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Deceptive Games Ltd. · 2017 · 78 % positive of 200

24 games that play like The Initiate and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: The Guest, DYING: Reborn and Homesick.

Player tags

  • Indie
  • Adventure
  • Action
  • Puzzle
  • Atmospheric
  • Horror
  • Story Rich
  • Singleplayer

At a glance

What games like The Initiate have in common

  • The tags they share most often with The Initiate: Horror (24 of 24), Puzzle (22) and Psychological Horror (12).
  • They came out between 2015 and 2024, 15 of them after The Initiate (2017).
  • Best rated by Steam players: The Room Two (97 % positive of 19,928).

By gameplay

Plays like The Initiate

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

More matches

  1. Mists of Aiden91 % positive of 1,121Shared: Puzzle · Horror · Story Rich
  2. Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?95 % positive of 1,068Shared: Puzzle · Horror · Psychological Horror
  3. Viviette88 % positive of 481Shared: Puzzle · Horror · Story Rich
  4. Kidnapped56 % positive of 553Shared: Horror · Story Rich · Psychological Horror
  5. Trap welcome to Beryl Part 185 % positive of 219Shared: Puzzle · Horror · Psychological Horror
  6. The Room Two97 % positive of 19,928Shared: Puzzle · Horror · Story Rich
  7. Unspoken87 % positive of 686Shared: Horror · Story Rich · Psychological Horror
  8. The Spectrum Retreat75 % positive of 282Shared: Puzzle · Horror · Psychological Horror
  9. Blameless84 % positive of 4,985Shared: Puzzle · Horror · Psychological Horror
  10. Last Room69 % positive of 378Shared: Puzzle · Horror · Adventure
  11. Left Alone74 % positive of 642Shared: Puzzle · Horror · Story Rich
  12. COLINA: Legacy80 % positive of 204Shared: Puzzle · Horror · Story Rich

By look

Looks like The Initiate

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

More matches

  1. Don't Knock Twice72 % positive of 675
  2. Sophie's Curse82 % positive of 482
  3. Summerland91 % positive of 1,712
  4. Brukel88 % positive of 230
  5. Gordian Rooms 1: A curious heritage86 % positive of 494
  6. Minds Eyes69 % positive of 1,763
  7. Umfend90 % positive of 531
  8. Escape First65 % positive of 429
  9. Escape From Monster67 % positive of 272
  10. Prognostic94 % positive of 460
  11. Anthology of Fear75 % positive of 278
  12. Insanity VR: Last Score83 % positive of 178

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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