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Games like Cluemates

If Cluemates is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Anomaly Department, Symbols and Feel and Guess — 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 Cluemates: 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.

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Cluemates — Steam game cover

Players who liked Cluemates also play

Steam players who put hours into Cluemates 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 Anomaly Department

    WHY THIS

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

    Observe. Patrol. Report. Spot anomalies with your team in tense, bite-sized rounds. Wrong votes trigger chaotic punishments and unexpected consequences.

    2026IndieSimulation7.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Symbols

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    IndieAdventureCasualSteam ↗
  3. Feel and Guess

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Cluemates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cluemates.

    This is a casual puzzle game where you use your mouse to touch objects in the dark. While enjoying ASMR-like sound feedback, you draw what you've "felt," and then guess—what exactly did you just "touch"?

    StrategyIndieCasualSteam ↗
  4. The Enigma Cases

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Cluemates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Cluemates.

    Uncover the truth behind America’s most mysterious murders of the 2000s in a 1–4 player co-op detective experience. Use special equipment to find hidden clues, track suspects in an open world, and interrogate them at the police station.

    ActionAdventureRPGSteam ↗
  5. Happy Lane: The Threshold

    WHY THIS

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

    A 1–4 player co-op horror puzzle game where every door is a decision. Read the clues, follow the rules, and choose carefully inside a research facility that rebuilds itself every run. Pick the wrong door—and whatever is waiting in the dark comes for you.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  6. SO BELOW

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Cluemates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cluemates.

    Do you love ghost hunting with friends? Do you love the thrill of a crucifix burning in your hand as you exorcize ancient spirits? Do you wish you could become a ghost yourself and scare your fellow hunters? Well, then SO BELOW is for you.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure9.59 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Footsteps in the Dark

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Cluemates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cluemates.

    Footsteps in the Dark is an asymmetric first-person horror (1v1-4v1). Find clues, gather tools, and finish the right ritual to kill the monster - before it kills you.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  8. The Outer Islands

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Cluemates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Cluemates.

    Explore a quarantined island chain and an automated hospital abandoned for twenty years. Investigate a returning signal, read the evidence left behind, solve mechanical systems, and evade machines that still believe they have patients.

    AdventureSteam ↗

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 and Casual with Cluemates.

    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 Cluemates.

    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. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

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

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. 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 Cluemates.

    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 ↗
  7. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Cluemates

Does Cluemates have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Cluemates supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
What games are most similar to Cluemates?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cluemates are The Anomaly Department, Symbols, Feel and Guess.
Who developed Cluemates?
Cluemates was developed by Cluemates.

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 Cluemates.

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