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Games like The Retro Exorcist

If The Retro Exorcist is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Light at the End of the Ocean, Placebo Love and Jurnal Risa: Dark Destiny — 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 The Retro Exorcist: You've been hired to perform exorcisms on all sorts of entities. The only thing you can't seem to understand is...why do they all haunt video games?

2026IndieFree To PlayCasualFree to playWindowsby Chestpain Studios
The Retro Exorcist — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into The Retro Exorcist 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 Light at the End of the Ocean

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for The Retro Exorcist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Retro Exorcist.

    A point-and-click visual novel about unlikely friendship and loss of identity

    2020IndieAdventureCasual7.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Placebo Love

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for The Retro Exorcist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Retro Exorcist.

    A lonely young man is guided by a silent Muse to solve the mystery behind his two Doppelganger Soulmates.

    2021IndieCasual8.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Jurnal Risa: Dark Destiny

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Retro Exorcist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Retro Exorcist.

    Witness the resurrection of the foretold nemesis of the Jurnal Risa family, which was never revealed before. Unveil its dark destiny within this horror-adventure game. This is all about family. Tale of Jurnal Risa, as recounted to me by Risa herself.

    2025IndieAdventure12.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Scarlet Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for The Retro Exorcist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Retro Exorcist.

    Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.

    2021IndieAdventureRPG24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Kurokami-sama's Feast

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The Retro Exorcist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with The Retro Exorcist.

    An adventure visual novel following an unlucky trio who find themselves hunting monsters for the powerful being known as Kurokami-sama.

    2022AdventureCasual6.49 USDSteam ↗
  6. The Jewel of Monostructure

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for The Retro Exorcist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Retro Exorcist.

    Sanator: The Jewel of Monostructure is a dark fantasy visual novel that combines deep lore with exciting adventures. Who is behind the mysterious thefts and why are the gates of the Monostructure open again? Take control of Richard Murdock, the plague doctor, and find the answer.

    2021IndieAdventure2.03 USDSteam ↗
  7. start;again

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for The Retro Exorcist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Retro Exorcist.

    A BL/yaoi mystery visual novel that follows a man named Sebastian as he’s forced into a game of life-or-death, alongside three strangers. Who put him there, and more importantly… who can he trust?

    2022IndieSimulation5.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. MAMIYA

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for The Retro Exorcist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with The Retro Exorcist.

    MAMIYA is a captivating, dark mystery visual novel in which a group of young men struggle against existential dread before the end of the world.

    2021ActionAdventureCasual19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Retro Exorcist

Is The Retro Exorcist free to play?
Yes — The Retro Exorcist is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
What games are most similar to The Retro Exorcist?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Retro Exorcist are The Light at the End of the Ocean, Placebo Love, Jurnal Risa: Dark Destiny.
Who developed The Retro Exorcist?
The Retro Exorcist was developed by Chestpain 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 Retro Exorcist.

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