Games like The Promethean Project
If The Promethean Project is your kind of game, the closest matches are SCP-479: Shadows of the Mind, Crimson Snow (2023) and Unknown Tapes — 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 Promethean Project: This is an multi-perspective detective story and you are the centerpiece. With a narrator watching everything you do, bending his story to what you've uncovered, and failed experimental creatures hunting for new meat, will you survive to find the truth of what happened to your brother?
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SCP-479: Shadows of the Mind
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Top pick for The Promethean Project fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
You are a Class D personnel on an experimental mission for the Foundation to investigate SCP-479. The facility is linked to anomalies affecting the human psyche, gradually driving them insane. Please remember to take your pills.
Crimson Snow (2023)
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Second-strongest match for The Promethean Project fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Promethean Project.
Christmas is a joyful time, but this time something dark is hiding behind the holiday decorations. Your actions will determine whether you and your girlfriend survive Christmas night.
Unknown Tapes
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Third-strongest match for The Promethean Project fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Promethean Project.
You are the prey. Unknown Tapes is a horror video game that employs the found footage technique to narrate a story focused on survival in a modern setting overrun by dinosaurs. It aims for realism and draws inspiration from Dino Crisis and Outlast.
Born Into Fear
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Ranked #4 for The Promethean Project fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Promethean Project.
Born Into Fear is a first-person horror game set in an evacuated neighborhood. You'll have to complete task and avoid enemies to destroy the evil Buffer.
The Heilwald Loophole
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Ranked #5 for The Promethean Project fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Promethean Project.
The Heilwald Klinikum used to be one of the most renowned medical facilities in Germany. That all changed when that curious loophole appeared...
Observer: System Redux
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Ranked #6 for The Promethean Project fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Promethean Project.
A first‑person cyberpunk horror detective story set in a decaying, neon‑scarred future. As an Observer who invades minds to hunt for clues, you will sift through corrupted memories to track down a mysterious killer and confront your own dark past.
Hollow Cocoon
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Ranked #7 for The Promethean Project fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Promethean Project.
"Trapped in a cocoon, the silkworm weaves her final dream." Hollow Cocoon is a first-person horror adventure game set in 1980s Japan. Immerse yourself in meticulously recreated environments as you venture into the depths of unspeakable horrors that await you.
Exit From
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Ranked #8 for The Promethean Project fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Promethean Project.
Exit From - is a first-person horror-stealth game with quest and procedural generation elements where you have to get out of the old Soviet house, which changes every new game.
Free alternatives
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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.
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 The Promethean Project.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Promethean Project.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Promethean Project.
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.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Promethean Project.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
‘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 Promethean Project
- What games are most similar to The Promethean Project?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Promethean Project are SCP-479: Shadows of the Mind, Crimson Snow (2023), Unknown Tapes.
- Who developed The Promethean Project?
- The Promethean Project was developed by Alastair Forsyth and published by Matt Desinics Designs.
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 Promethean Project.
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