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Games like Moebius: Empire Rising

If Moebius: Empire Rising is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller, Resonance and Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers 20th Anniversary Edition — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its character chemistry is fantastic, deduction analysis adds depth and atmospheric. 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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About Moebius: Empire Rising: Moebius: Empire Rising is a contemporary adventure that merges classic point-and-click puzzle solving with Jane Jensen’s sophisticated storytelling. Travel the world using Malachi’s unique deductive powers to analyze suspects, make historical connections, and uncover the truth behind a theory of space and time the government will defend...

2014IndieAdventure14.99 USDMetacritic 54Windows · macOS · Linuxby Phoenix Online Studios
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Bromance subplot is rare and charmingCharacter chemistry is fantasticDeduction analysis adds depthAtmosphericContemplativeMysterious

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Steam players who put hours into Moebius: Empire Rising 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.

  1. Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Moebius: Empire Rising.

    Top pick for Moebius: Empire Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Moebius: Empire Rising.

    FBI agent Erica Reed has an uncanny talent: she can see the past and piece together how a crime unfolded. But not even this sixth sense could save her younger brother, Scott, from a brutal serial killer. Three years later, the investigation into Scott’s murder has gone cold -- but Erica’s work has only just begun.

    2013IndieAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Resonance

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Moebius: Empire Rising.

    Second-strongest match for Moebius: Empire Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Moebius: Empire Rising.

    When a brilliant particle physicist dies unexpectedly, the race is on to secure his terrible new technology before it falls into the wrong hands. The lives of four playable characters become entangled as they fight against the clock to find the dead scientist’s secret vault.

    2012IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers 20th Anniversary Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Moebius: Empire Rising.

    Third-strongest match for Moebius: Empire Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Moebius: Empire Rising.

    Revisit of one of adventure gaming’s greatest classics by master storyteller Jane Jensen! Struggling bookstore owner Gabriel Knight investigates the sinister Voodoo Murders in New Orleans, discovering the secrets of his family history and unfolding his destiny in this tale of horror and suspense.

    2014Adventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Moebius: Empire Rising.

    Ranked #4 for Moebius: Empire Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Moebius: Empire Rising.

    A dying reality, a universe that’s fading away. A merciless world thatgets sick and vanishes. No past, no present, no future; only the impending moment of “dead synchronicity” ahead. Will you be able to stop it?Because, otherwise... what will you do when Time dissolves itself?

    2015IndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Broken Age

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Moebius: Empire Rising.

    Ranked #5 for Moebius: Empire Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Moebius: Empire Rising.

    A family friendly, hand-animated, puzzle-filled adventure game with an all-star cast, including Elijah Wood, Jack Black and Masasa Moyo. Funded by a record breaking crowdfunding campaign and designed by industry legend Tim Schafer, Broken Age is a timeless coming-of-age story.

    2014IndieAdventureCasual14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Thimbleweed Park™

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Moebius: Empire Rising.

    Ranked #6 for Moebius: Empire Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Moebius: Empire Rising.

    In Thimbleweed Park, a dead body is the least of your problems. Switch between five playable characters to uncover the surreal secrets of this strange town in a modern mystery adventure game from the creators of Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion. The deeper you go, the weirder it gets.

    2017IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Telling Lies

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Moebius: Empire Rising.

    Ranked #7 for Moebius: Empire Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Moebius: Empire Rising.

    Four private lives. One big lie. Search through secretly recorded video conversations to discover the truth. The successor to the acclaimed Her Story.

    2019IndieAdventureSimulation4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Myst

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Moebius: Empire Rising.

    Ranked #8 for Moebius: Empire Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Moebius: Empire Rising.

    Welcome to Myst: a starkly beautiful island, eerily tinged with mystery and shrouded in intrigue. Built from the ground up to play in 2D & VR, explore Myst in a whole new dimension! Journey to the Ages, unravel puzzles, and be a part of the surrealistic adventure that will become your own.

    2021IndieAdventureCasual34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Moebius: Empire Rising at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Moebius: Empire Rising on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Moebius: Empire Rising.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Moebius: Empire Rising on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Moebius: Empire Rising.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Moebius: Empire Rising on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Moebius: Empire Rising.

    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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Moebius: Empire Rising on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Moebius: Empire Rising.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Moebius: Empire Rising on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Moebius: Empire Rising.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Moebius: Empire Rising on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Moebius: Empire Rising.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Moebius: Empire Rising on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Moebius: Empire Rising.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Noita

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Moebius: Empire Rising on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Moebius: Empire Rising.

    Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Moebius: Empire Rising.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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 Moebius: Empire Rising.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. 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 Moebius: Empire Rising.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Moebius: Empire Rising.

    A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Moebius: Empire Rising.

    Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.

    2021IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. 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 Moebius: Empire Rising.

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Moebius: Empire Rising.

    USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.

    2025IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Moebius: Empire Rising.

    Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.

    2021IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Resonance

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Moebius: Empire Rising.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Moebius: Empire Rising.

    When a brilliant particle physicist dies unexpectedly, the race is on to secure his terrible new technology before it falls into the wrong hands. The lives of four playable characters become entangled as they fight against the clock to find the dead scientist’s secret vault.

    2012IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Broken Age

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Moebius: Empire Rising.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Moebius: Empire Rising.

    A family friendly, hand-animated, puzzle-filled adventure game with an all-star cast, including Elijah Wood, Jack Black and Masasa Moyo. Funded by a record breaking crowdfunding campaign and designed by industry legend Tim Schafer, Broken Age is a timeless coming-of-age story.

    2014IndieAdventureCasual14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Thimbleweed Park™

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Moebius: Empire Rising.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Moebius: Empire Rising.

    In Thimbleweed Park, a dead body is the least of your problems. Switch between five playable characters to uncover the surreal secrets of this strange town in a modern mystery adventure game from the creators of Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion. The deeper you go, the weirder it gets.

    2017IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Myst

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Moebius: Empire Rising.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Moebius: Empire Rising.

    Welcome to Myst: a starkly beautiful island, eerily tinged with mystery and shrouded in intrigue. Built from the ground up to play in 2D & VR, explore Myst in a whole new dimension! Journey to the Ages, unravel puzzles, and be a part of the surrealistic adventure that will become your own.

    2021IndieAdventureCasual34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Moebius: Empire Rising

How much does Moebius: Empire Rising cost?
Moebius: Empire Rising is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Moebius: Empire Rising?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Moebius: Empire Rising are Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller, Resonance, Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers 20th Anniversary Edition.
Who developed Moebius: Empire Rising?
Moebius: Empire Rising was developed by Phoenix Online Studios and published by Phoenix Online Publishing.

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 Moebius: Empire Rising.

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