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Games like Beholder: Conductor

If Beholder: Conductor is your kind of game, the closest matches are Beholder 2, Beholder and Civil Purgatory — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, dark and funny. 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 Beholder: Conductor: A Beholder series spin-off. Become a conductor of the Determination Bringer train: monitor passengers, report incidents, and carry out important Ministry assignments — whose level of secrecy depends only on your loyalty. And remember: mission success is very important to you!

2025StrategyIndieAdventureSimulation13.99 USDDeck VerifiedWindows · macOSby Alawar
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Being the conductor of a train in a 2035 totalitarian stateDetailed pixel art and melancholic soundtrack praised as standout featuresExploring passengers belongings and deciding their fateAtmosphericDarkFunny

Players who liked Beholder: Conductor also play

Steam players who put hours into Beholder: Conductor 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. Beholder 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Beholder: Conductor.

    Top pick for Beholder: Conductor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Beholder: Conductor.

    You are an intern at the central ministry of a totalitarian state with your whole career ahead of you. Work your way up the ladder by scheming against employees, spying on your boss, and completing paperwork. Or do you turn against the state and expose corruption. The choice is still yours to make!

    2018StrategyIndieAdventure17.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Beholder

    WHY THIS

    Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Beholder: Conductor.

    Second-strongest match for Beholder: Conductor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Beholder: Conductor.

    You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?

    2016StrategyIndieAdventure13.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Civil Purgatory

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Beholder: Conductor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Beholder: Conductor.

    Interrogate, investigate, and judge in an authoritarian regime. In Civil Purgatory, real-time AI-generated role-playing dialogue adds depth and dynamism to this narrative simulation full of moral dilemmas, where you decide who walks free… and who doesn’t.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation3.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Ministry of Order

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Beholder: Conductor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Beholder: Conductor.

    Match babies to their parents by solving genetics puzzles. Get paid for being right, fined for mistakes. Each choice in branching dialogues has different consequences. Immerse yourself in the atmosphere of the gloomy 1920s totalitarian state.

    2026StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  5. Human Resources

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Beholder: Conductor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Beholder: Conductor.

    You work in Human Resources. In this sci-fi puzzle thriller, use your terminal to scrutinize records and expose human-like AI. Spot contradictions to detect the crafty impostors. Efficiency is mandatory. Failure is termination.

    2026IndieSimulationSteam ↗
  6. Human or Not

    WHY THIS

    Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Beholder: Conductor.

    Ranked #6 for Beholder: Conductor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Beholder: Conductor.

    Aliens are infiltrating Earth disguised as humans! It's your job to expose these imposters. Can you tell who is human and who is not? Choose your own path while you keep the Earth safe.

    2023IndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Beholder 3

    WHY THIS

    Shares a dark mood with Beholder: Conductor.

    Ranked #7 for Beholder: Conductor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Beholder: Conductor.

    When a high-ranking security officer saves you from prison, you end up a pawn in her schemes. Now you must eliminate anyone standing in the way of her secret plans and try to get your life back while working two jobs. No tenant, employee or superior is safe from your spying.

    2022StrategyIndieAdventure17.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Mayor Quake

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Beholder: Conductor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Beholder: Conductor.

    You're the new mayor of a dystopian city on the brink of a devastating earthquake. Review building records, make urban transformation decisions, and maintain public support despite political pressure. Manage the economy and make critical choices. Can you prepare your city before disaster strikes?

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Beholder: Conductor

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. Papers, Please

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Beholder: Conductor.

    Reviewers of Beholder: Conductor cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beholder: Conductor.

    Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.

    2013IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. This War of Mine

    WHY THIS

    Shares a grim mood with Beholder: Conductor.

    Reviewers of Beholder: Conductor cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beholder: Conductor.

    In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.

    2014IndieAdventureSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Beholder

    WHY THIS

    Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Beholder: Conductor.

    Reviewers of Beholder: Conductor cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Beholder: Conductor.

    You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?

    2016StrategyIndieAdventure13.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Not Tonight

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Beholder: Conductor.

    Reviewers of Beholder: Conductor cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Beholder: Conductor.

    Person of European Heritage #112: Welcome to Relocation Block B, your new home. Your designated role is 'Bouncer'. Work hard, stay out of trouble, and we might let you stay in the UK.

    2018AdventureSimulationRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Beholder: Conductor at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~64% under Beholder: Conductor on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Beholder: Conductor.

    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 ~64% under Beholder: Conductor on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Beholder: Conductor.

    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 ~43% under Beholder: Conductor on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beholder: Conductor.

    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. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~46% under Beholder: Conductor on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Beholder: Conductor.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under Beholder: Conductor on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Beholder: Conductor.

    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 ↗
  6. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~43% under Beholder: Conductor on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Beholder: Conductor.

    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 ↗
  7. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~64% under Beholder: Conductor on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Beholder: Conductor.

    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 ↗
  8. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~64% under Beholder: Conductor on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Beholder: Conductor.

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

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗

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 Beholder: Conductor.

