Games like Causal Effect
If Causal Effect is your kind of game, the closest matches are 《道格拉斯警督的日记》, At His Grave and 彼岸之旅 — 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 Causal Effect: This is a text-based deduction game. Your choices will change the development of events, make up different timelines, and lead to different endings. Your primary task is to sort out the cause-and-effect relationships between events from textual descriptions.
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《道格拉斯警督的日记》
WHY THIS
Top pick for Causal Effect fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Causal Effect.
This is a detective game where you play as a middle-aged inspector searching for a terrifying serial killer in an isolated village. However, as a player, if you uncover the killer’s motives, you might consider whether to cooperate with them to achieve their goal of "killing THE time."
At His Grave
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Causal Effect fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Causal Effect.
Time backtracking secret room decryption game, analyze the character dialogue, find the key to decryption, complete the needs to leave the room. In the end all regret, go back to the past, looking for clues to make up for regret.
彼岸之旅
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Causal Effect fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Causal Effect.
Travels to a different world, chooses to join different forces, made your character strong, defeat all enemies who stand against you
我的一个多重人格朋友
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Causal Effect fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Causal Effect.
This is an AVG game that involves reasoning and decryption. He Zhou has 7 different personalities, which alternate seven days a week. Players will play as a detective and deduce the truth behind the horrifying cases surrounding He Zhou through the diary he left behind.
迷雾之夏-The Vigilant Villa
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Causal Effect fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Causal Effect.
The Vigilant Villa is a plots-oriented, texts-based AVG adventure game inheriting the classic “A locked room mystery" story mode. Where the game heads towards is completely decided by player’s own deductions and choices.
Rail of Möbius
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Causal Effect fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Causal Effect.
It is an adventure game with multiple endings. An original script written by a well-known light novelist with a total of 400,000 words. With reasoning, suspense, love, and science fiction elements, it allows players to embark on a highly immersive journey of salvation on the submarine train.
MAELSTROM LEGACY: The Tesla Mystery
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Causal Effect fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Causal Effect.
The Tesla Mystery is a puzzle-driven adventure game. Join the journey of investigation in a Paris infused with steampunk and Art Nouveau styles. Nikola Tesla, mastermind behind the Science Conference, has vanished under mysterious circumstances. Now, and uncover the truth hidden in the city...
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Causal Effect at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Causal Effect on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Causal Effect.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Causal Effect on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Causal Effect.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Causal Effect on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Causal Effect.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Causal Effect on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Causal Effect.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Causal Effect on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Causal Effect.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Causal Effect on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Causal Effect.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Causal Effect on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Causal Effect.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Causal Effect on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Causal Effect.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
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.
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.
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 Causal Effect.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Causal Effect.
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.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Causal Effect.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Causal Effect.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Causal Effect.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Causal Effect.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Causal Effect.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
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Frequently asked about Causal Effect
- How much does Causal Effect cost?
- Causal Effect is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Causal Effect?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Causal Effect are 《道格拉斯警督的日记》, At His Grave, 彼岸之旅.
- Who developed Causal Effect?
- Causal Effect was developed by shrimp & pickaxe studio.
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