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Games like Zero Escape

30 games that play like it. Add another you loved and the list leans toward it.

Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma
Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma

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30 games, the closest first

  1. 1

    AI: The Somnium Files

    Much the same as Zero Escape

    Loved · 91%Visual Novel · Mystery

  2. 2

    Return to Shironagasu Island

    Zero Escape, but half the hours

    Loved · 94%Visual Novel · Mystery

  3. 3

    STEINS;GATE

    Zero Escape, but with time travel, and even better loved

    Loved · 97%Visual Novel · Choices Matter

  4. 4

    Root Double -Before Crime * After Days- Xtend Edition

    Much the same as Zero Escape

    Loved · 91%Visual Novel · Mystery

  5. 5

    Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc

    Zero Escape, but darkly funny, and even better loved

    Loved · 96%Visual Novel · Mystery

  6. 6

    CHAOS;CHILD

    Zero Escape, but twice the hours

    Loved · 93%Visual Novel · Mystery

  7. 7

    Cube Escape Collection

    Zero Escape, but a third of the hours, and even better loved

    Loved · 98%Mystery · Escape Room

  8. 8

    Raging Loop

    Zero Escape, but even better loved

    Loved · 96%Visual Novel · Mystery

  9. 9

    Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.8 Matsuribayashi

    Zero Escape, but 2D

    Loved · 95%Visual Novel · Psychological Horror

  10. 10

    The Letter

    Much the same as Zero Escape

    Liked · 85%Visual Novel · Choices Matter

  11. 11

    Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair

    Zero Escape, but darkly funny

    Loved · 96%Visual Novel · Mystery

  12. 12

    Don't Escape Trilogy

    Zero Escape, but pixel art, and a tenth of the hours

    Loved · 99%Mystery · Choices Matter

  13. 13

    Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.2 Watanagashi

    Zero Escape, but even better loved

    Loved · 97%Visual Novel · Mystery

  14. 14

    SIMULACRA

    Zero Escape, but a fifth of the hours

    Loved · 90%Visual Novel · Psychological Horror

  15. 15

    Detention

    Zero Escape, but a fifth of the hours

    Loved · 96%Psychological Horror · Visual Novel

  16. 16

    Cube Escape: Paradox

    Zero Escape, but free to play, and a fifth of the hours

    Loved · 97%Escape Room · Mystery

  17. 17

    The Room Three

    Zero Escape, but Lovecraftian, and a third of the hours

    Loved · 95%Mystery · Puzzle

  18. 18

    The House in Fata Morgana

    Zero Escape, but gothic, and with romance

    Loved · 95%Visual Novel · Mystery

  19. 19

    The Room Two

    Zero Escape, but Lovecraftian

    Loved · 98%Mystery · Puzzle

  20. 20

    Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy

    Zero Escape, but even better loved

    Loved · 98%Visual Novel · Mystery

  21. 21

    Corpse Party (2021)

    Zero Escape, but pixel art

    Loved · 91%Psychological Horror · Choices Matter

  22. 22

    The Hex

    Zero Escape, but funny, and a third of the hours

    Loved · 94%Mystery · Psychological Horror

  23. 23

    YOU and ME and HER: A Love Story

    Zero Escape, but with romance

    Loved · 95%Visual Novel · Psychological Horror

  24. 24

    Tokyo Dark

    Zero Escape, but a third of the hours

    Liked · 84%Visual Novel · Mystery

  25. 25

    No, I'm not a Human

    Zero Escape, but a social deduction game, and a quarter of the hours

    Loved · 93%Choices Matter · Psychological Horror

  26. 26

    Servant of the Lake

    Zero Escape, but 2D, and a quarter of the hours

    Loved · 98%Escape Room · Puzzle

  27. 27

    Outer Wilds

    Zero Escape, but in space, and open world

    Loved · 96%Mystery · Puzzle

  28. 28

    The Test: Hypothesis Rising

    Zero Escape, but an investigation, and a tenth of the hours

    Loved · 98%Visual Novel · Choices Matter

  29. 29

    Cat in the Box

    Zero Escape, but pixel art, and a tenth of the hours

    Loved · 94%Mystery · Psychological Horror

  30. 30

    CORPSE FACTORY

    Zero Escape, but half the hours

    Liked · 80%Visual Novel · Psychological Horror

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How this list is made

Each game is measured against each of your picks the way a games-like list measures it: the Steam community tags, Steam genres and IGDB themes they share, each counting for more the fewer games carry it. A game's place is how alike it is to your picks together, as a share of each pick's best match, so one alike to two of them comes before one alike to just one. It must be close to at least one of them, as close as it would have to be on that game's own list.

None of your picks is on the list, nor a second release of one, nor a game of their own series. Up to 30 games are shown. Under each name, the kinds it shares with the pick it is closest to, and how it differs from that pick.