Games like Motherheart
If Motherheart is your kind of game, the closest matches are Wild East: The Straw Man, Paradise Killer and 浮游 — 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 Motherheart: Based on the concept album "When They Both Went Under" by Renting Asteroids, an unexpected call pulls you into the private world of a secluded writing circle following a tragedy. In this first-person point and click detective RPG, play as Carmen Voss, trace shared drafts, and survive surreal combat.
Players who liked Motherheart also play
Steam players who put hours into Motherheart 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.
Wild East: The Straw Man
WHY THIS
Top pick for Motherheart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Motherheart.
A 2D point-and-click mystery set in the wild 1990s of Slovakia and Czechia. As two young reporters, follow a dead straw man, missing files, locked doors, and paper trails into a case that was never meant to be opened.
Paradise Killer
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Motherheart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Motherheart.
Paradise Island, a world outside reality. There’s been a murder that only "investigation freak" Lady Love Dies can solve. Gather evidence and interrogate suspects in this open world adventure. You can accuse anyone, but you’ll have to prove your case in trial. It’s up to you to decide who’s guilty.
Heaven Does Not Respond
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Motherheart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Motherheart.
Heaven Does Not Respond is a psychological and analog horror game set in an alternate 2005 timeline. Play as an intelligence agent, exploring a retro computer interface to decipher secret files, watch mysterious videos, and uncover the dark secrets behind a young man's death.
Burden Street Station
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Ranked #5 for Motherheart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.
Hypnospace Outlaw
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Ranked #6 for Motherheart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Greetings Enforcer, and thank you for enlisting in the Hypnospace Patrol Department! As the world falls into its slumber, Hypnospace becomes a bustling global village. These virtual streets aren't going to police themselves!
Lord Winklebottom Investigates
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Motherheart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Motherheart.
It’s the 1920s and the world’s foremost detective is about to embark on his most challenging case yet. Thankfully, in this world that’s not quite like our own, there’s nobody better to crack the case than the great detective and gentleman giraffe, Lord Winklebottom.
Rainswept
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Motherheart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Motherheart.
Rainswept takes you on an emotional adventure in a small town shaken by a double shooting. Join Detective Stone and unravel a tangled web of love, relationships, and unresolved trauma in this character-driven murder mystery game.
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 Motherheart.
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.
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 Motherheart.
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 with Motherheart.
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 Motherheart.
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 with Motherheart.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Motherheart.
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 Motherheart
- What games are most similar to Motherheart?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Motherheart are Wild East: The Straw Man, Paradise Killer, 浮游.
- Who developed Motherheart?
- Motherheart was developed by Renting Asteroids.
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 Motherheart.
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