Games like The Empty Desk
If The Empty Desk is your kind of game, the closest matches are Radiolight, Heavy Rain and Telling Lies — 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 Empty Desk: Immerse yourself in a psychological thriller with narrative adventure elements and unsettling details. Join Detective Bennett on his final case and uncover dark secrets in a world where reality bends and sanity wavers.
Players who liked The Empty Desk also play
Steam players who put hours into The Empty Desk 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.
Radiolight
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Empty Desk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Empty Desk.
Ashwood Creek, 1985. A child disappears without a trace. A local policeman is drawn into a national park, seeking the truth. Mysterious radio signals beckon him further and further. Investigate, survive and face the unknown in Radiolight— an '80s thriller by solo dev Krystof Knesl.
Heavy Rain
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Empty Desk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Empty Desk.
Experience a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns. The hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer. Four characters, each following their own leads, must take part in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from claiming a new victim.
Telling Lies
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Empty Desk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Empty Desk.
Four private lives. One big lie. Search through secretly recorded video conversations to discover the truth. The successor to the acclaimed Her Story.
Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Empty Desk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Empty Desk.
Can you trust your own mind? Immerse yourself in a psychological thriller of a new kind, playing with the limits between reality and fantasy. Freely inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s universe.
The Operator
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Empty Desk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Empty Desk.
Welcome to the FDI. As our newest Operator, your role is to use your detective skills to assist our field agents and investigate mysterious crimes. Use cutting-edge FDI software to dig for clues, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth.
Uncover the Smoking Gun
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Empty Desk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Empty Desk.
A Battle of Wits with AI: Solve the case by conversing with a suspect robot using GPT to gather evidence. What single truth emerges from countless dialogues and pieces of information?
Bohemian Killing
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Empty Desk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Empty Desk.
Paris, 1894. Class differences and pervasive racism finally lead to a tragedy. A year later you find yourself on trial, accused of a brutal murder. How far will you go to exonerate yourself? Will you lie? Manipulate the evidence? Frame others? Act insane? Confess? Your imagination is the limit.
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Empty Desk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Empty Desk.
Experience a fantastic adventure with unique gameplay that blends investigation, action and exploration in a breath-taking thriller that will test the limits of your nerves and intelligence. Play as the great detective and track down evil in the darkest corners of London and the human soul…
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Empty Desk at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under The Empty Desk on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Empty Desk.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under The Empty Desk on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Empty Desk.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under The Empty Desk on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Empty Desk.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under The Empty Desk on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Empty Desk.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under The Empty Desk on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Empty Desk.
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 ~65% under The Empty Desk on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Empty Desk.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under The Empty Desk on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Empty Desk.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under The Empty Desk on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Empty Desk.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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 and Casual with The Empty Desk.
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. Shares Adventure with The Empty Desk.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Empty Desk.
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 and Adventure with The Empty Desk.
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 and Casual with The Empty Desk.
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 and Adventure with The Empty Desk.
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 Empty Desk.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Radiolight
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Empty Desk.
Ashwood Creek, 1985. A child disappears without a trace. A local policeman is drawn into a national park, seeking the truth. Mysterious radio signals beckon him further and further. Investigate, survive and face the unknown in Radiolight— an '80s thriller by solo dev Krystof Knesl.
Heavy Rain
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Empty Desk.
Experience a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns. The hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer. Four characters, each following their own leads, must take part in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from claiming a new victim.
The Operator
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Empty Desk.
Welcome to the FDI. As our newest Operator, your role is to use your detective skills to assist our field agents and investigate mysterious crimes. Use cutting-edge FDI software to dig for clues, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth.
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Empty Desk.
Experience a fantastic adventure with unique gameplay that blends investigation, action and exploration in a breath-taking thriller that will test the limits of your nerves and intelligence. Play as the great detective and track down evil in the darkest corners of London and the human soul…
Frequently asked about The Empty Desk
- How much does The Empty Desk cost?
- The Empty Desk is listed on Steam at 8.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Empty Desk?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Empty Desk are Radiolight, Heavy Rain, Telling Lies.
- Who developed The Empty Desk?
- The Empty Desk was developed by CheesecakeGames.
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