Games like Dreadline Express
If Dreadline Express is your kind of game, the closest matches are Inspector Schmidt - The Ebbing, The Sinking City Remastered and Agarta — 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 Dreadline Express: Dreadline Express is a 1st-person, psychological horror metroidbrainia set aboard the last human train. Unravel mysteries of the enigmatic train, face strange passengers, and shape your path using a unique card-based mechanic that gives you full narrative control. This is no longer our world.
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Inspector Schmidt - The Ebbing
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Top pick for Dreadline Express fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Dreadline Express.
In this detective RPG, you untangle a thick web of intrigues, lies, and secrets that surround a mysterious death. Find the origin of eerie telegraph signals, question the villagers, decipher the strange symbols that are suddenly appearing all over town - and hide from the danger lurking in the moor.
The Sinking City Remastered
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Second-strongest match for Dreadline Express fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Dreadline Express.
Powered by Unreal Engine 5, The Sinking City Remastered brings the eerie, atmospheric world of Oakmont back to life with enhanced gameplay and fully relit environments, perfect for both newcomers and returning players.
Agarta
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Third-strongest match for Dreadline Express fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dreadline Express.
Agarta has been designed to show you how valuable and important every decision you make in your individual life, every choice you make is. Because every choice you make is also a renunciation and you cannot undo any decision.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
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Ranked #4 for Dreadline Express fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dreadline Express.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.
Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure
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Ranked #5 for Dreadline Express fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dreadline Express.
Tex Murphy is the last of the hard-boiled gumshoe detectives living in dystopian post-World War III San Francisco in the 2050s. Tex is an honest and good-natured private investigator with a penchant for bourbon, cigarettes and getting himself into trouble.
Call of Cthulhu®
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Ranked #6 for Dreadline Express fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Dreadline Express.
1924. Private Investigator Pierce is sent to look into the tragic death of the Hawkins family. Plunge into a world of creeping madness and cosmic horror. Cryptic clues, shadowy figures, and pure terror bar your way as you fight to retain your sanity and solve an otherworldly mystery.
Strange Horticulture
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Ranked #7 for Dreadline Express fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dreadline Express.
Strange Horticulture is an occult puzzle game in which you play as the proprietor of a local plant store. Find and identify new plants, pet your cat, speak to a coven, or join a cult. Use your collection of powerful plants to influence the story and unravel Undermere’s dark mysteries.
Dark Nights with Poe and Munro
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Ranked #8 for Dreadline Express fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dreadline Express.
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.
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 with Dreadline Express.
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 Dreadline Express.
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 Dreadline Express.
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 Dreadline Express.
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 with Dreadline Express.
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 Dreadline Express.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dreadline Express.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dreadline Express.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Dreadline Express
- What games are most similar to Dreadline Express?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dreadline Express are Inspector Schmidt - The Ebbing, The Sinking City Remastered, Agarta.
- Who developed Dreadline Express?
- Dreadline Express was developed by David Konecny and published by Shoreline Games.
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 Dreadline Express.
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