Games like The Initiate
If The Initiate is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Initiate 2: The First Interviews, Silent Descent and ALONE? - VR — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its detailed suburban house setting, interconnected escape room design and post game arg challenges. 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 Initiate: The Initiate is a mystery puzzle game. You awake in a house full of traps and puzzles - This is your trial; complete it, or die!
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The Initiate 2: The First Interviews
WHY THIS
Shares hidden object collection and an atmospheric mood with The Initiate.
Top pick for The Initiate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Initiate.
Three people awake in adjacent prison cells with no recollection of how they got there. Now, they must work together in order to escape this nightmarish captivity. But can they really trust one another?
Silent Descent
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Initiate.
Second-strongest match for The Initiate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Initiate.
Silent Decent is a highly-immersive first-person horror game with a rich and engaging atmosphere. Trapped in purgatory, you play as Samuel Harris who roams in an endless loop of anguish, pain and suffering. Can you find a way to save a tormented man's soul?
ALONE? - VR
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Initiate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Initiate.
Immerse yourself in a true VR Horror game. Explore and experience a fully immersive world as you embark on an ghostly adventure unlike anything you have played before. Come face-to-face with terror itself as you look for your missing sister.
Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Initiate.
Ranked #4 for The Initiate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Initiate.
Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.
Penumbra Overture
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Initiate.
Ranked #5 for The Initiate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Initiate.
Penumbra: Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore.
Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Initiate.
Ranked #6 for The Initiate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Initiate.
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.
Magnetic: Cage Closed
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Initiate.
Ranked #7 for The Initiate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Initiate.
Magnetic: Cage Closed is a first person puzzle game where the player manipulates magnetic forces to accomplish their goals. The mechanics are focused around a single tool: The Magnet Gun which allows you to create electromagnetic fields with either positive or negative charges.
Ad Infinitum
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Initiate.
Ranked #8 for The Initiate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Initiate.
When reality is a nightmare, nightmares become real. In this psychological horror game, you fight the terrifying creatures invading your mind. Can you save your sanity?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Initiate at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Initiate on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Initiate.
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 The Initiate on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Initiate.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under The Initiate on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Initiate.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Initiate on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Initiate.
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 The Initiate on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Initiate.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under The Initiate on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Initiate.
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 The Initiate on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Initiate.
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 The Initiate on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Initiate.
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.
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 The Initiate.
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 Action and Adventure with The Initiate.
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 Action and Indie with The Initiate.
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 The Initiate.
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 with The Initiate.
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 Action and Indie with The Initiate.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Initiate.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
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More from Deceptive Games Ltd.
Other recommendable Steam games by Deceptive Games Ltd., ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Silent Descent
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Initiate.
Another title from Deceptive Games Ltd., the studio behind The Initiate. Shares Action and Indie with The Initiate.
Silent Decent is a highly-immersive first-person horror game with a rich and engaging atmosphere. Trapped in purgatory, you play as Samuel Harris who roams in an endless loop of anguish, pain and suffering. Can you find a way to save a tormented man's soul?
The Secret Monster Society
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Initiate.
Another title from Deceptive Games Ltd., the studio behind The Initiate. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Initiate.
A classic point-and-click comedy adventure game, set in a unique world of monsters and creatures. Embark on an epic adventure across land and sea, using time travel to stop an evil genius from destroying the world. Inspired by Saturday morning cartoons.
ALONE? - VR
WHY THIS
Another title from Deceptive Games Ltd., the studio behind The Initiate. Shares Action and Indie with The Initiate.
Immerse yourself in a true VR Horror game. Explore and experience a fully immersive world as you embark on an ghostly adventure unlike anything you have played before. Come face-to-face with terror itself as you look for your missing sister.
The Initiate 2: The First Interviews
WHY THIS
Shares hidden object collection and an atmospheric mood with The Initiate.
Another title from Deceptive Games Ltd., the studio behind The Initiate. Shares Action and Indie with The Initiate.
Three people awake in adjacent prison cells with no recollection of how they got there. Now, they must work together in order to escape this nightmarish captivity. But can they really trust one another?
Frequently asked about The Initiate
- How much does The Initiate cost?
- The Initiate is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Initiate?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Initiate are The Initiate 2: The First Interviews, Silent Descent, ALONE? - VR.
- Who developed The Initiate?
- The Initiate was developed by Deceptive Games Ltd..
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