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Games like The Lost Study

If The Lost Study is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Attic: A Mystery Puzzle Game, Crime O'Clock and Detective From The Crypt — 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.

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About The Lost Study: A forgotten study. Lost because no one remembers it. Solve puzzles, recover stories, and restore it — one chapter at a time. 14 stories, 14 worlds. Cozy, eerie, funny, and strange. They seem completely unrelated. Until they're not.

2027IndieAdventureWindows · macOSby SONAK : Story Design Project
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Players who liked The Lost Study also play

Steam players who put hours into The Lost Study 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.

  1. The Attic: A Mystery Puzzle Game

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for The Lost Study fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Lost Study.

    Help Jess to organize, repair and restore retro objects - cassettes, cartridges, cameras - while you solve riddles and puzzles hidden in an attic full of memories. A cozy story with hints of mystery where you'll unveil who Matt really was and who Destiny was.

    2026IndieCasualSteam ↗
  2. Crime O'Clock

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for The Lost Study fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Lost Study.

    Crime O'Clock is a hidden objects investigation and time exploration game with a deep storyline. Investigate cases through time and evolving maps by unveiling a multi-eras linked story. Will you be observant enough to solve the mysteries? Crime waits for no man!

    2023IndieAdventureCasual19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Detective From The Crypt

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Lost Study fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Lost Study.

    Jane wakes up in a crypt as a ghost. You are investigating the death of her family together. Seeking and researching evidences. Building an accusation based on them. You have a laboratory to research evidences. Play and get the feeling of being a true Victorian detective.

    2021IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Strange Antiquities

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for The Lost Study fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Lost Study.

    Become the custodian of a store dealing in occult antiquities. Explore the quaint and gloomy town of Undermere, where strange goings-on and dark mysteries abound. Find and identify arcane artefacts, use your collection to aid the townsfolk with their unusual problems — and remember to pet your cat!

    2025IndieAdventureSimulation17.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Follow the meaning

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The Lost Study fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Lost Study.

    Follow the meaning is a surreal point-and-click puzzle adventure. Join detective Paul Trilby as he works to unravel the mysteries of a peculiar town, seemingly ruled by the local Hospital. Over the wall and behind tightly shut gates, a dark secret lies in wait…

    2024IndieAdventure4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. 混世萌王喵霸霸 Cute Chaos Demon Nyanbaba

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for The Lost Study fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Lost Study.

    The super cute villain Nyanbaba is back again! This time, meow bully invaded 10 new scenes, found all the strange hidden points and cracked the magic of cat ear Nyanbaba! Contains jump out shock (cute)! And super cute Chinese dubbing! More scenes, more voice, more joy!

    2022IndieCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. 101 Cats

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for The Lost Study fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Lost Study.

    Join this adventure and discover the hiding places of 101 kittens 🐾 hand-crafted landscape. 🏆 Earn lots of achievements. How many 😺 can you find? 🔎 Be quick! ⏱️

    2024IndieCasual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. 101 Cats in Dubai

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for The Lost Study fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Lost Study.

    Join this adventure and discover the hiding places of 101 kittens 🐾 in the hand-crafted Dubai landscape. 🏆 Earn lots of achievements. How many 😺 can you find? 🔎 Be quick! ⏱️

    2024IndieCasual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Lost Study.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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 Lost Study.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Lost Study.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 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 Lost Study.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. 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 Lost Study.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Lost Study.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Lost Study.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Lost Study.

    Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Lost Study

What games are most similar to The Lost Study?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Lost Study are The Attic: A Mystery Puzzle Game, Crime O'Clock, Detective From The Crypt.
Who developed The Lost Study?
The Lost Study was developed by SONAK : Story Design Project.

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 Lost Study.

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