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Games like The Elision Effect
teamakes.games · 2024 · Windows, Linux
Steam: 92 % positive of 166 reviews, as of Oct 28
The Elision Effect is a short surreal puzzle game. The last person finds themselves in an empty office. The place seems off, like it shouldn’t exist. Not knowing what made everyone abandon these liminal spaces, they look for an exit.
24 games that play like The Elision Effect and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Discolored, Disoriented and The Room Syndrome.
Player tags
By gameplay
Plays like The Elision Effect
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
Discolored
77 % positive of 531
Shared: Puzzle · Surreal · Walking Simulator
Disoriented
80 % positive of 388
Shared: Puzzle · Surreal · Walking Simulator
The Room Syndrome
94 % positive of 367
Shared: Short · Puzzle · Stylized
Superliminal
94 % positive of 28,719
Shared: Puzzle · Surreal · Exploration
Antichamber
94 % positive of 13,693
Shared: Puzzle · Surreal · Exploration
Within the Backrooms
96 % positive of 211
Shared: Puzzle · Surreal · Walking Simulator
Homesick
75 % positive of 1,286
Shared: Short · Puzzle · Walking Simulator
Void Stranger
90 % positive of 3,366
Shared: Puzzle · Retro · Pixel Graphics
Dreamcore
88 % positive of 1,960
Shared: Surreal · Walking Simulator · Exploration
NaissanceE
84 % positive of 4,502
Shared: Puzzle · Surreal · Walking Simulator
POOLS
95 % positive of 6,550
Shared: Surreal · Walking Simulator · Exploration
The Almost Gone
80 % positive of 1,021
Shared: Puzzle · Surreal · Exploration
More matches
- When the Darkness comes92 % positive of 8,427Shared: Puzzle · Surreal · Walking Simulator
- Liminalcore83 % positive of 742Shared: Surreal · Walking Simulator · Exploration
- Eclipsium91 % positive of 3,461Shared: Puzzle · Surreal · Walking Simulator
- The Exit 892 % positive of 11,125Shared: Puzzle · Surreal · Walking Simulator
- Heal83 % positive of 702Shared: Puzzle · Surreal · Psychological
- We Went Back85 % positive of 4,787Shared: Short · Puzzle · Walking Simulator
- Greetings82 % positive of 647Shared: Short · Atmospheric
- Stairway93 % positive of 407Shared: Puzzle · Walking Simulator · First-Person
- Condo95 % positive of 248Shared: Short · Walking Simulator · Exploration
- Pleh!94 % positive of 1,369Shared: Puzzle · Walking Simulator · First-Person
- Kairo74 % positive of 1,505Shared: Puzzle · Surreal · Walking Simulator
- DREAM LOGIC89 % positive of 394Shared: Puzzle · Walking Simulator · Exploration
By look
Looks like The Elision Effect
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
93 % positive of 34,513
DEAD LETTER DEPT.
95 % positive of 1,809
Unturned
91 % positive of 565,034
Escape the Backrooms
89 % positive of 140,057
Perfect Vermin
91 % positive of 3,898
The Stanley Parable
91 % positive of 40,347
IT Simulator
90 % positive of 140
Jaden Williams' The Stalking Stairs
87 % positive of 348
Title_Pending
95 % positive of 423
God's Basement
73 % positive of 1,178
DISTURBING FEARS - Workplace
91 % positive of 215
Skinfreak
85 % positive of 391
More matches
- A Simple job95 % positive of 527
- The Backroom - Lost and Found89 % positive of 459
- The New Flesh96 % positive of 3,399
- Interior Worlds96 % positive of 577
- NEON STRUCT86 % positive of 289
- Please, Don't Touch Anything 3D82 % positive of 1,380
- The Classrooms89 % positive of 3,075
- ABEL86 % positive of 190
- IMSCARED94 % positive of 3,511
- MOMO.EXE 284 % positive of 152
- Umfend89 % positive of 668
- Lost in Vivo90 % positive of 3,711
At a glance
What games like The Elision Effect have in common
- The tags they share most often with The Elision Effect: Puzzle (19 of 24), Walking Simulator (17) and Surreal (15).
- They came out between 2013 and 2025, 3 of them after The Elision Effect (2024).
- Best rated by Steam players: POOLS (95 % positive of 6,550).
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.