Games like Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone
If Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone is your kind of game, the closest matches are Back to the Future: The Game, Sam & Max Save the World and Not Another Weekend — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its humor is consistently clever, comedic and funny. 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 Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone: Wield psychic powers against fearsome foes in this epic comedy saga. In The Devil’s Playhouse, an otherworldly power for controlling matter and space calls to the strongest and strangest who might wield it -- intergalactic warlords and eldritch gods, under-dwellers and scholars of the arcane.
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Back to the Future: The Game
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Featuring a special appearance by Michael J. Fox!
Sam & Max Save the World
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Shares a comedic mood with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
Second-strongest match for Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
An open-and-shut case of petty vandalism balloons into a far-flung mind-control conspiracy involving former child stars, the media, the mafia, the government, the internet, and the bright side of the moon. Telltale's episodic classic, lovingly remastered by members of the original development team.
Not Another Weekend
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Shares a comedic mood with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
Third-strongest match for Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
A hilariously madcap point-and-click adventure as a determined bellboy tasked with clearing out a bustling hotel in just one wild weekend! Can he manage the chaos and evict all the guests? The clock is ticking!
The Wolf Among Us
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Ranked #4 for Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
From the makers of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead, comes a thriller based on the award-winning Fables comic books. As Bigby Wolf you will discover that a brutal, bloody murder is just a taste of things to come in a game series where your every decision can have enormous consequences.
Agent A: A puzzle in disguise
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Ranked #5 for Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
A suave secret agent adventure game. Your mission (should you choose to accept) is to infiltrate enemy spy Ruby La Rouge’s secret hideaway and put a stop to her evil plans!
Puzzle Agent
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Shares a whimsical mood with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
Ranked #6 for Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
Created with indie comic artist Graham Annable's unique narrative and visual sensibilities, delivered with the distinctive Telltale storytelling style, Puzzle Agent is sure to challenge, thrill and engage in more ways than you can shake a cryptogram at!
The Testament of Sherlock Holmes
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Shares a mysterious mood with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
Ranked #7 for Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
Become the greatest detective of all time in The Testament of Sherlock Holmes, a twisting, turning investigation game set in a faithfully-reproduced London of 1898. As Sherlock Holmes, you must find clues, interrogate suspects and unveil a mystery in a story full of twists!
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy
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Ranked #8 for Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
Become Phoenix Wright and experience the thrill of battle as you fight to save your innocent clients in a court of law. Play all 14 episodes, spanning the first three games, in one gorgeous collection.
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The Walking Dead
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A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures
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Enter the colorful world of West Wallaby Street in a series of four cracking adventures brought to you by Aardman Animations, the creators of the Wallace & Gromit animated films, and award-winning Telltale Games.
Tales of Monkey Island: Complete Season
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Shares a comedic mood with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
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While explosively stripping the evil pirate LeChuck of his demonic mojo, Guybrush Threepwood inadvertently infects the entire Caribbean with the arch-fiend's expelled voodoo, which threatens to transform buccaneers into unruly pirate monsters.
Tales from the Borderlands
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Shares a funny mood with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
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Tales from the Borderlands is a five-part episodic game set on the unforgiving world of Pandora between the events of Borderlands 2 and Borderlands 3. This is a story full of Borderlands' trademark humor, following two adventurers on their quest for greatness.
Sam & Max Save the World
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Shares a comedic mood with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
Reviewers of Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
An open-and-shut case of petty vandalism balloons into a far-flung mind-control conspiracy involving former child stars, the media, the mafia, the government, the internet, and the bright side of the moon. Telltale's episodic classic, lovingly remastered by members of the original development team.
Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space
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Shares a comedic mood with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
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The Freelance Police are back on the crime beat in a newly remastered version of their second episodic season. Zombies will dance. Mariachis will sing. A giant battle robot will trash the streets. And when their friends’ lives are at stake, Sam & Max will risk their very souls to set things right.
SUPER BOMBERMAN R 2
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The latest title of the party battle games series SUPER BOMBERMAN R! With new adventures and game modes, it has the largest content volume in the series' history!
Team Fortress 2
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Shares a comedic mood with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
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Nine distinct classes provide a broad range of tactical abilities and personalities. Constantly updated with new game modes, maps, equipment and, most importantly, hats!
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
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 Action with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
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 Adventure with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
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.
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 Action and Adventure with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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The Walking Dead
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Another title from Telltale Games, the studio behind Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
The Walking Dead: Season Two
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Another title from Telltale Games, the studio behind Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
The Walking Dead: Season Two continues the story of Clementine, a young girl orphaned by the undead apocalypse. Left to fend for herself, she has been forced to learn how to survive in a world gone mad.
The Walking Dead: The Final Season
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Another title from Telltale Games, the studio behind Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
A secluded school might finally be Clementine’s chance for a home, but protecting it will mean sacrifice.
The Walking Dead: A New Frontier
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Another title from Telltale Games, the studio behind Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
After society was ripped apart by undead hands, pockets of civilization emerge from the chaos. But at what cost? Can the living be trusted on this new frontier?
Tales from the Borderlands
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
Another title from Telltale Games, the studio behind Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
Tales from the Borderlands is a five-part episodic game set on the unforgiving world of Pandora between the events of Borderlands 2 and Borderlands 3. This is a story full of Borderlands' trademark humor, following two adventurers on their quest for greatness.
Game of Thrones - A Telltale Games Series
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Another title from Telltale Games, the studio behind Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
Game of Thrones - A Telltale Games Series is a six part episodic game series set in the world of HBO's groundbreaking TV show. This new story tells of House Forrester, a noble family from the north of Westeros, loyal to the Starks of Winterfell.
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
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Another title from Telltale Games, the studio behind Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
Poker Night at the Inventory (2010 Original Version)
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Shares a comedic mood with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
Another title from Telltale Games, the studio behind Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
Prepare for a different kind of poker night in a very different kind of club and play against familiar faces!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Sam & Max Save the World
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Shares a comedic mood with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
An open-and-shut case of petty vandalism balloons into a far-flung mind-control conspiracy involving former child stars, the media, the mafia, the government, the internet, and the bright side of the moon. Telltale's episodic classic, lovingly remastered by members of the original development team.
Puzzle Agent
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
Created with indie comic artist Graham Annable's unique narrative and visual sensibilities, delivered with the distinctive Telltale storytelling style, Puzzle Agent is sure to challenge, thrill and engage in more ways than you can shake a cryptogram at!
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone.
Become Phoenix Wright and experience the thrill of battle as you fight to save your innocent clients in a court of law. Play all 14 episodes, spanning the first three games, in one gorgeous collection.
Frequently asked about Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone
- Does Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone run on Steam Deck?
- Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- What games are most similar to Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone are Back to the Future: The Game, Sam & Max Save the World, Not Another Weekend.
- Who developed Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone?
- Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone was developed by Telltale Games and published by Skunkape Games.
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