Games like The Therapist
If The Therapist is your kind of game, the closest matches are Seeds of Pain, IMMORTALITY and Herald: The Interactive Period Drama – Complete Edition — 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.
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Players who liked The Therapist also play
Steam players who put hours into The Therapist 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.
Seeds of Pain
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Therapist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Therapist.
A group of kids decide to leave the floating island they live on to go and explore a colossal world tree. They don't know yet how dangerous this choice will be. Feel their fear and try to survive in this Visual Novel with resource management systems.
IMMORTALITY
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Therapist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Therapist.
Marissa Marcel was a film star. She made three movies. But none of the movies were ever released. And Marissa Marcel disappeared. An interactive trilogy from Sam Barlow, creator of Her Story.
Herald: The Interactive Period Drama – Complete Edition
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Therapist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Therapist.
Herald is a choice-driven adventure set on the high seas. Board the HLV Herald and uncover its dark secrets in an intriguing tale about tyranny and servitude.
Loretta
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Therapist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Therapist.
Loretta is a psychological thriller that makes the player an accessory to the heroine’s crimes, leading her through a self-crafted nightmare. Loretta’s story revolves around a woman handling betrayal, her husband’s infidelity, and reclaiming her agency during the socially tumultuous 1940s.
Suzerain
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Therapist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Therapist.
Assume the role of President Anton Rayne and guide the nation of Sordland. Amidst brewing international conflicts, need for reform, deep-seated corruption, and economic recession, you must make the decisions in this political drama. How will you lead?
Roadwarden
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Therapist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Therapist.
Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
I Just Want to be Single!! Season One
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Therapist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Therapist.
The anti-dating sim where you make friends instead of girlfriends! Balance between heartbreak and heartache! Will you graduate without a single friend? Or will you survive long enough to reject them all?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Therapist.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Therapist.
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.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Therapist.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Therapist.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
IMMORTALITY
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Therapist.
Marissa Marcel was a film star. She made three movies. But none of the movies were ever released. And Marissa Marcel disappeared. An interactive trilogy from Sam Barlow, creator of Her Story.
Loretta
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Therapist.
Loretta is a psychological thriller that makes the player an accessory to the heroine’s crimes, leading her through a self-crafted nightmare. Loretta’s story revolves around a woman handling betrayal, her husband’s infidelity, and reclaiming her agency during the socially tumultuous 1940s.
Suzerain
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Therapist.
Assume the role of President Anton Rayne and guide the nation of Sordland. Amidst brewing international conflicts, need for reform, deep-seated corruption, and economic recession, you must make the decisions in this political drama. How will you lead?
Frequently asked about The Therapist
- What games are most similar to The Therapist?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Therapist are Seeds of Pain, IMMORTALITY, Herald: The Interactive Period Drama – Complete Edition.
- Who developed The Therapist?
- The Therapist was developed by Restless, LLC.
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 Therapist.
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