Games like Help Wanted
If Help Wanted is your kind of game, the closest matches are Portal 2, Terraria and Grand Theft Auto IV: The 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.
Get personalized picks →About Help Wanted: first/third person psychological horror, where the player takes odd freelance jobs,with specific rules to survive. Using a phone to access security cameras, take pictures, and the flashlight app to help with work. -Thanks for applying to our Help Wanted ad, Congratulations you've been hired!
Players who liked Help Wanted also play
Steam players who put hours into Help Wanted 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.
Portal 2
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Top pick for Help Wanted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Help Wanted.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
Terraria
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Second-strongest match for Help Wanted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Help Wanted.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition
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Third-strongest match for Help Wanted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Help Wanted.
Niko Bellic, Johnny Klebitz and Luis Lopez all have one thing in common - they live in the worst city in America. Liberty City worships money and status, and is heaven for those who have them and a living nightmare for those who don't.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
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Ranked #4 for Help Wanted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Help Wanted.
Five years ago Carl Johnson escaped from the pressures of life in Los Santos, San Andreas... a city tearing itself apart with gang trouble, drugs and corruption. Where filmstars and millionaires do their best to avoid the dealers and gangbangers. Now, it's the early 90s. Carl's got to go home.
Far Cry 3
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Ranked #5 for Help Wanted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Help Wanted.
Discover the dark secrets of a lawless island ruled by violence and take the fight to the enemy as you try to escape. You’ll need more than luck to escape alive!
Dishonored
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Ranked #6 for Help Wanted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Help Wanted.
Dishonored is an immersive first-person action game that casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. With Dishonored’s flexible combat system, creatively eliminate your targets as you combine the supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual gadgets at your disposal.
Tomb Raider Game of the Year
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Ranked #7 for Help Wanted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Help Wanted.
Tomb Raider explores the intense origin story of Lara Croft and her ascent from a young woman to a hardened survivor.
Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition
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Ranked #8 for Help Wanted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Help Wanted.
Experience what it’s like to be Batman and face off against Gotham's greatest villians. Explore every inch of Arkham Asylum and roam freely on the infamous island.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Help Wanted.
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 Adventure with Help Wanted.
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 Adventure with Help Wanted.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Help Wanted.
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.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Help Wanted.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Help Wanted.
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.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Help Wanted.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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More from Caffeineline
Other recommendable Steam games by Caffeineline, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
NineHells
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Another title from Caffeineline, the studio behind Help Wanted. Shares Adventure with Help Wanted.
Ninehells is a psychological horror first person single player, with an unraveling mystery, enriched with voice acting, and has virtual haunted attraction feeling. You play as Davie a man trying to remember his past while traveling though Hell. Play and find out what in the ninehells is going on!
Rage Bait
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Another title from Caffeineline, the studio behind Help Wanted. Shares Adventure with Help Wanted.
Rage Bait is a narrated meta comedy walking simulator. Gameplay combines physics, player choices, timing, and small actions which lead to wildly different outcomes. Enjoy exploration, branching decisions, light puzzles, and skill checks which are often subverted for comedic effect.
Magical Ascent
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Another title from Caffeineline, the studio behind Help Wanted.
This is a card game mixed with roguelike elements together to make the best single player deck builder possible. You can Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics, curses, and Magical Ascension.
Your Reputation Precedes You
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Another title from Caffeineline, the studio behind Help Wanted.
In this incremental game you Gain reputation with 3 different morality factions; Good, neutral, and Evil. Doing quests boosting levels, rewards, and Reputation. The friends you make along the way, help by gaining favor for more quest. More level ups more loot! Pump those Reps for more Reputation.
Ruminate: The First Oath
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Another title from Caffeineline, the studio behind Help Wanted. Shares Adventure with Help Wanted.
This is a dark fantasy where the world has been divided and cursed. Your party will go on adventures and have the chance to remove the curses from the kingdoms and unite them! The world depends on you. Will you be their saviour or their downfall?
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Dishonored
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Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Help Wanted.
Dishonored is an immersive first-person action game that casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. With Dishonored’s flexible combat system, creatively eliminate your targets as you combine the supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual gadgets at your disposal.
Tomb Raider Game of the Year
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Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Help Wanted.
Tomb Raider explores the intense origin story of Lara Croft and her ascent from a young woman to a hardened survivor.
Frequently asked about Help Wanted
- What games are most similar to Help Wanted?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Help Wanted are Portal 2, Terraria, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition.
- Who developed Help Wanted?
- Help Wanted was developed by Caffeineline.
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