Games like The Idiot's Tale
If The Idiot's Tale is your kind of game, the closest matches are Princess Ursula, Sarawak and Murder by Numbers — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its contemplative, funny and lighthearted. 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 Idiot's Tale: Can you find all three treasures and save the day? Or are you just gonna run away like an idiot?
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Princess Ursula
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Idiot's Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Idiot's Tale.
Princess Ursula is looking for a husband but suitors do not abound! Who is this mysterious princess? And who will be courageous enough to meet her? Find out in this humor filled re-imagining of a classic folks tale!
Murder by Numbers
WHY THIS
Shares a lighthearted mood with The Idiot's Tale.
Third-strongest match for The Idiot's Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Idiot's Tale.
Solve Pixel Puzzles to find clues. Use those clues to interrogate witnesses. Work your way to the truth... ...and uncover the mystery of Murder by Numbers!
Pentiment
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with The Idiot's Tale.
Ranked #4 for The Idiot's Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Idiot's Tale.
Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.
Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged
WHY THIS
Shares inventory based puzzles and point and click with The Idiot's Tale.
Ranked #5 for The Idiot's Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Idiot's Tale.
The classic multi-award winning adventure "Broken Sword - the Shadow of the Templars" returns with glorious 4K visuals and iconic remastered audio, pitching intrepid tourist George Stobbart and fearless journalist Nico Collard into a journey of perilous adventures and ancient conspiracies.
Detective Di: The Silk Rose Murders
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with The Idiot's Tale.
Ranked #6 for The Idiot's Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Idiot's Tale.
A thrilling point-and-click adventure game where you play as Di Renjie, ancient China's most famous and gifted investigator, as he tracks a serial killer in the heart of the Tang Dynasty's capital city.
Rock 'n' Roll Will Never Die!
WHY THIS
Shares inventory based puzzles, point and click and a funny mood with The Idiot's Tale.
Ranked #7 for The Idiot's Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Idiot's Tale.
Hair metal's not dead, it just smells funny! Get your denim vest, bandana and makeup, and dive into a point-and-click adventure as a middle-aged teddy bear planning a comeback with his old glam metal band – in a world where glam metal has been dead and buried for decades.
CHUCHEL
WHY THIS
Shares point and click and a funny mood with The Idiot's Tale.
Ranked #8 for The Idiot's Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Idiot's Tale.
CHUCHEL is a comedy adventure game from the creators of Machinarium, Botanicula and Samorost. Join the hairy hero Chuchel and his rival Kekel as they will be facing numerous puzzles and challenges in their quest to retrieve the precious cherry!
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Return of the Obra Dinn
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with The Idiot's Tale.
Reviewers of The Idiot's Tale cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Idiot's Tale.
Lost at sea 1803 ~ The good ship Obra Dinn.
The Case of the Golden Idol
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Idiot's Tale cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Idiot's Tale.
A new kind of detective game that allows you to think and investigate freely. Discover clues surrounding 12 strange and gruesome deaths and build your own theory. Pick your suspect, deduce the motive, unmask the awful truth.
Return to Monkey Island
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with The Idiot's Tale.
Reviewers of The Idiot's Tale cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Idiot's Tale.
Return to Monkey Island is an unexpected, thrilling return of series creator Ron Gilbert that continues the story of the legendary adventure games.
King's Quest
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with The Idiot's Tale.
Reviewers of The Idiot's Tale cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Idiot's Tale.
King’s Quest is a collection of five different chapter releases, each focusing on an untold tale in Graham’s past. Discover a wondrous world full of whimsical characters, charming puzzles and perilous dangers in this fun and enchanting coming of age story.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Idiot's Tale at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under The Idiot's Tale on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Idiot's Tale.
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 ~58% under The Idiot's Tale on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Idiot's Tale.
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!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under The Idiot's Tale on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Idiot's Tale.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under The Idiot's Tale on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Idiot's Tale.
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 ~58% under The Idiot's Tale on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Idiot's Tale.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under The Idiot's Tale on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Idiot's Tale.
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 ~75% under The Idiot's Tale on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Idiot's Tale.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Idiot's Tale on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Idiot's Tale.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Idiot's Tale.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Idiot's Tale.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
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 Idiot's Tale.
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 Idiot's Tale.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Idiot's Tale.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Idiot's Tale.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Idiot's Tale.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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More from Megalithic Mainframe
Other recommendable Steam games by Megalithic Mainframe, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Firefight!
WHY THIS
Another title from Megalithic Mainframe, the studio behind The Idiot's Tale. Shares Indie with The Idiot's Tale.
Put out the fires and rescue the hostages in this fast-paced arcade game!
MonCon
WHY THIS
Another title from Megalithic Mainframe, the studio behind The Idiot's Tale. Shares Indie with The Idiot's Tale.
Plunge headlong into MonCon, a surreal convention teeming with social monsters, where your conversation skills must be sharpened in order to survive.
Shape Shift Shawn Episode 1: Tale of the Transmogrified
WHY THIS
Another title from Megalithic Mainframe, the studio behind The Idiot's Tale. Shares Indie with The Idiot's Tale.
Help Shawn to survive the underworld by transforming into powerful new forms and mastering a gauntlet of bizarre platforming challenges!
Emme Saves the Galaxy
WHY THIS
Another title from Megalithic Mainframe, the studio behind The Idiot's Tale. Shares Indie with The Idiot's Tale.
Join Emme the dog as she battles block invaders in this puzzle action game. Defeat all kinds of unpredictable blocks across hundreds of levels.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Murder by Numbers
WHY THIS
Shares a lighthearted mood with The Idiot's Tale.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Idiot's Tale.
Solve Pixel Puzzles to find clues. Use those clues to interrogate witnesses. Work your way to the truth... ...and uncover the mystery of Murder by Numbers!
Pentiment
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with The Idiot's Tale.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Idiot's Tale.
Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.
Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged
WHY THIS
Shares inventory based puzzles and point and click with The Idiot's Tale.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Idiot's Tale.
The classic multi-award winning adventure "Broken Sword - the Shadow of the Templars" returns with glorious 4K visuals and iconic remastered audio, pitching intrepid tourist George Stobbart and fearless journalist Nico Collard into a journey of perilous adventures and ancient conspiracies.
CHUCHEL
WHY THIS
Shares point and click and a funny mood with The Idiot's Tale.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Idiot's Tale.
CHUCHEL is a comedy adventure game from the creators of Machinarium, Botanicula and Samorost. Join the hairy hero Chuchel and his rival Kekel as they will be facing numerous puzzles and challenges in their quest to retrieve the precious cherry!
Frequently asked about The Idiot's Tale
- How much does The Idiot's Tale cost?
- The Idiot's Tale is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Idiot's Tale?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Idiot's Tale are Princess Ursula, Sarawak, Murder by Numbers.
- Who developed The Idiot's Tale?
- The Idiot's Tale was developed by Megalithic Mainframe.
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 Idiot's Tale.
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