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Games like The Bottom of the Well

Red Nettle Studio · 2016 · 84 % positive of 573

24 games that play like The Bottom of the Well and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Scarlet Hollow, Scarlet Hollow — Episode 1 and Ashwalkers.

Player tags

  • Free to Play
  • Visual Novel
  • Choose Your Own Adventure
  • RPG
  • Post-apocalyptic
  • Interactive Fiction
  • Horror
  • Female Protagonist

At a glance

What games like The Bottom of the Well have in common

  • The tags they share most often with The Bottom of the Well: Visual Novel (22 of 24), Choose Your Own Adventure (19) and Interactive Fiction (10).
  • They came out between 2013 and 2025, 18 of them after The Bottom of the Well (2016).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Scarlet Hollow (98 % positive of 3,071).
  • Scarlet Hollow and Buried: An Interactive Story both play and look like The Bottom of the Well.

By gameplay

Plays like The Bottom of the Well

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

More matches

  1. Postmortem: One Must Die (Extended Cut)40 % positive of 187Shared: Visual Novel · RPG · Interactive Fiction
  2. The Horrorscope94 % positive of 1,096Shared: Visual Novel · Choose Your Own Adventure · RPG
  3. Buried: An Interactive Story95 % positive of 159Shared: Visual Novel · Choose Your Own Adventure · Interactive Fiction
  4. AI Dungeon51 % positive of 801Shared: Visual Novel · Choose Your Own Adventure · RPG
  5. Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut97 % positive of 23,963Shared: Visual Novel · Choose Your Own Adventure · RPG
  6. Solstice75 % positive of 188Shared: Visual Novel · Choose Your Own Adventure · Interactive Fiction
  7. 7Days Origins86 % positive of 308Shared: Visual Novel · Choose Your Own Adventure · Interactive Fiction
  8. Dyscourse77 % positive of 443Shared: Choose Your Own Adventure · Female Protagonist · Choices Matter
  9. Wild Island Quest53 % positive of 339Shared: Visual Novel · Choose Your Own Adventure · Interactive Fiction
  10. The Apocalypse Sacrifice95 % positive of 221Shared: Visual Novel · Choose Your Own Adventure · Interactive Fiction
  11. ABYSS OF THE SACRIFICE84 % positive of 242Shared: Visual Novel · Post-apocalyptic · Female Protagonist
  12. The Agony56 % positive of 314Shared: Visual Novel · Choose Your Own Adventure · Horror

By look

Looks like The Bottom of the Well

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

More matches

  1. Children of Silentown: Prologue96 % positive of 1,036
  2. The 25th Ward: The Silver Case91 % positive of 407
  3. Disillusions Manga Horror59 % positive of 537
  4. The Executioner66 % positive of 365
  5. Universe For Sale81 % positive of 304
  6. Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller82 % positive of 797
  7. Daily Chthonicle: Editor's Edition74 % positive of 165
  8. Scarlet Hollow98 % positive of 3,071
  9. Man I Just Wanna Go Home94 % positive of 388
  10. Darkwood94 % positive of 21,618
  11. Lorelai90 % positive of 1,459
  12. Almost My Floor91 % positive of 219

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.

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