Games like The Renovator: Origins
If The Renovator: Origins is your kind of game, the closest matches are Clink, Chorus of Carcosa and LIMINAL SHIFT — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, eerie 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.
Get personalized picks →About The Renovator: Origins: You play as the son of a restorer, a museum worker who died tragically. While searching for the memorabilia, the door suddenly closes and strange things begin to happen. The hero is waiting for immersion in the world of art and the paranormal.
Players who liked The Renovator: Origins also play
Steam players who put hours into The Renovator: Origins 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.
Clink
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Renovator: Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Renovator: Origins.
You are a lonely woman, secluded in a house with your cat... and the secrets of the past. What hides within your mind — illness, or something otherworldly? Nightmares and reality intertwine… everything is so foggy. Do you have the courage to remember what happened?
Chorus of Carcosa
WHY THIS
Shares exploration, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with The Renovator: Origins.
Second-strongest match for The Renovator: Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Renovator: Origins.
Chorus of Carcosa is a first-person psychological horror game about an anxious sculptor who is trapped in a dark and ever-changing building. Stay silent, survive its twisted labyrinths and escape the monsters. Just don’t lose your way in the shadows or within your own mind.
LIMINAL SHIFT
WHY THIS
Shares exploration and an atmospheric mood with The Renovator: Origins.
Third-strongest match for The Renovator: Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Renovator: Origins.
Liminal Shift is a unique atmospheric suspense game developed using the latest Unreal Engine 5 technologies such as Lumen and Nanite. With every step you take, Liminal Shift pushes you deeper into an eerie, unsettling experience like no other.
Dollmare
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Renovator: Origins.
Ranked #4 for The Renovator: Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Renovator: Origins.
You've accepted a shady job offer at a doll factory. Inspect dolls for defects and anomalies. Follow strange protocols. Don't get fired and stay alive.
There's Something In The Ice
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Renovator: Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Renovator: Origins.
In 2015, three scientists at the Antarctic research station "Zarya" drilled into the ice to a depth of 2 kilometers and took samples for study... It seems that what they found was not at all what they were looking for...
Lair of Torment
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Renovator: Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Renovator: Origins.
This is an indie horror game with first-person puzzles. Terror and fear have enveloped the city. The maniac has returned. You sneak into his lair to try and stop him before he goes too far...
Welcome to Kowloon
WHY THIS
Shares exploration, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with The Renovator: Origins.
Ranked #7 for The Renovator: Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Renovator: Origins.
This is an indie horror from the first person, in which you find yourself in an area called Kowloon in search of cheap housing. The inhabitants of this place only at first glance seem to be ordinary people, but if we dig deeper, we will see their real faces.
Father's Day
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with The Renovator: Origins.
Ranked #8 for The Renovator: Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Renovator: Origins.
"Father's Day" - a psychological thriller that is a spin-off and prequel to the game "Find Yourself". The dream of living happily ever after was destroyed after Phil lost his wife and son. Obsessed with the desire to return them, he develops a plan.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Renovator: Origins at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Renovator: Origins on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Renovator: Origins.
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 ~50% under The Renovator: Origins on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Renovator: Origins.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Renovator: Origins on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Renovator: Origins.
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 ~50% under The Renovator: Origins on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Renovator: Origins.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under The Renovator: Origins on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Renovator: Origins.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under The Renovator: Origins on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Renovator: Origins.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Renovator: Origins on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Renovator: Origins.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Renovator: Origins on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Renovator: Origins.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Renovator: Origins.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Renovator: Origins.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Renovator: Origins.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with The Renovator: Origins.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Renovator: Origins.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Cube Escape: Paradox
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Renovator: Origins.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
Samsara Room
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Renovator: Origins.
You woke up in a mysterious room you have never seen before. Can you find another way out? Samsara Room is a remake of the praised predecessor of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.
It gets so lonely here
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Renovator: Origins.
A yandere yuri visual novel with a fairytale theme. Can you escape from your mysterious pursuer?
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Frequently asked about The Renovator: Origins
- Does The Renovator: Origins run on Steam Deck?
- The Renovator: Origins 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 The Renovator: Origins cost?
- The Renovator: Origins is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Renovator: Origins?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Renovator: Origins are Clink, Chorus of Carcosa, LIMINAL SHIFT.
- Who developed The Renovator: Origins?
- The Renovator: Origins was developed by Peace_Studio.
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 The Renovator: Origins.
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