Games like Wait: The Patient
If Wait: The Patient is your kind of game, the closest matches are Care, A Mind Apart and The Tartarus Key — 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 Wait: The Patient: Wait: The Patient is a non-combat mystery horror game, that takes place in the 90s and follows the story of Dr. Alice Fincher. After a new patient arrives in the mental hospital she works in, strange events start to unfold.
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Steam players who put hours into Wait: The Patient 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.
Care
WHY THIS
Top pick for Wait: The Patient fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wait: The Patient.
Care is an atmospheric first person horror game with puzzle elements, where your choices have consequences. Be observant with your surroundings and unravel the horrific secrets that hide within these walls.
A Mind Apart
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Wait: The Patient fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wait: The Patient.
A narrative puzzle adventure about a girl lost in a fragmented wonderland where memories become places and reality shifts without warning. Explore surreal spaces, meet strange companions, and uncover a personal story about trauma, healing, and finding a way forward.
The Tartarus Key
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Wait: The Patient fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Wait: The Patient.
There’s no way out for Alex Young who wakes up to find herself locked in a strange mansion filled with puzzles, traps, and cameras following her every move. Whether she and her companions live or die, and find the truth behind their abduction, is up to you in this first-person mystery thriller.
outside the door
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Wait: The Patient fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Wait: The Patient.
Outside the door is a mystic visual novel set within one office. You are about to figure out the stories of a few visitors without having a single memory of yourself.
Saint Kotar
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Wait: The Patient fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wait: The Patient.
Saint Kotar is a psychological horror detective game set in a cursed valley in rural Croatia. Investigate the disappearance of your relative in the occult-ridden town of Sveti Kotar as you switch between conflicting realities through the eyes of two godly men.
The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Wait: The Patient fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wait: The Patient.
YOU are a psychiatrist, trying to solve a murder whilst treating the unusual patients of the recently deceased Doctor Dekker. Type a question - patients reply in full screen video and have questions for you too but be careful what you say. Your words determine their eventual fates, and your own!
Fears to Fathom - Woodbury Getaway
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Wait: The Patient fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wait: The Patient.
Sydney Harper, a 23-year-old working at a consulting firm plans a weekend getaway to a Woodbury rental with her college friends. Little did she know what was about to unfold during their stay.
Hazy Mind
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Ranked #8 for Wait: The Patient fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wait: The Patient.
You can't remember anything, and all you can see is HER. Delve into your story and uncover the truth behind what happened to you and your parents.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Wait: The Patient at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Wait: The Patient on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wait: The Patient.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Wait: The Patient on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Wait: The Patient.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Wait: The Patient on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wait: The Patient.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Wait: The Patient on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wait: The Patient.
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 ~81% under Wait: The Patient on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wait: The Patient.
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 ~88% under Wait: The Patient on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Wait: The Patient.
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.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Wait: The Patient on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Wait: The Patient.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Wait: The Patient on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wait: The Patient.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
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 Wait: The Patient.
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 Wait: The Patient.
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 Wait: The Patient.
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 and Adventure with Wait: The Patient.
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 Wait: The Patient.
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 Wait: The Patient.
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 Wait: The Patient.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about Wait: The Patient
- How much does Wait: The Patient cost?
- Wait: The Patient is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Wait: The Patient?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Wait: The Patient are Care, A Mind Apart, The Tartarus Key.
- Who developed Wait: The Patient?
- Wait: The Patient was developed by rest.less 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 Wait: The Patient.
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