Games like Inmates
If Inmates is your kind of game, the closest matches are Empathy: Path of Whispers, The Memories That Shape Us and Backmooms — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its minimalist puzzles feel intuitive, short but impactful experience 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 Inmates: Inmates is a story-driven, atmospheric psychological horror game. Featuring interactive exploration in a suffocating location, mind-bending puzzles and disturbing imagery. You wake up in a run-down prison cell and have no clue how you got there. You’ve convinced yourself this is all just a nightmare...
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Empathy: Path of Whispers
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Inmates.
Top pick for Inmates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inmates.
Empathy: Path of Whispers is an atmospheric and story-driven adventure game where you explore a seemingly abandoned world through the emotions and memories of the people who once inhabited it, trying to restore the world’s lost balance by journeying through its past.
The Memories That Shape Us
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Inmates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inmates.
The Memories That Shape Us is a narrative video game that lasts about two hours. Find the Memory Capsules to uncover the story of a person’s life from childhood to adulthood, all the joys, all the struggles, and all the lessons. How much can one take before they’ve had enough?
Backmooms
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Inmates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inmates.
You’ve wandered into a strange dimension while shopping.A mysterious monster is chasing you.You must escape."Backmooms" is a first-person adventure game.
KARMA: The Dark World
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Inmates.
Ranked #4 for Inmates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inmates.
KARMA: The Dark World is a first-person cinematic psychological thriller set in a dystopian world where the Leviathan Corporation is omnipresent. The year is 1984, the place is East Germany, and things are not quite what they seem.
The Old City: Leviathan
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Inmates.
Ranked #5 for Inmates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inmates.
The Old City: Leviathan is an experiment in first person exploration that focuses entirely on story. All that exists is you and the world. Set in a decaying city from a civilization long past, The Old City: Leviathan puts the player in the shoes of a sewer dwelling isolationist.
PAGER
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Inmates.
Ranked #6 for Inmates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inmates.
You are wetware, working a mysterious job.
Husk
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Inmates.
Ranked #7 for Inmates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inmates.
Husk is a purebred FPP horror inspired by the most classical representatives of the genre. Discover Shivercliff - a daunting town where you uncover the ominous and tantalizing plot. Face the worst nightmares, solve mysteries and survive the devouring darkness in order to find your family.
Ether One
WHY THIS
Shares memory exploration and an atmospheric mood with Inmates.
Ranked #8 for Inmates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inmates.
Ether One is a first person adventure that deals with the fragility of the human mind. There are two paths in the world you can choose from. At its core is a story exploration path free from puzzles where you can unfold the story at your own pace.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Inmates at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~45% under Inmates on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Inmates.
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?
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~45% under Inmates on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Inmates.
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.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~45% under Inmates on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Inmates.
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!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~45% under Inmates on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Inmates.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~45% under Inmates on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Inmates.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~45% under Inmates on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Inmates.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
TYRONE vs COPS
WHY THIS
Priced ~45% under Inmates on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Inmates.
Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.
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 Inmates.
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 Inmates.
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 Inmates.
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 Inmates.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Inmates.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Inmates.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Inmates.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Inmates
- How much does Inmates cost?
- Inmates is listed on Steam at 1.79 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Inmates?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Inmates are Empathy: Path of Whispers, The Memories That Shape Us, Backmooms.
- Who developed Inmates?
- Inmates was developed by Davit Andreasyan and published by Iceberg Interactive.
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