Games like The Secret Story
If The Secret Story is your kind of game, the closest matches are ARCHIVE 1996, Protocol Five and The Drained Goddess — 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 Secret Story: What begins as a quiet night in an old hotel soon turns into a desperate fight for survival. As midnight approaches, Serena must uncover the truth, face her fears, and decide which path to take.
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ARCHIVE 1996
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Secret Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Secret Story.
Tonight, you are not just helping Serena survive. You are deciding whether she will live, lose her mind, or vanish in this hotel forever.
Protocol Five
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Secret Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Secret Story.
Protocol Filve is a surreal first-person adventure with multiple endings, you will find yourself in a world where some rotten things want to kill you. Some choices along the way drastically and irreversibly change the game, leading to one of the 5 possible endings.
The Drained Goddess
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Secret Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Secret Story.
The Drained Goddess is a first-person survival horror game focused on combat system and side story exploration. You will need to fight with many unique enemies and investigate the twisted fate of our main character. Finally you can put different endings to the story.
The Tau Ceti Terminus
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Secret Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Secret Story.
Explore an alien planet with adverse conditions and dangerous life. Solve relevant puzzles and repair your ship. Along the way uncover an ancient story in this cerebral sci-fi exploration and survival VR game. Takes full advantage of nearly every aspect of VR.
Winnie-the-Pooh: Black Honey
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Secret Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Secret Story.
Explore an open-world 100 Aker Woods while outwitting a twisted Winnie-the-Pooh who wants to eat you. Upgrade yourself and craft elaborate traps to stop him using black honey.
Fortress of Hell
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Secret Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Secret Story.
Can you survive inside a fortress full of monsters, and free the many prisoners (including your own girlfriend!) from their unfortunate fate? Play as up to 4 different parties - you can even play evil heroes from darkness - and find out!
Venge
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Secret Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Secret Story.
Get ready to explore a movie studio that vanished into thin air, only to find yourself trapped in a twisted, alternate dimension where creatures lurk in the shadows, waiting to ensure you never see the light of day again...
DO NOT OPEN
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Secret Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Secret Story.
DO NOT OPEN is a terrifying short and paced first-person escape-room experience, based on randomness in puzzle combinations, and classic survival-horror mechanics. Each game will contain different rooms and puzzle combination, being different to solve.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Secret Story at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Secret Story on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Secret Story.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Secret Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Secret Story.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under The Secret Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Secret Story.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Secret Story on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with The Secret Story.
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.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Secret Story on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with The Secret Story.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Secret Story on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Secret Story.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Secret Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Secret Story.
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!
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Secret Story on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Secret Story.
Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
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 Free To Play with The Secret Story.
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 Action and Adventure with The Secret Story.
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 Action and Indie with The Secret Story.
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 and Adventure with The Secret Story.
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 Action and Indie with The Secret Story.
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 The Secret Story.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Free To Play with The Secret Story.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Secret Story.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about The Secret Story
- How much does The Secret Story cost?
- The Secret Story is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Secret Story?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Secret Story are ARCHIVE 1996, Protocol Five, The Drained Goddess.
- Who developed The Secret Story?
- The Secret Story was developed by GTV.
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 Secret Story.
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