Games like The Berlin Apartment
If The Berlin Apartment is your kind of game, the closest matches are As Long As You're Here, Goodnight Universe and Brukel — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and emotional. 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 Berlin Apartment also play
Steam players who put hours into The Berlin Apartment 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.
As Long As You're Here
WHY THIS
Shares environmental storytelling, exploration and atmospheric with The Berlin Apartment.
Top pick for The Berlin Apartment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Berlin Apartment.
What if you lost all your memories? An emotional family drama seen through the eyes of a woman with Alzheimer's disease. As Annie’s life slowly unravels, uncover memories of her deceased brother as her past bleeds into the present.
Goodnight Universe
WHY THIS
Shares story heavy and a poignant mood with The Berlin Apartment.
Second-strongest match for The Berlin Apartment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Berlin Apartment.
From the creators of Before Your Eyes — You are Isaac, a 6-month-old baby, developing mysterious psychic powers. What you want most is to be loved and accepted by your family, but a secretive tech corporation wants you for their own.
Brukel
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Berlin Apartment.
Third-strongest match for The Berlin Apartment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Berlin Apartment.
A first-person exploration game based on the actual memories of a 92-year-old grandmother, told to players in her own voice. Take pictures of what remains of her abandoned childhood home to uncover the dark, traumatic events that she had to fight through as a teenage girl.
What Remains of Edith Finch
WHY THIS
Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with The Berlin Apartment.
Ranked #4 for The Berlin Apartment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Berlin Apartment.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
Copycat
WHY THIS
Shares a poignant mood with The Berlin Apartment.
Ranked #5 for The Berlin Apartment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Berlin Apartment.
A poignant narrative-driven game about rejection, belonging and the meaning of home. It follows the story of a newly adopted shelter cat whose space in the home is taken by a copycat. Bring the tissues.
Kona II: Brume
WHY THIS
Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with The Berlin Apartment.
Ranked #6 for The Berlin Apartment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Berlin Apartment.
Northern Québec, 1970. A bizarre mist —the Brume— is disconnecting a rural mining village from its quiet reality. Step into the shoes of Detective Carl Faubert as he unfolds the mysteries haunting the region while battling for his own survival.
Home is Where One Starts...
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Berlin Apartment.
Ranked #7 for The Berlin Apartment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Berlin Apartment.
Home is Where One Starts... is a short, first-person exploration game in the same vein as Dear Esther or Gone Home. It’s a story about childhood, hope, and the miracle of memory. You play as a little girl from a broken home somewhere in the American South.
The Haunting of Joni Evers
WHY THIS
Shares inventory based puzzles, environmental storytelling and atmospheric with The Berlin Apartment.
Ranked #8 for The Berlin Apartment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Berlin Apartment.
The Haunting of Joni Evers is a dark supernatural mystery about a broken family from small-town Oklahoma. Haunted by a specter that's hunted her family for generations, Joni must uncover the mysteries of the Cunningham House, dig through lost memories, and face the past to break the curse.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Berlin Apartment at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Berlin Apartment on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Berlin Apartment.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Berlin Apartment on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Berlin Apartment.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Berlin Apartment on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Berlin Apartment.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Berlin Apartment on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Berlin Apartment.
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 ~68% under The Berlin Apartment on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Berlin Apartment.
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?
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 Berlin Apartment.
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. Shares Adventure with The Berlin Apartment.
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 Berlin Apartment.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Berlin Apartment.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Berlin Apartment.
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 — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Berlin Apartment.
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 — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Berlin Apartment.
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.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Blue Backpack
Other recommendable Steam games by Blue Backpack, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Constance
WHY THIS
Shares atmospheric with The Berlin Apartment.
Another title from Blue Backpack, the studio behind The Berlin Apartment. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Berlin Apartment.
Constance is a 2D hand-drawn action adventure featuring a paintbrush-wielding artist, striving to escape from a colorful but decaying inner-world, created by her declining mental health.
Dino Dino – Playful Paleontology
WHY THIS
Another title from Blue Backpack, the studio behind The Berlin Apartment. Shares Indie with The Berlin Apartment.
Playfully extend your knowledge about dinosaurs in a collection of mini games. Created in cooperation with the German Paleontological Society, featuring voice recordings and hand-drawn illustrations, Dino Dino sets out to awaken your kids's interest in complex topics while being a lot of fun.
R.override
WHY THIS
Another title from Blue Backpack, the studio behind The Berlin Apartment. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Berlin Apartment.
Explore an alien planet as a fierce little rover on a run-based mission to rescue a lost crew and uncover their secrets.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
As Long As You're Here
WHY THIS
Shares environmental storytelling, exploration and atmospheric with The Berlin Apartment.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Berlin Apartment.
What if you lost all your memories? An emotional family drama seen through the eyes of a woman with Alzheimer's disease. As Annie’s life slowly unravels, uncover memories of her deceased brother as her past bleeds into the present.
What Remains of Edith Finch
WHY THIS
Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with The Berlin Apartment.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Berlin Apartment.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
Copycat
WHY THIS
Shares a poignant mood with The Berlin Apartment.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Berlin Apartment.
A poignant narrative-driven game about rejection, belonging and the meaning of home. It follows the story of a newly adopted shelter cat whose space in the home is taken by a copycat. Bring the tissues.
Kona II: Brume
WHY THIS
Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with The Berlin Apartment.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Berlin Apartment.
Northern Québec, 1970. A bizarre mist —the Brume— is disconnecting a rural mining village from its quiet reality. Step into the shoes of Detective Carl Faubert as he unfolds the mysteries haunting the region while battling for his own survival.
The Haunting of Joni Evers
WHY THIS
Shares inventory based puzzles, environmental storytelling and atmospheric with The Berlin Apartment.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Berlin Apartment.
The Haunting of Joni Evers is a dark supernatural mystery about a broken family from small-town Oklahoma. Haunted by a specter that's hunted her family for generations, Joni must uncover the mysteries of the Cunningham House, dig through lost memories, and face the past to break the curse.
Frequently asked about The Berlin Apartment
- Is The Berlin Apartment verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The Berlin Apartment is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does The Berlin Apartment cost?
- The Berlin Apartment is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Berlin Apartment?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Berlin Apartment are As Long As You're Here, Goodnight Universe, Brukel.
- Who developed The Berlin Apartment?
- The Berlin Apartment was developed by Blue Backpack and published by Blue Backpack, ByteRockers' Games, PARCO GAMES.
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