Games like The Unwelcomed
If The Unwelcomed is your kind of game, the closest matches are Escape Simulator, The Experiment: Escape Room and Mansion Mystery — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, eerie and immersive. 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 Unwelcomed: The Unwelcomed is an escape the room (EtR) type game created for VR and was inspired by such classics as Crimson Room. The Unwelcomed starts by inviting you to come to your late uncle's mansion to claim it as your own. Once you arrive, however, it's going to be hard to leave...
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Escape Simulator
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Shares puzzle logic and an atmospheric mood with The Unwelcomed.
Top pick for The Unwelcomed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Unwelcomed.
First-person puzzler you can play solo or in an online co-op. Explore a set of highly interactive escape rooms. Move furniture, pick up and examine everything, smash pots and break locks! Play thousands of community-made rooms through the level editor.
The Experiment: Escape Room
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Unwelcomed.
Second-strongest match for The Unwelcomed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Unwelcomed.
"The Experiment" is a multiplayer escape room puzzle game for virtual reality or desktop PC! You took part in an experiment that went out of control, can you escape the facilities before it's too late?
Mansion Mystery
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Unwelcomed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Unwelcomed.
Dive into 'Mansion Mystery,' an immersive VR puzzler. In a haunted mansion governed by real-world physics, ignite matches, shatter plates, solve intricate puzzles. Will you unravel the secrets and escape or be trapped forever?
The Puzzle Room VR ( Escape The Room )
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Ranked #4 for The Unwelcomed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Unwelcomed.
It is a VR Experience where you need to find clues to solve puzzles and find your way out of the Room. There are some items that can be grabbed and carried around. With some items you can interact (such as switches,piano and numpads).
Fixer Undercover
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Ranked #5 for The Unwelcomed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Unwelcomed.
Spy meets puzzler. Go undercover as a maintenance worker in a corrupt prison. Solve handcrafted puzzles sector by sector — with five tools, one drone sidekick, and zero backup. Think smart or hit hard.
Escape the Lab
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Ranked #6 for The Unwelcomed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Unwelcomed.
“Escape the Lab” – Virtual Reality experience of an Escape Room that focuses on realistic chemical experiments.
VR: Vacate the Room (Virtual Reality Escape)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Unwelcomed.
Ranked #7 for The Unwelcomed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Unwelcomed.
VR: Vacate the Room is a short Escape the Room game.It is a VR Experience where you need to find clues to solve puzzles and find your way out.
The Solus Project
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Unwelcomed.
Ranked #8 for The Unwelcomed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Unwelcomed.
The Solus Project is a single player exploration adventure with survival elements. The adventure is set on a mysterious planet and is the spiritual successor to The Ball - 2010 PC Gamer Action/Adventure Game Of The Year...
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Unwelcomed at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~67% under The Unwelcomed on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Unwelcomed.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~50% under The Unwelcomed on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Unwelcomed.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~67% under The Unwelcomed on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Unwelcomed.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Unwelcomed on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Unwelcomed.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
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Priced ~67% under The Unwelcomed on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Unwelcomed.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~67% under The Unwelcomed on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Unwelcomed.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Unwelcomed on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Unwelcomed.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Unwelcomed.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Unwelcomed.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Cube Escape: Paradox
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Unwelcomed.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
The Supper
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Unwelcomed.
The Supper is a short adventure game about the darkest side of the human soul. Ms. Appleton was always a wellspring of kindness, until The Voice started talking to her.
Samsara Room
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Unwelcomed.
You woke up in a mysterious room you have never seen before. Can you find another way out? Samsara Room is a remake of the praised predecessor of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Unwelcomed.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Waltz of the Wizard (Legacy demo)
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Unwelcomed.
Store page for the legacy demo of Waltz of the Wizard created as a prototype to showcase the power of room-scale VR. Please find the full product in the description below.
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Frequently asked about The Unwelcomed
- How much does The Unwelcomed cost?
- The Unwelcomed is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Unwelcomed?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Unwelcomed are Escape Simulator, The Experiment: Escape Room, Mansion Mystery.
- Who developed The Unwelcomed?
- The Unwelcomed was developed by The Unwelcomed Studios, Isolation Inc and published by The Unwelcomed Studios.
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