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Games like The Mystery Mist

If The Mystery Mist is your kind of game, the closest matches are Lamplighter, The Hearth and Harbour and Rottenroots — 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 Mystery Mist: In this world, deadly toxic mist is everywhere. The protagonist, Yaqing, becomes an apprentice to a physician skilled in using insects to save his sister, who has been poisoned by the mist. As the story progresses, he finds himself entangled in a tense racial conflict…

IndieAdventureSimulationRPGCasualWindowsby WolfSmokeStudios
The Mystery Mist — Steam game cover

Players who liked The Mystery Mist also play

Steam players who put hours into The Mystery Mist 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. Lamplighter

    WHY THIS

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

    It’s 1807 and you are a lamplighter, responsible for keeping the street lights of London lit. Lamplighter is a story-driven puzzle game, set amidst the magical early 1800s when gas street lamps began to turn night into day and provoke people's imaginations, hopes, and fears.

    2021IndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. The Hearth and Harbour

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for The Mystery Mist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with The Mystery Mist.

    Transform a run-down restaurant and build a new life for yourself in this management RPG. Decide what kind of restaurant you want to create and what kind of person you want to be. As a storm brews outside, every choice you make has consequences.

    2026AdventureSimulationRPGSteam ↗
  3. Rottenroots

    WHY THIS

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

    In this haunting visual novel, you become Salem - torn between forbidden love and regime loyalty. Make split-second decisions that transform his personality in a solarpunk dystopia. With multiple paths and endings, your choices define who Salem becomes in a world where being different is dangerous.

    IndieAdventureRPGSteam ↗
  4. The Play's the Thing

    WHY THIS

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

    Win fame as a playwright before dark forces bring the curtain down for good! In a city stalked by a deadly curse, how will the power of your pen change the world?

    2021ActionIndieAdventure5.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Merry’s Seven Wishes

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The Mystery Mist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with The Mystery Mist.

    A touching visual novel about love, loss, and hope. After Merry’s death, Richard’s world turns gray—until her seven final wishes begin restoring its colors. Through heartfelt storytelling, music, and mini-games, every fulfilled wish paints life in new shades of meaning.

    2026AdventureSimulationRPG5.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Rosa Mortifera

    WHY THIS

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

    A fantasy visual novel about a knight who would do anything for his lady. Handmade illustrations with original music.

    IndieAdventureRPGSteam ↗
  7. 风信楼

    WHY THIS

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

    昏君误国,怨声载道,无数野心家暗起反心。在京城一家青楼的掩饰下,你培养手下、积攒钱财、收集情报、建立人脉,等待兵变夺权的最好时机……《风信楼》是一部拥有海量选项和丰富剧情的高自由度养成游戏——百种不同结局,尽在你的选择之中。

    2021IndieAdventureSimulation10.79 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Gerda: A Flame in Winter

    WHY THIS

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

    You have five days to save your husband, who has just been arrested by the Gestapo. Investigate, explore and form allegiances in this story-rich RPG-lite. Who will you trust?

    2022IndieAdventureRPG3.99 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 and Casual with The Mystery Mist.

    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 Mystery Mist.

    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 Mystery Mist.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 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 Mystery Mist.

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. 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 The Mystery Mist.

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

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 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 Mystery Mist.

    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 ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Mystery Mist

What games are most similar to The Mystery Mist?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Mystery Mist are Lamplighter, The Hearth and Harbour, Rottenroots.
Who developed The Mystery Mist?
The Mystery Mist was developed by WolfSmokeStudios and published by 2P 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 The Mystery Mist.

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