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Games like Kill The Shadow

If Kill The Shadow is your kind of game, the closest matches are 失忆者的终章(The Amnesiac:Final Chapter), Endless and The Posthumous Investigation — 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.

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About Kill The Shadow: In an alternate post-war divided city, players take on the role of Detective Lucas. Use your eloquence, intelligence, the ability to rewind time (or even violence) to investigate and deduce various bizarre cases, unraveling a shocking secret behind them. Justice or love? The decision is yours.

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Steam players who put hours into Kill The Shadow 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. 失忆者的终章(The Amnesiac:Final Chapter)

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Kill The Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Kill The Shadow.

    "The Amnesiac:Final Chapter" is a story-based text game set in a low-magic world. In a crumbling baron's castle, a banquet takes an unexpected turn with the baron's death and everyone's amnesia. Players choose from 10 amnesiacs to uncover their individual stories.

    2023IndieRPGEarly Access3.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Endless

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Kill The Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Kill The Shadow.

    《时无烬》是一款时光穿梭的冒险类剧情解谜游戏。玩家通过操作主角解谜收集线索和乘客互动,逐渐揭开他们的故事,解救船上的人们。但船难的真相似乎远没有那么简单,这背后到底隐藏着什么?是灵异事件?亦或是.....

    2022StrategyIndieRPG0.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. The Posthumous Investigation

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Kill The Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kill The Shadow.

    A dead man hired you to solve his own murder. You have one day. Fourteen suspects. And as many attempts as it takes. A hand-drawn noir mystery set in 1937 Rio de Janeiro, where every suspect has a life, a schedule, and something to hide.

    2026IndieAdventureCasual19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Back to the Dawn

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Kill The Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kill The Shadow.

    Back to the Dawn is a story-rich RPG set in a high-security prison ruled by factions and buried secrets. Investigate two conspiracies from the inside, gather evidence, and outsmart a system designed to silence you. Make friends (or foes) with fellow inmates and with their help, break out of prison.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure23.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Dahlia View

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Kill The Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kill The Shadow.

    A child is missing. The police are failing. And you're a retired detective with a bit too much time on your hands. Time to throw out the rules & do whatever it takes to bring the child home. From the developers of I AM RIPPER, The Occupation & Ether One.

    2021IndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. 迷雾之夏-The Vigilant Villa

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Kill The Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kill The Shadow.

    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.

    2020IndieAdventureRPGDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Subsurface Circular

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Kill The Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kill The Shadow.

    When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.

    2017IndieAdventureCasual2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. 流言侦探

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Kill The Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kill The Shadow.

    《流言侦探》是一款诡异,烧脑,悬疑推理剧情游戏,在游戏的体验中,玩家自主找出线索,并利用线索,和角色对话后推进故事。严格的推理玩法,玩家将扮演一个神秘的联络者,玩家的选择将影响了解故事的不同侧面。通过和诸多角色的聊天推理出事件一层层真相,找出隐藏的凶手。

    2021IndieAdventureCasual9.99 USDSteam ↗

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 Kill The Shadow.

    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. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kill The Shadow.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. 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 Kill The Shadow.

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

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 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 Kill The Shadow.

    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 ↗
  5. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kill The Shadow.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kill The Shadow.

    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!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kill The Shadow.

    A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Kill The Shadow

What games are most similar to Kill The Shadow?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Kill The Shadow are 失忆者的终章(The Amnesiac:Final Chapter), Endless, The Posthumous Investigation.
Who developed Kill The Shadow?
Kill The Shadow was developed by Shadowlight and published by Phoenix 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 Kill The Shadow.

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