Games like Buried
If Buried is your kind of game, the closest matches are Some Distant Memory, Journal and Gone Home — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Buried: Get out of an underground research facility, but beware, don't get killed by the mysterious creatures. They hear you move. When they are close, hide and try not to breath. Avoid detection to get out of the facility.
Players who liked Buried also play
Steam players who put hours into Buried 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.
Some Distant Memory
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Top pick for Buried fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Buried.
A hand-drawn story exploration game set 300 years after the apocalypse. You play an archaeologist named Professor Zay, joined by her companion, ARORA, a centuries-old AI capable of recreating human memories from scanned relics.
Journal
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Buried fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Buried.
Enter the pages of the hand painted world of Journal. A journey through the life of a young and troubled girl as she tries to face up to the choices and responsibilities that come with childhood. An experience that questions the reliability of how we choose to remember events and explores the truths hidden within our dreams.
Gone Home
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Buried fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Buried.
June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.
Home
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Ranked #4 for Buried fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Buried.
Home is a unique horror adventure set in a beautifully-realized pixel world. It’s a murder mystery with a twist—because you decide what ultimately happens.
Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard
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Ranked #5 for Buried fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Buried.
You're a detective, and a frog, and it's time to solve a mystery. Also there's a wizard.
Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island
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Ranked #6 for Buried fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Buried.
You're a detective, and a frog, and it's time to solve a mystery.
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
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Ranked #7 for Buried fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Buried.
Solving crime is no walk in the pond. You are a down-on-his-luck detective who also happens to be a duck. Use your powers of de-duck-tion to inspect evidence, fill in the blanks, and bust the case wide open! This is a short but twisty detective case.
Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping
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Ranked #8 for Buried fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Buried.
You are the one and only Duck Detective, a depressed and recently divorced duck who must quack the case. Inspect evidence, make de-duck-tions, and solve this no-murder mystery!
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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.
Gone Home
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Buried.
June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.
Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Casual with Buried.
You're a detective, and a frog, and it's time to solve a mystery. Also there's a wizard.
Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Casual with Buried.
You're a detective, and a frog, and it's time to solve a mystery.
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Casual with Buried.
Solving crime is no walk in the pond. You are a down-on-his-luck detective who also happens to be a duck. Use your powers of de-duck-tion to inspect evidence, fill in the blanks, and bust the case wide open! This is a short but twisty detective case.
Frequently asked about Buried
- Is Buried verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Buried is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- Is Buried free to play?
- Yes — Buried is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to Buried?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Buried are Some Distant Memory, Journal, Gone Home.
- Who developed Buried?
- Buried was developed by NextDoorDev Games.
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 Buried.
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