Games like Aether Collector
If Aether Collector is your kind of game, the closest matches are Transient: Extended Edition, Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft and The Whisperer — 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 Aether Collector: A surreal point-and-click adventure about harvesting mysterious Aether in an abandoned town. As a new corporate hire, explore a reality-bending anomaly, uncover dark secrets, and confront existential horrors while questioning the true nature of your mission.
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Transient: Extended Edition
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Top pick for Aether Collector fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aether Collector.
H.P. Lovecraft meets Cyberpunk. Delve deep into a dystopian world and investigate what is happening to you and your friends in a domed city. Solve puzzles, hack systems and plug in to explore other dimensions. Discover a truth that might tear apart your sanity and question your very existence.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
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Second-strongest match for Aether Collector fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aether Collector.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
The Whisperer
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Third-strongest match for Aether Collector fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aether Collector.
Investigate an abandoned trading post, explore its surroundings and solve the terrible mystery it holds. The Whisperer is a short story-driven point & click game set in Lower Canada at the beginning of the 19th century.
ASYLUM
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Ranked #4 for Aether Collector fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aether Collector.
An epic supernatural horror adventure and the spiritual successor to cult classic Scratches set in a massive, decaying mental institute. Inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, Hammer Films and twisted Euro Horror from the 80s.
Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure
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Ranked #5 for Aether Collector fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aether Collector.
Crazy cultists. Cthulhu. A talking cat. Gibbous takes you on an expansive, traditionally animated, hand-painted adventure. Play as three protagonists and explore a lushly rendered Lovecraft-inspired world, unraveling ancient conspiracies. A comedy cosmic horror adventure made in Transylvania!
Rooten
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Ranked #6 for Aether Collector fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aether Collector.
There is only you and the Forest. In "Rooten" there are no compulsory tasks, time just goes by, and days pass by independently of you. You can explore the Forest, try to get out, or even do nothing at all. The forest has always been here, and always will be. You won't change it no matter what.
The Room Three
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Ranked #7 for Aether Collector fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aether Collector.
Lured to a remote island, you find yourself confined within the rooms of an ominous mansion. You must draw upon all your puzzle-solving ability to navigate a series of trials devised by a mysterious figure known only as “The Craftsman”. Do you have what it takes to escape?
Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder
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Ranked #8 for Aether Collector fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aether Collector.
Explore disturbing corners of the human psyche. Delve into a dimension of nightmares, the occult and a tense psychological world created in classic Lovecraftian style. As police detective Howard E. Loreid, you are tasked to solve the murder of Clark Field, a wealthy man involved in the occult.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Aether Collector at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~44% under Aether Collector on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Aether Collector.
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
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Priced ~44% under Aether Collector on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Aether Collector.
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
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Priced ~44% under Aether Collector on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Aether Collector.
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
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Priced ~44% under Aether Collector on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Aether Collector.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~89% under Aether Collector on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aether Collector.
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
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Priced ~67% under Aether Collector on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Aether Collector.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~44% under Aether Collector on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Aether Collector.
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
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Priced ~44% under Aether Collector on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Aether Collector.
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.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Aether Collector.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Aether Collector.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Aether Collector.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Aether Collector.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aether Collector.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Aether Collector.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aether Collector.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aether Collector.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Frequently asked about Aether Collector
- How much does Aether Collector cost?
- Aether Collector is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Aether Collector?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Aether Collector are Transient: Extended Edition, Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer.
- Who developed Aether Collector?
- Aether Collector was developed by Magory.net.
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