Games like The Ritual
If The Ritual is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Evil Within 2, Saints Row: Gat out of Hell and Red Faction®: Armageddon™ — 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 Ritual: The ritual is a third person survival horror game. You have been hired to find out how a school began crawling with demons. Search the school for information. Run. Scream. Shoot. And remember don't get caught.
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Steam players who put hours into The Ritual 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.
The Evil Within 2
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Top pick for The Ritual fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Ritual.
Detective Sebastian Castellanos has lost everything, including his daughter, Lily. To save her, he must descend into the nightmarish world of STEM. Horrifying threats emerge from every corner, and he must rely on his wits to survive. For his one chance at redemption, the only way out is in.
Saints Row: Gat out of Hell
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Second-strongest match for The Ritual fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Ritual.
Join Johnny Gat & Kinzie Kensington as you tear apart Hell in a quest to save the Boss’ soul. Historical icons, old friends, older enemies, a talking gun, a full length musical number & a whole lot more shenanigans await!
Red Faction®: Armageddon™
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Third-strongest match for The Ritual fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Ritual.
Red Faction: Armageddon Path to War includes 4 new missions, 2 unlockable items and 10 new achievements!
Resident Evil 4
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Ranked #4 for The Ritual fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Ritual.
Survival is just the beginning. Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors, tracks the president's kidnapped daughter to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals.
Resident Evil Requiem
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Ranked #5 for The Ritual fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Ritual.
Requiem for the dead. Nightmare for the living. Prepare to escape death in a heart-stopping experience that will chill you to your core.
Dead Space
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Ranked #6 for The Ritual fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Ritual.
The sci-fi survival-horror classic returns, completely rebuilt to offer an even more immersive experience — including visual, audio, and gameplay improvements — while staying faithful to the original game’s thrilling vision.
Resident Evil 5
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Ranked #7 for The Ritual fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Ritual.
This game is a port of the Games for Windows - Live version that was released in 2009. If you buy the Untold Stories Bundle here on Steam, it will be the same as upgrading to Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition.
Dead Space (2008)
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Ritual fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Ritual.
You are Isaac Clarke, an engineer on the spacecraft USG Ishimura. You're not a warrior. You're not a soldier. You are, however, the last line of defense for the remaining living crew.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Ritual at current Steam store prices.
Miss Neko
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Priced ~51% under The Ritual on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Ritual.
Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)
QUICKERFLAK
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Priced ~51% under The Ritual on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Ritual.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Gachi Heroes
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Priced ~51% under The Ritual on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Ritual.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
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Priced ~51% under The Ritual on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Ritual.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
Shotgun Legend
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Priced ~51% under The Ritual on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Ritual.
Eugene must battle aliens and the undead in search of a truck rim, as it seems to be his ticket home.
Love wish
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Priced ~51% under The Ritual on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Ritual.
Love Wish is an easy, fun and challenging jigsaw puzzle.♪(^∇^*) Put the pieces together to restore the full picture of the girls. Collect their photos and animations and remember this wonderful moment❤
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Ritual.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Ritual.
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 Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Ritual.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Ritual.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
The Children of Clay
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Children of Clay is a short stop motion archeology horror game, where you have to study an ancient artefact and discover its dark secret.
Hello Neighbor Alpha 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to Alpha 2 of Hello Neighbor. Play against an advanced, self-learning AI in what eventually became Act 1 of Hello Neighbor - the stealth horror home invasion sim.
SCP – Containment Breach
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Ritual.
A procedural first-person horror adventure. You are on your own after something goes terribly wrong in this top-secret containment facility. Collect items to aid in your escape and try to uncover the truth, as horror lurks behind every door. Can you make it out alive?
Where Winds Meet
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Ritual.
Step into an open-world action-adventure RPG set in ancient China. Uncover the secrets of your own identity as you rise from a humble village wanderer to the sword master of the imperial capital. Learn martial arts and build your reputation as a hero or a bringer of chaos in this free wuxia world.
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
The Evil Within 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with The Ritual.
Detective Sebastian Castellanos has lost everything, including his daughter, Lily. To save her, he must descend into the nightmarish world of STEM. Horrifying threats emerge from every corner, and he must rely on his wits to survive. For his one chance at redemption, the only way out is in.
Resident Evil 4
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with The Ritual.
Survival is just the beginning. Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors, tracks the president's kidnapped daughter to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals.
Dead Space (2008)
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with The Ritual.
You are Isaac Clarke, an engineer on the spacecraft USG Ishimura. You're not a warrior. You're not a soldier. You are, however, the last line of defense for the remaining living crew.
Frequently asked about The Ritual
- How much does The Ritual cost?
- The Ritual is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Ritual?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Ritual are The Evil Within 2, Saints Row: Gat out of Hell, Red Faction®: Armageddon™.
- Who developed The Ritual?
- The Ritual was developed by Mad Genius Games and published by HandMade 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 Ritual.
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