Games like The Dropouts
If The Dropouts is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sheep Counting, Celsius Strays and WTF Is Wrong With You? — 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 Dropouts: A spooky choices-matter mystery set in 2004 Switzerland. Many students have disappeared in Noirmont High over the past century. You're Lou, you just transferred here, and weird stuff immediately starts happening... will you be the next dropout?
Players who liked The Dropouts also play
Steam players who put hours into The Dropouts 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.
Sheep Counting
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Top pick for The Dropouts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dropouts.
A recreational software for counting sheep, observing puzzles, and befriending an indoor air-conditioning unit.
Celsius Strays
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Second-strongest match for The Dropouts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dropouts.
"Banished. Hunted. Yet, we endure." Become the Chief of the Squealers and lead your people through a futuristic wasteland fraught with danger where every choice is about survival.
WTF Is Wrong With You?
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Dropouts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Dropouts.
Have you ever wondered WTF Is Wrong With You? Well, so have we... Let's find out together, shall we?
Dark Nights with Poe and Munro
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Ranked #4 for The Dropouts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dropouts.
Guide local radio hosts Poe and Munro through six TV-like episodes of supernatural strangeness and sizzling on-screen chemistry. From the creators of The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker and The Shapeshifting Detective.
Afterparty
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Ranked #5 for The Dropouts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dropouts.
In Afterparty, you are Milo and Lola, recently deceased best buds who suddenly find themselves staring down an eternity in Hell. But there's a loophole: outdrink Satan and he'll grant you re-entry to Earth.
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
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Ranked #6 for The Dropouts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dropouts.
Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, it’s time to re-enter Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 9 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.
Frog Detective 3: Corruption at Cowboy County
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Ranked #7 for The Dropouts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dropouts.
You're a detective, and a frog, and it's time to solve a mystery in the wild west.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Dropouts.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Dropouts.
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 The Dropouts.
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 The Dropouts.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Dropouts.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dropouts.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dropouts.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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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.
Afterparty
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dropouts.
In Afterparty, you are Milo and Lola, recently deceased best buds who suddenly find themselves staring down an eternity in Hell. But there's a loophole: outdrink Satan and he'll grant you re-entry to Earth.
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dropouts.
Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, it’s time to re-enter Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 9 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.
Frog Detective 3: Corruption at Cowboy County
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dropouts.
You're a detective, and a frog, and it's time to solve a mystery in the wild west.
Frequently asked about The Dropouts
- What games are most similar to The Dropouts?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Dropouts are Sheep Counting, Celsius Strays, WTF Is Wrong With You?.
- Who developed The Dropouts?
- The Dropouts was developed by Naraven and published by Spelkollektivet.
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 Dropouts.
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