Games like Rise of Insanity
If Rise of Insanity is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ritual Static, Chance at Life and Clink — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its psychological deterioration of protagonist, short but impactful narrative and atmospheric. 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 Rise of Insanity: In Rise of Insanity, as a doctor of psychology you will explore the darkest recesses of the human mind. Overcome your fear to find the truth behind the tragedy that has befallen your family.
Players who liked Rise of Insanity also play
Steam players who put hours into Rise of Insanity 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.
Ritual Static
WHY THIS
Top pick for Rise of Insanity fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rise of Insanity.
"Do you think a house can dream?" Ritual Static is a surreal first-person photography horror game following a young man in his childhood home the day before a big move. Surf the television, sink into static, and rot in the dark.
Chance at Life
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Rise of Insanity fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Rise of Insanity.
The events unfold in an old house built in 1876. Two friends returning from a party were caught in a storm. They had to stay in an abandoned house to wait out the bad weather. To survive, the friends had to unravel the secrets of the mansion, go after the one who is trying to help.
Clink
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Rise of Insanity fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rise of Insanity.
You are a lonely woman, secluded in a house with your cat... and the secrets of the past. What hides within your mind — illness, or something otherworldly? Nightmares and reality intertwine… everything is so foggy. Do you have the courage to remember what happened?
Layers of Fear (2016)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Rise of Insanity.
Ranked #4 for Rise of Insanity fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rise of Insanity.
A first-person psychological horror with a strong emphasis on atmosphere and storytelling. Explore an ever-shifting Victorian mansion as a painter seeking to complete his masterpiece, even at the cost of his own sanity.
SOMA
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Rise of Insanity.
Ranked #5 for Rise of Insanity fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rise of Insanity.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Rise of Insanity.
Ranked #6 for Rise of Insanity fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rise of Insanity.
Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.
LOST ZION
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Rise of Insanity fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rise of Insanity.
Lost Zion is an atmospheric cyberpunk horror game. Awakened by a faint signal as a service bot, explore the forsaken megacity of Lost Zion. Uncover the Emperor's horrific secrets. Obey your sole command: Activate the Gravity Core.
Fuck You Witch
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Rise of Insanity fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rise of Insanity.
Your best friend has confessed her love for you... but the problems don't stop there. You've started to hallucinate. All this interferes with sleeping and eating, and in general disrupts your ideal lifestyle. Yell obscenities at the witch, immerse yourself in the atmosphere of the Qazaq steppes
Reviewers mention these as similar to Rise of Insanity
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Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Rise of Insanity.
Reviewers of Rise of Insanity cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Rise of Insanity.
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, winner of multiple E3 awards as the best game in its genre, is the continuation of a saga that began in the award-winning The Longest Journey, considered to be one of the finest adventure games ever made.
Outlast
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Rise of Insanity cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rise of Insanity.
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
The Cat Lady
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Rise of Insanity.
Reviewers of Rise of Insanity cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rise of Insanity.
The Cat Lady follows Susan Ashworth, a lonely 40-year old on the verge of suicide. She has no family, no friends and no hope for a better future. One day she discovers that five strangers will come along and change everything...
The Evil Within
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Rise of Insanity cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Developed by Shinji Mikami -- creator of the seminal Resident Evil series -- and the talented team at Tango Gameworks, The Evil Within embodies the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story are combined to create an immersive world that will bring you to the height of tension.
SOMA
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Rise of Insanity.
Reviewers of Rise of Insanity cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rise of Insanity.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
Layers of Fear (2016)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Rise of Insanity.
Reviewers of Rise of Insanity cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rise of Insanity.
A first-person psychological horror with a strong emphasis on atmosphere and storytelling. Explore an ever-shifting Victorian mansion as a painter seeking to complete his masterpiece, even at the cost of his own sanity.
Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Rise of Insanity cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Rise of Insanity.
Fear and isolation seep through the walls of an abandoned southern farmhouse. "7" marks a new beginning for survival horror with the “Isolated View” of the visceral new first-person perspective.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Rise of Insanity at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Rise of Insanity on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Rise of Insanity.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Rise of Insanity on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rise of Insanity.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Rise of Insanity on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Rise of Insanity.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Rise of Insanity on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rise of Insanity.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Rise of Insanity on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rise of Insanity.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Rise of Insanity on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Rise of Insanity.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Rise of Insanity on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rise of Insanity.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Rise of Insanity on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Rise of Insanity.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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 with Rise of Insanity.
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 Rise of Insanity.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rise of Insanity.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rise of Insanity.
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. Shares Indie and Simulation with Rise of Insanity.
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 Indie and Adventure with Rise of Insanity.
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.
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More from Red Limb Studio
Other recommendable Steam games by Red Limb Studio, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
The Purge Day
WHY THIS
Another title from Red Limb Studio, the studio behind Rise of Insanity. Shares Indie with Rise of Insanity.
The Purge Day is the first person narrative, immersive horror shooter designed exclusively for VR. Choose your weapon and fight against alien swarm in Asian agglomeration.
Beat Me!
WHY THIS
Another title from Red Limb Studio, the studio behind Rise of Insanity. Shares Indie with Rise of Insanity.
Beat Me! is a physics-based multiplayer game for up to 6 players. Play with comical fantasy characters in a wide variety of fun and surprising environments. Challenge your friends locally or beat others over the internet!
Kamikaze Veggies
WHY THIS
Another title from Red Limb Studio, the studio behind Rise of Insanity. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rise of Insanity.
A stealth adventure game with an absurd-driven story and third-person perspective for a single-player or co-op. Complete secret war missions, solve the showy puzzles, and save the veggies world!
Smells Like a Mushroom
WHY THIS
Another title from Red Limb Studio, the studio behind Rise of Insanity. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rise of Insanity.
Boomer jokes ✅ Vegetable puns ✅ Strange characters ✅ Join the Aveggers to fight through the solar system in a dynamic third-person platformer shooter and defeat the alien mushroom invasion. 99% silly, 100% vegan!
Frequently asked about Rise of Insanity
- Is Rise of Insanity verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Rise of Insanity 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 Rise of Insanity cost?
- Rise of Insanity is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Rise of Insanity?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Rise of Insanity are Ritual Static, Chance at Life, Clink.
- Who developed Rise of Insanity?
- Rise of Insanity was developed by Red Limb Studio.
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 Rise of Insanity.
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