Games like The Prisoner
If The Prisoner is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rift Breach, Quiverless and Bloodfront — 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 Prisoner: Stuck in a prison you don't remember being sent to, you must find a way to escape. Using the guards and the other prisoners as tools to guarantee your escape requires strategizing your movement to successfully maneuver them to solve the puzzling challenges ahead.
Players who liked The Prisoner also play
Steam players who put hours into The Prisoner 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.
Rift Breach
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Prisoner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Prisoner.
A "player-cedural" sci-fi dungeon crawler where YOU choose the next room. Options are rarely beneficial, with random traps, puzzles & enemies lying in wait. Act quickly, for failure to manage your situation will cause a rapidly-spreading merciless threat to the entire facility itself - a Rift Breach
Quiverless
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Prisoner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Prisoner.
Quiverless is a fast-paced pixel-art dungeon crawler made to challenge your precision and strategy. Armed with only a single arrow, you must skillfully retrieve and reuse it to defeat relentless monsters lurking in dark and treacherous dungeons.
Bloodfront
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Prisoner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Prisoner.
Bloodfront is a top-down dark fantasy survival game where you build a village by day and defend it from endless demonic hordes by night. There are no second chances. When the village falls, the run ends.
God's Favourite Monster
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Prisoner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Prisoner.
In this Action RPG, fight through a deadly labyrinth filled with a variety of enemies, puzzles, and traps. Take the form of defeated enemies and use their abilities as your own! Do you have what it takes to survive?
C6: Frontlines
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Prisoner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Prisoner.
C6: Frontlines is a bullet hell co-op roguelike where only YOU (and your friends) can bring the Azapall galaxy to peace. Wield 30+ weapons and gadgets of mass destruction to even the playing field, wave after wave, against a seemingly endless onslaught of evil!
Mines of Moria (An Adventurer's Touch)
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Prisoner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Prisoner.
A remake of the turn-based Roguelike "Mines of Moria" (late 1980s). Six D&D style classes progress into the randomly generated Dwarvish mines seeking the trophy of defeating a Balrog.
Dark Crescent
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Prisoner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Prisoner.
A roguelike deckbuilder where you recruit your foes on a quest to kill the moon.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Prisoner at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under The Prisoner on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Prisoner.
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 ~50% under The Prisoner on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Prisoner.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Prisoner on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Prisoner.
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 ~75% under The Prisoner on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Prisoner.
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 ~83% under The Prisoner on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Prisoner.
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 ~50% under The Prisoner on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Prisoner.
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!
Super Hexagon
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Prisoner on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Prisoner.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Nodebuster
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Prisoner on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Prisoner.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Prisoner.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 The Prisoner.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Prisoner.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Prisoner.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Prisoner.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Prisoner.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
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Frequently asked about The Prisoner
- How much does The Prisoner cost?
- The Prisoner is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Prisoner?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Prisoner are Rift Breach, Quiverless, Bloodfront.
- Who developed The Prisoner?
- The Prisoner was developed by Rystord 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 Prisoner.
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