Games like Protocol 86: Chernobyl
If Protocol 86: Chernobyl is your kind of game, the closest matches are s.p.l.i.t, exorSYS and Finish Report — 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 Protocol 86: Chernobyl: A terminal-driven psychological horror puzzle set in a secret Soviet underground research facility built after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Survive in procedurally shifting sectors using only the terminal. Type ‘help’ to begin.
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s.p.l.i.t
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Top pick for Protocol 86: Chernobyl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Protocol 86: Chernobyl.
A short psychological horror game, where you attempt to gain root access into an unethical superstructure.
exorSYS
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Second-strongest match for Protocol 86: Chernobyl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Protocol 86: Chernobyl.
After upgrading to a new Operating System, uncover the mystery behind this cursed piece of software. Keen eyed users must take a careful note of their surroundings if they want to survive.
Finish Report
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Third-strongest match for Protocol 86: Chernobyl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Protocol 86: Chernobyl.
Finish Report is a short science fiction horror game. All communications have been lost to a space station far in deep space. You as a one-man investigation unit has been sent to find out why did the station go silent.
BACKUP_71
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Ranked #4 for Protocol 86: Chernobyl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Protocol 86: Chernobyl.
A psychological horror investigation and survival game where you explore a house full of secrets, faces the living unkow, solve puzzles, use a fully interactive retro computer, and uncover a decades-old conspiracy.
False Echo
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Ranked #5 for Protocol 86: Chernobyl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Protocol 86: Chernobyl.
False Echo is a narrative cryptography thriller set in the darkest depths of the Atlantic, aboard a secret military submarine. Operate the Obscura machine, decode messages, and decide what gets through in a regime where even the smallest mistake means a huge death toll.
Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War
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Ranked #6 for Protocol 86: Chernobyl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Protocol 86: Chernobyl.
Crisis in the Kremlin is a global real-time political strategy about the Socialist world in its final decade. Shape the fate of the world as you manage economy, foreign relations, and domestic policy. Engage with countries across the globe, using diplomacy or even proxy wars to expand your reach.
Crisis in the Kremlin
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Ranked #7 for Protocol 86: Chernobyl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Protocol 86: Chernobyl.
Don’t let the Soviet Union collapse, and fall in the darkness of history or lead the Union by a new path – democracy and free market! But before you decide something, think – wouldn’t it cause more harm than good?
Precipice
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Protocol 86: Chernobyl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Protocol 86: Chernobyl.
A game of diplomacy and war in the atomic age. Safeguard your closest allies and change unfavorable regimes without giving away your long-term ambitions. Every action risks an enemy reprisal, and if nobody backs down from a standoff, we all lose.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Protocol 86: Chernobyl.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Protocol 86: Chernobyl.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Protocol 86: Chernobyl.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Protocol 86: Chernobyl.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Protocol 86: Chernobyl.
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.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Protocol 86: Chernobyl.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Protocol 86: Chernobyl.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Protocol 86: Chernobyl.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
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Frequently asked about Protocol 86: Chernobyl
- What games are most similar to Protocol 86: Chernobyl?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Protocol 86: Chernobyl are s.p.l.i.t, exorSYS, Finish Report.
- Who developed Protocol 86: Chernobyl?
- Protocol 86: Chernobyl was developed by Core Interactive.
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