Games like MALPRAXIS™
If MALPRAXIS™ is your kind of game, the closest matches are Nomenocide, Memory's Reach and Subsurface Circular — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, dark and eerie. 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 MALPRAXIS™: MALPRAXIS™ is a dialogue-heavy sci-fi detective game where you play an experimental medical robot aboard a failing starship. Diagnose patients, investigate suspicious incidents and piece together what is happening to the crew.
Players who liked MALPRAXIS™ also play
Steam players who put hours into MALPRAXIS™ 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.
Nomenocide
WHY THIS
Top pick for MALPRAXIS™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with MALPRAXIS™.
The Examiner has a number. You are not issued a name. You do not require one. Names are an operational measure applied to units, for the reasons set out above, and staff are not units. You do have a name. You are simply not using it here. Nobody has asked for it in some time.
Memory's Reach
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for MALPRAXIS™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with MALPRAXIS™.
Memory’s Reach is a first person puzzle based metroidvania. Explore a huge, interconnected world of labyrinthian megastructures filled with alluring mysteries. Solve challenging puzzles, acquire powerful abilities, and uncover forgotten lore as you seek to reveal the legacy of a doomed civilization.
Subsurface Circular
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with MALPRAXIS™.
Third-strongest match for MALPRAXIS™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with MALPRAXIS™.
When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.
Case Solved: The London Files
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for MALPRAXIS™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with MALPRAXIS™.
Solve logic puzzles and crack multiple cases in a cosy noir London using reason, not guesswork. Murders have taken place, witness statements conflict and the alibis don't add up. Everyone has a motive, and only clear logic reveals the truth.
Regular Factory: Escape Room
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with MALPRAXIS™.
Ranked #5 for MALPRAXIS™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with MALPRAXIS™.
You don't work in a regular assembly line. In this escape room, you will investigate what is really being manufactured in a secret factory, explore mysterious places and solve puzzles. Will you discover the truth?
Palindrome Syndrome: Escape Room
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with MALPRAXIS™.
Ranked #6 for MALPRAXIS™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with MALPRAXIS™.
You wake up in a spaceship with no memories. In this escape room with a sci-fi setting you will have to investigate your past solving different puzzles. Will you be able to discover what happened to you and how did you get there?
Dahlia View
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with MALPRAXIS™.
Ranked #7 for MALPRAXIS™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with MALPRAXIS™.
A child is missing. The police are failing. And you're a retired detective with a bit too much time on your hands. Time to throw out the rules & do whatever it takes to bring the child home. From the developers of I AM RIPPER, The Occupation & Ether One.
Deadly Trick
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for MALPRAXIS™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with MALPRAXIS™.
Deadly Trick is a social deduction game playable with up to 8 players. Survive the death game unfolding at school under the name "Special Class." Depending on the situation or your own choices, you could become the White or the Shadow! Cooperate… or betray.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below MALPRAXIS™ at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under MALPRAXIS™ on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with MALPRAXIS™.
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 ~44% under MALPRAXIS™ on Steam right now. Shares Indie with MALPRAXIS™.
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!
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~45% under MALPRAXIS™ on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with MALPRAXIS™.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under MALPRAXIS™ on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with MALPRAXIS™.
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 ~44% under MALPRAXIS™ on Steam right now. Shares Indie with MALPRAXIS™.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under MALPRAXIS™ on Steam right now. Shares Indie with MALPRAXIS™.
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 ~67% under MALPRAXIS™ on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with MALPRAXIS™.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under MALPRAXIS™ on Steam right now. Shares Indie with MALPRAXIS™.
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.
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 with MALPRAXIS™.
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 MALPRAXIS™.
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 MALPRAXIS™.
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 Simulation with MALPRAXIS™.
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 MALPRAXIS™.
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 MALPRAXIS™.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with MALPRAXIS™.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Sunscorched Studios
Other recommendable Steam games by Sunscorched Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
RATSHAKER™
WHY THIS
Shares point and click, environmental puzzle solving and atmospheric with MALPRAXIS™.
Another title from Sunscorched Studios, the studio behind MALPRAXIS™. Shares Indie with MALPRAXIS™.
RATSHAKER™ is the fun and quirky solution to all your rat problems! Hold on to the RAT, shake your arm, and watch life’s problems disappear! How far can you go?
Negative Atmosphere
WHY THIS
Another title from Sunscorched Studios, the studio behind MALPRAXIS™. Shares Indie with MALPRAXIS™.
Explore the depths of the Rusanov, pull whatever resources you can out of its guts, and run.
SNOTROCKET™
WHY THIS
Another title from Sunscorched Studios, the studio behind MALPRAXIS™. Shares Indie with MALPRAXIS™.
SNOTROCKET™ is a retro co-op space panic where you and your friends are violently ill and racing to make a cure before your time runs out.
KEYKRUNCHER™
WHY THIS
Another title from Sunscorched Studios, the studio behind MALPRAXIS™. Shares Indie and Simulation with MALPRAXIS™.
KEYKRUNCHER™ is the fun and effective treatment for all your keyboard-eating needs! Look down, follow the monitor, KLICK the correct KEY, and KRUNCH. Earn enough Compliance Points before IT eats you.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Case Solved: The London Files
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with MALPRAXIS™.
Solve logic puzzles and crack multiple cases in a cosy noir London using reason, not guesswork. Murders have taken place, witness statements conflict and the alibis don't add up. Everyone has a motive, and only clear logic reveals the truth.
Regular Factory: Escape Room
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with MALPRAXIS™.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with MALPRAXIS™.
You don't work in a regular assembly line. In this escape room, you will investigate what is really being manufactured in a secret factory, explore mysterious places and solve puzzles. Will you discover the truth?
Palindrome Syndrome: Escape Room
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with MALPRAXIS™.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with MALPRAXIS™.
You wake up in a spaceship with no memories. In this escape room with a sci-fi setting you will have to investigate your past solving different puzzles. Will you be able to discover what happened to you and how did you get there?
Dahlia View
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with MALPRAXIS™.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with MALPRAXIS™.
A child is missing. The police are failing. And you're a retired detective with a bit too much time on your hands. Time to throw out the rules & do whatever it takes to bring the child home. From the developers of I AM RIPPER, The Occupation & Ether One.
Frequently asked about MALPRAXIS™
- Does MALPRAXIS™ work on Steam Deck?
- MALPRAXIS™ is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does MALPRAXIS™ cost?
- MALPRAXIS™ is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to MALPRAXIS™?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside MALPRAXIS™ are Nomenocide, Memory's Reach, Subsurface Circular.
- Who developed MALPRAXIS™?
- MALPRAXIS™ was developed by Sunscorched Studios.
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 MALPRAXIS™.
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