Games like The Ladder
If The Ladder is your kind of game, the closest matches are Apartment 22, MIRROR MIRROR and Not My Son — 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 The Ladder: A first-person psychological horror with walking simulator elements, where every decision has consequences. Ascend a staircase of memories, reliving key moments of a life shaped by guilt, fear, and inner judgment in a dark, surreal world with multiple endings.
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Apartment 22
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Top pick for The Ladder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ladder.
Apartment 22 is a bite-sized horror game about being trapped in a loop. You look out for clues left by the previous resident or possibly by you to escape the apartment.
MIRROR MIRROR
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Ladder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ladder.
MIRROR MIRROR is a first-person psychological horror game. You repeatedly find yourself in a house where you find presence of unknown entities. Go through unreal experiences in the house and uncover the secrets of your fractured mind. Experience the tension and fear in the repeating space.
Not My Son
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Third-strongest match for The Ladder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ladder.
A psychological horror game where a stepfather is left alone with a disturbing child. Explore a quiet house, face growing nightmares, and piece together the truth behind the boy’s behavior.
Forest 6174
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Ranked #4 for The Ladder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ladder.
A brief narrative-driven psychological horror experience in first person (no jumpscares, story and dialogue-focused). You play as Danny, who is unexpectedly summoned to receive a break from his daily routine... However, things start to look out of place once you get deeper into the forest.
Dreamless
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Ranked #5 for The Ladder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ladder.
In a remote provincial town, teenagers mysteriously disappear every 25 years. You're a high school student about to turn 18... But what if you become the next victim?
The Street 10
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Ranked #6 for The Ladder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ladder.
Caught in an infinite alley, look for Street 10 to find your way out.
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Ranked #7 for The Ladder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ladder.
A story of a father and a daughter. Explore a suburban street trapped in a single, repeating night. Follow dream sequences, collect missing sins, and make choices that shape what happens next. No jumpscares. No monsters. This isn’t a haunting. This is devotion.
Seen Before
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Ranked #8 for The Ladder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ladder.
You agreed to play three games with the devil to fulfill your wishes. Detect anomalies in environments trapped in a loop and choose the right door. Reign in your fears and move toward your goal!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Ladder at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~59% under The Ladder on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ladder.
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?
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~59% under The Ladder on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Ladder.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
shapez
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Priced ~59% under The Ladder on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Ladder.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~59% under The Ladder on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Ladder.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
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Priced ~59% under The Ladder on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Ladder.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
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Priced ~59% under The Ladder on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Ladder.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
TYRONE vs COPS
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Priced ~59% under The Ladder on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Ladder.
Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.
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 Ladder.
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 Ladder.
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 The Ladder.
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 Ladder.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Ladder.
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 Ladder.
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 Ladder.
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 Ladder
- How much does The Ladder cost?
- The Ladder is listed on Steam at 2.39 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Ladder?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Ladder are Apartment 22, MIRROR MIRROR, Not My Son.
- Who developed The Ladder?
- The Ladder was developed by RunG215.
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 Ladder.
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