Games like Captive: You Are My Idol
If Captive: You Are My Idol is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bad Omens: 8th Apartment, The Signifier Director's Cut and Flower in Us — 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 Captive: You Are My Idol: Aylen is a horror let's player who gets kidnapped. One moment, she was shooting the intro for her next video, and the next, she was waking up her biggest fan's basement. There are only two means for escape: examine & plot in secrecy, or use your words to deceive him. Or willingly accept him. (Don't)
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Bad Omens: 8th Apartment
WHY THIS
Top pick for Captive: You Are My Idol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Captive: You Are My Idol.
You play as a student named Lisa, who has just moved in with her university friend. But instead of a carefree student life, Lisa faces events full of despair and fear when she is left alone in her apartment number 8...
The Signifier Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Captive: You Are My Idol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Captive: You Are My Idol.
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.
Flower in Us
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Captive: You Are My Idol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Captive: You Are My Idol.
Flower in Us is a short, story-driven mystery adventure that invites players to unravel hidden secrets.
骸心 Mainbody
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Captive: You Are My Idol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Captive: You Are My Idol.
A puzzle-based horror game where the player takes on the role of a building manager who manages a haunted building and its "patients". Through the player's different options will raise or lower the pollution value, thus triggering different endings.
Heavy Rain
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Captive: You Are My Idol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Captive: You Are My Idol.
Experience a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns. The hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer. Four characters, each following their own leads, must take part in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from claiming a new victim.
The Test: Secrets of the Soul
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Captive: You Are My Idol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Captive: You Are My Idol.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."
Supernormal
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Captive: You Are My Idol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Captive: You Are My Idol.
Inspired by Allison Road. SUPERNORMAL is a psychological horror game set in a seemingly ordinary apartment harboring dark secrets. Play as Detective Wyatt, tasked with unravelling the disappearance of Masato Sakamoto's daughter. Search for clues and unravel the sinister truth.
Night Book
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Captive: You Are My Idol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Tricked into reading an ancient book, Loralyn summons a demon into her home. Night Book is an interactive occult thriller movie, created in lockdown, from the publishers of The Complex, Five Dates and Maid of Sker.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Captive: You Are My Idol at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Captive: You Are My Idol on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Captive: You Are My Idol.
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 ~60% under Captive: You Are My Idol on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Captive: You Are My Idol.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Captive: You Are My Idol on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Captive: You Are My Idol.
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 ~80% under Captive: You Are My Idol on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Captive: You Are My Idol.
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.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Captive: You Are My Idol on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Captive: You Are My Idol.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Captive: You Are My Idol on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Captive: You Are My Idol.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Captive: You Are My Idol on Steam right now. Shares Action with Captive: You Are My Idol.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Captive: You Are My Idol on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Captive: You Are My Idol.
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!
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 and Casual with Captive: You Are My Idol.
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 Action with Captive: You Are My Idol.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Captive: You Are My Idol.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Captive: You Are My Idol.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Casual with Captive: You Are My Idol.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Captive: You Are My Idol.
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 Captive: You Are My Idol.
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 and Casual with Captive: You Are My Idol.
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.
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Heavy Rain
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Captive: You Are My Idol.
Experience a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns. The hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer. Four characters, each following their own leads, must take part in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from claiming a new victim.
The Test: Secrets of the Soul
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with Captive: You Are My Idol.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."
Night Book
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box.
Tricked into reading an ancient book, Loralyn summons a demon into her home. Night Book is an interactive occult thriller movie, created in lockdown, from the publishers of The Complex, Five Dates and Maid of Sker.
Frequently asked about Captive: You Are My Idol
- How much does Captive: You Are My Idol cost?
- Captive: You Are My Idol is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Captive: You Are My Idol?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Captive: You Are My Idol are Bad Omens: 8th Apartment, The Signifier Director's Cut, Flower in Us.
- Who developed Captive: You Are My Idol?
- Captive: You Are My Idol was developed by TheOdie and published by NightmarePugStudios.
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