Games like Aster Initiative
If Aster Initiative is your kind of game, the closest matches are SIMULACRA 2, Hypnospace Outlaw and Home Safety Hotline — 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 Aster Initiative: A puzzle-horror experience - navigate a huge mid-90s internet and use a variety of programs on your work computer to take down your pharmaceutical company without getting caught.
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SIMULACRA 2
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Top pick for Aster Initiative fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Aster Initiative.
A dead influencer. An obsessed detective. Three suspects. Piece the truth together by going through the victim’s phone messages, videos, and social media in the follow up to the critically acclaimed SIMULACRA.
Hypnospace Outlaw
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Second-strongest match for Aster Initiative fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Aster Initiative.
Greetings Enforcer, and thank you for enlisting in the Hypnospace Patrol Department! As the world falls into its slumber, Hypnospace becomes a bustling global village. These virtual streets aren't going to police themselves!
Home Safety Hotline
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Third-strongest match for Aster Initiative fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Aster Initiative.
Hearing noises? Seeing things? Call Home Safety Hotline! Our operators are standing by, waiting to give you the answers you need to protect your home from all manner of pests and household hazards.
Life Eater
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Ranked #4 for Aster Initiative fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Aster Initiative.
If you don't sacrifice your neighbors, the world ends. Life Eater is a horror fantasy kidnapping simulator where you must become intimately familiar with your targets' lives one intrusive action at a time... and hope that the dark god you serve is even real.
Telling Lies
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Ranked #5 for Aster Initiative fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Aster Initiative.
Four private lives. One big lie. Search through secretly recorded video conversations to discover the truth. The successor to the acclaimed Her Story.
SIMULACRA 3
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Ranked #6 for Aster Initiative fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Aster Initiative.
The town of Stonecreek is haunted. People keep disappearing into thin air, leaving nothing but an eerie symbol behind. With the townsfolk gripped with fear, use a missing victim's phone to unlock the truth in the third entry of the acclaimed horror series, SIMULACRA.
Dark Nights with Poe and Munro
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Ranked #7 for Aster Initiative fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Guide local radio hosts Poe and Munro through six TV-like episodes of supernatural strangeness and sizzling on-screen chemistry. From the creators of The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker and The Shapeshifting Detective.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Ultimate Custom Night
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Aster Initiative.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Aster Initiative.
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Frequently asked about Aster Initiative
- What games are most similar to Aster Initiative?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Aster Initiative are SIMULACRA 2, Hypnospace Outlaw, Home Safety Hotline.
- Who developed Aster Initiative?
- Aster Initiative was developed by Patchbay Games.
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