Games like The Utility Room
If The Utility Room is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Time Machine, Queerskins: a love story and Quantum Eye — 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.
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Players who liked The Utility Room also play
Steam players who put hours into The Utility Room 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.
The Time Machine
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Top pick for The Utility Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Utility Room.
This 'time machine' takes you where others won't.
Queerskins: a love story
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Second-strongest match for The Utility Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Utility Room.
Take an emotional journey down a country road in rural Missouri along with Ed and Mary-Helen, Sebastian’s parents. Uncover Sebastian’s life as you interact with his belongings found in the box next to you. Was he a “disgrace” like his father says or a “good man” as his mother believes?
Quantum Eye
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Third-strongest match for The Utility Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Utility Room.
Set in a dark, futuristic united states, all citizens are watched under a highly-advanced supercomputer known as the "Quantum Eye" Machine. You are an employee at the Quantum Eye facility, but quantum eye goes sentient. Your goal is simple, SHUT IT DOWN...
Eschaton
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Ranked #4 for The Utility Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Utility Room.
Eschaton is a short, experimental, surreal first-person exploration game. Explore the 'aftermath' of a cult ritual in the grounds of a manor in the remote and picturesque Scottish Highlands.
Whispers from Within: Moving On
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Ranked #5 for The Utility Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Utility Room.
You are the main character in this Twilight Zone-inspired experience. Tragedy has struck your family, but you must find a way to move on. Can you unlock the memories that are keeping you trapped? Can you free yourself from the past? Can you do what is needed to finally move on?
Senua
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Ranked #6 for The Utility Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Utility Room.
A Celtic warrior is trapped between life and death in a fractured vision of purgatory. In an action‑adventure set in the Hellblade universe, Senua fights to reach the afterlife and reunite with those she loved and lost, battling forces that threaten all she believes in.
Backmooms
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Ranked #8 for The Utility Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Utility Room.
You’ve wandered into a strange dimension while shopping.A mysterious monster is chasing you.You must escape."Backmooms" is a first-person adventure game.
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NaissanceE
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Reviewers of The Utility Room cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Utility Room.
NaissanceE is an obscure and magical first person exploration game, a philosophical trip and an artistic experience. The adventure takes place in a primitive mysterious structure and the game mainly consists to explore and feel the deep and strong ambiance of this atemporal world.
The Backrooms
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Reviewers of The Utility Room cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Utility Room.
You find yourself in a strange world with no idea how you got there. As you explore more, the world gets increasingly convoluted and unstable. You are now in... The Backrooms.
Paper Beast
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Reviewers of The Utility Room cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Utility Room.
An exploration and adventure game about wildlife sprung from the depths of the internet. An unknown power seems to upset its balance. Join forces with exotic creatures to unravel the mysteries of this universe.
STRIDE
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Reviewers of The Utility Room cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with The Utility Room.
STRIDE is a high-octane parkour adventure in virtual reality. Fight for your life as you hurtle through the rooftops of a futuristic metropolis. Step into the shoes of a master freerunner as you vault, swing, and shoot your way through this action-packed adventure. Multiplayer now available!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Utility Room at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~58% under The Utility Room on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Utility Room.
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 ~58% under The Utility Room on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Utility Room.
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!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~42% under The Utility Room on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Utility Room.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~63% under The Utility Room on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Utility Room.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~48% under The Utility Room on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Utility Room.
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!
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~58% under The Utility Room on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Utility Room.
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 ~58% under The Utility Room on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Utility Room.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~92% under The Utility Room on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Utility Room.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Utility Room.
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 Action and Adventure with The Utility Room.
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 Action and Indie with The Utility Room.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Utility Room.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 The Utility Room.
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 Action and Indie with The Utility Room.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Utility Room.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Utility Room.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about The Utility Room
- How much does The Utility Room cost?
- The Utility Room is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Utility Room?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Utility Room are The Time Machine, Queerskins: a love story, Quantum Eye.
- Who developed The Utility Room?
- The Utility Room was developed by Lionel Marsden.
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 Utility Room.
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