Games like The Invisible Hours
If The Invisible Hours is your kind of game, the closest matches are TEMPUS, Cold Start: The Callisto and Dark Trip — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, eerie and immersive. 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 Invisible Hours: The Invisible Hours is a complex murder mystery in VR, in which players freely explore an intricate web of interwoven stories within a sprawling mansion. This is not a game. This is not a movie. This is a piece of immersive theatre with many tangled threads.

Players who liked The Invisible Hours also play
Steam players who put hours into The Invisible Hours 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.
TEMPUS
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Invisible Hours fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Invisible Hours.
TEMPUS is a puzzle adventure game with time travel. Each time you advance, you will see the island where you live change over thousands of years. You can only travel forward so it is a one way trip, how far will you go?
Cold Start: The Callisto
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Invisible Hours fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Invisible Hours.
A sci-fi VR exploratory puzzle game, The Callisto pushes the boundaries of VR with stunning visuals, dynamic puzzles, and a rich storyline that unfolds piece-by-piece through your own exploration.
Dark Trip
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Invisible Hours fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Invisible Hours.
Dark Trip is a gothic horror escape room where you use wicked biomachinery, strange art and your own hallucinations to solve the mystery of an eerie crime. Explore strange rooms, inspect occult locations and laboratory machines, reveal hidden clues through altered visions. Play flat or in VR.
Riven
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Invisible Hours.
Ranked #4 for The Invisible Hours fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Invisible Hours.
Uncover a story of intrigue, betrayal, and a civilization teetering on the brink of collapse as you solve intricate puzzles to unlock the secrets of Riven. Built from the ground-up and expanded from the award-winning original game released in 1997.
Fire Escape
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Invisible Hours fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Invisible Hours.
A neo-Hitchock murder mystery set in Brooklyn. When the clock strikes eight, a suspenseful thriller begins to unfold in real time. Watch closely from the fire escape as your suspicious neighbors embroil you in a simmering, interactive crime.
Curious Cases
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Invisible Hours.
Ranked #6 for The Invisible Hours fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Invisible Hours.
For Desktop or VR! In this 3 chapter story, you play as a modern day legend, Detective Thomas Moore. He has solved more cases than one can count, where others hit dead-ends, he gets to work.
DYSCHRONIA: Chronos Alternate - Dual Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Invisible Hours.
Ranked #7 for The Invisible Hours fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Invisible Hours.
Solve an impossible murder case in the far-flung future in this VR & Non-VR investigation action adventure! Multi-awarded title DYSCHRONIA: Chronos Alternate - Dual Edition contains all three episodes from the acclaimed trilogy.
DESOLATIUM: Prologue
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Invisible Hours fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Invisible Hours.
DESOLATIUM: PROLOGUE is a first-person point & click Graphic Adventure based on Lovecraft Mythos. Live this horror story where you will have to visit mysterious locations, face lovecraftian creatures, find clues and combine objects to solve puzzles.
Reviewers mention these as similar to The Invisible Hours
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The Sexy Brutale
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Invisible Hours.
Reviewers of The Invisible Hours cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Invisible Hours.
The Sexy Brutale — a never-ending masked ball featuring intrigue, murder and the (quite possibly) occult! Relive the same mysterious day where the guests at the casino mansion are being murdered by the staff over and over again...
The Council
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Invisible Hours.
Reviewers of The Invisible Hours cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Invisible Hours.
Experience a Narrative Adventure where your choices and character growth truly matter. As a member of a 1793 secret society, live a tale of intrigue and manipulation on the hunt for your missing mother.
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Invisible Hours cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Invisible Hours.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
State of Mind
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Invisible Hours.
Reviewers of The Invisible Hours cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Invisible Hours.
State of Mind is a futuristic thriller game delving into transhumanism. The game explores themes of separation, disjuncture and reunification, in a world that is torn between a dystopian material reality and a utopian virtual future.
Return of the Obra Dinn
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Invisible Hours.
Reviewers of The Invisible Hours cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Invisible Hours.
Lost at sea 1803 ~ The good ship Obra Dinn.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Invisible Hours at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under The Invisible Hours on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Invisible Hours.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Invisible Hours on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Invisible Hours.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Invisible Hours on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Invisible Hours.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Invisible Hours on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Invisible Hours.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under The Invisible Hours on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Invisible Hours.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~73% under The Invisible Hours on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Invisible Hours.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
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 Casual with The Invisible Hours.
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. Shares Adventure with The Invisible Hours.
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.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with The Invisible Hours.
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 Adventure with The Invisible Hours.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Invisible Hours.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Invisible Hours.
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!
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Invisible Hours.
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!
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More from Tequila Works
Other recommendable Steam games by Tequila Works, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
RiME
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Invisible Hours.
Another title from Tequila Works, the studio behind The Invisible Hours. Shares Adventure with The Invisible Hours.
A land of discovery stretches out before you. Explore the beautiful, rugged world of RiME. Armed with your wits and a will to overcome—and the guidance of a helpful fox—you must explore the enigmatic island, reach the tower's peak, and unlock its closely guarded secrets.
The Sexy Brutale
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Invisible Hours.
Another title from Tequila Works, the studio behind The Invisible Hours. Shares Adventure with The Invisible Hours.
The Sexy Brutale — a never-ending masked ball featuring intrigue, murder and the (quite possibly) occult! Relive the same mysterious day where the guests at the casino mansion are being murdered by the staff over and over again...
Song of Nunu: A League of Legends Story
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Invisible Hours.
Another title from Tequila Works, the studio behind The Invisible Hours. Shares Adventure with The Invisible Hours.
Two best friends, one wild adventure. Join best friends Nunu and Willump on an adventure across the frozen wilds of the Freljord. Song of Nunu: A League of Legends Story is a single-player story adventure developed by Tequila Works.
Deadlight: Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Invisible Hours.
Another title from Tequila Works, the studio behind The Invisible Hours. Shares Adventure with The Invisible Hours.
A zombie outbreak eradicated all hope of returning life back to normal, now only survival lives on. Run, hide and fight your way through the undead as Randall searches for his family in this gorgeous, gritty, destroyed world.
Groundhog Day: Like Father Like Son
WHY THIS
Another title from Tequila Works, the studio behind The Invisible Hours. Shares Adventure with The Invisible Hours.
You’re stuck in a time loop as Phil Connors, Jr., back in Punxsutawney for Groundhog Day in this virtual reality game set in the world of the iconic hit movie. Solve puzzles and interact with branching narrative gameplay, to break the time-loop cycle to escape into tomorrow.
Frequently asked about The Invisible Hours
- Is The Invisible Hours verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The Invisible Hours is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does The Invisible Hours cost?
- The Invisible Hours is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Invisible Hours?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Invisible Hours are TEMPUS, Cold Start: The Callisto, Dark Trip.
- Who developed The Invisible Hours?
- The Invisible Hours was developed by Tequila Works and published by Game Trust .
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 Invisible Hours.
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