Games like Synapse
If Synapse is your kind of game, the closest matches are Pegasus: Broken Wings, VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action and Solace State: Emotional Cyberpunk Stories — 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 Synapse: A cyberpunk atmospheric thriller. Explore a city that measures your every feeling. Question the system, navigate dangerous connections, hack, survive, rely on emotional stimulants, and make choices with lasting consequences.
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Steam players who put hours into Synapse 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.
Pegasus: Broken Wings
WHY THIS
Top pick for Synapse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Synapse.
Follow a new set of events involving Pegasus-5 crew with them being stuck in a city under curfew after a terrorist attack and getting entangled in a massive conspiracy. Stick close to your allies, build romantic relations, and make important choices.
VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Synapse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Synapse.
VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action is a booze em' up about waifus, technology, and post-dystopia life.
Solace State: Emotional Cyberpunk Stories
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Synapse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Synapse.
Can you retain your humanity while fighting against a corporate biotech conspiracy? Play as the young hacker Chloe who confronts political plots as she fights for her friends and her neighbors. Your choices in building up relationships and communities can revolutionize into hope or hostility.
Nobody Wants to Die
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Synapse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Synapse.
Lose yourself in the dystopian world of New York, 2329; immortality comes at a price that someone has to pay. In this interactive noir story, lead the investigation using advanced technology, as Detective James Karra who risks it all in pursuit of a serial killer targeting the city’s elite.
Song of Farca
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Synapse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Synapse.
Hack into crime scenes, look for evidence, analyze data, interrogate criminals, track suspects and deal with the consequences of your decisions. This is a dark and brutal detective story with a Black Mirror-esque atmosphere of digital dominance and the narrative structure of a US crime procedural.
Loretta
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Synapse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Synapse.
Loretta is a psychological thriller that makes the player an accessory to the heroine’s crimes, leading her through a self-crafted nightmare. Loretta’s story revolves around a woman handling betrayal, her husband’s infidelity, and reclaiming her agency during the socially tumultuous 1940s.
Primordia
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Synapse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Synapse.
Life has ceased. Man is but a myth. And now, even the machines have begun to fail. Lead Horatio Nullbuilt and his sarcastic sidekick Crispin on a journey through the crumbling world of Primordia, facing malfunctioning robots, ancient secrets, and an implacable, power-hungry foe.
Home
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Synapse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Synapse.
Home is a unique horror adventure set in a beautifully-realized pixel world. It’s a murder mystery with a twist—because you decide what ultimately happens.
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 Synapse.
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 Synapse.
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 Synapse.
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 Synapse.
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 Synapse.
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 Synapse.
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 Synapse.
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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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Pegasus: Broken Wings
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Synapse.
Follow a new set of events involving Pegasus-5 crew with them being stuck in a city under curfew after a terrorist attack and getting entangled in a massive conspiracy. Stick close to your allies, build romantic relations, and make important choices.
Loretta
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Synapse.
Loretta is a psychological thriller that makes the player an accessory to the heroine’s crimes, leading her through a self-crafted nightmare. Loretta’s story revolves around a woman handling betrayal, her husband’s infidelity, and reclaiming her agency during the socially tumultuous 1940s.
Primordia
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Synapse.
Life has ceased. Man is but a myth. And now, even the machines have begun to fail. Lead Horatio Nullbuilt and his sarcastic sidekick Crispin on a journey through the crumbling world of Primordia, facing malfunctioning robots, ancient secrets, and an implacable, power-hungry foe.
Home
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Synapse.
Home is a unique horror adventure set in a beautifully-realized pixel world. It’s a murder mystery with a twist—because you decide what ultimately happens.
Frequently asked about Synapse
- What games are most similar to Synapse?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Synapse are Pegasus: Broken Wings, VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action, Solace State: Emotional Cyberpunk Stories.
- Who developed Synapse?
- Synapse was developed by SB Games.
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 Synapse.
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