Games like SYNESTHESIA
If SYNESTHESIA is your kind of game, the closest matches are CITADEL, Press Any Button and The Test: Secrets of the Soul β picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its abstract visuals enhance immersion, atmospheric and contemplative. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity β not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks βAbout SYNESTHESIA: π Is there an escape to the endless spiral?π γSYNESTHESIAγ is an emotive, character driven sci-fi mystery visual novel. Join a group of college students with strange cognitive powers, who soon discover something is amiss at the institute sworn to help them...
Players who liked SYNESTHESIA also play
Steam players who put hours into SYNESTHESIA also tend to own these titles β 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.
Press Any Button
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with SYNESTHESIA.
Second-strongest match for SYNESTHESIA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with SYNESTHESIA.
This video game realized how boring it had been and now is trying its best to fix that.
The Test: Secrets of the Soul
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for SYNESTHESIA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SYNESTHESIA.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."
Until Then
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with SYNESTHESIA.
Ranked #4 for SYNESTHESIA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SYNESTHESIA.
A fateful meeting sets off a chain reaction, upending Mark's life. People disappear and memories prove unreliable. Uncover a hidden truth with Mark and his friends in this narrative adventure and race to unravel the mystery before it's too late.
My Summer Adventure: Memories of Another Life
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for SYNESTHESIA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SYNESTHESIA.
A strange incident turns the life of an ordinary young man upside down when, having fallen asleep on a regular train commute, he wakes up in another country... in a body of a Japanese student! An unforgettable summer adventure awaits, promising many fateful meetings and momentous occasions.
Himawari - The Sunflower -
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SYNESTHESIA.
Ranked #6 for SYNESTHESIA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with SYNESTHESIA.
After jointly founding the so-called Space Club, Youichi and his friend Amamiya Ginga, the son of Amamiya Daigo, spent their school days building a rocket -- until one fateful night, a mysterious young girl called Aries crash-lands near them, her memories also lost from the shock of the landing.
Decade
WHY THIS
Shares branching narrative, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with SYNESTHESIA.
Ranked #7 for SYNESTHESIA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SYNESTHESIA.
Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear. Seed new movements, destroy others. Subvert the rise and fall of empires, art, ideologies, and individuals in this experimental narrative game.
BURIED STARS
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SYNESTHESIA.
Ranked #8 for SYNESTHESIA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with SYNESTHESIA.
A mystery adventure set at the collapse site of a live survival audition show. Trapped contestants communicate with each otherβand the outside world through social mediaβas they wait for rescue. But as unexpected events unfold, trust begins to crack, and survival becomes far more complicated.
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The VII Enigma
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SYNESTHESIA.
Reviewers of SYNESTHESIA cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with SYNESTHESIA.
Fate, love, death... Can the enigma be solved? γThe VII Enigmaγis a character-driven sci-fi mystery visual novel. Set in a shadowy world of dystopian conspiracy, you must defy the fabric of reality, navigating the desperate path to the 'true end' against the tyranny of time itself.
STEINS;GATE
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SYNESTHESIA.
Reviewers of SYNESTHESIA cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with SYNESTHESIA.
Developed by 5pb. and Nitroplus, STEINS;GATE was awarded Famitsu magazine's coveted annual Game of Excellence award and was voted one of the most emotionally charged βtear-inducing gamesβ ever made, in a Famitsu poll.γIt is a gripping and moving Visual Novel, which has already spawned manga and anime adaptations.
Zero Escape: The Nonary Games
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SYNESTHESIA.
Reviewers of SYNESTHESIA cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with SYNESTHESIA.
Kidnapped and taken to an unfamiliar location, nine people find themselves forced to participate in a diabolical Nonary Game by an enigmatic mastermind called Zero. Why were they there? Why were they chosen to put their lives on the line? And more importantly, who can be trusted?
AI: The Somnium Files
WHY THIS
Shares flowchart navigation with SYNESTHESIA.
Reviewers of SYNESTHESIA cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with SYNESTHESIA.
Play as detective Kaname Date on the case of an elusive serial killer in this thrilling, sci-fi murder mystery.
Escape Floor Zero
WHY THIS
Reviewers of SYNESTHESIA cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with SYNESTHESIA.
Trapped in an infinite parking lot, your only escape is through Floor Zero. Detect subtle anomalies and make crucial decisions in this mind-bending, psychological horror experience. Dare to escape the unescapable? If you see an anomaly... turn back.
Double
WHY THIS
Reviewers of SYNESTHESIA cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with SYNESTHESIA.
Double is an action-quest game telling about a fight with a mental disorder by immersing in dreams. Choose your way and find out how this mystical story ends.
Root Double -Before Crime * After Days- Xtend Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SYNESTHESIA.
Reviewers of SYNESTHESIA cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with SYNESTHESIA.
Rescue squad captain Watase Kasasagi wakes up without his memories in the middle of his most critical mission yet-- a nuclear meltdown at a research facility. In an unfamiliar place and without his years of training, he must rescue the survivors and escape...
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below SYNESTHESIA at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under SYNESTHESIA on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with SYNESTHESIA.
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 ~67% under SYNESTHESIA on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with SYNESTHESIA.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under SYNESTHESIA on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with SYNESTHESIA.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under SYNESTHESIA on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SYNESTHESIA.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under SYNESTHESIA on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with SYNESTHESIA.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under SYNESTHESIA on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with SYNESTHESIA.
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 ~67% under SYNESTHESIA on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with SYNESTHESIA.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under SYNESTHESIA on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with SYNESTHESIA.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
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 β no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with SYNESTHESIA.
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 β no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with SYNESTHESIA.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool β no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with SYNESTHESIA.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool β no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with SYNESTHESIA.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool β no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with SYNESTHESIA.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool β no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with SYNESTHESIA.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience thatβs all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool β no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with SYNESTHESIA.
βgoth gfβs iPhoneβ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool β ready to go on Deck out of the box.
The Test: Secrets of the Soul
WHY THIS
Deck Verified β runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with SYNESTHESIA.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."
Until Then
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with SYNESTHESIA.
Deck Verified β runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with SYNESTHESIA.
A fateful meeting sets off a chain reaction, upending Mark's life. People disappear and memories prove unreliable. Uncover a hidden truth with Mark and his friends in this narrative adventure and race to unravel the mystery before it's too late.
BURIED STARS
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SYNESTHESIA.
Deck Verified β runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and Casual with SYNESTHESIA.
A mystery adventure set at the collapse site of a live survival audition show. Trapped contestants communicate with each otherβand the outside world through social mediaβas they wait for rescue. But as unexpected events unfold, trust begins to crack, and survival becomes far more complicated.
Frequently asked about SYNESTHESIA
- Does SYNESTHESIA run on Steam Deck?
- SYNESTHESIA is rated Playable on Steam Deck β it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does SYNESTHESIA cost?
- SYNESTHESIA is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to SYNESTHESIA?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside SYNESTHESIA are CITADEL, Press Any Button, The Test: Secrets of the Soul.
- Who developed SYNESTHESIA?
- SYNESTHESIA was developed by Spire 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 SYNESTHESIA.
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