Games like The Cost of Salvation
If The Cost of Salvation is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Test: Secrets of the Soul, Hacked: The Streamer and Gerda: A Flame in Winter — 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 Cost of Salvation: She was made to serve. Never to feel. A narrative adventure about a being created to preserve the world's balance — who begins, for the first time, to question everything she was made for. Form bonds, make choices, and discover the price of becoming something you were never meant to be.
Players who liked The Cost of Salvation also play
Steam players who put hours into The Cost of Salvation also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
The Test: Secrets of the Soul
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Cost of Salvation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cost of Salvation.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."
Hacked: The Streamer
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Cost of Salvation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cost of Salvation.
You are blackmailed in Hacked: The Streamer. Investigate clues, make impactful decisions, and shape your story to uncover the culprit is in this thrilling interactive movie. The fate of PinkyPie, a fan-favorite streamer, is in your hands.
Gerda: A Flame in Winter
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Cost of Salvation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cost of Salvation.
You have five days to save your husband, who has just been arrested by the Gestapo. Investigate, explore and form allegiances in this story-rich RPG-lite. Who will you trust?
Sanator: Scarlet Scarf
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Cost of Salvation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cost of Salvation.
Scarlet Scarf is a visual novel inspired by the legend of Plague Maiden. Dive into the dark mysteries of a dying city with the fate of Sanator Richard Murdock in your hands. Perhaps it's not too late to stop the on-going calamity...
Astronaut: The Best
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Cost of Salvation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cost of Salvation.
Astronaut: The Best is an occult management adventure where people aren't just numbers: they're screwups. You must run a proper space academy using lies, witchcraft, and/or hard work. Guide cadets through a roguelite web of scandals and challenges, or the government will have you killed.
ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Cost of Salvation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Cost of Salvation.
A sci-fi adventure full of robot battles, pop music, and emotion. Featuring one of the largest branching storylines ever in a VR game with 15-20 hours of gameplay, Altdeus will place you in the shoes of Chloe, a pilot in humanity's forces fighting massive hostile organisms known as the Meteora.
Noctuary
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Cost of Salvation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cost of Salvation.
Two young illuminators, Fancia and Alina, start their adventure in the bright and fascinating Inlixaland... ...in pursuit of becoming trustworthy "The Arborangers."
Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Cost of Salvation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cost of Salvation.
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Cost of Salvation.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cost of Salvation.
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 The Cost of Salvation.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Cost of Salvation.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Cost of Salvation.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Cost of Salvation.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cost of Salvation.
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.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Cost of Salvation.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
The Test: Secrets of the Soul
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cost of Salvation.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."
Gerda: A Flame in Winter
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cost of Salvation.
You have five days to save your husband, who has just been arrested by the Gestapo. Investigate, explore and form allegiances in this story-rich RPG-lite. Who will you trust?
Sanator: Scarlet Scarf
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cost of Salvation.
Scarlet Scarf is a visual novel inspired by the legend of Plague Maiden. Dive into the dark mysteries of a dying city with the fate of Sanator Richard Murdock in your hands. Perhaps it's not too late to stop the on-going calamity...
Astronaut: The Best
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cost of Salvation.
Astronaut: The Best is an occult management adventure where people aren't just numbers: they're screwups. You must run a proper space academy using lies, witchcraft, and/or hard work. Guide cadets through a roguelite web of scandals and challenges, or the government will have you killed.
Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cost of Salvation.
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
Frequently asked about The Cost of Salvation
- What games are most similar to The Cost of Salvation?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Cost of Salvation are The Test: Secrets of the Soul, Hacked: The Streamer, Gerda: A Flame in Winter.
- Who developed The Cost of Salvation?
- The Cost of Salvation was developed by Mokou Games.
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 Cost of Salvation.
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