Games like Red October
If Red October is your kind of game, the closest matches are Forever In The Backrooms, Into The Backrooms and Backrooms Abyss — 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 Red October: Red October: A scientific thriller in the USSR. Physicist Sokolov is drawn into the race for the energy of the future in the closed city of Oktyabrsk-21. Intrigue, espionage, moral choices. The fate of the world is in your hands!
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Forever In The Backrooms
WHY THIS
Top pick for Red October fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Red October.
Explore and survive levels based on the popular creepypasta lore. Each level offers various escape routes but also introduces perilous obstacles. Players can immerse themselves in the seemingly boundless and unsettling levels of the backrooms, experiencing the game's eerie and intricate mazes.
Into The Backrooms
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Red October fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Red October.
Explore and survive levels based on the popular creepypasta lore. Each level offers various escape routes but also introduces perilous obstacles. Players can immerse themselves in the seemingly boundless and unsettling levels of the backrooms, experiencing the game's eerie and intricate mazes.
Backrooms Abyss
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Red October fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Red October.
Explore and survive levels based on the popular creepypasta lore. Each level offers various escape routes but also introduces perilous obstacles. Players can immerse themselves in the seemingly boundless and unsettling levels of the backrooms, experiencing the game's eerie and intricate mazes.
Overtime Anomaly
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Red October fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Red October.
You're working overtime again in your dead-end job, whilst your boss is on vacation. However, strange things are happening throughout the office. Complete your daily work tasks, explore your office, report any anomalies you may find, and you may just find yourself getting a promotion...
The Adventures of LinShanHai - Chapter2:Bus Bombing
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Red October fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Red October.
The bus to the suburbs suddenly exploded, the scene was a mess, the sales staff, including all 10 people on board died. Lin Shanhai led the scene investigation team to conduct a detailed investigation and visited all the families and friends of the deceased, but the case is still no clue.
Final Age
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Red October fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Red October.
FINAL AGE is a first person single player psychological horror game . The player takes on the role of a curious investigator who is drawn to a cottage which was previously owned by an army man Samuel, who mysteriously disappeared during a war. Contains tricky puzzles. Needs good observation skills.
The Backrooms: Escape
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Red October fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Red October.
The Backrooms: Escape is an experience in the liminal world of backrooms. Move freely, explore the secrets of the corporation, but remember - you are not alone.
Backrooms: The Labyrinth
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Red October fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Red October.
Explore non-linear paths and evade lurking monsters as you uncover the mysteries of this eerie maze. Beware of the sinister entities that inhabit the shadows, ready to drag you deeper into the unknown.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Red October at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Red October on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Red October.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Red October on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Red October.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~63% under Red October on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Red October.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Red October on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Red October.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Red October on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Red October.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Red October on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Red October.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
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Priced ~50% under Red October on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Red October.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Red October on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Red October.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Red October.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Red October.
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 Red October.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Red October.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Red October.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Red October.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Red October.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Red October.
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.
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Other recommendable Steam games by Stop-TussiN, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Trans-Siberian Legends
WHY THIS
Another title from Stop-TussiN, the studio behind Red October. Shares Indie and Adventure with Red October.
A first-person adventure game with a storyline. You are about to travel on a passenger train along the Trans-Siberian Railway. You can walk around cities, ride a train and watch nature change, talk to passengers and much more.
Russian Train Trip
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Another title from Stop-TussiN, the studio behind Red October. Shares Adventure with Red October.
Traveling on passenger trains in Russia. First-person exploration.
Train Travel Simulator
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Another title from Stop-TussiN, the studio behind Red October. Shares Indie with Red October.
Simulator of travel in the carriage of a passenger train across Russia.
Pleim
WHY THIS
Another title from Stop-TussiN, the studio behind Red October. Shares Indie and Adventure with Red October.
An open world adventure game. You can move around the city, talk to residents, and investigate cases. The game has an interesting plot that will not leave anyone indifferent.
Chinese Train Trip
WHY THIS
Another title from Stop-TussiN, the studio behind Red October. Shares Indie and Adventure with Red October.
First-person exploration. Genre: adventure. Train travel simulator in China. You will find a free world, buying and selling items, riding a train and much more.
Russian Train Trip 2
WHY THIS
Another title from Stop-TussiN, the studio behind Red October. Shares Indie and Adventure with Red October.
Journey on a passenger train in Russia. You play as a first-person character, you have to travel by train for 7 days to Vladivostok. Look out the window, listen to the radio, and move around the carriage.
Russian Train Trip 3
WHY THIS
Another title from Stop-TussiN, the studio behind Red October. Shares Adventure with Red October.
A first-person adventure game with a deep plot. You have to get from Tyumen to Novosibirsk on a passenger train. You can look out the window and watch the changing nature, weather and architecture. You can see forests, fields, mountains, cities and villages.
Frequently asked about Red October
- How much does Red October cost?
- Red October is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Red October?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Red October are Forever In The Backrooms, Into The Backrooms, Backrooms Abyss.
- Who developed Red October?
- Red October was developed by Stop-TussiN.
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