Games like NUTS
If NUTS is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Cadet Files : Scene Unseen, The Operator and For What Will Come — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, cozy and mysterious. 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 NUTS: NUTS is a single-player walking simulator surveillance mystery. Record the squirrels, report your findings, and piece together what’s really going on in Melmoth Forest.
Players who liked NUTS also play
Steam players who put hours into NUTS 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.
The Cadet Files : Scene Unseen
WHY THIS
Top pick for NUTS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with NUTS.
Against Time Challenging Mystery Solving GameNavigate crime scenes in 'The Cadet Files: Scene Unseen', using your tablet to solve puzzles and find hidden objects. Test your detective skills in a world of intrigue! Unravel mysteries, master new challenges,progress through levels.
The Operator
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with NUTS.
Second-strongest match for NUTS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with NUTS.
Welcome to the FDI. As our newest Operator, your role is to use your detective skills to assist our field agents and investigate mysterious crimes. Use cutting-edge FDI software to dig for clues, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth.
For What Will Come
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with NUTS.
Third-strongest match for NUTS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with NUTS.
Embark down the small path of a girl named Abby as she goes back home and digs through her childhood, reliving the past to help reveal the secrets of what actually happened. What will you uncover? Will the family mystery end with you, or will it be just another legend. REIMAGINED VERSION OUT NOW!!
Taiga
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for NUTS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with NUTS.
Taiga is an atmospheric first person horror game with elements of survival. Explore the maze like forest, Uncover dark secrets that lay beneath pine and spruce. Save your colleagues if you can, but most importantly. Escape with your life.
Kona II: Brume
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with NUTS.
Ranked #5 for NUTS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with NUTS.
Northern Québec, 1970. A bizarre mist —the Brume— is disconnecting a rural mining village from its quiet reality. Step into the shoes of Detective Carl Faubert as he unfolds the mysteries haunting the region while battling for his own survival.
Mystery Trails
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for NUTS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with NUTS.
Delve into a first-person atmospheric adventure game, where you’re a mountain rescuer and a hiking guide who has just received information about an accident in the area. You know it might be too late for the victims, and soon you realize something strange happened out there.
Abnormal1999:Sector 49
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for NUTS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with NUTS.
Abnormal1999: Sector 49 is a challenging mystery puzzle game. You play as Sam, searching for your daughter in the abandoned Sector 49. Collect 10 consciousnesses to open the portal and escape.
Rooten
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with NUTS.
Ranked #8 for NUTS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with NUTS.
There is only you and the Forest. In "Rooten" there are no compulsory tasks, time just goes by, and days pass by independently of you. You can explore the Forest, try to get out, or even do nothing at all. The forest has always been here, and always will be. You won't change it no matter what.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below NUTS at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under NUTS on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with NUTS.
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 ~60% under NUTS on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with NUTS.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under NUTS on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with NUTS.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under NUTS on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with NUTS.
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?
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under NUTS on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with NUTS.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under NUTS on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with NUTS.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
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.
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 NUTS.
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.
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 Adventure with NUTS.
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 Simulation with NUTS.
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 NUTS.
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.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about NUTS
- Is NUTS verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — NUTS 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 NUTS cost?
- NUTS is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to NUTS?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside NUTS are The Cadet Files : Scene Unseen, The Operator, For What Will Come.
- Who developed NUTS?
- NUTS was developed by Joon, Pol, Muutsch, Char & Torfi and published by Noodlecake.
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 NUTS.
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