Games like The Patient: After Hours
If The Patient: After Hours is your kind of game, the closest matches are Barbotine, Tear Factory and Hypnagogia 無限の夢 Boundless Dreams — 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 The Patient: After Hours: You are a night worker who has to clean up after a long day of trading at the local mall. But as the night quickly progresses you start to realize that something isn't quite right.
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Barbotine
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Patient: After Hours fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Patient: After Hours.
An atmospheric horror micro-game that touches on topics of anxiety, isolation, body image and obsessive habits with a surreal PSX aesthetic.
Tear Factory
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Patient: After Hours fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Patient: After Hours.
A game about hunting rats, feeding them to your family, and going to bed.
Hypnagogia 無限の夢 Boundless Dreams
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Patient: After Hours fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Patient: After Hours.
Meet colorful characters, discover mysterious secrets, and reassemble the fractured remains of an ethereal crystal as you explore a series of abstract worlds based on dreams, nightmares, and the places in between.
The Attic
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Patient: After Hours fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Patient: After Hours.
Explore a strange and mysterious complex to find your missing son. Can you sneak through the depths of loss and survive the horrors that stalk you in The Attic? A first person cinematic experience with a haunting soundtrack.
Studio Sim
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Patient: After Hours fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Patient: After Hours.
Assume the role of an abstract painter in Studio Sim, a chill, escape room–inspired first-person art game. Create paintings using collage techniques, publish your work online, and push your creativity with limited tools. An experimental art game built in Godot.
Liminal 98
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Patient: After Hours fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Patient: After Hours.
Navigate four procedurally generated liminal spaces. Reach the exit. Beat your time. Something may be watching.
SLUDGE LIFE
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Patient: After Hours fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Patient: After Hours.
SLUDGE LIFE is a first-person / open-world / vandalism-centric stroll through a polluted island full of cranky idiots and a vibe so thick you can taste it.
Kairo
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Patient: After Hours fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Patient: After Hours.
Enter the lost world of Kairo. Explore vast abandoned monuments. Bring strange and ancient machinery back to life. Slowly uncover the true purpose of Kairo and fulfil a great destiny.Kairo is an atmospheric 3D exploration and puzzle solving game.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Patient: After Hours at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Patient: After Hours on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Patient: After Hours.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Patient: After Hours on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Patient: After Hours.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under The Patient: After Hours on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Patient: After Hours.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Patient: After Hours on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Patient: After Hours.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Patient: After Hours on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Patient: After Hours.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Patient: After Hours on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Patient: After Hours.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Patient: After Hours on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Patient: After Hours.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
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 The Patient: After Hours.
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.
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 The Patient: After Hours.
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 with The Patient: After Hours.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Patient: After Hours.
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 The Patient: After Hours.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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More from Aaron Wise
Other recommendable Steam games by Aaron Wise, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Dread X Collection 4: The Hunt
WHY THIS
Another title from Aaron Wise, the studio behind The Patient: After Hours.
A horror anthology shooter in the Dread X Collection series. Co-produced by DUSK creator David Szymanski. Featuring 7 new short games, a robust launcher world set in an abandoned arctic base.
They Look Like People
WHY THIS
Another title from Aaron Wise, the studio behind The Patient: After Hours. Shares Indie with The Patient: After Hours.
A Psychological story game set within a Kubrickian world. A tale of Space & Adventure into the Abyss of your mind, two astronauts come into close encounters with an unknown object during a routine mission.
Daemonum
WHY THIS
Another title from Aaron Wise, the studio behind The Patient: After Hours. Shares Indie with The Patient: After Hours.
Detective Andrews is called to a residence after a message is placed to dispatch regarding a disturbance. Not everything is as it seems, leaving you to question your own sanity whilst figuring out how to escape with your life.
You Are Liam: Shadow Memories
WHY THIS
Another title from Aaron Wise, the studio behind The Patient: After Hours. Shares Indie with The Patient: After Hours.
You have done some things you're not proud of. Now you must enter your own mind to come to terms with the things you've done. Loop around rooms, solve puzzles and hide from different monsters as you uncover your own truth.
Chronicles from the Abyss
WHY THIS
Another title from Aaron Wise, the studio behind The Patient: After Hours. Shares Indie with The Patient: After Hours.
Chronicles from the Abyss is a collection of 4 twisted Horror & Thriller stories that will play on the darkest corners of your mind, & every choice drips with dread. Twisted plots, haunting art, and chilling secrets await. Ready to uncover what lurks beneath?
Frequently asked about The Patient: After Hours
- How much does The Patient: After Hours cost?
- The Patient: After Hours is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Patient: After Hours?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Patient: After Hours are Barbotine, Tear Factory, Hypnagogia 無限の夢 Boundless Dreams.
- Who developed The Patient: After Hours?
- The Patient: After Hours was developed by Aaron Wise and published by Trial By Fire 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 The Patient: After Hours.
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