Games like The Patient
If The Patient is your kind of game, the closest matches are Voidshift, Apartment 606 and Broken Psyche — 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 Patient: Dr. Ellen Reed returns to work as a therapist only to discover an inpatient has been mistakenly dosed with a deadly mutative drug. With hospital records erased due to a power outage, she must work overnight to identify and discreetly euthanize the affected patient before it's too late.
Players who liked The Patient also play
Steam players who put hours into The Patient 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.
Voidshift
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Patient fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Patient.
A psychological horror game about working the night shift in a store that reacts to your mistakes. Follow procedure. Avoid irregularities.
Apartment 606
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Patient fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Patient.
Begin your new night shift working from home, but beware, this apartment harbors dark secrets. Can you survive all five harrowing nights?
Broken Psyche
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Patient fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Patient.
Play as a detective investigating his wife's disappearance. Suspecting the asylum she was researching, he infiltrates it, only to uncover a realm of horror. Solve puzzles, maintain sanity, and confront monsters as you unravel the asylum's secrets.
The Jurassic Labyrinth
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Patient fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Patient.
A psychological horror puzzle game set in a living labyrinth that adapts to your choices. Solve shifting mechanisms, navigate ever-changing corridors, and evade a relentless presence that learns your behavior as you try to escape.
Under Potion Influence
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Patient fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Patient.
The Guild can't identify some of their potions, so they send them your way. Your job is to learn their effects. Test them, drink them... it doesn't matter how. Just label them correctly.
Who's at the door?
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Patient fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Patient.
You are trapped in a small house, suffering from psychosis with no memory. Carefully observe your surroundings to distinguish reality from hallucinations, and overcome your illness by taking medication from visitors at the right time.
[Chilla's Art] The Karaoke | ヒトカラ🎤
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Patient fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Patient.
The Karaoke | ヒトカラ is a Japanese horror game about a high school girl at a Karaoke.
Case of the mysterious death of Keiko Haraeda
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Patient fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Patient.
Japan, September 12, 1999, at 8:00 p.m., Ms. Keiko Haraeda collapsed in her room and was found dead. Although the police have ruled that there is no case and closed the investigation, many puzzling points remain, and the family is still calling for information.
![[Chilla's Art] The Karaoke | ヒトカラ🎤 — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/2200190/header.jpg?t=1676274987)
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Patient at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Patient on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Patient.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Patient on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Patient.
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.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Patient on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Patient.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Patient on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Patient.
"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!
Bejeweled® 3
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Patient on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with The Patient.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Patient on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Patient.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Patient on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Patient.
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.
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 The Patient.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Patient.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Patient.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Patient.
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 The Patient.
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 The Patient.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Patient.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
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Frequently asked about The Patient
- How much does The Patient cost?
- The Patient is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Patient?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Patient are Voidshift, Apartment 606, Broken Psyche.
- Who developed The Patient?
- The Patient was developed by SPACEDAISY STUDIO.
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 Patient.
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