Games like The Basement Ritual
If The Basement Ritual is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Ice Cream Shop, Tales from the Watchtower - The Conjurer and Clink — 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 Basement Ritual: The Basement Ritual is a short indie horror game where you have been kidnapped and must escape a cult’s basement premises solving puzzles and hiding from a demonic creature.
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The Ice Cream Shop
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Top pick for The Basement Ritual fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Basement Ritual.
The Evil Presence is an immersive first-person psychological horror game. After moving into a new house, a man experiences supernatural occurrences and discovers the untold history of the residence.
Tales from the Watchtower - The Conjurer
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Basement Ritual fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Basement Ritual.
An episodic psychological horror game set in La Mancha, the rural heart of inland Spain and land of Don Quixote. Inspired by real events near the mysterious Watchtower of Ciudad Real, each episode explores current legends and local folklore where reality and myth blur.
Clink
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Basement Ritual fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Basement Ritual.
You are a lonely woman, secluded in a house with your cat... and the secrets of the past. What hides within your mind — illness, or something otherworldly? Nightmares and reality intertwine… everything is so foggy. Do you have the courage to remember what happened?
Daylight
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Ranked #4 for The Basement Ritual fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Basement Ritual.
You awake, trapped in an abandoned hospital. Your only source of light is your phone. You hit a dead-end and must turn around, but behind you lurks an eerie presence and strange noises... Experience Daylight, a procedurally generated psychological thriller for your PC.
Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Basement Ritual fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Basement Ritual.
Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.
The Gap
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Ranked #6 for The Basement Ritual fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Basement Ritual.
Driven by a rare neurological affliction plaguing his family, Joshua has to recover his memories by exploring parallel realities through déjà vu. Facing the innermost depths of his past – moments both joyous and painful – seems to be the only way to get his life and family back together.
For Sale
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Ranked #7 for The Basement Ritual fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Basement Ritual.
The year is 1998. Step into the shoes of a real estate agent, tasked with photographing a seemingly ordinary house for an upcoming sale. Explore the environment, use your camera to take pictur-- wait, what’s that in the last photo?
Dollmare
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Basement Ritual fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Basement Ritual.
You've accepted a shady job offer at a doll factory. Inspect dolls for defects and anomalies. Follow strange protocols. Don't get fired and stay alive.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Basement Ritual at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Basement Ritual on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Basement Ritual.
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
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Priced ~50% under The Basement Ritual on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Basement Ritual.
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.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~67% under The Basement Ritual on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Basement Ritual.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Peggle Deluxe
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Priced ~67% under The Basement Ritual on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Basement Ritual.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
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Priced ~67% under The Basement Ritual on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Basement Ritual.
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
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Priced ~67% under The Basement Ritual on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Basement Ritual.
"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!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
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Priced ~67% under The Basement Ritual on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Basement Ritual.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
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 Basement Ritual.
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.
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 Basement Ritual.
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 Basement Ritual.
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 Basement Ritual.
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 with The Basement 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.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with The Basement Ritual.
Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.
The Gap
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Casual with The Basement Ritual.
Driven by a rare neurological affliction plaguing his family, Joshua has to recover his memories by exploring parallel realities through déjà vu. Facing the innermost depths of his past – moments both joyous and painful – seems to be the only way to get his life and family back together.
For Sale
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Casual with The Basement Ritual.
The year is 1998. Step into the shoes of a real estate agent, tasked with photographing a seemingly ordinary house for an upcoming sale. Explore the environment, use your camera to take pictur-- wait, what’s that in the last photo?
Frequently asked about The Basement Ritual
- How much does The Basement Ritual cost?
- The Basement Ritual is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Basement Ritual?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Basement Ritual are The Ice Cream Shop, Tales from the Watchtower - The Conjurer, Clink.
- Who developed The Basement Ritual?
- The Basement Ritual was developed by Stray Fox Games.
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