Games like The Hex
If The Hex is your kind of game, the closest matches are Pony Island, When eyes close and Get In Timelessness — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its rich narrative, unique storytelling approach and varied gameplay experiences. 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 →The Hex is an indie game released in 2018 by Daniel Mullins Games, featuring a unique narrative structure where players explore six different characters' perspectives. Each character's storyline offers distinctly different gameplay genres, creating non-linear progression that reviewers note provides varied experiences. Players describe the atmosphere as immersive and unsettling, with the narrative approach and rich storytelling being highlighted as key strengths. The game, priced at $9.99 and playable on Steam Deck, has received a 95% positive rating from over 2,300 Steam reviews, blending psychological horror with dark humor across its medium-length adventure.
About The Hex: In a creaky old tavern, in a forgotten corner of the video-game universe, a storm is raging. An anonymous caller suggests that there is a murder plot. Six video game protagonists are the only plausible suspects...
Players who liked The Hex also play
Steam players who put hours into The Hex 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.
Pony Island
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Hex.
Top pick for The Hex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Hex.
Pony Island is a suspense puzzle game in disguise. You are in limbo, trapped in a malevolent and malfunctioning arcade machine devised by the devil himself. It is not a game about ponies.
When eyes close
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Hex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Hex.
When did you become a monster? In this nightmare, everyone is guilty. Everyone has a secret. A demon will make you remember what you did. Piece together your shattered past in a detective psychological horror and... WAKE UP!
Get In Timelessness
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Hex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Hex.
A psychological horror about a man who, by the will of fate — or a joke of chance — had to face the unthinkable. Sometimes a person looks into the abyss. Sometimes the abyss looks at you. And sometimes... She turns out to be Hungry.
Facility 386
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Hex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Hex.
Facility 386 is a horror game where you have to use your hearing to survive. With stereo sound, you can hear the direction of the danger and avoid it. It is recommended to play with headphones.
Alter Animus
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Hex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Hex.
Alter Animus is a turn-based RPG with horror elements, mysteries to unveil and a character-driven narrative. It's up to you if these unforeseen and unthinkable circumstances make these people truly come together or if they succumb to the consequences of their actions.
Midnight Train: New Moon
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Hex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Hex.
A 2D exploration-based horror adventure game set in a creepy train and mysterious buildings.
KOEWOTAYORINI SP / 声之寄托SP
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Hex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Hex.
Escape by means of "Voice"! The second installment of the new feeling puzzle and escape game! You are being held in a room that you haven't been to before. The only thing you can do is using telephone to ask for hint from a cooperator.
Reviewers mention these as similar to The Hex
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Pony Island
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Hex.
Reviewers of The Hex cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with The Hex.
Pony Island is a suspense puzzle game in disguise. You are in limbo, trapped in a malevolent and malfunctioning arcade machine devised by the devil himself. It is not a game about ponies.
OneShot
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Hex.
Reviewers of The Hex cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with The Hex.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Hex.
Reviewers of The Hex cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with The Hex.
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is an expanded re-imagining of 2013's The Stanley Parable. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will make a choice, and you will become powerless. You are not here to win. The Stanley Parable is a game that plays you.
UFO 50
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Hex cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with The Hex.
UFO 50 is a collection of 50 single and multiplayer games that span a variety of genres, from platformers and shoot 'em ups to puzzle games, roguelites, and RPGs. Our goal is to combine a familiar 8-bit aesthetic with new ideas and modern game design.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist : Link Evolution
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Hex cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Build your Deck from over 10,000 cards and take on the most iconic Duelists from the Yu-Gi-Oh! universe. Relive the stories from the original Yu-Gi-Oh! animated series through Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS!
Wasted World
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Hex cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with The Hex.
The apocalypse has come, brought by pollution, wars and disease! Your mission is to save your land... or what’s left of it. Alone or with your friends gather, recycle, craft, build, plant, explore, fight & help survivors.
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Hex.
Reviewers of The Hex cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with The Hex.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Hex at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Hex on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Hex.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Hex on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Hex.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Hex on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Hex.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Hex on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Hex.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under The Hex on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Hex.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under The Hex on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Hex.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Hex on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Hex.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Hex on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Hex.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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 The Hex.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Hex.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Hex.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Hex.
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 The Hex.
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 The Hex.
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.
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More from Daniel Mullins Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Daniel Mullins Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Hex.
Another title from Daniel Mullins Games, the studio behind The Hex. Shares Indie with The Hex.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Pony Island
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Hex.
Another title from Daniel Mullins Games, the studio behind The Hex. Shares Indie with The Hex.
Pony Island is a suspense puzzle game in disguise. You are in limbo, trapped in a malevolent and malfunctioning arcade machine devised by the devil himself. It is not a game about ponies.
Dread X Collection 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Hex.
Another title from Daniel Mullins Games, the studio behind The Hex. Shares Indie with The Hex.
Explore 12 horror games made in 10 days connected by a meta narrative experience you didn't expect. Step into a world of darkness and discover the secrets you didn't know were right beneath the surface. Find the tapes and unlock the mystery inside the Dread X Collection 2.
Frequently asked about The Hex
- Does The Hex run on Steam Deck?
- The Hex is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does The Hex cost?
- The Hex is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Hex?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Hex are Pony Island, When eyes close, Get In Timelessness.
- Who developed The Hex?
- The Hex was developed by Daniel Mullins 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 The Hex.
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