Games like PataNoir
If PataNoir is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Last Voyage of the SS Aurelia, Blake: The Visual Novel and Sarawak — 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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The Last Voyage of the SS Aurelia
WHY THIS
Top pick for PataNoir fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with PataNoir.
An interrogation mystery aboard a 1936 ocean liner. Five suspects. One murder. No dialogue options — every suspect is powered by AI and will remember every word, deflect every question, and only surrender their secrets under pressure. Four voyages. One truth. Break someone.
Blake: The Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for PataNoir fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with PataNoir.
Graphic Novel meets Visual Novel in this story-rich, choice-driven thriller. Experience Blake’s journey as he encounters a clandestine nemesis, sparking a series of events that force him to choose between losing his sanity or rising to the challenge. Make the right decisions and save New Stone.
Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for PataNoir fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with PataNoir.
A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
Tangle Tower
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for PataNoir fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with PataNoir.
Unravel a thrilling mystery by exploring a strange and twisted mansion, discovering curious clues, interrogating peculiar suspects and solving unique puzzles. Will you be able to uncover the secrets of Tangle Tower?
The Silver Case
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for PataNoir fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with PataNoir.
The Silver Case – the debut title from world-renowned developer SUDA51 has been fully remastered and localized to English for the first time ever!
Uncover the Smoking Gun
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for PataNoir fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with PataNoir.
A Battle of Wits with AI: Solve the case by conversing with a suspect robot using GPT to gather evidence. What single truth emerges from countless dialogues and pieces of information?
This Bed We Made
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for PataNoir fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with PataNoir.
This Bed We Made is a third-person mystery game in which you play as a maid in a 1950s hotel and snoop around strangers' rooms to uncover their deadly secrets. Discover what links guests together in this tale of love, heartbreak and murder!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below PataNoir at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under PataNoir on Steam right now. Shares Indie with PataNoir.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under PataNoir on Steam right now. Shares Indie with PataNoir.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under PataNoir on Steam right now. Shares Indie with PataNoir.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under PataNoir on Steam right now. Shares Indie with PataNoir.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under PataNoir on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with PataNoir.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under PataNoir on Steam right now. Shares Indie with PataNoir.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under PataNoir on Steam right now. Shares Indie with PataNoir.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under PataNoir on Steam right now. Shares Indie with PataNoir.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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 PataNoir.
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 PataNoir.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with PataNoir.
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 PataNoir.
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 PataNoir.
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 PataNoir.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with PataNoir.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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Frequently asked about PataNoir
- How much does PataNoir cost?
- PataNoir is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to PataNoir?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside PataNoir are The Last Voyage of the SS Aurelia, Blake: The Visual Novel, Sarawak.
- Who developed PataNoir?
- PataNoir was developed by Simon Christiansen and published by SiChris Productions.
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 PataNoir.
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