Games like Secret Archives
If Secret Archives is your kind of game, the closest matches are He Will Shoot, PSYCHO DEAD and Lone City — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and mysterious. 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.
Get personalized picks →About Secret Archives: This is a third person shooter game The main plot is a secret experiment being conducted somewhere in the future During this process, a strange mineral was discovered and caused a large-scale infection The protagonist's task is to retrieve important "files" and escape from this place!
Players who liked Secret Archives also play
Steam players who put hours into Secret Archives 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.
He Will Shoot
WHY THIS
Top pick for Secret Archives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Secret Archives.
He Will Shoot - is a simple zombie killer from the third person in a variety of scenery. Choose from four arenas: a Post-Apocalyptic City, a Slum, an Industrial Zone or the Northern Mountains. Use different types of weapons to clear this place from hordes of bloodthirsty zombies.
PSYCHO DEAD
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Secret Archives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Secret Archives.
A third-person survival horror game that you play as a girl with psychic power who tries to escape from a secret lab and is pursued by deadly stalkers.
Lone City
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Secret Archives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Secret Archives.
Lone City is a first/third-person open-world survival shooter. The world is gone—only you, a dog, and a sleek car remain. No missions, no hope. Just ruins, silence, and a flicker of life refusing to die.
Heaven Dust 2
WHY THIS
Shares backtracking exploration, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Secret Archives.
Ranked #4 for Secret Archives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Secret Archives.
Deep inside a research base, waking up from a cryogenic pod, you find yourself trapped in a living hell, surrounded by zombies. Heaven Dust 2 is a love letter to classic survival horror games featuring exploration, action, puzzles, and resource management.
AFFRAID
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Secret Archives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Secret Archives.
AFFRAID is a third-person horror game where you explore corridors and fight zombies. The combat mechanics are strongly inspired by the game Resident Evil 3. The main character is quite sexy.
Resident Evil 4
WHY THIS
Shares inventory management and an atmospheric mood with Secret Archives.
Ranked #6 for Secret Archives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Secret Archives.
Survival is just the beginning. Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors, tracks the president's kidnapped daughter to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals.
Dread Dawn
WHY THIS
Shares crafting and an atmospheric mood with Secret Archives.
Ranked #7 for Secret Archives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Secret Archives.
This is an open-world zombie survival game set in a quarantined city. You play as a student left behind due to missing the evacuation convoy. Together with classmates and other survivors, you must defend the school, survive, and await rescue.
She Will Shoot
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Secret Archives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Secret Archives.
She Will Shoot - is a cool zombie killer from the third person in a variety of scenery. Choose an arena and use different types of weapons to clear it of zombies.
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Resident Evil 3
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Secret Archives.
Reviewers of Secret Archives cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Secret Archives.
Jill Valentine is one of the last remaining people in Raccoon City to witness the atrocities Umbrella performed. To stop her, Umbrella unleashes their ultimate secret weapon: Nemesis! Also includes Resident Evil Resistance, a new 1 vs 4 online multiplayer game set in the Resident Evil universe.
The Killing Antidote
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Secret Archives.
Reviewers of Secret Archives cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Secret Archives.
This is a TPS game. Shooting, fighting, dress-up, puzzle solving, and more. In the future, a special germ causes humans to be constantly infected and mutated. The protagonist, Jodi, is a brave journalist who goes on her way to find the legendary antidote and is in danger.
Haydee
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Secret Archives.
Reviewers of Secret Archives cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Secret Archives.
"Haydee" is a hardcore old-style metroidvania mixed with modern-day third person shooter and platformer mechanics. As well as a sexy character.
永恒幻境 Eternal Dreamland
WHY THIS
Shares character customization, crafting, zombie apocalypse and an atmospheric mood with Secret Archives.
Reviewers of Secret Archives cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Secret Archives.
This is a third-person beautiful girl fighting zombie game. Elements such as shooting, changing clothes, and shelters are included. The heroine is a high school student in the countryside, in a constant cycle, looking for her former friends alone, and taking refuge in a small villa.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Secret Archives at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~61% under Secret Archives on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Secret Archives.
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 ~61% under Secret Archives on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Secret Archives.
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.
WHY THIS
Priced ~45% under Secret Archives on Steam right now. Shares Action with Secret Archives.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Secret Archives on Steam right now. Shares Action with Secret Archives.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Secret Archives on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Secret Archives.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~61% under Secret Archives on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Secret Archives.
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 ~61% under Secret Archives on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Secret Archives.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Secret Archives on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Secret Archives.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Secret Archives.
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 — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Secret Archives.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Secret Archives.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Secret Archives.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Secret Archives.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Secret Archives.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Secret Archives.
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Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Secret Archives.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
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Frequently asked about Secret Archives
- Does Secret Archives work on Steam Deck?
- Secret Archives is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Secret Archives cost?
- Secret Archives is listed on Steam at 12.79 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Secret Archives?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Secret Archives are He Will Shoot, PSYCHO DEAD, Lone City.
- Who developed Secret Archives?
- Secret Archives was developed by Juice Game.
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 Secret Archives.
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