Games like Take Notes
If Take Notes is your kind of game, the closest matches are Pyramids and Aliens: Escape Room, Escape Simulator 2 and Casino Heist: Escape Room — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its clean interface minimizes distractions, atmospheric and challenging. 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 Take Notes: Take Notes is a puzzle game set in the near future within a bunker filled with 40 unique puzzles. Prepare yourself for a mind-bending adventure where every puzzle solved brings you one step closer to stopping the unthinkable
Players who liked Take Notes also play
Steam players who put hours into Take Notes 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.
Pyramids and Aliens: Escape Room
WHY THIS
Shares inventory based puzzles, environmental puzzle solving and atmospheric with Take Notes.
Top pick for Take Notes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Embark on an archaeological adventure inside an ancient pyramid to find your missing mentor. As an intrepid explorer, solve puzzles, investigate clues, and unravel the pyramid's secrets. Spoiler: it was not built by humans!
Escape Simulator 2
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and atmospheric with Take Notes.
Second-strongest match for Take Notes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Take Notes.
Sequel to the best-selling escape room game, brings a fresh take on first-person puzzles with a variety of new rooms to explore solo or with friends. Solve intricate puzzles, uncover hidden secrets, or craft your own escape rooms with Room Editor 2.0.
Casino Heist: Escape Room
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Take Notes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Take Notes.
You've just planned your next heist, the casino owned by the ruthless man who betrayed your mentor. As an experienced thief, solve puzzles and find clues to crack the advanced security systems. Will you be able to open the vault?
Red Frame
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Take Notes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Take Notes.
Descend into a buried mansion filled with intricate diorama-like puzzles. Manipulate time to test ideas and uncover hidden rules, piece together the story of a family, and discover the mechanism preserving their legacy.
The Inheritance of Crimson Manor
WHY THIS
Shares environmental puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Take Notes.
Ranked #5 for Take Notes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Take Notes.
Explore a beautiful and Enigmatic Victorian Manor with a dark secret, In this gothic horror story first person exploration puzzle game filled with fine art, secret passages and mysterious mechanical puzzles playing as the executor of the last will from the enigmatic Railroad Magnate Hadley Strange.
Protocol Solari: Escape Room
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Take Notes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Awaken alone aboard a drifting colony ship under autonomous lockdown. Restore critical systems, solve interconnected puzzles, and uncover the truth behind the Solari Protocol before you and the colonists depending on you are lost to the void.
Atlas Protocol - Escape Room
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Take Notes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
You appear in an abandoned facility without knowing how or when you arrived. "Atlas Protocol" will immerse you in an intriguing adventure full of mystery and suspense. Will you be able to unravel the enigma hidden in every corner? Dare to find out.
ALUMNI - Escape Room Adventure
WHY THIS
Shares logical deduction, environmental puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Take Notes.
Ranked #8 for Take Notes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Take Notes.
An escape room inspired adventure. Play as a scientist transported back in time to memories of college, trying to escape the nightmare reality. Explore areas and take in your surroundings. Use all of your puzzle solving skills to make your way through Ridgeway College and return back to the present.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Take Notes
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Portal
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Take Notes.
Reviewers of Take Notes cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
The Room
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Take Notes.
Reviewers of Take Notes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Take Notes.
A mysterious invitation leads to the attic of an abandoned house. In the room is a cast-iron safe laced with strange carvings and on top, a note from your distant companion. It promises something ancient and astonishing concealed in the iron chamber - you need only find a way in.
Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure
WHY THIS
Shares pattern recognition and an atmospheric mood with Take Notes.
Reviewers of Take Notes cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Duncan W. Adams was an avid safe collector and an 'eccentric,' to say the least. Adams has hidden the deed to his vast fortunes in one of 35 safes. You must crack them all using hints scattered throughout his extravagant mansion.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Take Notes at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Take Notes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Take Notes.
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 ~57% under Take Notes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Take Notes.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Take Notes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Take Notes.
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 ~72% under Take Notes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Take Notes.
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 ~79% under Take Notes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Take Notes.
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.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Take Notes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Take Notes.
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 ~43% under Take Notes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Take Notes.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Super Hexagon
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Take Notes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Take Notes.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
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 Take Notes.
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.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Take Notes.
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 Take Notes.
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 with Take Notes.
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 Take Notes.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Take Notes.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Frequently asked about Take Notes
- How much does Take Notes cost?
- Take Notes is listed on Steam at 6.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Take Notes?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Take Notes are Pyramids and Aliens: Escape Room, Escape Simulator 2, Casino Heist: Escape Room.
- Who developed Take Notes?
- Take Notes was developed by Stoneware Game Studio.
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