    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 Beholder: Conductor.

    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 Beholder: Conductor.

    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 Beholder: Conductor.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Beholder: Conductor.

    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 ↗
  6. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

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

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

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Beholder: Conductor.

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

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. 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 Beholder: Conductor.

    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 ↗

More from Alawar

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

  1. Wall World

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Alawar, the studio behind Beholder: Conductor. Shares Strategy and Indie with Beholder: Conductor.

    Explore the mysterious Wall World on your giant robospider: mine for valuable resources, upgrade your equipment to fight off hordes of monsters, and discover exotic biomes in-between attacks. Will you be able to survive and learn the secrets of the Wall World?

    2023ActionStrategyIndie6.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Necrosmith

    WHY THIS

    Shares a dark mood with Beholder: Conductor.

    Another title from Alawar, the studio behind Beholder: Conductor. Shares Strategy and Indie with Beholder: Conductor.

    A necromancer simulator. Assemble the dead using different body parts while upgrading your tower, combine the abilities of the different fantastic races to fight your way through the hordes of enemies and overrun the ’chosen ones’. To tell the truth, the dead are pretty, uhm, dumb.

    2022StrategyIndieAdventure2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Karate Survivor

    WHY THIS

    Shares character driven and a funny mood with Beholder: Conductor.

    Another title from Alawar, the studio behind Beholder: Conductor. Shares Indie with Beholder: Conductor.

    Become a martial arts master in this survivor-like roguelite inspired by action movies of the ‘80s. Use your fists, feet, and the environment to fight off relentless thugs. Master powerful combos, enhance your skills, and remember: everything around you is a weapon!

    2024ActionIndieCasual4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Wall World 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Beholder: Conductor.

    Another title from Alawar, the studio behind Beholder: Conductor. Shares Strategy and Indie with Beholder: Conductor.

    The adventure in the mysterious world of the Wall continues! Pilot your robospider into its depths, uncover lost artifacts and technologies, upgrade your exosuit and spider, and battle the horrors lurking in the dark. Unravel the mysteries buried in the depths of the Wall!

    2025ActionStrategyIndie11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Necrosmith 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares mystery and an atmospheric mood with Beholder: Conductor.

    Another title from Alawar, the studio behind Beholder: Conductor. Shares Strategy and Indie with Beholder: Conductor.

    Like a dead man reanimated by dark sorcery, the necromancer simulator is back! Give the undead the ability to fly over mountains and swim across rivers, explore a fully generated world at night and fend off enemy hordes during the day. Start a new, uhm, life.

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. They Always Run

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Beholder: Conductor.

    Another title from Alawar, the studio behind Beholder: Conductor. Shares Adventure with Beholder: Conductor.

    Become Aiden, a three-armed mutant who hunts the most dangerous bounties in the galaxy. Catch, slice, dice and destroy enemies in this exciting 2D platformer with a space-western setting.

    2021ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Happy Hereafter

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Alawar, the studio behind Beholder: Conductor. Shares Strategy with Beholder: Conductor.

    Welcome to The Happy Hereafter, a casual sim in which you guide the newly dead as they build an afterlife for themselves and their fellow lost souls. There will be no rest for the wickedly funny as you put them to work building a village to rival Paradise!

    2014StrategyCasual3.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. The Last Gas Station

    WHY THIS

    Shares checkpoint based progression, achievement hunting and atmospheric with Beholder: Conductor.

    Another title from Alawar, the studio behind Beholder: Conductor. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beholder: Conductor.

    In a world where electric cars reign supreme, you are now the owner of an old gas station out in the wilderness. Establish trade, develop your business and uncover the secret of this strange place in the compact gas station simulator.

    2026IndieAdventureSimulation11.89 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

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

  1. Beholder 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Beholder: Conductor.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Beholder: Conductor.

    You are an intern at the central ministry of a totalitarian state with your whole career ahead of you. Work your way up the ladder by scheming against employees, spying on your boss, and completing paperwork. Or do you turn against the state and expose corruption. The choice is still yours to make!

    2018StrategyIndieAdventure17.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Beholder

    WHY THIS

    Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Beholder: Conductor.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Beholder: Conductor.

    You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?

    2016StrategyIndieAdventure13.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Beholder 3

    WHY THIS

    Shares a dark mood with Beholder: Conductor.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Beholder: Conductor.

    When a high-ranking security officer saves you from prison, you end up a pawn in her schemes. Now you must eliminate anyone standing in the way of her secret plans and try to get your life back while working two jobs. No tenant, employee or superior is safe from your spying.

    2022StrategyIndieAdventure17.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Beholder: Conductor

Is Beholder: Conductor verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — Beholder: Conductor is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
How much does Beholder: Conductor cost?
Beholder: Conductor is listed on Steam at 13.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Beholder: Conductor?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Beholder: Conductor are Beholder 2, Beholder, Civil Purgatory.
Who developed Beholder: Conductor?
Beholder: Conductor was developed by Alawar.

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 Beholder: Conductor.

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