Games like St. Mary's 1985
If St. Mary's 1985 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Peak or Die, The Test: Secrets of the Soul and Strange Antiquities — 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 St. Mary's 1985: You wake up on a red chair in the waiting room of a closed psychiatric hospital. You know this place. Clothes that aren't yours. A file with your name you don't remember reading. Your heartbeat rises. The memories come back. Not all of them want to be remembered. St. Mary's, 1985.
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Steam players who put hours into St. Mary's 1985 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.
Peak or Die
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Top pick for St. Mary's 1985 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with St. Mary's 1985.
Peak or Die is a narrative-driven survival game about leading a team of adventurers up a deadly mountain, where every decision has lasting consequences. Manage oxygen, food, and team morale while facing moral dilemmas, random events, and an unforgiving environment. Reach the summit — or fail trying.
The Test: Secrets of the Soul
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Second-strongest match for St. Mary's 1985 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with St. Mary's 1985.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."
Strange Antiquities
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Third-strongest match for St. Mary's 1985 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with St. Mary's 1985.
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!
The Advisor - Episode 1: Royal Pain
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Ranked #4 for St. Mary's 1985 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with St. Mary's 1985.
The Advisor Series is a player-driven narrative where your choices & decisions, both in the game, and out of the game, determine how future episodes unfold. Play the role of villain protagonist Magnus the Magician, as he wreaks havoc across the land, one well-placed fireball at a time!
Static Dread: The Lighthouse
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Ranked #5 for St. Mary's 1985 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with St. Mary's 1985.
Lovecraft meets Papers, Please. Play as a lighthouse keeper and guide ships safely into the harbor using your radio. Survive the presence of something impossible, and don’t let the shadows consume you!
The Casting of Frank Stone™
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Ranked #6 for St. Mary's 1985 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with St. Mary's 1985.
The shadow of Frank Stone looms over Cedar Hills, a town forever altered by his violent past. As a group of young friends are about to discover, Stone’s blood-soaked legacy cuts deep, leaving scars across families, generations, and the very fabric of reality itself.
The Gallery
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Ranked #7 for St. Mary's 1985 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with St. Mary's 1985.
An art curator is held hostage by a portraitist who threatens to detonate a bomb unless their demands are met. 'The Gallery' contains two interactive narratives - set in 1981 (with a female protagonist) and 2021 (with a male protagonist).
Saint Kotar
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Ranked #8 for St. Mary's 1985 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with St. Mary's 1985.
Saint Kotar is a psychological horror detective game set in a cursed valley in rural Croatia. Investigate the disappearance of your relative in the occult-ridden town of Sveti Kotar as you switch between conflicting realities through the eyes of two godly men.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with St. Mary's 1985.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with St. Mary's 1985.
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 St. Mary's 1985.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with St. Mary's 1985.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 St. Mary's 1985.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with St. Mary's 1985.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with St. Mary's 1985.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with St. Mary's 1985.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
The Test: Secrets of the Soul
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with St. Mary's 1985.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."
Strange Antiquities
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with St. Mary's 1985.
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!
Static Dread: The Lighthouse
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with St. Mary's 1985.
Lovecraft meets Papers, Please. Play as a lighthouse keeper and guide ships safely into the harbor using your radio. Survive the presence of something impossible, and don’t let the shadows consume you!
Frequently asked about St. Mary's 1985
- What games are most similar to St. Mary's 1985?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside St. Mary's 1985 are Peak or Die, The Test: Secrets of the Soul, Strange Antiquities.
- Who developed St. Mary's 1985?
- St. Mary's 1985 was developed by ci8bit.
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 St. Mary's 1985.
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