Games like The House of Hikmah
If The House of Hikmah is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dwalm, Unlighted and Always in Mind — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and emotional. 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 House of Hikmah: The House of Hikmah is a fully voice-acted, narrative-driven 3D adventure game exploring grief, legacy and the search for answers after profound loss. Solve puzzles, encounter historical scholars of the Islamic Golden Age, and uncover timeless lessons in a beautifully imagined House of Wisdom.
Players who liked The House of Hikmah also play
Steam players who put hours into The House of Hikmah 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.
Dwalm
WHY THIS
Top pick for The House of Hikmah fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The House of Hikmah.
Work your way through the city by day and navigate strange dreamscapes by night, exploring your memories and recalling what was lost. Dwalm is an adventure platformer that takes you through both childish dreams and traumatic memories alike.
Unlighted
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The House of Hikmah fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The House of Hikmah.
Unlighted is a first-person puzzle video game where you enter a dystopian world that reflects the threshold between memory and oblivion, where you experiment with the characteristics of weird materials that materialize when hit by a ray of light.
Always in Mind
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The House of Hikmah fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The House of Hikmah.
Wield extraordinary powers born from forgotten memories to escape a subconscious on the brink of collapse. Team up with Proxy, an AI housing your family’s digitized history, as you slow time, bend gravity, and manifest memories in a coming-of-age adventure where technology and imagination collide.
Super Optimal Amount of Punching
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Ranked #4 for The House of Hikmah fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The House of Hikmah.
Punch everything. Learn nothing. Lord Evil's shining nipples await you.
An Everyday Story
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Ranked #5 for The House of Hikmah fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The House of Hikmah.
An Everyday Story is a 2.5D story-driven puzzle platformer with a heartfelt twist. Experience life from the view of three trinkets... what do you think happens when our dreams become so real that they stain our reality?
SpongeBob SquarePants: Titans of the Tide
WHY THIS
Shares platforming and exploration with The House of Hikmah.
Ranked #6 for The House of Hikmah fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The House of Hikmah.
Prepare to be scared! A clash between the Flying Dutchman and King Neptune has unleashed ghostly mayhem all over Bikini Bottom. Switch seamlessly between SpongeBob and Patrick, combine their unique skills and save Bikini Bottom from total ghostification!
Duskfade
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Ranked #7 for The House of Hikmah fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The House of Hikmah.
Shatter the shackles of time as you jump, swing, and slash through a fantastic world in this love letter to classic 3D action platformers. Zirian, accompanied by his mechanical Cuckoo, must save his sister from a mysterious Clock Tower that has plunged the land into eternal night.
Yerba Buena
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Ranked #8 for The House of Hikmah fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The House of Hikmah.
Dive into a surreal 1970s gameworld and save San Francisco from a sinister threat. Play as Barb, and use the Oscillator to capture and reapply the physical traits of objects to solve mind-bending environmental platforming puzzles.
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Outer Wilds
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The House of Hikmah.
Reviewers of The House of Hikmah cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The House of Hikmah.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
The Last Campfire
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Shares exploration, puzzle solving and a melancholic mood with The House of Hikmah.
Reviewers of The House of Hikmah cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The House of Hikmah.
The Last Campfire is an adventure, a story of a lost ember trapped in a puzzling place, searching for meaning and a way home.
The Pathless
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Shares environmental puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with The House of Hikmah.
Reviewers of The House of Hikmah cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The House of Hikmah.
From the creators of ABZÛ, The Pathless is the mythic adventure of an archer and an eagle in a vast forest. Become the Hunter, a master of archery who travels to a mystical island to dispel a curse of darkness that grips the world.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The House of Hikmah at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The House of Hikmah on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The House of Hikmah.
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.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under The House of Hikmah on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The House of Hikmah.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The House of Hikmah on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The House of Hikmah.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The House of Hikmah on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The House of Hikmah.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The House of Hikmah on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The House of Hikmah.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 House of Hikmah.
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.
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 House of Hikmah.
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 Indie and Adventure with The House of Hikmah.
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 House of Hikmah.
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 with The House of Hikmah.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The House of Hikmah.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The House of Hikmah.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The House of Hikmah.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Frequently asked about The House of Hikmah
- Does The House of Hikmah work on Steam Deck?
- The House of Hikmah is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does The House of Hikmah cost?
- The House of Hikmah is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The House of Hikmah?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The House of Hikmah are Dwalm, Unlighted, Always in Mind.
- Who developed The House of Hikmah?
- The House of Hikmah was developed by Lunacy 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 The House of Hikmah.
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