Games like Symbols
If Symbols is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cluemates, FILENDS and 100 Cats Lost In Japan Find & Color — 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 Symbols: Every clue tells a different story. Investigate intriguing cases, uncover hidden details, and piece together the mystery step by step — alone or with someone who sees what you can’t. Each player uncovers different clues, so follow every lead until the truth reveals itself.
Players who liked Symbols also play
Steam players who put hours into Symbols 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.
Cluemates
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Top pick for Symbols fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Symbols.
A co-op puzzle game where you and your friends explore maps, search for clues, and try to crack a hidden color sequence. Half the clues are fake. All of your friends will be wrong. Good luck.
FILENDS
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Symbols fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Symbols.
FILENDS is a dark multiplayer riddle-solving game for 2-7 players. Work together to solve levels filled with murder mysteries and tragic tales. Use environmental clues and real-time chat to uncover the truth. Will you solve the riddles or become a part of them?
100 Cats Lost In Japan Find & Color
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Symbols fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Symbols.
🐱 Discover 100 hidden cats 🌍 in handcrafted scenes that capture the spirit of each country. Relax with color-by-numbers 🎨 and bring illustrations to life. Play solo or in cozy co-op 👯♂️, while Meow FM 🎶 sets the mood.
Vincent's Horror Story
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Ranked #4 for Symbols fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Symbols.
In Vincent's Horror Story, players are immersed in a spine-chilling and bizarre atmosphere teeming with frightening monsters and mind-bending challenges.
Escape Memoirs: Mansion Heist
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Ranked #5 for Symbols fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Symbols.
"Escape Memoirs: Mansion Heist" is a co-operative atmospheric reverse escape-room puzzle game. You are a master thief who has been hired to rob a mysterious mansion, filled with various puzzles. Do you think you have what it takes to conquer the challenges that await you in the mansion.
King's Detectives
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Ranked #6 for Symbols fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Symbols.
King’s Detectives is a 2–4 player co-op detective game set in the fictional medieval kingdom of Westmoor. Appointed by King Edmund IV, explore castles, monasteries, villages, and towns, gather evidence, question suspects, and uncover the truth.
Escape First 2
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Ranked #7 for Symbols fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Symbols.
"Escape First 2" is the second installment of a multiplayer escape room puzzle game for virtual reality or desktop PC! It includes 3 different escape rooms to choose from and can be played competitively, co-op or solo.
Granny: Escape Together
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Ranked #8 for Symbols fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Symbols.
This is a creepy co-op horror game. In which you find yourself locked in a crazy Granny's house. But Granny is not the only danger that awaits you in the house, someone else creepy lives in the basement. You have five days to get out of the house!
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 and Casual with Symbols.
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 Symbols.
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 Symbols.
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 and Casual with Symbols.
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 Symbols.
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 Symbols.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Symbols.
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.
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Frequently asked about Symbols
- Does Symbols have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Symbols supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Symbols?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Symbols are Cluemates, FILENDS, 100 Cats Lost In Japan Find & Color.
- Who developed Symbols?
- Symbols was developed by Blizz Haeden.
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 Symbols.
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