Games like The Gleam: VR Escape the Room
If The Gleam: VR Escape the Room is your kind of game, the closest matches are Locked In VR, Diary of Defender and One Of The Last — 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 Gleam: VR Escape the Room: The Gleam is an escape the room game for the HTC Vive. Solve puzzles, decipher code, and unravel the mysteries of the "gleam" in order to escape from this claustrophobic hell.

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Locked In VR
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Gleam: VR Escape the Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gleam: VR Escape the Room.
Locked In VR is an escape room type experience. The player must use his wits and senses to find his way out of the basement and uncover the terrible truth about his imprisonment.
Diary of Defender
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Gleam: VR Escape the Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gleam: VR Escape the Room.
Into the game, you will become a defender, return to the age of war, defense the enemy wave of attack.
One Of The Last
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Gleam: VR Escape the Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Gleam: VR Escape the Room.
Fancy pushing the dead around? Real physics based enemies for total immersion with extensive maps to explore! Move freely and join 4 co-op multi-player madness!! Unlock new areas, grab perks, drink soda-can power-ups, wall-buy weapons, build barriers, make crawlers and uber up that gun!!
Apperception
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Gleam: VR Escape the Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Gleam: VR Escape the Room.
Apperception is a survival horror VR experience in which you must hide from the grotesque monsters that wonder the halls of The Tower. Make your way through the cursed regions to find your freedom, lest they find you.
Metal Assault
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Ranked #5 for The Gleam: VR Escape the Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Gleam: VR Escape the Room.
It`s finally here! The first episode of Metal Assault! The most hardcore thrilling VR shooter action presented in CES with HTC and PPGUN is finally coming to Steam. Intensive 30 minutes of the real arcade style shooter experience, dodging bullets, hitting explosive barrels, riding crane and fighting against all kinds of vicious enemies...
Tomb Guard VR
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Ranked #6 for The Gleam: VR Escape the Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with The Gleam: VR Escape the Room.
Minds-on and hands-on. Customize the layout of various traps to build defense system. Protecting the tomb civilization from being plundered, you will battle with the Tomb Raiders by using BOW,SWORD and SHIELD, etc.. Archery and attack are very important, while the the layout of TRAPS is the key to victory!
Soldier Sortie :VR Agent 006
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Gleam: VR Escape the Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with The Gleam: VR Escape the Room.
Soldier Sortie:VR Agent 006 is a shooting adventure game developed with HTC VIVE. The game will bring you exciting experience of VR technology. Breaking through the virtuality and reality, experience the intense gunfight and puzzle adventure in the virtual world.
Insanity VR: Last Score
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Gleam: VR Escape the Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gleam: VR Escape the Room.
Insanity VR combines an immersive and intuitive locomotion system in VR, a compelling horror story and escape the room like puzzles with stealth mechanics. As the new intern at a futuristic institute for mental illnesses you get transported into the mind of a patient to reconstruct his memories.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Gleam: VR Escape the Room at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Gleam: VR Escape the Room on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gleam: VR Escape the Room.
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?
The Test
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Priced ~50% under The Gleam: VR Escape the Room on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gleam: VR Escape the Room.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~63% under The Gleam: VR Escape the Room on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gleam: VR Escape the Room.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Gleam: VR Escape the Room on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Gleam: VR Escape the Room.
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.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Gleam: VR Escape the Room on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Gleam: VR Escape the Room.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
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Priced ~75% under The Gleam: VR Escape the Room on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Gleam: VR Escape the Room.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Gleam: VR Escape the Room on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Gleam: VR Escape the Room.
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!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Gleam: VR Escape the Room on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gleam: VR Escape the Room.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
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 and Casual with The Gleam: VR Escape the Room.
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.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gleam: VR Escape the Room.
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.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Gleam: VR Escape the Room.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gleam: VR Escape the Room.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gleam: VR Escape the Room.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
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 and Adventure with The Gleam: VR Escape the Room.
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.
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Frequently asked about The Gleam: VR Escape the Room
- How much does The Gleam: VR Escape the Room cost?
- The Gleam: VR Escape the Room is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Gleam: VR Escape the Room?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Gleam: VR Escape the Room are Locked In VR, Diary of Defender, One Of The Last.
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