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Games like Mindlock - The Apartment

If Mindlock - The Apartment is your kind of game, the closest matches are Angelo and Deemon: One Hell of a Quest, PRIM and Rock 'n' Roll Will Never Die! — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, dark and emotional. 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 Mindlock - The Apartment: Colin’s apartment maze has puzzles, dialogues, and some dry humor waiting for you. A surreal adventure of a special kind.

2024Adventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableWindows · macOSby Roof Cut Media
Mindlock - The Apartment — Steam game cover
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Art style complements the psychological toneCharacters feel relatable and flawedClever puzzles mixed with dry humor that makes you laugh and thinkAtmosphericDarkEmotional

Players who liked Mindlock - The Apartment also play

Steam players who put hours into Mindlock - The Apartment 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. Angelo and Deemon: One Hell of a Quest

    WHY THIS

    Shares inventory based puzzles, point and click and an atmospheric mood with Mindlock - The Apartment.

    Top pick for Mindlock - The Apartment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Mindlock - The Apartment.

    Once upon a time, the Grim Reaper chose the wrong door. Angelo – a young lazy bum-a-holic, oh sorry - a blogger, powered only by his blogging skills, must turn on “point-n-click adventure” mode, go around the inferno, meet the locals, and somehow get back home. Enjoy Hell! We made it just for you.

    2019IndieAdventure8.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. PRIM

    WHY THIS

    Shares inventory based puzzles and an atmospheric mood with Mindlock - The Apartment.

    Second-strongest match for Mindlock - The Apartment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Mindlock - The Apartment.

    PRIM is a creepy-but-cute point’n’click adventure game full of dark humor. When her mother dies, Prim finds out she’s Death’s daughter and now has to live with her father. But the Grim Reaper has strict rules and when Prim breaks them, things take a fatal turn. Can you breathe life into her misery?

    2024Adventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Rock 'n' Roll Will Never Die!

    WHY THIS

    Shares inventory based puzzles, point and click and a whimsical mood with Mindlock - The Apartment.

    Third-strongest match for Mindlock - The Apartment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Mindlock - The Apartment.

    Hair metal's not dead, it just smells funny! Get your denim vest, bandana and makeup, and dive into a point-and-click adventure as a middle-aged teddy bear planning a comeback with his old glam metal band – in a world where glam metal has been dead and buried for decades.

    2022IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Remission of Sins

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Mindlock - The Apartment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Mindlock - The Apartment.

    The Remission of Sins is a fully-voiced, multi-ending short horror visual novel. Depending on the player’s choice, it branches to 12 different endings.

    2020IndieAdventure11.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Cataplexy

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Mindlock - The Apartment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Mindlock - The Apartment.

    Waking up at night, the main character realizes that he cannot move. A terrible sense of panic gradually overtakes his mind, and the imagination begins to paint frightening pictures.

    2022IndieAdventure1.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Bobok

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Mindlock - The Apartment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Mindlock - The Apartment.

    Grotesque notes written not by Fyodor Dostoevsky, but by a "certain person".

    2021IndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. PINEAPPLE: A Bittersweet Revenge

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Mindlock - The Apartment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Mindlock - The Apartment.

    Pineapple is a story-revenge-driven game where you become the hero of the school by pulling pranks on the top bully. Time to give that witch a taste of their own medicine. With a pineapple.

    2024IndieAdventureSimulation4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Tourist Trap

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Mindlock - The Apartment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Mindlock - The Apartment.

    Face an evil corporation™ with the help of a talking monkey in Tourist Trap, a surrealist dark comedy point and click adventure set in a South American coastal city.

    2023Adventure9.99 USDSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Mindlock - The Apartment

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Deponia

    WHY THIS

    Shares point and click, puzzle solving and an emotional mood with Mindlock - The Apartment.

    Reviewers of Mindlock - The Apartment cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Mindlock - The Apartment.

    In Deponia, the world has degenerated into a vast garbage dump, in which the crotchety Rufus ekes out his sorry existence.

    2012IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Return to Monkey Island

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Mindlock - The Apartment.

    Reviewers of Mindlock - The Apartment cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Mindlock - The Apartment.

    Return to Monkey Island is an unexpected, thrilling return of series creator Ron Gilbert that continues the story of the legendary adventure games.

    2022AdventureCasual24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Randal's Tuesday

    WHY THIS

    Shares inventory based puzzles, point and click, adventure and a whimsical mood with Mindlock - The Apartment.

    Reviewers of Mindlock - The Apartment cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Mindlock - The Apartment.

    A classic point and click adventure which takes place in a University and the prequel to Randal's Monday.

    2025IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Mindlock - The Apartment at current Steam store prices.

  1. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Mindlock - The Apartment on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Mindlock - The Apartment.

    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 ↗
  2. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Mindlock - The Apartment on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Mindlock - The Apartment.

    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 ↗
  3. Noita

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Mindlock - The Apartment on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Mindlock - The Apartment.

    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 ↗
  4. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~93% under Mindlock - The Apartment on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Mindlock - The Apartment.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. OneShot

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Mindlock - The Apartment on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Mindlock - The Apartment.

    OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.

    2016IndieAdventureCasual5.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Human Fall Flat

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Mindlock - The Apartment on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Mindlock - The Apartment.

    Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.

    2016IndieAdventureSimulation5.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. GRIS

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Mindlock - The Apartment on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Mindlock - The Apartment.

    Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.

    2018IndieAdventure3.74 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~87% under Mindlock - The Apartment on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Mindlock - The Apartment.

    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?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Mindlock - The Apartment.

    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 ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Mindlock - The Apartment.

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Mindlock - The Apartment.

    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 ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

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

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Mindlock - The Apartment

Does Mindlock - The Apartment run on Steam Deck?
Mindlock - The Apartment is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Mindlock - The Apartment cost?
Mindlock - The Apartment is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Mindlock - The Apartment?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mindlock - The Apartment are Angelo and Deemon: One Hell of a Quest, PRIM, Rock 'n' Roll Will Never Die!.
Who developed Mindlock - The Apartment?
Mindlock - The Apartment was developed by Roof Cut Media and published by USM.

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 Mindlock - The Apartment.

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