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Games like Spill the Beans

If Spill the Beans is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Nine Lives of Nim: Fortune's Fool, The Test: Secrets of the Soul and Expelled! — 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 Spill the Beans: A secret recipe has been stolen and you’re charged with finding the culprit…trouble is, you’re the one whodunnit. Investigate, interrogate and manipulate your way to framing the perfect scapegoat in this reverse detective visual novel.

IndieAdventureRPGWindowsby Skeletal Games
Spill the Beans — Steam game cover

Players who liked Spill the Beans also play

Steam players who put hours into Spill the Beans 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. The Nine Lives of Nim: Fortune's Fool

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Spill the Beans fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Spill the Beans.

    A visual novel/life sim with Shakespearean characters and Nim, a cat spirit who is searching for her master, the Prince of Cats.

    2019StrategyIndieAdventure8.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. The Test: Secrets of the Soul

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Spill the Beans fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Spill the Beans.

    You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."

    2023IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Expelled!

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Spill the Beans fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Spill the Beans.

    A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.

    2025IndieAdventureRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. 1997

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Spill the Beans fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Spill the Beans.

    Detective visual novel about mysteries of rural Russian town in 90-s, anime style.

    2023IndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Sarawak

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Spill the Beans fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Spill the Beans.

    A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo

    2021IndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Wayhaven Chronicles: Book One

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Spill the Beans fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Spill the Beans.

    Your first case as a detective is forcing you to open your eyes to a world bigger than you thought. Or maybe it's better to keep them closed. Seems the supernatural didn’t get the memo that nothing exciting ever happens in the little town of Wayhaven.

    2018IndieAdventureRPG7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Purrfect Apawcalypse: Love at Furst Bite

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Spill the Beans fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Spill the Beans.

    Olive is trapped in school in the midst of the apocalypse! With demons slaughtering every dog in sight there's only so many left to spend time with! Will their special someone be Brownie the snack-loving corgi, Sparky the sporty husky or Patches the dalmatian bookworm? You decide!

    2021IndieAdventureRPG4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Rain City

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Spill the Beans fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Spill the Beans.

    Rain City is a point-and-click adventure game. The player is taking the role of a cat who comes to the Rain City - where it rains all year round - to find his missing sister. During the journey, the player will meet different people and witness various, bizarre stories.

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure3.99 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 Spill the Beans.

    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. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

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

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Spill the Beans.

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 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 Spill the Beans.

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

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Spill the Beans.

    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.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  6. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Spill the Beans.

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

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. A Date with Death

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Spill the Beans.

    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.

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck 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 Spill the Beans.

    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 ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

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

  1. The Test: Secrets of the Soul

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Spill the Beans.

    You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."

    2023IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Expelled!

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Spill the Beans.

    A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.

    2025IndieAdventureRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Wayhaven Chronicles: Book One

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Spill the Beans.

    Your first case as a detective is forcing you to open your eyes to a world bigger than you thought. Or maybe it's better to keep them closed. Seems the supernatural didn’t get the memo that nothing exciting ever happens in the little town of Wayhaven.

    2018IndieAdventureRPG7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Spill the Beans

What games are most similar to Spill the Beans?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Spill the Beans are The Nine Lives of Nim: Fortune's Fool, The Test: Secrets of the Soul, Expelled!.
Who developed Spill the Beans?
Spill the Beans was developed by Skeletal Games.

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 Spill the Beans.

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