Games like The Cult
If The Cult is your kind of game, the closest matches are Murder House, Psychopathy Assessment and Halloween: The Game — 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.
Get personalized picks →About The Cult: In the shadowed year of 1985, a killer has been at large leaving behind trails of clues and grisly scenes. Two years have passed, yet the enigma of Ophelia's disappearance still remains. Ophelia vanished without a trace, leaving behind an unsettling scene.
Players who liked The Cult also play
Steam players who put hours into The Cult 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.
Murder House
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Cult fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Cult.
A local news team breaks into an abandoned house to chase a salacious ghost story... until a MANIAC chases them! ...VHS era 80's slasher. PS1 style survival horror!
Psychopathy Assessment
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Cult fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Cult.
Psychopathy Assessment is a retro-80s V.H.S PS1 style analog horror game that blurs the line between reality and delusion. Step into a universe where you're not just playing a game; you're taking a psychopathy test, but the stakes are considerably higher than a straightforward diagnosis.
Halloween: The Game
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Cult fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Cult.
On Halloween night, 1978, no one is safe from Michael Myers. Become the Boogeyman or fight back against the face of evil itself in Halloween.
The Beast Inside
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Cult fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Cult.
The Beast Inside is a unique, gripping twist on thriller and survival horror. Immerse in the story of long-buried secrets, personal tragedies, and madness. Play as two protagonists bounded by dark heritage. Combat the enemies, solve riddles and experience real terror in the 3D-scanned environment.
Dead by Daylight
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Cult fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Cult.
Trapped forever in a realm of eldritch evil where even death is not an escape, four determined Survivors face a bloodthirsty Killer in a vicious game of nerve and wits. Pick a side and step into a world of tension and terror with horror gaming's best asymmetrical multiplayer.
Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Cult fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Cult.
Fear and isolation seep through the walls of an abandoned southern farmhouse. "7" marks a new beginning for survival horror with the “Isolated View” of the visceral new first-person perspective.
Outlast 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Cult fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Cult.
Outlast 2 introduces you to Sullivan Knoth and his followers, who left our wicked world behind to give birth to Temple Gate, a town, deep in the wilderness and hidden from civilization. Knoth and his flock are preparing for the tribulations of the end of times and you’re right in the thick of it.
Follia - Dear father
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Cult fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Cult.
Follia – Dear Father is a stealth survival horror that captures the genre’s essence in the halls and rooms of a university campus. Marcus goes in search of his parents, but instead finds himself struggling for his life against deadly horrors that creep around every corner.
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 Cult.
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 Action with The Cult.
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 Action and Indie with The Cult.
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 with The Cult.
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 Cult.
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 Action and Indie with The Cult.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Cult.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ 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 — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Murder House
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with The Cult.
A local news team breaks into an abandoned house to chase a salacious ghost story... until a MANIAC chases them! ...VHS era 80's slasher. PS1 style survival horror!
Dead by Daylight
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with The Cult.
Trapped forever in a realm of eldritch evil where even death is not an escape, four determined Survivors face a bloodthirsty Killer in a vicious game of nerve and wits. Pick a side and step into a world of tension and terror with horror gaming's best asymmetrical multiplayer.
Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with The Cult.
Fear and isolation seep through the walls of an abandoned southern farmhouse. "7" marks a new beginning for survival horror with the “Isolated View” of the visceral new first-person perspective.
Frequently asked about The Cult
- Does The Cult have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — The Cult supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to The Cult?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Cult are Murder House, Psychopathy Assessment, Halloween: The Game.
- Who developed The Cult?
- The Cult was developed by Sketchy Realms.
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 Cult.
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