Games like Afterlife
If Afterlife is your kind of game, the closest matches are Queerskins: a love story, VERY BAD DREAMS and Human Within — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Afterlife: Loss always leaves an invisible trace. Witness a tragic death in a family; explore each member’s grief through seamlessly interactive storylines in live-action VR.
Players who liked Afterlife also play
Steam players who put hours into Afterlife also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Queerskins: a love story
WHY THIS
Top pick for Afterlife fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Afterlife.
Take an emotional journey down a country road in rural Missouri along with Ed and Mary-Helen, Sebastian’s parents. Uncover Sebastian’s life as you interact with his belongings found in the box next to you. Was he a “disgrace” like his father says or a “good man” as his mother believes?
VERY BAD DREAMS
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Afterlife fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Afterlife.
Very Bad Dreams is an intense and demanding experience that will test your nerves. Forget everything you thought you knew about horror games, because Very Bad Dreams transcends the boundaries of the gaming experience. Developed by an independent French studio,
Human Within
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Afterlife fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Afterlife.
Human Within is an innovative VR interactive experience with a branching storyline that requires real user decisions, leading to different endings. Its blend of original storytelling, 2D film, 3D graphics, 360° video, interactive Point Clouds, and puzzles offers something uniquely immersive.
I'm Surrounded by Classical Beauties!
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Afterlife fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Afterlife.
While you are at the blind date table, you unexpectedly return to ancient times and incarnate as a lowly servant. Thanks to the help of several beauties, you are able to turn the corner. In the shocking He Mansion, it will be up to you to decide whether to live quietly or use your ingenuity!
AREA MAN LIVES
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Afterlife fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Afterlife.
AREA MAN LIVES. Or does he? A quirky radio drama unfolds around you in VR while you do your best to keep the radio station humming along as its new DJ. You record commercials, interview callers and try your best to piece together how your actions inside the station impact your listening audience.
TOKYO CHRONOS
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Afterlife fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
TOKYO CHRONOS is the VR game that has multiple-choice decision points as well as more than one ending. The game takes place in Shibuya, Tokyo, which has only eight people, including you, the protagonist, Kyosuke Sakurai. Why are they there?
Instrumentalist
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Afterlife fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Afterlife.
Feeling musician? Want to be a pianist or a drummer but you can’t afford it or have no room for it? Do you have a VR set? Now you can be a great musician by playing instruments on your VR set. Start smashing keys or drums with your VR hand to make a great melody.
Hypnosis Reveries
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Afterlife fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Afterlife.
Based on interdisciplinary research in VR, HYPNOSIS REVERIES takes an abstract and minimalist approach to tell a story about growing. Through a 20-minute experience, you will step into a mental maze, looking back at the important moments that changed you, and see yourself again.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Afterlife at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Afterlife on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Afterlife.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Afterlife on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Afterlife.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Afterlife on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Afterlife.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Afterlife on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Afterlife.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Afterlife on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Afterlife.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Super Hexagon
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Afterlife on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Afterlife.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Nodebuster
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Afterlife on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Afterlife.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
Sally Face - Episode One
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Afterlife on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Afterlife.
Delve into a dark adventure following the boy with a prosthetic face and a tragic past. Unravel the sinister mysteries of Sally's world to find the truth that lies hidden beneath the shadows.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Afterlife.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Afterlife.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Afterlife.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
Emily is Away
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Afterlife.
Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.
Voices from the Sea
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Afterlife.
Follow the story of a young boy, Cantus as he meets Maris, the mysterious girl by the sea - an experience that will change his life forever.
Adventure Escape Mysteries
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Afterlife.
Play a story-driven room escape game with unique puzzles enjoyed by tens of millions of players. Solve mysteries, puzzle through escape rooms, and find the clue that will crack the case in a critically acclaimed puzzle adventure game!
Star Wars: Droid Repair Bay
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
In Star Wars: Droid Repair Bay by ILMxLAB, Poe Dameron's sidekick needs your help. Repair BB-8 and his astromech droid friends, each with their own unique personalities, so they can roll back into the fight against the First Order.
Ballads at Midnight
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Afterlife.
When a sarcastic bard is arrested and exiled to an abandoned castle, she expected to be at the mercy of a hungry, blood-thirsty vampire. She soon discovers that the vampire, Lucius, is not starving: he is gravely bored. She may just survive on borrowed time, one ballad each midnight.
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More from Signal Space Lab
Other recommendable Steam games by Signal Space Lab, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Every Day We Fight
WHY THIS
Another title from Signal Space Lab, the studio behind Afterlife.
Caught in a time loop, your band of resistance fighters is humanity’s last hope. Real-time exploration meets turn-based tactics and roguelite strategy as you learn new abilities, seek out new weapons, and develop new techniques to overcome the mysterious alien threat.
Killbot General
WHY THIS
Another title from Signal Space Lab, the studio behind Afterlife. Shares Indie with Afterlife.
Satisfying roguelite tactics packed in 5-minute battles. Controller-friendly with emphasis on tactics, not speed (low APM), no micromanagement, all in a wild and irreverent roguelite campaign for solo or co-op. Put anything you want on your flag...
Human Within
WHY THIS
Another title from Signal Space Lab, the studio behind Afterlife. Shares Indie with Afterlife.
Human Within is an innovative VR interactive experience with a branching storyline that requires real user decisions, leading to different endings. Its blend of original storytelling, 2D film, 3D graphics, 360° video, interactive Point Clouds, and puzzles offers something uniquely immersive.
Monkey Do!
WHY THIS
Another title from Signal Space Lab, the studio behind Afterlife. Shares Indie with Afterlife.
Escape a crumbling zoo as Mak, a stealth-savvy monkey who dismantles robot Keepers, springs traps on them, and recruits fellow animals to stage his ultimate breakout. Will the malicious owner be able to stop him or will Mak be the monkey wrench in his operation?
Frequently asked about Afterlife
- How much does Afterlife cost?
- Afterlife is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Afterlife?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Afterlife are Queerskins: a love story, VERY BAD DREAMS, Human Within.
- Who developed Afterlife?
- Afterlife was developed by Signal Space Lab.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Afterlife.
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