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Games like The Moment of Silence

If The Moment of Silence is your kind of game, the closest matches are Culpa Innata, Gemini Rue and Primordia — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and dark. 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.

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About The Moment of Silence: The Moment of Silence is a classic point-and-click 3rd person adventure game set in New York City in 2044. Players step into the role of Peter Wright, an advertising executive currently heading up the Government's 'Freedom of Speech' campaign.

2015IndieAdventure14.99 USDMetacritic 70Windowsby House of Tales
The Moment of Silence — Steam game cover
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Cinematic presentation feels like a moviePuzzles are logical and rewardingStoryline is prescient and socially criticalAtmosphericContemplativeDark

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Steam players who put hours into The Moment of Silence 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.

  1. Culpa Innata

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Moment of Silence.

    Top pick for The Moment of Silence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Moment of Silence.

    The World Union is labeled the 'perfect society'. Prosperity is a science, disease and wars have vanished, sex is entertainment, and the future has never looked brighter. Suddenly this perfect society is rocked by the murder of a World Union citizen in the 'Rogue State' of Russia.

    2008AdventureRPGCasual9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Gemini Rue

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Moment of Silence.

    Second-strongest match for The Moment of Silence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Moment of Silence.

    Discover a world where life is cheap, identities are bought & sold, & a quest for redemption can change the fate of a whole galaxy.

    2011IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Primordia

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Moment of Silence.

    Third-strongest match for The Moment of Silence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Moment of Silence.

    Life has ceased. Man is but a myth. And now, even the machines have begun to fail. Lead Horatio Nullbuilt and his sarcastic sidekick Crispin on a journey through the crumbling world of Primordia, facing malfunctioning robots, ancient secrets, and an implacable, power-hungry foe.

    2012IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. VirtuaVerse

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Moment of Silence.

    Ranked #4 for The Moment of Silence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Moment of Silence.

    VirtuaVerse is a challenging old school cyberpunk point & click adventure set in a future not so far away narrating tales of technomancers, AVR graffiti writers, hacker groups, tribes of cryptoshamans, digital archeology, epic cyberwars and virtual reality debauchery.

    2020IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Beyond a Steel Sky

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Moment of Silence.

    Ranked #5 for The Moment of Silence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Moment of Silence.

    From multi-award winning Revolution comes ‘Beyond a Steel Sky’, a groundbreaking 3D adventure thriller, set in an AI-driven future. Subvert the world, hack the systems and solve dark conspiracies to uncover the devastating truth.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Neofeud

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Moment of Silence.

    Ranked #6 for The Moment of Silence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Moment of Silence.

    Neofeud is a Dystopic Cyberpunk adventure game in the vein of Blade Runner, but with an overlay of Game of Thrones-like political intrigue, and 1366x768, hand-painted, stylized visuals.

    2017IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Republique

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Moment of Silence.

    Ranked #7 for The Moment of Silence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Moment of Silence.

    Help a woman named Hope escape in a thrilling and topical stealth-action game that explores the perils of government surveillance in the Internet Age.

    2015ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Void And Meddler

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Moment of Silence.

    Ranked #8 for The Moment of Silence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Moment of Silence.

    Fragments and details, rainy nights and blurry lights are all VOID&MEDDLER focuses on. A non-linear cyberpunk adventure where genders and species melt into each other.

    2015IndieAdventureSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Moment of Silence at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under The Moment of Silence on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Moment of Silence.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under The Moment of Silence on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Moment of Silence.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under The Moment of Silence on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Moment of Silence.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under The Moment of Silence on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Moment of Silence.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under The Moment of Silence on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Moment of Silence.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under The Moment of Silence on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Moment of Silence.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under The Moment of Silence on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Moment of Silence.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Noita

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under The Moment of Silence on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Moment of Silence.

    Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Moment of Silence.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Moment of Silence.

    Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.

    2021IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Moment of Silence.

    USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.

    2025IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Cube Escape: Paradox

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Moment of Silence.

    The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.

    2018IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Tails Noir: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Moment of Silence.

    Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Supper

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Moment of Silence.

    The Supper is a short adventure game about the darkest side of the human soul. Ms. Appleton was always a wellspring of kindness, until The Voice started talking to her.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Samsara Room

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Moment of Silence.

    You woke up in a mysterious room you have never seen before. Can you find another way out? Samsara Room is a remake of the praised predecessor of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Control, I'm Not Coming Back

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Moment of Silence.

    Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.

    2026IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗

More from House of Tales

Other recommendable Steam games by House of Tales, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. 15 Days

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Moment of Silence.

    Another title from House of Tales, the studio behind The Moment of Silence. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Moment of Silence.

    A three-man activist group has set out to make the world a better place by stealing famous art pieces in the world's most renowned museums, selling them to private collectors, and donating the money to charity.

    2015IndieAdventureCasual9.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Overclocked: A History of Violence

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Moment of Silence.

    Another title from House of Tales, the studio behind The Moment of Silence. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Moment of Silence.

    Set against the backdrop of a catastrophic thunderstorm raging over New York City, Overclocked explores an archetypical, yet actual condition of mankind: violence. This psychological thriller mixes frightening fictional thriller elements using innovative narrative structures.

    2015IndieAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. The Mystery of the Druids

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Moment of Silence.

    Another title from House of Tales, the studio behind The Moment of Silence. Shares Adventure with The Moment of Silence.

    In this classic adventure, you will take on the role of young Scotland Yard Detective Brent Halligan, assigned to solve the puzzle surrounding a mysterious order of Druids and a series of gruesome murders. It appears that the neo-Druids are conducting ritual killings to conjure up sinister forces.

    2015Adventure4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Culpa Innata

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Moment of Silence.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Moment of Silence.

    The World Union is labeled the 'perfect society'. Prosperity is a science, disease and wars have vanished, sex is entertainment, and the future has never looked brighter. Suddenly this perfect society is rocked by the murder of a World Union citizen in the 'Rogue State' of Russia.

    2008AdventureRPGCasual9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Gemini Rue

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Moment of Silence.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Moment of Silence.

    Discover a world where life is cheap, identities are bought & sold, & a quest for redemption can change the fate of a whole galaxy.

    2011IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Primordia

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Moment of Silence.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Moment of Silence.

    Life has ceased. Man is but a myth. And now, even the machines have begun to fail. Lead Horatio Nullbuilt and his sarcastic sidekick Crispin on a journey through the crumbling world of Primordia, facing malfunctioning robots, ancient secrets, and an implacable, power-hungry foe.

    2012IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Beyond a Steel Sky

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Moment of Silence.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Moment of Silence.

    From multi-award winning Revolution comes ‘Beyond a Steel Sky’, a groundbreaking 3D adventure thriller, set in an AI-driven future. Subvert the world, hack the systems and solve dark conspiracies to uncover the devastating truth.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Republique

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Moment of Silence.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Moment of Silence.

    Help a woman named Hope escape in a thrilling and topical stealth-action game that explores the perils of government surveillance in the Internet Age.

    2015ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Moment of Silence

How much does The Moment of Silence cost?
The Moment of Silence is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to The Moment of Silence?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Moment of Silence are Culpa Innata, Gemini Rue, Primordia.
Who developed The Moment of Silence?
The Moment of Silence was developed by House of Tales and published by HandyGames.

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 Moment of Silence.

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