Games like RUNT
If RUNT is your kind of game, the closest matches are Echoes, Astiel le Voleur - Le Mystère du Amaad and Deathwish Bloom — 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 RUNT: RUNT is a rural gothic visual novel mystery where you follow the story of Runt, the youngest of five brothers, surviving a monstrous post-apocalypse.
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Steam players who put hours into RUNT 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.
Echoes
WHY THIS
Top pick for RUNT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with RUNT.
Echoes is a 2D narrative game where you play as Ricky Fox, a detective haunted by the death of his best friend, Arthur. Step into Greenhearth, a small town full of secrets, and make choices that will shape your investigation. Will you crack the case with your sanity intact?
Astiel le Voleur - Le Mystère du Amaad
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for RUNT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with RUNT.
We have no news of our agents who went on a mission to Amaad... You are therefore sent to the other end of the Empire, to investigate their disappearance. In this distant world, you will have to observe, think, and find the clues allowing you to carry out your investigation!
Deathwish Bloom
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for RUNT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with RUNT.
In this hand-drawn romance-mystery visual novel, play as Sky, a love-struck impostor scientist. Survive your own secrets in a quake-ridden post-apocalyptic world. Shape bonds with characters whose obsessions can both aid and destroy your desperate bid to recreate a cure that only you know existed.
Evidence Officer
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for RUNT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with RUNT.
A mystery adventure game where you investigate 3D evidence and uncover the truth behind each case through the clues left behind.
Matchmaking for Ghosts
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for RUNT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with RUNT.
Matchmaking for Ghosts is an atmospheric visual novel with horror elements and themes of love and loss, built around a unique multi-protagonist system that lets players experience the afterlife through the eyes of every ghost. Match ghosts together for love, or for chaos. The choice is yours.
Omen Exitio: Hunger
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for RUNT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with RUNT.
A Lovecraftian investigative gamebook. New York, 1927. A case pulled from real history, wrapped in cosmic horror. His name was Billy Gaffney. The man who took him was real. But his purpose was from another plane of existence. You play a journalist. You make choices. The story remembers all of them.
Luce Spenta
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for RUNT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with RUNT.
A gothic psychological visual novel where you decide who deserves forgiveness… and who deserves condemnation. Explore the lives of five souls, confront unsettling truths, and make choices that will shape your ultimate fate. Every choice is a reflection. Every judgment carries a sentence.
Gloom and Doom
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for RUNT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with RUNT.
Gloom and Doom is a visual novel throwback to 90s slacker movies - complete with the solitude and sarcastic retorts - but with a supernatural twist. Push a powerful but unmotivated wraith to complete his stagnated quest to enter heaven, while trying to kill the suicidal but unkillable Doom Bringer.
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 RUNT.
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.
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 RUNT.
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 with RUNT.
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 RUNT.
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 with RUNT.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with RUNT.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with RUNT.
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.
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Frequently asked about RUNT
- What games are most similar to RUNT?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside RUNT are Echoes, Astiel le Voleur - Le Mystère du Amaad, Deathwish Bloom.
- Who developed RUNT?
- RUNT was developed by Grimtaste Studios and published by DreadXP.
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 RUNT.
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