Games like The Tape: Origins
If The Tape: Origins is your kind of game, the closest matches are DREADROOM, Deepscape Inc and Room 817: Director's Cut — 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 Tape: Origins: The clock is ticking. Investigate real found footage, uncover the cult's secrets, and solve escape-room puzzles to escape the hotel before they return to sacrifice you.
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DREADROOM
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Top pick for The Tape: Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Tape: Origins.
It was supposed to be just a funny escape room experience... until you realize the incredible truth. In this tense horror puzzle-adventure, solve complex mechanisms, navigate deadly corridors and evade terrifying entities lurking in the dark, while trying to find the true exit.
Deepscape Inc
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Second-strongest match for The Tape: Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Tape: Origins.
2 to 4 player co-op horror game. You wake up marked with an ID number you can't see on your own back. Only your fellow inmates can read it. Find each other, share your numbers, reach your validation rooms, and get out before whatever roams the halls finds you first." en francais
Room 817: Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Tape: Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Tape: Origins.
Welcome to one of the scariest old-school horror games. Here, you're not the predator, but the prey. Any mistake will cost you your life. Hide, solve puzzles, explore, and embrace the inevitable terror. The Ancient horror lurks, awaiting you. Based on true events.
Papa
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Ranked #5 for The Tape: Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Tape: Origins.
Years after escaping your childhood home, you return to visit your dying father one last time. As strange events unfold, memories of the past begin to blur with reality.
iBLiS
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Ranked #6 for The Tape: Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Tape: Origins.
Demon is a first-person psychological horror game. How much can a game affect your real life? Enjoy a realistic home environment and terrifying moments of being immersed in a real-life story.
[SUBJECT]
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Ranked #7 for The Tape: Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Tape: Origins.
[SUBJECT] is a first-person psychological horror game. You wake up confused in a dark room, not knowing where you are. The last thing you remember is a robotic voice echoing through you ears. How you got here or why is unclear, but you do know one thing: You're being watched.
The Stalked 2
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Ranked #8 for The Tape: Origins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Tape: Origins.
"The Stalked 2" is a standalone horror sequel to "The Stalked", where you play as Rachel, an avid hiker. What begins as a relaxing hike to a cabin turns into a nightmare filled with eerie interactions and unsettling events. Will you survive?
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Free alternatives
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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 The Tape: Origins.
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 The Tape: Origins.
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 Tape: Origins.
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 The Tape: Origins.
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 with The Tape: Origins.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 The Tape: Origins.
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 The Tape: Origins.
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 Tape: Origins
- What games are most similar to The Tape: Origins?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Tape: Origins are DREADROOM, Deepscape Inc, Room 817: Director's Cut.
- Who developed The Tape: Origins?
- The Tape: Origins was developed by Alex X and published by Tiny Cup Studios.
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 Tape: Origins.
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