Games like The Slater
If The Slater is your kind of game, the closest matches are HITMAN™ 2, Wetwork and Hitman: Absolution™ — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its enemies detect corpses instantly, atmospheric and challenging. 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 Slater: Get ready to kill drug dealers, crime bosses and anyone who stands in your way as you seek revenge for your father’s murder. The Slater is a story-driven first-person stealth-action-puzzle game that puts you in the shoes of a former cop Mark Slater.
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HITMAN™ 2
WHY THIS
Shares disguise system and an atmospheric mood with The Slater.
Top pick for The Slater fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Slater.
Travel the globe and track your targets across exotic sandbox locations in HITMAN™ 2. From sun-drenched streets to dark and dangerous rainforests, nowhere is safe from the world’s most creative assassin, Agent 47 in the ultimate spy thriller story.
Wetwork
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Slater fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Slater.
Wetwork is a stealth action game. The protagonist is an assassin and their objective is to eliminate their target as silently and cleanly as possible. The game is set in 2030s and takes place in Latvia.
Hitman: Absolution™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Slater.
Third-strongest match for The Slater fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Slater.
The original assassin is back! Betrayed by the Agency and hunted by the police, Agent 47 finds himself pursuing redemption in a corrupt and twisted world.
Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Slater.
Ranked #4 for The Slater fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Slater.
Become the ultimate assassin in the most realistic modern warfare sniping game available. Engage in an immersive single-player campaign across large, open-ended maps. Tactical thinking, stealth approach and precision in execution of long shots required.
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
WHY THIS
Shares disguise system and an atmospheric mood with The Slater.
Ranked #5 for The Slater fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Slater.
Enter the realm of a retired assassin, forced back into action by treason. You may be a hired killer but you still have a sense of loyalty and justice. Visit the dark recesses of a world corrupted by crime, greed, degradation and dishonor. And a past that catches up with you.
Better Than Dead
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Slater.
Ranked #6 for The Slater fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Slater.
A brutal bodycam revenge FPS set in Hong Kong. Slide into bullet time, fight up close, take down your kidnappers, and record every second of your revenge.
HITMAN World of Assassination
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Slater.
Ranked #7 for The Slater fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Slater.
Enter the world of the ultimate assassin. HITMAN World of Assassination delivers the definitive stealth action experience, putting you in the shoes of Agent 47, a master assassin. Explore immersive locations, uncover hidden secrets, and eliminate targets with complete freedom of approach.
Dishonored®: Death of the Outsider™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Slater.
Ranked #8 for The Slater fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Slater.
From the award-winning developers at Arkane® Studios comes Dishonored®: Death of the Outsider, the next standalone adventure in the critically-acclaimed Dishonored® series.
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Max Payne
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Slater.
Reviewers of The Slater cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Slater.
Max Payne is a man with nothing to lose in the violent, cold urban night. A fugitive undercover cop framed for murder, hunted by cops and the mob, Max is a man with his back against the wall, fighting a battle he cannot hope to win. Prepare for pain…
Hitman: Contracts
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Slater.
Reviewers of The Slater cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Slater.
Enter the world of a HITMAN - a world of crime, sin and greed. Delve into the mind of Agent 47 and encounter his greatest adversaries, completing the work that made him so brutally efficient and shaped him as an assassin. Eliminate your targets by any means necessary. There are no rules... only the contract, signed in blood.
HITMAN™
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Slater cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Slater.
There is a world beyond ours. Beyond nations, justice, ethics. It never sleeps. It exists everywhere. And once you enter....there is no going back. Welcome to the World of Assassination. You are Agent 47, the world's ultimate assassin.
The Grandfather
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Slater.
Reviewers of The Slater cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with The Slater.
One night The Grandfather went to give his wife a good night kiss, she ignored him as usual, this broke his heart every night. He went to sleep in his own bed, full of misery as usual, but this night would turn out to be different than the others.
Esports Godfather: The Legend Begins
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Slater.
Reviewers of The Slater cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with The Slater.
E-sports Godfather is a Deck-building game simulating MOBA e-sports. You will play a role as team coach and build your team. You need to train players and make strategies in various game versions, beat other teams and finally, take the Champion of the World. Be nobody, or lead your team to dominate!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Slater at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Slater on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Slater.
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 Slater on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Slater.
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 Slater on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Slater.
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 Slater on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Slater.
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 Slater on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Slater.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under The Slater on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Slater.
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 Slater on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Slater.
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 Slater on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Slater.
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 Slater.
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 with The Slater.
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 Slater.
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 with The Slater.
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 Action and Indie with The Slater.
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 Slater.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Slater.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Slater.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
HITMAN™ 2
WHY THIS
Shares disguise system and an atmospheric mood with The Slater.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with The Slater.
Travel the globe and track your targets across exotic sandbox locations in HITMAN™ 2. From sun-drenched streets to dark and dangerous rainforests, nowhere is safe from the world’s most creative assassin, Agent 47 in the ultimate spy thriller story.
Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Slater.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with The Slater.
Become the ultimate assassin in the most realistic modern warfare sniping game available. Engage in an immersive single-player campaign across large, open-ended maps. Tactical thinking, stealth approach and precision in execution of long shots required.
HITMAN World of Assassination
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Slater.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with The Slater.
Enter the world of the ultimate assassin. HITMAN World of Assassination delivers the definitive stealth action experience, putting you in the shoes of Agent 47, a master assassin. Explore immersive locations, uncover hidden secrets, and eliminate targets with complete freedom of approach.
Dishonored®: Death of the Outsider™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Slater.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with The Slater.
From the award-winning developers at Arkane® Studios comes Dishonored®: Death of the Outsider, the next standalone adventure in the critically-acclaimed Dishonored® series.
Frequently asked about The Slater
- Does The Slater run on Steam Deck?
- The Slater 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 Slater cost?
- The Slater is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Slater?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Slater are HITMAN™ 2, Wetwork, Hitman: Absolution™.
- Who developed The Slater?
- The Slater was developed by Laina Interactive.
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 Slater.
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