Games like Dead Secret
If Dead Secret is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft, Myst and Don't Knock Twice — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its claustrophobic small town setting, multiple endings reward exploration and atmospheric. 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 Dead Secret: Dead Secret is a first-person horror mystery set in rural Kansas in 1965. A reclusive professor is dead and it’s up to you to crack the case before you become the next victim. Investigate the murder and explore the story Time Magazine called “captivating” and “deeply creepy” .
Players who liked Dead Secret also play
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Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with Dead Secret.
Top pick for Dead Secret fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Secret.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Myst
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dead Secret.
Second-strongest match for Dead Secret fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Secret.
Welcome to Myst: a starkly beautiful island, eerily tinged with mystery and shrouded in intrigue. Built from the ground up to play in 2D & VR, explore Myst in a whole new dimension! Journey to the Ages, unravel puzzles, and be a part of the surrealistic adventure that will become your own.
Don't Knock Twice
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dead Secret.
Third-strongest match for Dead Secret fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Secret.
Don't Knock Twice is a first-person horror game based on a psychologically terrifying urban legend. One knock to wake her from her bed, twice to raise her from the dead. Supports VR on HTC Vive and Oculus Rift for the ultimate horror experience!
DESOLATIUM: Prologue
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Dead Secret fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Secret.
DESOLATIUM: PROLOGUE is a first-person point & click Graphic Adventure based on Lovecraft Mythos. Live this horror story where you will have to visit mysterious locations, face lovecraftian creatures, find clues and combine objects to solve puzzles.
Obduction
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dead Secret.
Ranked #5 for Dead Secret fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Secret.
A new sci-fi adventure from Cyan, the creators of Myst. Abducted far across the universe, you find yourself on a broken alien landscape with odd pieces of Earth. Explore, uncover, solve, and find a way to make it home.
The Assembly
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dead Secret.
Ranked #6 for Dead Secret fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Secret.
A first-person interactive story inspired by real-world anxieties, The Assembly is a long-form game designed for VR. Explore a morally ambiguous organization as two individuals and face tough decisions from contrasting perspectives, that culminate in one of multiple thrilling conclusions.
Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dead Secret.
Ranked #7 for Dead Secret fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Secret.
Explore disturbing corners of the human psyche. Delve into a dimension of nightmares, the occult and a tense psychological world created in classic Lovecraftian style. As police detective Howard E. Loreid, you are tasked to solve the murder of Clark Field, a wealthy man involved in the occult.
Escape First 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dead Secret.
Ranked #8 for Dead Secret fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Secret.
"Escape First 2" is the second installment of a multiplayer escape room puzzle game for virtual reality or desktop PC! It includes 3 different escape rooms to choose from and can be played competitively, co-op or solo.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dead Secret at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Dead Secret on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dead Secret.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Dead Secret on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dead Secret.
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 ~47% under Dead Secret on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Secret.
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?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Dead Secret on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dead Secret.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Dead Secret on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Secret.
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...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Dead Secret on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dead Secret.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Dead Secret on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dead Secret.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Dead Secret on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Secret.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dead Secret.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Dead Secret.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dead Secret.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Secret.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dead Secret.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Dead Secret.
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 Dead Secret.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
More from Robot Invader
Other recommendable Steam games by Robot Invader, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Dead Secret Circle
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dead Secret.
Another title from Robot Invader, the studio behind Dead Secret. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Secret.
DEAD SECRET CIRCLE is a horror mystery set in Chicago in 1971. In this sequel to the critically acclaimed DEAD SECRET, reality and dreams collide as investigative reporter Patricia Gable sees beyond the flesh to chase a killer with a grisly M.O. Track the killer, narrow the suspects, and above all, stay alive.
Beacon's Bluff
WHY THIS
Another title from Robot Invader, the studio behind Dead Secret. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Secret.
Beacon's Bluff is a 2D pressure puzzler with horror elements. Keep the beacon's light alive and survive your shift by solving intriguing puzzles. Become engrossed in this discerning horror puzzler.
SEEING THINGS
WHY THIS
Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with Dead Secret.
Another title from Robot Invader, the studio behind Dead Secret. Shares Indie with Dead Secret.
Full tilt surveillance horror. Keep your eyes locked on security cameras for an outrageous collection of horrific anomalies, suspicious movement, and the occasional T-Rex. Observe, detect, survive!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with Dead Secret.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Secret.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Myst
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dead Secret.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Secret.
Welcome to Myst: a starkly beautiful island, eerily tinged with mystery and shrouded in intrigue. Built from the ground up to play in 2D & VR, explore Myst in a whole new dimension! Journey to the Ages, unravel puzzles, and be a part of the surrealistic adventure that will become your own.
The Assembly
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dead Secret.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dead Secret.
A first-person interactive story inspired by real-world anxieties, The Assembly is a long-form game designed for VR. Explore a morally ambiguous organization as two individuals and face tough decisions from contrasting perspectives, that culminate in one of multiple thrilling conclusions.
Frequently asked about Dead Secret
- Does Dead Secret work on Steam Deck?
- Dead Secret is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Dead Secret cost?
- Dead Secret is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dead Secret?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dead Secret are Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft, Myst, Don't Knock Twice.
- Who developed Dead Secret?
- Dead Secret was developed by Robot Invader.
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