Games like The Listener
If The Listener is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hermit Computer, Duty Guvnor and Eternal Affairs — 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 The Listener: "The Listener is a first-person investigation game. Play as a Yugoslav radio amateur at the height of the Cold War. Use your equipment to pick up mysterious transmissions, analyze cryptic messages, and gather hidden clues to uncover a sinister conspiracy"
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Steam players who put hours into The Listener 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.
Hermit Computer
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Top pick for The Listener fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with The Listener.
Hermit Computer is a horror-puzzle game set in 2001. Deep within the Hermit Kingdom, you play as an outsider tasked with extracting critical intelligence using a secretive state-controlled computer operating system.
Duty Guvnor
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Second-strongest match for The Listener fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with The Listener.
A darkly comic, turn-based roguelike of 1970s London police night duty. Dispatch your few constables, fill your four cells, back gambles over the radio — and keep the streets safe until 06:00. Every shift deals fresh trouble, and every choice follows your career. Just make it through the week.
Eternal Affairs
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Third-strongest match for The Listener fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Recover a stolen artifact and lose your heart as a secret magical agent! Can you uncover an arcane conspiracy before the clock runs out? An interactive, text-based magical romance novel.
Black File
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Ranked #4 for The Listener fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with The Listener.
Istanbul, after midnight. Black File is a noir detective game: investigate crime scenes, examine evidence in 3D — rotate it, zoom in, read the back — then use what you find to break a suspect's story.
The Darkest Files
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Ranked #5 for The Listener fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with The Listener.
Germany, 1956. The war is over, but justice is not served. Former Nazis walk free, while their victims lie in unmarked graves. As a prosecutor, you'll unearth long-buried evidence, confront witnesses and hunt down perpetrators. Will you have the courage to bring these "ordinary men" to court?
Nobodies: After Death
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Ranked #6 for The Listener fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with The Listener.
Nobodies: After Death is a puzzling point-and-click adventure in cleaning up dirty work. After your agency takes out a target, you make the evidence disappear without a trace. Find a way to get in, get out, and leave no bodies behind.
The Operator
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Ranked #7 for The Listener fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with The Listener.
Welcome to the FDI. As our newest Operator, your role is to use your detective skills to assist our field agents and investigate mysterious crimes. Use cutting-edge FDI software to dig for clues, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth.
Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged
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Ranked #8 for The Listener fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with The Listener.
The classic multi-award winning adventure "Broken Sword - the Shadow of the Templars" returns with glorious 4K visuals and iconic remastered audio, pitching intrepid tourist George Stobbart and fearless journalist Nico Collard into a journey of perilous adventures and ancient conspiracies.
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The Darkest Files
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation with The Listener.
Germany, 1956. The war is over, but justice is not served. Former Nazis walk free, while their victims lie in unmarked graves. As a prosecutor, you'll unearth long-buried evidence, confront witnesses and hunt down perpetrators. Will you have the courage to bring these "ordinary men" to court?
The Operator
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation with The Listener.
Welcome to the FDI. As our newest Operator, your role is to use your detective skills to assist our field agents and investigate mysterious crimes. Use cutting-edge FDI software to dig for clues, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth.
Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Casual with The Listener.
The classic multi-award winning adventure "Broken Sword - the Shadow of the Templars" returns with glorious 4K visuals and iconic remastered audio, pitching intrepid tourist George Stobbart and fearless journalist Nico Collard into a journey of perilous adventures and ancient conspiracies.
Frequently asked about The Listener
- Is The Listener free to play?
- Yes — The Listener 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 Listener?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Listener are Hermit Computer, Duty Guvnor, Eternal Affairs.
- Who developed The Listener?
- The Listener was developed by False Start and published by ARTFX - GAME .
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 Listener.
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