Games like The 39 Steps
If The 39 Steps is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bobok, A Night at the Watermill and Room Service — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its short but engaging playtime, atmospheric and eerie. 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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Steam players who put hours into The 39 Steps 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.
A Night at the Watermill
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The 39 Steps fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The 39 Steps.
You wake up in an old watermill in the middle of the night ... and can't remember anything. Examine the surroundings in this thrilling point&click adventure and find out what happened.
Room Service
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The 39 Steps fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The 39 Steps.
Jacob White, a young man in need, took a job at an old motel. It seemed easy: clean rooms, survive the nights. But he soon noticed increasingly unsettling things. Adding to his pain was the recent loss of his wife.
Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The 39 Steps.
Ranked #4 for The 39 Steps fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The 39 Steps.
12th century, England: In a time of poverty and war, a small town begins the construction of a cathedral to claim wealth and safety for its people. In their struggle to survive, lives and destinies intertwine. Based on Ken Follett's world-bestseller ‘The Pillars of the Earth’.
M City
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The 39 Steps fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The 39 Steps.
Crazy and strange town. Mysterious events. A hero with multiple personality disorder. Laughter, tears and madness!
Death Sees Twice: Spot the Difference
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The 39 Steps fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The 39 Steps.
The most sinister spot-the-difference in the world. When you uncover the final mistake, the truth of this world will be revealed.
Orwell's Animal Farm
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The 39 Steps.
Ranked #7 for The 39 Steps fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The 39 Steps.
Orwell’s Animal Farm is a text-based choice-driven narrative game where all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. Immerse yourself in George Orwell's story of absolute power and corruption and follow the ups and downs of Animalism.
The Sin
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The 39 Steps fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The 39 Steps.
The depressing pictures of a dying village and its inhabitants to the dark ambient music of the underground performers make those who are still trying to survive in places where everything has long died, to plunge even deeper into the world of mystical horror and deep despair
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The 39 Steps at current Steam store prices.
Miss Neko
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under The 39 Steps on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The 39 Steps.
Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)
QUICKERFLAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under The 39 Steps on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The 39 Steps.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under The 39 Steps on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The 39 Steps.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Gachi Heroes
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under The 39 Steps on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The 39 Steps.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under The 39 Steps on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The 39 Steps.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
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 and Casual with The 39 Steps.
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 39 Steps.
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 39 Steps.
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 and Adventure with The 39 Steps.
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 and Casual with The 39 Steps.
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 39 Steps.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The 39 Steps.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The 39 Steps.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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Frequently asked about The 39 Steps
- How much does The 39 Steps cost?
- The 39 Steps is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The 39 Steps?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The 39 Steps are Bobok, A Night at the Watermill, Room Service.
- Who developed The 39 Steps?
- The 39 Steps was developed by The Story Mechanics and published by The Secret Experiment.
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 39 Steps.
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