Games like Norbert's Diary
If Norbert's Diary is your kind of game, the closest matches are BIT LOST, Midnight Kebab and Protocol Five — 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 Norbert's Diary: Norbert's Diary is a retro-themed psychological horror game set in the 2000s. You will learn the story of Norbert, the guy who opened a gas station in the wilderness. You have to earn money and serve customers, face danger and scream!
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BIT LOST
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Top pick for Norbert's Diary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Norbert's Diary.
Bit Lost is a single-player atmospheric first-person game set inside a broken digital space. Explore fragments of consciousness to uncover what happened and find a way out. +You can now explore Bit Lost in a special split-screen co-op mode.
Midnight Kebab
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Norbert's Diary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Norbert's Diary.
You run a late-night restaurant using a strange signal machine. By balancing radiation, you alter taste and behavior. Too little reveals the truth. Too much causes sickness, violence, and investigations. Keep control to survive.
Protocol Five
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Norbert's Diary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Norbert's Diary.
Protocol Filve is a surreal first-person adventure with multiple endings, you will find yourself in a world where some rotten things want to kill you. Some choices along the way drastically and irreversibly change the game, leading to one of the 5 possible endings.
Backrooms 95
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Ranked #4 for Norbert's Diary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Norbert's Diary.
Explore eerie liminal spaces in a low-poly Backrooms horror experience inspired by the aesthetics of forgotten 90s technology.
The Horrorscope
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Ranked #5 for Norbert's Diary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Norbert's Diary.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal your potential fate. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Horrorscope, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Silent Nights
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Ranked #6 for Norbert's Diary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Norbert's Diary.
Silent Nights - A short horror game with realistic graphics, touching storyline and scary moments.
At Tony's
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Norbert's Diary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Norbert's Diary.
At Tony's is a first-person horror experience taking place in a haunted pizzeria. The last night shift worker vanished mysteriously, it's your turn to step in to help the family's business.
KinitoPET
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Ranked #8 for Norbert's Diary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Norbert's Diary.
KinitoPET is a psychological horror experience that takes place through Kinito, an early 2000s virtual assistant. Kinito is able to walk, talk, browse, adapt, and play games as Kinito is like no other with its adaptive technology!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Norbert's Diary at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~50% under Norbert's Diary on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Norbert's Diary.
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?
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~50% under Norbert's Diary on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Norbert's Diary.
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.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Norbert's Diary on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Norbert's Diary.
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!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~50% under Norbert's Diary on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Norbert's Diary.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
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Priced ~50% under Norbert's Diary on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Norbert's Diary.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
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Priced ~50% under Norbert's Diary on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Norbert's Diary.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
TYRONE vs COPS
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Priced ~50% under Norbert's Diary on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Norbert's Diary.
Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.
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 Norbert's Diary.
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 Norbert's Diary.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Norbert's Diary.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Norbert's Diary.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Norbert's Diary.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Norbert's Diary.
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 Norbert's Diary.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Norbert's Diary.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Norbert's Diary
- How much does Norbert's Diary cost?
- Norbert's Diary is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Norbert's Diary?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Norbert's Diary are BIT LOST, Midnight Kebab, Protocol Five.
- Who developed Norbert's Diary?
- Norbert's Diary was developed by Amiragian.
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