Games like Escape Protocol
If Escape Protocol is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dead Watch, Jimmy's No. 44 House and Hourglass: Prologue — 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.
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Dead Watch
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Top pick for Escape Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Escape Protocol.
You're stuck in a time loop ⌛. Whenever you find a dead body, you go back to the past. The only way to escape the loop is to cheat destiny & change the future. Explore the castle and uncover its dark secrets to prevent the next killing.
Jimmy's No. 44 House
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Escape Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Escape Protocol.
This is an exciting escape room game. Uncle Jimmy has challenged you and invited you to his house to play a game. Let’s see who can survive until the end — whether you escape alive first or get mercilessly killed by him. Hurry and find the puzzle-solving items to escape from this house!
Hourglass: Prologue
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Escape Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Escape Protocol.
Hourglass: Prologue is the first part of the puzzle-adventure „Hourglass“ where you can create a time-clone of yourself to solve challenging puzzles. Play as Aywa, a young adventurer traveling to Egypt to find her missing father - an archeologist, who never returned from his latest expedition.
Timemelters
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Ranked #4 for Escape Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Escape Protocol.
Prevent Doomsday AFTER it happened! Designed by the co-creator of Sang-Froid - Tales of Werewolves and featuring both a single-player and co-op campaign, TimeMelters is a strategy hero defense where you go back in time and fight alongside your past selves.
Homebody
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Ranked #5 for Escape Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Escape Protocol.
An interactive thriller about a group of friends haunted by the memories of their past while being hunted by a relentless killer. From The Game Grumps (Dream Daddy)
Escape Simulator 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Escape Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Escape Protocol.
Sequel to the best-selling escape room game, brings a fresh take on first-person puzzles with a variety of new rooms to explore solo or with friends. Solve intricate puzzles, uncover hidden secrets, or craft your own escape rooms with Room Editor 2.0.
MotionRec
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Ranked #7 for Escape Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Escape Protocol.
MotionRec is a recording puzzle action game where you progress through stages by recording and playing back your own movements.
Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Escape Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Escape Protocol.
An old shack deep in a dense forest, a strange computer and a game that's trying to kill you!
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 Escape Protocol.
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 Escape Protocol.
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 Indie with Escape Protocol.
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 Indie and Adventure with Escape Protocol.
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 and Adventure with Escape Protocol.
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 Escape Protocol.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Escape Protocol.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Escape Protocol.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Homebody
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Escape Protocol.
An interactive thriller about a group of friends haunted by the memories of their past while being hunted by a relentless killer. From The Game Grumps (Dream Daddy)
Escape Simulator 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Escape Protocol.
Sequel to the best-selling escape room game, brings a fresh take on first-person puzzles with a variety of new rooms to explore solo or with friends. Solve intricate puzzles, uncover hidden secrets, or craft your own escape rooms with Room Editor 2.0.
Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Escape Protocol.
An old shack deep in a dense forest, a strange computer and a game that's trying to kill you!
Frequently asked about Escape Protocol
- What games are most similar to Escape Protocol?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Escape Protocol are Dead Watch, Jimmy's No. 44 House, Hourglass: Prologue.
- Who developed Escape Protocol?
- Escape Protocol was developed by Insane Games 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 Escape Protocol.
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