Games like 13 Germinal
If 13 Germinal is your kind of game, the closest matches are Vampire: The Masquerade - Oaths & Ashes, Afterglow Bytes: Reverie by the Shore and Hollow Home — 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 13 Germinal: A historical and narrative RPG set in the world of Emile Zola's novel. You are a young man in 1866, forced to work deep in the mines to survive. But every day, the work gets harder and the meals get smaller. Organize a strike, reignite the smoldering revolt, and try to change this unjust world.
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Vampire: The Masquerade - Oaths & Ashes
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Top pick for 13 Germinal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with 13 Germinal.
Two vampires — an ambitious Kindred and a wretched Thinblood. Their fates clash in this Visual Novel set in the World of Darkness, where your arsenal extends beyond just words — from political machinations to forbidden Alchemy. Claw your way to power and leave your bitemarks on Berlin's underworld.
Afterglow Bytes: Reverie by the Shore
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Second-strongest match for 13 Germinal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with 13 Germinal.
Run a cozy izakaya in futuristic Bali. Grill skewers, serve patrons, help wandering spirits, and manage supplies to keep your evening haven alive. Every night tells a new story.
Hollow Home
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Third-strongest match for 13 Germinal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with 13 Germinal.
Hollow Home is a narrative survival RPG set in a city under siege. Learn to adapt, choose who to trust and make decisions that carry real weight. No weapons, no battles and no easy answers.
ATTENTION DEFICIT - A story about ADHD
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Ranked #4 for 13 Germinal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with 13 Germinal.
An abstract visual novel about a girl dealing with the challenges of having ADHD while trying to complete a school assignment before the deadline.
Beware of the Cartographer!
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Ranked #5 for 13 Germinal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with 13 Germinal.
Map a mysterious land during the Age of Enlightenment. Draw the border between two warring kingdoms. Meet the locals. Juggle their demands with the requirements of your mission. Ethical dilemmas, secret plots, strange phenomena… will you be able to bring peace back to the land?
SAADINE
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Ranked #6 for 13 Germinal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with 13 Germinal.
You're Saadine, a fish stuck in a corporate job you thought was only temporary. But when the weeks turn to years, you wonder... is this all there is to life? SAADINE is a surreal, whimsical, adventure RPG about identity, isolation, and time.
Sovereign Tower
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Ranked #7 for 13 Germinal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with 13 Germinal.
Play as the Sovereign of a magical tower in this story-rich, Round Table management RPG. Recruit eccentric Knights, assign quests and balance egos whilst carving out your kingdom's destiny. If destiny doesn’t go your way, keep turning back time, uncover secrets and rewrite fate again and again.
Citizen Sleeper
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Ranked #8 for 13 Germinal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with 13 Germinal.
Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
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 with 13 Germinal.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
A Date with Death
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with 13 Germinal.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with 13 Germinal.
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.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with 13 Germinal.
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Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with 13 Germinal.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with 13 Germinal.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with 13 Germinal.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
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Frequently asked about 13 Germinal
- What games are most similar to 13 Germinal?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside 13 Germinal are Vampire: The Masquerade - Oaths & Ashes, Afterglow Bytes: Reverie by the Shore, Hollow Home.
- Who developed 13 Germinal?
- 13 Germinal was developed by Team Barricades.
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