Games like PLEASE KNOCK: The Sloppy Researcher's Life
If PLEASE KNOCK: The Sloppy Researcher's Life is your kind of game, the closest matches are What Killed Rachel, 永夜协奏曲 and Living on Plain Pasta — 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.
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What Killed Rachel
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Top pick for PLEASE KNOCK: The Sloppy Researcher's Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with PLEASE KNOCK: The Sloppy Researcher's Life.
A story-driven psychological horror that chases the truth behind Rachel's death. As you follow scattered memories, you slowly come face to face with the reality of the tragedy. Blaming someone is easy. But answering what truly killed her is not.
永夜协奏曲
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Second-strongest match for PLEASE KNOCK: The Sloppy Researcher's Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with PLEASE KNOCK: The Sloppy Researcher's Life.
这是一部暗黑童话百合视觉小说。世界陷入永恒黑夜，白发少女辛芙拉目睹潮水淹没故乡，无家可归的她踏上了寻找庇护所的旅途。途中，辛芙拉从树上救下了金发女仆玛丽。两人一同前往高塔避难，并逐渐揭开世界陷入永恒黑夜的真相。
Living on Plain Pasta
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Third-strongest match for PLEASE KNOCK: The Sloppy Researcher's Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with PLEASE KNOCK: The Sloppy Researcher's Life.
A conversation adventure where you spend the worst, best summer visiting your booze-loving senpai, making weird food, and sneaking out together at midnight.
Finding Paradise
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Ranked #4 for PLEASE KNOCK: The Sloppy Researcher's Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with PLEASE KNOCK: The Sloppy Researcher's Life.
Two doctors traverse backwards through a dying man's memories to fulfill his last wish. This is To the Moon's standalone sequel, but can also be played first.
ROSETIA: A First Contact Simulation
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Ranked #5 for PLEASE KNOCK: The Sloppy Researcher's Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with PLEASE KNOCK: The Sloppy Researcher's Life.
Speak for Earth in ROSETIA—a first contact CRPG for fans of hopeful sci-fi and hard choices. Win the trust of an alien civilization. Change their world or stay your hand. Become humanity’s finest diplomat or a disaster of cosmic proportions.
迷家mygohome
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Ranked #6 for PLEASE KNOCK: The Sloppy Researcher's Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with PLEASE KNOCK: The Sloppy Researcher's Life.
mygohome is a Lovecraftian psychological horror game. A remote town is being consumed by an unknown presence. You awaken in a strange room. Something is drawing near. Survive five nights. Your only companion is a rabbit doll. It knows everything. But can you trust it?
A Week in Paradise
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Ranked #7 for PLEASE KNOCK: The Sloppy Researcher's Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with PLEASE KNOCK: The Sloppy Researcher's Life.
A Week in Paradise is a narrative mystery where you find yourself in a bar called Paradise. Have a drink each night with its mysterious regular and discover how deeply your stories connect. Hunt down clues in your dreams to find out why you end up here every day, and what keeps you coming back.
Master of Balance
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Ranked #8 for PLEASE KNOCK: The Sloppy Researcher's Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with PLEASE KNOCK: The Sloppy Researcher's Life.
A sudden promotion. A mysterious power. Blessing or downfall? After an accident, your life collides with a childhood game world. With an odd boss, tricky coworkers, and relatives in the shadows, every choice tests your balance—your only way to seize back your fate.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with PLEASE KNOCK: The Sloppy Researcher's Life.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with PLEASE KNOCK: The Sloppy Researcher's Life.
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.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with PLEASE KNOCK: The Sloppy Researcher's Life.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with PLEASE KNOCK: The Sloppy Researcher's Life.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with PLEASE KNOCK: The Sloppy Researcher's Life.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with PLEASE KNOCK: The Sloppy Researcher's Life.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with PLEASE KNOCK: The Sloppy Researcher's Life.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside PLEASE KNOCK: The Sloppy Researcher's Life are What Killed Rachel, 永夜协奏曲, Living on Plain Pasta.
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- PLEASE KNOCK: The Sloppy Researcher's Life was developed by polte.
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