush, his beloved wife Elaine, and their nemesis, the demon pirate LeChuck. When the showdown goes up in flames, Guybrush finds himself marooned on a strange island with winds that always blow inward.

    2009AdventureRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. LEGO® Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Foolish Mortals cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Foolish Mortals.

    LEGO® Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game is an action adventure game that brings the Pirates of the Caribbean world and all its colorful characters to life in LEGO Brick form. Players experience all the memorable scenes from all four films in the humorous and quirky LEGO Video Games style.

    2014ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Haunted Mansion

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Foolish Mortals cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    You are in search of a thrill. You are going to do some urbex, camera in hand, in a mansion with the reputation of being haunted. But the horror will fall on you. The terror of the place will have reason of your mental health

    2022Indie1.50 USDSteam ↗
  7. Scooby Doo! & Looney Tunes Cartoon Universe: Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Foolish Mortals.

    Reviewers of Foolish Mortals cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Foolish Mortals.

    Solve the mystery of Kraken Cove with Scooby, Shaggy and the rest of the Mystery Machine Gang or help Bugs and Daffy discover who is behind the dastardly defective MOCME products that are creating chaos.

    2014ActionAdventureCasual19.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Foolish Mortals at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Foolish Mortals on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Foolish Mortals.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Foolish Mortals on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Foolish Mortals.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Portal 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Foolish Mortals on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Foolish Mortals.

    The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

    2011ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Foolish Mortals on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Foolish Mortals.

    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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Foolish Mortals on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Foolish Mortals.

    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...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Noita

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Foolish Mortals on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Foolish Mortals.

    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.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~95% under Foolish Mortals on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Foolish Mortals.

    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 ↗
  8. Papers, Please

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Foolish Mortals on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Foolish Mortals.

    Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.

    2013IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Foolish Mortals.

    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 ↗
  2. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Foolish Mortals.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Foolish Mortals.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Foolish Mortals.

    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. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. PRIM

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Foolish Mortals.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Foolish Mortals.

    PRIM is a creepy-but-cute point’n’click adventure game full of dark humor. When her mother dies, Prim finds out she’s Death’s daughter and now has to live with her father. But the Grim Reaper has strict rules and when Prim breaks them, things take a fatal turn. Can you breathe life into her misery?

    2024Adventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Drifter

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Foolish Mortals.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Foolish Mortals.

    A Pulp Adventure Thriller - A murdered drifter awakens. Alive again, seconds before his death. Hunted and haunted, help him untangle a mad web of conspiracy in this fast-paced point 'n click thrill-ride.

    2025IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Creaks

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Foolish Mortals.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Foolish Mortals.

    The ground starts shaking, light bulbs are breaking - and something rather unusual is happening right behind the walls of your very room. Equipped with nothing but wit and courage, you slowly descend into a world inhabited by avian folk and seemingly deadly furniture monsters.

    2020IndieAdventureCasual19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Foolish Mortals

Does Foolish Mortals run on Steam Deck?
Foolish Mortals 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 Foolish Mortals cost?
Foolish Mortals is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Foolish Mortals?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Foolish Mortals are Sleepytime Village, The Wardrobe - Even Better Edition, PRIM.
Who developed Foolish Mortals?
Foolish Mortals was developed by Inklingwood Studios.

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