Games like Through Abandoned: The Refuge
If Through Abandoned: The Refuge is your kind of game, the closest matches are Through Abandoned: The Forest, Through Abandoned: The Underground City and Universe For Sale — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, immersive and melancholic. 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 Through Abandoned: The Refuge: It’s the new game of Through Abandoned series, classical point and click game. You try to find your twin-brother who disappeared in a huge and mysterious place called Abandoned.
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Through Abandoned: The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
Top pick for Through Abandoned: The Refuge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
You continue your journey in worlds of Abandoned.
Through Abandoned: The Underground City
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
Second-strongest match for Through Abandoned: The Refuge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
It’s the first game of Through Abandoned series, classical point and click game. You try to find your twin-brother who disappeared in a huge and mysterious place called Abandoned.
Universe For Sale
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
Third-strongest match for Through Abandoned: The Refuge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
A space station nestled in the clouds of Jupiter. A bizarre bazaar where a young, worried woman crafts entire universes in the palm of her hand. A mysterious cultist who's stripped the flesh from his bones in order to reach enlightenment. Here, there's a universe for sale. You buying?
Twelve Minutes
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
Ranked #4 for Through Abandoned: The Refuge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
An interactive thriller about a man trapped in a time loop. Featuring James McAvoy, Daisy Ridley, and Willem Dafoe.
Syberia: The World Before
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
Ranked #5 for Through Abandoned: The Refuge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
Embark on a quest for identity through time, as you piece together the puzzle of two lives.
Elroy and the Aliens
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Through Abandoned: The Refuge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
Slope City, 1993. Talking robots, ancient alien secrets, and a mysterious message from the past. Follow Elroy and Peggie through a portal to find Elroy's father, missing for 18 years. A heartfelt point & click adventure where the puzzles make sense and the story stays with you.
Ghost on the Shore
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
Ranked #7 for Through Abandoned: The Refuge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
An exploration game about emotional ties that transcend even death. Riley is faced with a headstrong ghost, urging her on an adventure across atmospheric shores, uncovering the island's tragic secret. Choices in dialogue shape the bond between the two, ultimately deciding Riley's fate.
A Perfect Day
WHY THIS
Shares mini games with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
Ranked #8 for Through Abandoned: The Refuge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
Revisit and repeat the final moments of China's turn of the century in this narrative puzzle adventure. Play a 6th-grade student and greet classmates, explore secrets, play mini-4WD, or just wander around town. Make your choices to create a perfect day for everyone!
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The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
Reviewers of Through Abandoned: The Refuge cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
The Guest
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
Reviewers of Through Abandoned: The Refuge cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
'The Guest' is a gloomy adventure full of enigmas where the exploration of your surroundings comes to prominence; puzzles, secrets and riddles will help you discover who has locked you in this somber hotel room and most importantly, why.
Myst
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
Reviewers of Through Abandoned: The Refuge cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
Welcome to Myst: a starkly beautiful island, eerily tinged with mystery and shrouded in intrigue. Built from the ground up to play in 2D & VR, explore Myst in a whole new dimension! Journey to the Ages, unravel puzzles, and be a part of the surrealistic adventure that will become your own.
Submachine: Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
Reviewers of Through Abandoned: The Refuge cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
Submachine is a hand-drawn puzzle adventure game. You find yourself in a vast network of desolate locations containing puzzles, secrets, notes and items to collect to help you along the way. Follow the story of a banished lighthouse keeper to discover his descent into ruins.
The Undergrounders
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Through Abandoned: The Refuge cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
Play as Jack in this first-person thriller where your choices determine his fate. Uncover dark secrets, solve puzzles, and navigate a world of mystery and emotional drama to save yourself and your daughter.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Through Abandoned: The Refuge at current Steam store prices.
QUICKERFLAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Through Abandoned: The Refuge on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Through Abandoned: The Refuge on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Gachi Heroes
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Through Abandoned: The Refuge on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Through Abandoned: The Refuge on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
Shotgun Legend
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Through Abandoned: The Refuge on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
Eugene must battle aliens and the undead in search of a truck rim, as it seems to be his ticket home.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Through Abandoned: The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
You continue your journey in worlds of Abandoned.
Through Abandoned: The Underground City
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
It’s the first game of Through Abandoned series, classical point and click game. You try to find your twin-brother who disappeared in a huge and mysterious place called Abandoned.
Universe For Sale
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
A space station nestled in the clouds of Jupiter. A bizarre bazaar where a young, worried woman crafts entire universes in the palm of her hand. A mysterious cultist who's stripped the flesh from his bones in order to reach enlightenment. Here, there's a universe for sale. You buying?
Twelve Minutes
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
An interactive thriller about a man trapped in a time loop. Featuring James McAvoy, Daisy Ridley, and Willem Dafoe.
Elroy and the Aliens
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
Slope City, 1993. Talking robots, ancient alien secrets, and a mysterious message from the past. Follow Elroy and Peggie through a portal to find Elroy's father, missing for 18 years. A heartfelt point & click adventure where the puzzles make sense and the story stays with you.
Ghost on the Shore
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
An exploration game about emotional ties that transcend even death. Riley is faced with a headstrong ghost, urging her on an adventure across atmospheric shores, uncovering the island's tragic secret. Choices in dialogue shape the bond between the two, ultimately deciding Riley's fate.
A Perfect Day
WHY THIS
Shares mini games with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Through Abandoned: The Refuge.
Revisit and repeat the final moments of China's turn of the century in this narrative puzzle adventure. Play a 6th-grade student and greet classmates, explore secrets, play mini-4WD, or just wander around town. Make your choices to create a perfect day for everyone!
Frequently asked about Through Abandoned: The Refuge
- How much does Through Abandoned: The Refuge cost?
- Through Abandoned: The Refuge is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Through Abandoned: The Refuge?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Through Abandoned: The Refuge are Through Abandoned: The Forest, Through Abandoned: The Underground City, Universe For Sale.
- Who developed Through Abandoned: The Refuge?
- Through Abandoned: The Refuge was developed by Igor Krutov and published by Conglomerate 5.
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