Games like The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment
If The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment is your kind of game, the closest matches are THE BREAKFIVE, Skinscribing and OAN — 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 The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment: What if your whole world was a lie? Solve clever puzzles and face incredible challenges to escape the faulty simulation that keeps you captive. Question reality and unravel a dark conspiracy while dodging security systems in this innovative puzzle-strategy adventure.
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THE BREAKFIVE
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Top pick for The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment.
In 1421, the seemingly peaceful Ming Empire is actually rife with undercurrents. As the capital relocation project progresses, numerous forces across the realm are beginning to stir. A massive conspiracy is quietly brewing, and the facade of peace and tranquility is about to be torn apart.
Skinscribing
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Second-strongest match for The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment.
SKINSCRIBING is a 2D hand-drawn and dual-handed cosmic folk horror game wherein you explore environments, grief, and bodies alike to interpret and tattoo the history of a dying world as the foundation for the Era to come.
OAN
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment.
A Vietnamese spiritual horror. Bac Ninh, 1887. Return to the ancestral house for the death-anniversary vigil and finish the ritual before dawn. Solve the locks the family sealed, and uncover the truth your grandfather buried. A paper effigy is watching, and it does not want the ritual completed.
The Heir: Steampunk Escape Room
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Ranked #4 for The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment.
1895. In this first-person escape room, you play as Dr. Voss's aspiring scientific heir. Explore an immersive Victorian laboratory, solve ingenious puzzles woven into the environment and the story, and unravel the dark secret behind Voss's experiments.
Detective Dunkadoo
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Ranked #5 for The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment.
To ensure your career doesn't end sooner than the apocalypse, work hard to collect "Well-Done Stamps" and save your performance review!
IndieSteam ↗101 Forgotten
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Ranked #6 for The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment.
101 FORGOTTEN is a psychological horror visual novel set in an alternate universe inspired by Bali — built from real sacred rituals, forbidden folklore, and the terror of lost memory. You play as Utari, a young woman haunted by dreams of a ritual she was never meant to survive.
Death Insurance
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Ranked #7 for The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment.
You're a desk-jockey processing life-insurance claims. Collect and investigate 3D objects to piece together the cause of death. Case by case, the true nature of Bliss unfolds in this story-rich supernatural mystery.
AdventureSteam ↗Mystery of the Malign
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Ranked #8 for The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment.
Investigate. Interrogate. Descend into a world of intrigue to untangle the Mystery of the Malign.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment.
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.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~50% under The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment.
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!
How to Fish
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Priced ~50% under The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~50% under The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment.
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.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~50% under The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~50% under The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~70% under The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Frequently asked about The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment
- How much does The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment cost?
- The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment are THE BREAKFIVE, Skinscribing, OAN.
- Who developed The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment?
- The Visitor Effect: Not an experiment was developed by Mystic Morgue and published by Dojo System.
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