Games like The Archive Project
If The Archive Project is your kind of game, the closest matches are Thoughtless, Apotheosis Engine and NIRAVASI — 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 Archive Project: Open booster packs, discover rare variants, and turn your collection into a source of gold. Expand your city and create powerful combinations in this idle card-collecting game. Perhaps one day, you’ll discover your true purpose…
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Thoughtless
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Top pick for The Archive Project fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Archive Project.
A dark sci-fi psychological Visual Novel where your choices shape who you are. The world has ended and it's been dominated by mysterious aliens who roam the city. Despite that, you only think of what you've lost. Will you be able to rebuild your relationships? Or even... the world itself?
Apotheosis Engine
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Second-strongest match for The Archive Project fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Archive Project.
An accident causes a lost space probe to become self aware. "Apotheosis engine" is a lore-rich incremental game. Grow from a piece of engineering into a galactic superdeity by navigating an alien OS.
NIRAVASI
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Archive Project fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Escape and explore the ruins of a once-great city, while being hunted by the machine that watches over it. Remember, there is always protection in perfection.
TIMORE NARHELMA
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Ranked #4 for The Archive Project fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Archive Project.
Timore Narhelma is a surreal experience about human mind and horrors within.
NIGHTSWEEPER
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Ranked #5 for The Archive Project fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Archive Project.
NIGHTSWEEPER is a 3D puzzle adventure about recovering ancient artifacts from an abandoned white desert, sweeping the scars from their spells with Minesweeper-inspired puzzles, and selling them.
Italian Brainrot TCG
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Ranked #6 for The Archive Project fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Archive Project.
Italian Brainrot TCG is the chaotic card collector game you never asked for. Earn points passively, buy cursed booster packs, and unlock bizarre Italian brainrot characters and descend into card collecting madness
Way to Oasis
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Ranked #7 for The Archive Project fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Archive Project.
Way to Oasis : a post-apocalyptic visual novel. You lead a six-member caravan after the captain’s death. Manage scarce resources, navigate moral dilemmas, and face hidden threats. Your choices decide if the group survives or perishes.
Aleph
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Ranked #8 for The Archive Project fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Archive Project.
Aleph is an enigmatic cube, a repository of human lore and simulacra. After the fall of human civilization, as a traveler, you depart from the space station and eventually reach the ruins of the dilapidated city, searching for scattered cubes to read the images and texts left behind by humanity.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 The Archive Project.
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.
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Archive Project.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
An Arcade Full of Cats
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Archive Project.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Archive Project.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
100 Asian Cats
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Archive Project.
🏮🐈 100 Asian Cats - Join the cutest adventure in the Asia! 😻 🌸 Explore the charming hand-drawn artwork of Asian temples 🏯 as you embark on a quest to find 100 adorable cats hidden throughout the game. 🕵️♂️❌ Can you find them all? 🕵️♂️🐈✅
The Supper
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Archive Project.
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.
100 Capitalist Cats
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Archive Project.
🐱💼 100 Capitalist Cats - Join the cutest adventure in the Wall Street! 😻💰💵 Explore the charming hand-drawn artwork of New York, heart of Capitalism, as you embark on a quest to find 100 adorable cats hidden throughout the game. 🕵️♂️❌ Can you find them all? 🕵️♂️🐈✅
REFLEXIA Prototype ver.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Archive Project.
REFLEXIA's story starts out as a parody of its genre and ends as a psychological drama.
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Frequently asked about The Archive Project
- What games are most similar to The Archive Project?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Archive Project are Thoughtless, Apotheosis Engine, NIRAVASI.
- Who developed The Archive Project?
- The Archive Project was developed by Itchys.
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