Games like Sterile Childhood: Case 17
If Sterile Childhood: Case 17 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Chinese Strange Stories, Project Serial and Rogue Reigns — 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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Chinese Strange Stories
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Top pick for Sterile Childhood: Case 17 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sterile Childhood: Case 17.
Step into a living Chinese painting that blends the mystical, supernatural, and the struggles of daily life in the final years of the Ming dynasty. Experience a unique mix of classic turn-based RPG mechanics and dynamic card battling, where strategy and fate intertwine.
Project Serial
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Second-strongest match for Sterile Childhood: Case 17 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sterile Childhood: Case 17.
This city eats people. Don the mask of a serial killer in this deckbuilding roguelike interactive story-based RPG. Become The Loner and explore the rhetoric of your mind, defuse gangs and psychopaths, massacre your enemies, and unravel the secrets of the city.
Rogue Reigns
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Third-strongest match for Sterile Childhood: Case 17 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sterile Childhood: Case 17.
Rogue Reigns is a dark fantasy roguelike deckbuilder about trust and sacrifice. Lead selfish antiheroes through a world where death is no more, and something still hunts them. Build synergies that bind them or rivalries that break them. Nobody dies, some are sacrificed, but everybody is condemned.
Webs of Reverie
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Ranked #4 for Sterile Childhood: Case 17 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Sterile Childhood: Case 17.
Webs of Reverie is a first-person Survival horror game where you must explore the halls of Ironveil Psychiatric Hospital, solving puzzles, avoid detection from the staff, and managing your sanity levels. Will you decipher the clues and safely escape or fall victim to what hides in the shadows?
Battle Suit Aces
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Ranked #5 for Sterile Childhood: Case 17 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Sterile Childhood: Case 17.
Battle Suit Aces is a Saturday morning cartoon where you're at the helm! Grow your roster of charming mech pilots as you immerse yourself in thrilling story missions and charge into card combat. Suit Up!
THE SPIRIT LIFT
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Ranked #6 for Sterile Childhood: Case 17 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Sterile Childhood: Case 17.
A retro horror deckbuilder roguelike set in a haunted hotel in the 1990s. Choose your teens, explore and fight! If you die rewind the night!
Strange Antiquities
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Ranked #7 for Sterile Childhood: Case 17 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sterile Childhood: Case 17.
Become the custodian of a store dealing in occult antiquities. Explore the quaint and gloomy town of Undermere, where strange goings-on and dark mysteries abound. Find and identify arcane artefacts, use your collection to aid the townsfolk with their unusual problems — and remember to pet your cat!
Hadean Tactics
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Sterile Childhood: Case 17 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Sterile Childhood: Case 17.
Hadean Tactics is a roguelike deckbuilding game fused with autobattler elements to create a unique strategy experience. Use your cards to influence the actions of your units and help your Hero defeat the Six Wings of Hell!
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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 Sterile Childhood: Case 17.
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 Sterile Childhood: Case 17.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sterile Childhood: Case 17.
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 Sterile Childhood: Case 17.
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 Sterile Childhood: Case 17.
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 Sterile Childhood: Case 17.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sterile Childhood: Case 17.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sterile Childhood: Case 17.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Battle Suit Aces
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Sterile Childhood: Case 17.
Battle Suit Aces is a Saturday morning cartoon where you're at the helm! Grow your roster of charming mech pilots as you immerse yourself in thrilling story missions and charge into card combat. Suit Up!
Strange Antiquities
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sterile Childhood: Case 17.
Become the custodian of a store dealing in occult antiquities. Explore the quaint and gloomy town of Undermere, where strange goings-on and dark mysteries abound. Find and identify arcane artefacts, use your collection to aid the townsfolk with their unusual problems — and remember to pet your cat!
Hadean Tactics
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Sterile Childhood: Case 17.
Hadean Tactics is a roguelike deckbuilding game fused with autobattler elements to create a unique strategy experience. Use your cards to influence the actions of your units and help your Hero defeat the Six Wings of Hell!
Frequently asked about Sterile Childhood: Case 17
- What games are most similar to Sterile Childhood: Case 17?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Sterile Childhood: Case 17 are Chinese Strange Stories, Project Serial, Rogue Reigns.
- Who developed Sterile Childhood: Case 17?
- Sterile Childhood: Case 17 was developed by IterativeBrain.
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