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Games like The Initiate 2: The First Interviews

If The Initiate 2: The First Interviews is your kind of game, the closest matches are Teleportals. I swear it's a nice game, Re:Turn - One Way Trip and Maid of Sker — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and immersive. 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.

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About The Initiate 2: The First Interviews: 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?

2018ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableWindows · macOSby Deceptive Games Ltd.
The Initiate 2: The First Interviews — Steam game cover
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Hidden clues blend with environmental detailsInterconnected puzzles span multiple roomsMorally charged endings test player choicesAtmosphericContemplativeImmersive

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Steam players who put hours into The Initiate 2: The First Interviews 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.

  1. Teleportals. I swear it's a nice game

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with The Initiate 2: The First Interviews.

    Top pick for The Initiate 2: The First Interviews fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Initiate 2: The First Interviews.

    I swear it's a nice puzzle game.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Re:Turn - One Way Trip

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Initiate 2: The First Interviews.

    Second-strongest match for The Initiate 2: The First Interviews fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Initiate 2: The First Interviews.

    Re:Turn - One Way Trip is a 2D side-scrolling puzzle-adventure horror game. Trapped in a ghostly train, Saki must search the past and present to find and save her friends. More importantly, Saki must use her wits if she is to survive against an unspeakable evil hellbent on avenging unrequited love.

    2020IndieAdventure11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Maid of Sker

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Initiate 2: The First Interviews fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Initiate 2: The First Interviews.

    Maid of Sker is a first-person survival horror, set in a remote hotel with a gory and macabre history from Welsh folklore. Brave the nightmares of the Quiet Ones. Do not panic…don’t even breathe!

    2020ActionIndieAdventure4.74 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Incantation

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Initiate 2: The First Interviews.

    Ranked #4 for The Initiate 2: The First Interviews fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Initiate 2: The First Interviews.

    A mother, searching for her lost daughter, stumbles into a strange cult village. "Incantation" is a first-person horror game. It reveals the chilling story behind the "Chen Family Village". What are the consequences of crossing dark boundaries?

    2024AdventureRPG16.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Chant

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Initiate 2: The First Interviews.

    Ranked #5 for The Initiate 2: The First Interviews fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Initiate 2: The First Interviews.

    A single-player, third person horror action-adventure game set on a remote spiritual island retreat. To survive you must craft, fight, and escape the psychedelic horrors set loose when a spiritual ritual goes wrong and awakens a dimension of cosmic terror.

    2022ActionAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Detention

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Initiate 2: The First Interviews.

    Ranked #6 for The Initiate 2: The First Interviews fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Initiate 2: The First Interviews.

    Detention is an atmospheric horror game set in 1960s Taiwan under martial law. Incorporated religious elements based in Taiwanese/Chinese culture and mythology, the game provided players with unique graphics and gaming experience.

    2017IndieAdventure11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Remothered: Tormented Fathers

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Initiate 2: The First Interviews.

    Ranked #7 for The Initiate 2: The First Interviews fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Initiate 2: The First Interviews.

    Remothered: Tormented Fathers is the pure and realistic survival horror videogame

    2018ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Mists of Aiden

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Initiate 2: The First Interviews.

    Ranked #8 for The Initiate 2: The First Interviews fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Initiate 2: The First Interviews.

    Mists of Aiden is a first-person story driven horror game. You play as a thief trapped in an eerie mansion. Each choice can open a new mystery of the house and lead to a unique walkthrough and ending. Uncover final secret of the house. Uncover your own secrets.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Initiate 2: The First Interviews at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under The Initiate 2: The First Interviews on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Initiate 2: The First Interviews.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under The Initiate 2: The First Interviews on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Initiate 2: The First Interviews.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under The Initiate 2: The First Interviews on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Initiate 2: The First Interviews.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under The Initiate 2: The First Interviews on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Initiate 2: The First Interviews.

    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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under The Initiate 2: The First Interviews on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Initiate 2: The First Interviews.

    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.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under The Initiate 2: The First Interviews on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Initiate 2: The First Interviews.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under The Initiate 2: The First Interviews on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Initiate 2: The First Interviews.

    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...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under The Initiate 2: The First Interviews on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Initiate 2: The First Interviews.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. 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 2: The First Interviews.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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 2: The First Interviews.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Initiate 2: The First Interviews.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 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 2: The First Interviews.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. 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 2: The First Interviews.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. 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 2: The First Interviews.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. 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 2: The First Interviews.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Initiate 2: The First Interviews.

    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.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Deceptive Games Ltd.

Other recommendable Steam games by Deceptive Games Ltd., ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. The Initiate

    WHY THIS

    Shares hidden object collection and an atmospheric mood with The Initiate 2: The First Interviews.

    Another title from Deceptive Games Ltd., the studio behind The Initiate 2: The First Interviews. Shares Action and Indie with The Initiate 2: The First Interviews.

    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!

    2017ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Silent Descent

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Initiate 2: The First Interviews.

    Another title from Deceptive Games Ltd., the studio behind The Initiate 2: The First Interviews. Shares Action and Indie with The Initiate 2: The First Interviews.

    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?

    2018ActionIndieAdventure8.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. The Secret Monster Society

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Initiate 2: The First Interviews.

    Another title from Deceptive Games Ltd., the studio behind The Initiate 2: The First Interviews. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Initiate 2: The First Interviews.

    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.

    2016IndieAdventureCasual3.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. ALONE? - VR

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Deceptive Games Ltd., the studio behind The Initiate 2: The First Interviews. Shares Action and Indie with The Initiate 2: The First Interviews.

    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.

    2016ActionIndieAdventure8.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. ESCAPE: The Cabin

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Deceptive Games Ltd., the studio behind The Initiate 2: The First Interviews. Shares Action and Indie with The Initiate 2: The First Interviews.

    Trapped, alone, and hunted by a captor who knows your past. Solve twisted puzzles, uncover the truth, and escape before the cabin breaks you. With 70+ randomised puzzles and solutions, every nightmare changes as you fight to get back to your family.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Initiate 2: The First Interviews

Does The Initiate 2: The First Interviews run on Steam Deck?
The Initiate 2: The First Interviews is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does The Initiate 2: The First Interviews cost?
The Initiate 2: The First Interviews is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to The Initiate 2: The First Interviews?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Initiate 2: The First Interviews are Teleportals. I swear it's a nice game, Re:Turn - One Way Trip, Maid of Sker.
Who developed The Initiate 2: The First Interviews?
The Initiate 2: The First Interviews was developed by Deceptive Games Ltd..

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 Initiate 2: The First Interviews.

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