Games like Desiderium
If Desiderium is your kind of game, the closest matches are Abode: Definitive Edition, TIMORE NARHELMA and .redruM — 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 Desiderium: A brief essay on desires and the consequences of having them. Feed an insaciable sovereign, explore surreal environments, and seek the hiddens ambitions within those who surround you.
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Abode: Definitive Edition
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Top pick for Desiderium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Desiderium.
Abode: Definitive Edition is the updated edition of Abode, it is a short walking simulator horror game, you are stuck in a loop going through a small house, when horror starts happening around you.
TIMORE NARHELMA
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Second-strongest match for Desiderium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Desiderium.
Timore Narhelma is a surreal experience about human mind and horrors within.
.redruM
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Third-strongest match for Desiderium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Desiderium.
.redruM is a psychological horror game blending realism and visual experimentation. Inspired by liminal spaces, backrooms, and real crime scenes, you play as a photographer uncovering the identity behind gruesome murders. .redruM is the red room where unshared photos are developed.
Tunnel Baby
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Ranked #4 for Desiderium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Desiderium.
On one rainy morning, Steve found a baby in a utility tunnel. He is not alone. Navigate eerie locales, solve puzzles, and face bizarre creatures to uncover a cosmic mystery in Tunnel Baby.
Carmencarmen
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Ranked #5 for Desiderium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Desiderium.
You wake up on the beach, with water crashing against your body. You don't remember anything, you don't know where you are, and everything hurts. The meaningless mass of flesh and metal seems to be breathing... It doesn't make sense, but it's breathing...
The Voss Clinic
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Ranked #6 for Desiderium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Desiderium.
A psychiatric hospital. 1986. The staff are dead. The doors are open. You have no memory of how you got here or why your name is on a patient file. No monsters. No combat. Only the silence of empty corridors, and the slow realization of what was done to you.
Escape From Lavender Island
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Ranked #7 for Desiderium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Desiderium.
Explore a dream that refuses to end. As Zede Aksis, wander a surreal city that feels both alive and liminal, filled with digital citizens and absurd infrastructure. Can you find an escape? A way out of a world that remembers you better than you remember it?
NIGHTSLINK
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Ranked #8 for Desiderium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Desiderium.
You are the Nightslink. Traverse abandoned roads under cover of night. Deliver cassette tapes in a post-apocalyptic world. An atmospheric retro-3D horror adventure.
Free alternatives
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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 Desiderium.
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.
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 with Desiderium.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Desiderium.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Desiderium.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Desiderium.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Desiderium.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Desiderium
- What games are most similar to Desiderium?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Desiderium are Abode: Definitive Edition, TIMORE NARHELMA, .redruM.
- Who developed Desiderium?
- Desiderium was developed by Mafagafos.
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