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Shares hint system and point and click with Subject 13.
- $6.99 (Price checked Oct 31)
- Deck Verified
- 2017
Games like Subject 13
- 23 games
- Updated May 4, 2026
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The closest matches to Subject 13: The Franz Kafka Videogame, Syberia, Moebius: Empire Rising, The Room, and Violett Remastered. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
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Shares inventory puzzles and point and click with Subject 13.
- $14.99 (Price checked Oct 31)
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Demetrios - The BIG Cynical Adventure
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The full ranked list: top 24 games like Subject 13
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- Released: 2015
- Developer: Paul Cuisset
- Price: $9.99checked Oct 31
- Steam Deck: Deck Playable
- 46% of 63 reviews
- Genres: Indie, Adventure
- Metacritic 59
- Platforms: Windows, macOS
Players highlight
- Hint system prevents total frustration
- Mystery unfolds through cryptic audio logs
- Puzzles require creative object combination
- Atmospheric
- Challenging
- Mysterious
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About Subject 13
The closest matches to Subject 13: The Franz Kafka Videogame, Syberia, Moebius: Empire Rising, The Room, and Violett Remastered. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
If Subject 13 is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Franz Kafka Videogame, Syberia and Moebius: Empire Rising — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as atmospheric, challenging and mysterious, and single out its 3d inventory rotation and audio logs. 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.
About Subject 13: Play as Franklin Fargo, a quiet physics professor who has led a bitter existence ever since his fiancée died in a holdup in which he was supposed to be the victim. One morning, he wakes up in the middle of an abandoned scientific facility. His only link with the outside world is a voice that calls him "Subject 13".
Is Subject 13 worth buying?
Players are split
A summary of what players say, not a promise you'll like it. Every signal is listed below.
- 46% of 63 Steam reviews are positive.
- We don't track this game's daily reviews yet, so this is the all-time picture.
- Price: $9.99 (checked Oct 31).
- People who recommend it had played a median of 7 h when they wrote their review.
- Critics had played a median of 6 h before their negative review.
- Steam Deck Playable: works, with some rough edges.
What fans praise · Themes mined from positive reviews
- Hint system prevents total frustration
- Mystery unfolds through cryptic audio logs
- Puzzles require creative object combination
- Sci fi story with unsettling tone
Top critical reviews
The most up-voted negative English reviews in our sample, quoted as written.
“I had high hopes for this game, but the actual story seems deadly boring – it does not inspire me to find the way to resolve certain clue because the clues seemed artificially and forcibly created on the way like "let's put a riddle here…”
“extremely short. Only one vaguely interesting puzzle (the one involving the monkey statues) the rest all things we've seen before. The inventory puzzles are strictly of the understand what you've done after you've done it variety. And the…”
People who play it also play: The Franz Kafka Videogame, Syberia, Moebius: Empire Rising
Frequently asked about Subject 13
Can I run it?
Does Subject 13 run on Steam Deck?
Subject 13 is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Subject 13 cost?
Subject 13 is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Subject 13?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Subject 13 are The Franz Kafka Videogame, Syberia, Moebius: Empire Rising.
Who developed Subject 13?
Subject 13 was developed by Paul Cuisset and published by Microids.