Games like The Protagonish
If The Protagonish is your kind of game, the closest matches are Randal's Monday, Death of the Reprobate and Crown Gambit — 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 Protagonish: A short adventure game, where you don't control the adventurer. Play the side characters in a medieval village, and decide to help or hinder the adventurer in their mysterious quest.
Players who liked The Protagonish also play
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Randal's Monday
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Protagonish fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Protagonish.
A kleptomaniac, a sociopath and a horrible friend. Randal is potentially one of the most scurrile protagonists since the invention of the hoverboard. Randal's Monday is a crazy space-time odyssey in classic adventure design, spiced up with countless geek culture references of the last 30 years.
Death of the Reprobate
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Protagonish fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Protagonish.
Explore a world built from the luscious landscapes, turbulent townscapes and preposterous portraits of real Renaissance paintings. Death of the Reprobate is a Rabelaisian adventure game from the creator of Four Last Things and The Procession to Calvary.
Crown Gambit
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Protagonish fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Protagonish.
Play as three intrepid paladins through a terrible war of succession to save a sinister medieval kingdom from political turmoil. Pick a side amongst noble families to choose the future monarch and crush those who stand in your way through board-shattering tactical card combat!
The Henry Stickmin Collection
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Protagonish fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Protagonish.
A choose-your-own-path where failing is more fun than succeeding.
3 Minutes to Midnight® - A Comedy Graphic Adventure
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Protagonish fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Protagonish.
In a race against time, Betty embarks on a thrilling, comedy-packed adventure to crack a conspiracy that starts with a bang and ends at 3 Minutes to Midnight.
Lost in Play
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Protagonish fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Protagonish.
Solve puzzles, riddles, and embark on an exciting journey of discovery! Join Toto and Gal as they explore dreamscapes and befriend magical creatures. Lost in their imagination, the brother and sister must stick together and solve puzzles to find their way home.
THE LONGING
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Protagonish fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Protagonish.
An unusual mix of adventure and idle game. In utter loneliness deep below the surface, it's your task to wait for the awakening of your king... for 400 days.
Astronaut: The Best
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Protagonish fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Protagonish.
Astronaut: The Best is an occult management adventure where people aren't just numbers: they're screwups. You must run a proper space academy using lies, witchcraft, and/or hard work. Guide cadets through a roguelite web of scandals and challenges, or the government will have you killed.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Protagonish at current Steam store prices.
QUICKERFLAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under The Protagonish on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Protagonish.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under The Protagonish on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Protagonish.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Gachi Heroes
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under The Protagonish on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Protagonish.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under The Protagonish on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Protagonish.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
Shotgun Legend
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under The Protagonish on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Protagonish.
Eugene must battle aliens and the undead in search of a truck rim, as it seems to be his ticket home.
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 The Protagonish.
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 The Protagonish.
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 Indie with The Protagonish.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Protagonish.
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?
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 Protagonish.
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 with The Protagonish.
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 Indie and Adventure with The Protagonish.
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.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
The Henry Stickmin Collection
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Protagonish.
A choose-your-own-path where failing is more fun than succeeding.
3 Minutes to Midnight® - A Comedy Graphic Adventure
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Protagonish.
In a race against time, Betty embarks on a thrilling, comedy-packed adventure to crack a conspiracy that starts with a bang and ends at 3 Minutes to Midnight.
Lost in Play
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Protagonish.
Solve puzzles, riddles, and embark on an exciting journey of discovery! Join Toto and Gal as they explore dreamscapes and befriend magical creatures. Lost in their imagination, the brother and sister must stick together and solve puzzles to find their way home.
THE LONGING
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Protagonish.
An unusual mix of adventure and idle game. In utter loneliness deep below the surface, it's your task to wait for the awakening of your king... for 400 days.
Astronaut: The Best
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Protagonish.
Astronaut: The Best is an occult management adventure where people aren't just numbers: they're screwups. You must run a proper space academy using lies, witchcraft, and/or hard work. Guide cadets through a roguelite web of scandals and challenges, or the government will have you killed.
Frequently asked about The Protagonish
- How much does The Protagonish cost?
- The Protagonish is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Protagonish?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Protagonish are Randal's Monday, Death of the Reprobate, Crown Gambit.
- Who developed The Protagonish?
- The Protagonish was developed by College Fun 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 Protagonish.
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