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Games like The Crimson Maid

If The Crimson Maid is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Vaults Below Durn: A Field Study, The Immemorial Order II Sisters of Darkness and The Signifier Director's Cut — 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 The Crimson Maid: A marriage between first person exploration and visual novel, blessed with a sprinkle of puzzle gameplay. Immerse yourself in a period drama that intertwines romance with murder mystery, as a young cleric who must resist or give in to the charms of a strikingly beautiful maid.

2026IndieAdventure13.49 USDWindowsby GrimTalin, Darkania Works
The Crimson Maid — Steam game cover

Players who liked The Crimson Maid also play

Steam players who put hours into The Crimson Maid 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 Vaults Below Durn: A Field Study

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for The Crimson Maid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Crimson Maid.

    Three Doors. One Safe Path. Observe the signs, learn the patterns, and uncover the fate of the explorer who ventured before you.

    IndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. The Immemorial Order II Sisters of Darkness

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for The Crimson Maid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Crimson Maid.

    The Immemorial Order II Sisters of Darkness is primarily a spooky, atmospheric, first-person walking simulator that doesn't take itself too seriously.

    2025IndieAdventureSimulation5.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. The Signifier Director's Cut

    WHY THIS

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

    This story-driven adventure follows a mystery of death and despair from reality into the surreal realms of objective memories and subjective experiences. Search the mind, solve puzzles, and unravel the dark truth in this psychological thriller.

    2020IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Bohemian Killing

    WHY THIS

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

    Paris, 1894. Class differences and pervasive racism finally lead to a tragedy. A year later you find yourself on trial, accused of a brutal murder. How far will you go to exonerate yourself? Will you lie? Manipulate the evidence? Frame others? Act insane? Confess? Your imagination is the limit.

    2016IndieAdventure12.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Mind Diver

    WHY THIS

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

    Investigate a broken mind to unravel a twisted case. Deduce the truth. Restore lost memories. Listen to private conversations. Draw your own conclusions. Mind Diver is a murder mystery, where the victim is love.

    2025IndieAdventure17.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Luto

    WHY THIS

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

    Luto is a psychological horror experience where you take on the role of someone unable to leave their home. Every attempt to escape will lead you deeper into the unknown, where nothing is as it seems and everything will test your senses.

    2025IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. What Happened to Lily?

    WHY THIS

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

    What Happened to Lily? Is a real-time first-person horror game. Discover the secrets and spooky truths behind the mysterious event at Miller Farm.

    2025IndieAdventureCasual3.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Hazel Sky

    WHY THIS

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

    Hazel Sky is a heartfelt adventure about a young engineer facing his destiny and his desires. Fix ramshackle flying machines and jump, climb, swing, and slide through a beautiful, mysterious world.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Crimson Maid at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under The Crimson Maid on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Crimson Maid.

    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 ~63% under The Crimson Maid on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Crimson Maid.

    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 ~41% under The Crimson Maid on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Crimson Maid.

    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 ~54% under The Crimson Maid on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Crimson Maid.

    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 ~41% under The Crimson Maid on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Crimson Maid.

    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 ~63% under The Crimson Maid on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Crimson Maid.

    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 ~63% under The Crimson Maid on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Crimson Maid.

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

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Noita

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~41% under The Crimson Maid on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Crimson Maid.

    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. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

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

    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 The Crimson Maid.

    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. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

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

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. 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 The Crimson Maid.

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

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. 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 The Crimson Maid.

    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 ↗
  8. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from GrimTalin

Other recommendable Steam games by GrimTalin, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Last Days of Lazarus

    WHY THIS

    Another title from GrimTalin, the studio behind The Crimson Maid. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Crimson Maid.

    After their mother's suicide, Lazarus returns home to his sister Lyudmila. But unexplained events make the world and even reality collapse around him. Looming death, a spreading malediction and the supernatural threaten his sanity, yet Lazarus pushes forward to find the truth about his family.

    2022IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Adventures of Elena Temple: Definitive Edition

    WHY THIS

    Another title from GrimTalin, the studio behind The Crimson Maid. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Crimson Maid.

    Ever miss being a child, playing games at your grandma's or in your old bedroom? Look no further! Play The Adventures of Elena Temple, the classic you never knew existed, on old machines that kind of sort of maybe existed. It's not like you can remember for sure, right?

    2018IndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Long Ago: A Puzzle Tale

    WHY THIS

    Another title from GrimTalin, the studio behind The Crimson Maid. Shares Indie with The Crimson Maid.

    Long Ago: A Puzzle Tale is a relaxing puzzle game with colorful visuals, beautiful music and a fully voiced modern fairy tale told in rhyme. Solve intuitive puzzles, collect feathers, gems and coins, discover new mechanics as you progress and enjoy the unique themes each chapter unlocks.

    2021IndieCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. The Fall of Elena Temple

    WHY THIS

    Another title from GrimTalin, the studio behind The Crimson Maid. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Crimson Maid.

    Fall from a ledge, collect the coins below, then undo back to where you fell from, with the coins in your pocket! An old-school puzzle platformer in which you explore rooms, avoid perils and collect all coins to progress. Missed some coins? Fall, collect, undo! Falling into some spikes? Undo!!

    2024IndieAdventure2.99 USDSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Crimson Maid

How much does The Crimson Maid cost?
The Crimson Maid is listed on Steam at 13.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to The Crimson Maid?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Crimson Maid are The Vaults Below Durn: A Field Study, The Immemorial Order II Sisters of Darkness, The Signifier Director's Cut.
Who developed The Crimson Maid?
The Crimson Maid was developed by GrimTalin, Darkania Works and published by Wales Interactive.

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 The Crimson Maid.

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