Games like Artifact
Below are 8 hand-picked alternatives to Artifact for fans of strategy, indie, adventure, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Artifact also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About Artifact: Adult Lovecraftian strategy. Stealthily transform your university into horny, blonde bimbos! Dynamically change genitalia and breast sizes, IQ, mind control your peers via eldritch powers or eldritch parasites, erase your competition, and avoid a mysterious rival faction!
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Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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The Passenger
Top pick for Artifact fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Artifact.
Your eldritch existence is threatened when another abomination tries to feast on you. You flee, trapping yourself in human flesh, but will that be enough?
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Vampire: The Masquerade — Night Road
Second-strongest match for Artifact fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Artifact.
The elders have entrusted you, an elite vampire courier, to deliver their secrets. Can you outrun the hunters, the other drivers, and the rising sun?
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DEVIL'S LIMINAL
Third-strongest match for Artifact fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Artifact.
DEVIL'S LIMINAL is a branching slow-burn horror and yuri romance visual novel. In a life of poverty and violence, Margo Silva has one last summer in Arizona before college. Make choices to maintain a normal facade at work, romance an enigmatic new girl, and stop the occult plot to take Margo's life.
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Weirdo
Ranked #4 for Artifact fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Artifact.
Parallel-Weirdo is a Japanese manga-style visual novel set in DYL High School. It follows Wang Zhe, an ordinary and frail boy, who tries to win the hearts of girls and complete his experiments. He gets entangled in bizarre events, plunging into darkness. Each choice you make determines his fate.
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Yonder World: Interview with the Void
Ranked #5 for Artifact fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Artifact.
A psychological horror story, with a spiking sense of danger and gentle melancholy. An out of this world adventure, revolving around books, memories and mortality. Along the way, perhaps you shall pick up pieces of a long forgotten heart, or some unlikely companions that you never knew you needed.
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Typing Ritual
Ranked #6 for Artifact fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Artifact.
Typing Ritual is a first-person psychological horror game where players perform a summoning ritual by typing ancient texts. As the ritual progresses, the environment changes, and tension builds. Mistakes have consequences, and time is limited.
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Apollyon: River of Life
Ranked #7 for Artifact fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Artifact.
Choice-based RPG in a dark fantasy world. Apollyon is narrative-driven, and features occult magic, spirit summoning, a deep universe, playable characters, and story progression alone or in multiplayer!
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Scarlet Hollow
Ranked #8 for Artifact fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Artifact.
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.
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Frequently asked about Artifact
- Does Artifact run on Steam Deck?
- Artifact 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 Artifact cost?
- Artifact is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Artifact?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Artifact are The Passenger, Vampire: The Masquerade — Night Road, DEVIL'S LIMINAL.
- Who developed Artifact?
- Artifact was developed by Mesmerizers.
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 Artifact.
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