Games like The Butler
If The Butler is your kind of game, the closest matches are Left Behind, Echoes of Absence and Impermanence — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, dark and emotional. 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 Butler: A psychological horror spin-off of the acclaimed game Claire. You play as Deacon, a man searching for his missing father, but the deeper you dug, the darker the truths you uncovered, secrets you wish you’d never found, and that will haunt you forever.
Players who liked The Butler also play
Steam players who put hours into The Butler 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.
Left Behind
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Butler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Butler.
LEFT BEHIND is a hyper-realistic psychological horror game where you take on the role of a real estate agent with a client looking to sell you a property. Instead of a straightforward and quick interaction with the client, you find yourself thrust into a deeply unsettling and frightening situation.
Echoes of Absence
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Butler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Butler.
A narrative psychological horror game where you'll explore different environments and fragments of your past. Solve puzzles and uncover a truth some would rather forget.
Impermanence
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Butler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Butler.
A father. A condemned theatre. A son’s voice echoing from the beyond. Step into a narrative horror game about grief, obsession, and the act of holding on as a force older than grief pushes back.
AdventureSteam ↗Eclipse
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Butler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Butler.
Three friends known as The Ghost Hunters are documenting abandoned locations. What begins as a normal episode suddenly turns into a nightmare inside The Holloway Mansion. Something terrifying happens, leaving Jack to survive alone in the mansion and face the horrors.
Bionics - We Will Evolve
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Butler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Butler.
Take the role of Jonas Schmidt, a private investigator trapped in a deranged professor's house. Uncover the grim secrets of human experiments and grotesque machinery, all while solving puzzles and avoiding monstrous creations. Can you escape before you become the next test subject?
In The Backrooms
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Butler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Butler.
"God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you.."
The Strange Lights
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Butler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Butler.
You have arrived in a forest where people are rumored to disappear and strange things happen... Locals often see bright flashes and hear strange sounds...
Y. Village - The Visitors
WHY THIS
Shares exploration and atmospheric with The Butler.
Ranked #8 for The Butler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Butler.
Batu, tormented by nightmares, is lured to a nameless village via cryptic letters. Investigating the village's secrets with just one friend, he wakes one night to discover his ally gone. He must now locate his friend and elude the village's dark mysteries.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Butler at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under The Butler on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Butler.
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 ~58% under The Butler on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Butler.
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!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under The Butler on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Butler.
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!
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~59% under The Butler on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Butler.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under The Butler on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Butler.
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 ~58% under The Butler on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Butler.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under The Butler on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Butler.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Butler on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Butler.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
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 The Butler.
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 The Butler.
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 The Butler.
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 The Butler.
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 Butler.
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 The Butler.
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 The Butler.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about The Butler
- How much does The Butler cost?
- The Butler is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Butler?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Butler are Left Behind, Echoes of Absence, Impermanence.
- Who developed The Butler?
- The Butler was developed by TSGAMES LLC.
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 Butler.
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