Games like CITADEL
If CITADEL is your kind of game, the closest matches are A Summer with the Shiba Inu, Roadwarden and Basements n' Basilisks: Storms of Sorcery — 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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Players who liked CITADEL also play
Steam players who put hours into CITADEL 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.
A Summer with the Shiba Inu
WHY THIS
Top pick for CITADEL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with CITADEL.
Syd the Shiba Inu quits her job in Canine-da, and goes to fight other dogs on an Island. What could go wrong? Your choices matter - there are multiple drastic ways to change the fate of Shiba Island, with 10+ variants depending on how you treat the dogs you meet along the way.
Roadwarden
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for CITADEL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with CITADEL.
Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
Basements n' Basilisks: Storms of Sorcery
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for CITADEL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with CITADEL.
A visual novel paying satirical homage to the world’s greatest TTRPG. Make important choices, roll countless dice, build lasting relationships, explore magical lands and experience all the rest of the crap you expect from a fantasy game without the hassle of finding actual friends to play with!
This Is Not Your House
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for CITADEL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with CITADEL.
Crush someone's skull, Suffer from Hypothermia, Transcend your Mortal Frame, Find all 10 Endings. GET YOUR HOUSE BACK.
Decade
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for CITADEL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with CITADEL.
Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear. Seed new movements, destroy others. Subvert the rise and fall of empires, art, ideologies, and individuals in this experimental narrative game.
Vessels
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for CITADEL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with CITADEL.
Quarantined inside an airlock. No memories. No way out. The remaining crew thinks there’s something wrong with you, but the Voice says it’ll help you escape. Navigate volatile conversations & unravel mysteries in this narrative adventure about trust, self-destruction, & shifting identities.
Stiff Neck
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for CITADEL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with CITADEL.
A story about the self—and about others. A toy factory, several cursed dolls, and a horror novel… This quiet seaside town throws Noele's love life into chaos and dredges up the old wounds she has tried for years to forget.
KARMA: The Dark World
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for CITADEL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with CITADEL.
KARMA: The Dark World is a first-person cinematic psychological thriller set in a dystopian world where the Leviathan Corporation is omnipresent. The year is 1984, the place is East Germany, and things are not quite what they seem.
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 CITADEL.
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 CITADEL.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with CITADEL.
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 CITADEL.
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 with CITADEL.
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 CITADEL.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with CITADEL.
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.
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Frequently asked about CITADEL
- What games are most similar to CITADEL?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside CITADEL are A Summer with the Shiba Inu, Roadwarden, Basements n' Basilisks: Storms of Sorcery.
- Who developed CITADEL?
- CITADEL was developed by Liam Atkinson.
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 CITADEL.
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