Games like The Children of Clay

The closest matches to The Children of Clay: Strange Antiquities, The Midnight Walk, ASYLUM, The Dark Rites of Arkham, and An English Haunting. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.

If The Children of Clay is your kind of game, the closest matches are Strange Antiquities, The Midnight Walk and ASYLUM — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as atmospheric, eerie and immersive, and single out its achievement hunting and artifact manipulation. 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.

The Children of Clay is a free-to-play short indie adventure that combines atmospheric point-and-click exploration with Lovecraftian horror. Players investigate an ancient archaeological artifact through dictionary-search puzzles, hidden-object sequences, and artifact manipulation, uncovering a dark secret tied to Finno-Ugric and Hungarian mythology. The game emphasizes environmental storytelling and hidden collectibles, with achievement-hunting tied to obscure mechanics. Reviewers and players describe the experience as eerie, tense, and immersive, with the cultural lore feeling authentic and engaging. Developed solo by Balazs Ronyai, the game runs approximately 30-60 minutes and holds a 99% positive rating from over 2,400 Steam reviews.

About The Children of Clay: The Children of Clay is a short stop motion archeology horror game, where you have to study an ancient artefact and discover its dark secret.