Games like CLeM
If CLeM is your kind of game, the closest matches are Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?, Eclipsed Memories and Echoes of Absence — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, emotional and unsettling. 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 CLeM: CLeM is a narrative-driven puzzle adventure game with a dark twist. Wake up in a world where puzzles intertwine with exploration, weaving a unique narrative rooted in alchemy. A voice awakens you. It gives you purpose. To guide you, you find a notebook with mysterious entries and a house to explore.
Players who liked CLeM also play
Steam players who put hours into CLeM 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.
Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with CLeM.
Top pick for CLeM fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with CLeM.
An old shack deep in a dense forest, a strange computer and a game that's trying to kill you!
Eclipsed Memories
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for CLeM fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with CLeM.
Every town is unique. Liddy's town has a lot of supernatural activity and it is her job to find and free entities stuck in our realm. Join her and her friends on their adventures, finding clues and ways to banish the creatures that shouldn't be here.
Echoes of Absence
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for CLeM fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with CLeM.
A narrative psychological horror game where you'll explore different environments and fragments of your past. Solve puzzles and uncover a truth some would rather forget.
Trance, Trauma
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for CLeM fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with CLeM.
A woman killed herself. Uncover her motive in 3 surreal, hexagon rooms. Set in the aftermath of a tragic incident, Trance, Trauma is a point-and-click puzzle game where you play as the soul of the victim.
Captive: You Are My Idol
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for CLeM fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with CLeM.
Aylen is a horror let's player who gets kidnapped. One moment, she was shooting the intro for her next video, and the next, she was waking up her biggest fan's basement. There are only two means for escape: examine & plot in secrecy, or use your words to deceive him. Or willingly accept him. (Don't)
MimiCries
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for CLeM fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with CLeM.
Investigate the mysteries of a haunted mansion as you solve various challenging puzzles in this Victorian-inspired, narrative-driven escape room game. With only your wit and a lantern to light the way forward, will the choices you make seal your fate, or open the path to freedom?
SOMBRAS: negative frames
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for CLeM fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with CLeM.
‘SOMBRAS: negative frames’ is a first person narrative game with a focus on photography and light horror elements. Follow Shiomi, a Japanese-Spanish photography student, as she is spirited away in a dark mirror of her 2000s Japanese town and must confront fragments of her own psyche.
The Tartarus Key
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with CLeM.
Ranked #8 for CLeM fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with CLeM.
There’s no way out for Alex Young who wakes up to find herself locked in a strange mansion filled with puzzles, traps, and cameras following her every move. Whether she and her companions live or die, and find the truth behind their abduction, is up to you in this first-person mystery thriller.
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Strange Antiquities
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with CLeM.
Reviewers of CLeM cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with CLeM.
Become the custodian of a store dealing in occult antiquities. Explore the quaint and gloomy town of Undermere, where strange goings-on and dark mysteries abound. Find and identify arcane artefacts, use your collection to aid the townsfolk with their unusual problems — and remember to pet your cat!
Blue Prince
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with CLeM.
Reviewers of CLeM cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with CLeM.
Welcome to Mt. Holly, where every dawn unveils a new mystery. Navigate through shifting corridors and ever-changing chambers in this genre-defying strategy puzzle adventure. But will your unpredictable path lead you to the rumored Room 46?
Strange Horticulture
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with CLeM.
Reviewers of CLeM cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with CLeM.
Strange Horticulture is an occult puzzle game in which you play as the proprietor of a local plant store. Find and identify new plants, pet your cat, speak to a coven, or join a cult. Use your collection of powerful plants to influence the story and unravel Undermere’s dark mysteries.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below CLeM at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under CLeM on Steam right now. Shares Indie with CLeM.
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 ~69% under CLeM on Steam right now. Shares Indie with CLeM.
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 ~50% under CLeM on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with CLeM.
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 ~61% under CLeM on Steam right now. Shares Indie with CLeM.
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 ~50% under CLeM on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with CLeM.
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 ~69% under CLeM on Steam right now. Shares Indie with CLeM.
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 ~69% under CLeM on Steam right now. Shares Indie with CLeM.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under CLeM on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with CLeM.
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 CLeM.
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 CLeM.
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 CLeM.
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 CLeM.
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 CLeM.
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 CLeM.
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 CLeM.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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 CLeM.
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.
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More from Mango Protocol
Other recommendable Steam games by Mango Protocol, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Agatha Knife
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with CLeM.
Another title from Mango Protocol, the studio behind CLeM. Shares Indie and Adventure with CLeM.
Embark on a whimsically twisted adventure with Agatha, a child torn between her love for eating meat and her friendships with animals. Join her as she discovers religion and creates her own, Carnivorism, to convince animals that the sacrifice of their flesh is the secret to their eternal happiness.
Colossus Down
WHY THIS
Another title from Mango Protocol, the studio behind CLeM. Shares Indie and Adventure with CLeM.
Join forces with Nika, MechaNika, Agatha and the Great Bleeding Pig in this peculiar and crazy mission of destruction of everything that isn't cool.
CLeM: The First Attribute
WHY THIS
Another title from Mango Protocol, the studio behind CLeM. Shares Indie and Adventure with CLeM.
CLeM: The First Attribute is a free prologue that offers the first loop of CLeM, a narrative-driven puzzle adventure game with a dark twist. Wake up in a world where puzzles intertwine with exploration, weaving a unique narrative rooted in alchemy.
Frequently asked about CLeM
- Is CLeM verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — CLeM 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 CLeM cost?
- CLeM is listed on Steam at 15.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to CLeM?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside CLeM are Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?, Eclipsed Memories, Echoes of Absence.
- Who developed CLeM?
- CLeM was developed by Mango Protocol and published by Iceberg Interactive.
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 CLeM.
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