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Davit Andreasyan · 2017 · Windows

Steam: 62 % positive of 264 reviews, as of Oct 28

Inmates is a story-driven, atmospheric psychological horror game. Featuring interactive exploration in a suffocating location, mind-bending puzzles and disturbing imagery. You wake up in a run-down prison cell and have no clue how you got there. You’ve convinced yourself this is all just a nightmare...

24 games that play like Inmates and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Trapped and Homesick.

Player tags

  • Adventure
  • Indie
  • Horror
  • Walking Simulator
  • Psychological
  • First-Person
  • Story Rich
  • Atmospheric
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Best matches

Plays and looks like Inmates

These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like Inmates

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. MADiSON87 % positive of 3,062Shared: Horror · First-Person · Story Rich
  2. Reflection83 % positive of 254Shared: Horror · Walking Simulator · Psychological
  3. The Guest73 % positive of 856Shared: Horror · Walking Simulator · First-Person
  4. Psych79 % positive of 320Shared: Horror · First-Person · Puzzle
  5. The Cabin Factory89 % positive of 3,506Shared: Horror · Walking Simulator · First-Person
  6. Limoria77 % positive of 167Shared: Horror · Walking Simulator · First-Person
  7. Psalm 287 % positive of 694Shared: Horror · Walking Simulator · First-Person
  8. Unspoken88 % positive of 789Shared: Horror · First-Person · Story Rich
  9. Dreamcore88 % positive of 1,960Shared: Horror · Walking Simulator · First-Person
  10. ASYLUM83 % positive of 432Shared: Horror · First-Person · Story Rich
  11. Lair of Torment69 % positive of 202Shared: Horror · Walking Simulator · Psychological
  12. Blasfemia90 % positive of 252Shared: Horror · Walking Simulator · First-Person

By look

Looks like Inmates

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. OH DEMON! Fix my TV86 % positive of 469
  2. FIRE AND ASHES92 % positive of 167
  3. Palmyra Orphanage89 % positive of 630
  4. Apartament 1406: Horror73 % positive of 549
  5. Vigil85 % positive of 2,228
  6. Summer of '5889 % positive of 4,566
  7. Lethe - Episode One86 % positive of 306
  8. Evil Nun: The Broken Mask94 % positive of 1,096
  9. Mirror Forge71 % positive of 149
  10. Roots of Insanity68 % positive of 367
  11. Pyromaniac85 % positive of 1,256
  12. CASE 2: Animatronics Survival80 % positive of 3,157

At a glance

What games like Inmates have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Inmates: Horror (24 of 24), Walking Simulator (19) and First-Person (18).
  • They came out between 2010 and 2026, 19 of them after Inmates (2017).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Amnesia: The Dark Descent (95 % positive of 20,528).

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.