Games like The Great Perhaps
If The Great Perhaps is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Station, Doctor Who: The Edge of Reality and DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its short but impactful experience, atmospheric and chill. 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 The Great Perhaps: The Great Perhaps is a time travel puzzle game about an astronaut returning to Earth destroyed by natural cataclysms. There, among the ruins he finds an unusual artifact — an old lantern, in the light of which you can see glimpses of another time and travel to the past.
Players who liked The Great Perhaps also play
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The Station
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Great Perhaps.
Top pick for The Great Perhaps fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Great Perhaps.
The Station is a first-person sci-fi mystery set on a space station sent to study a sentient alien civilization. Assuming the role of a recon specialist, players must unravel a mystery which will decide the fate of two civilizations.
Doctor Who: The Edge of Reality
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Great Perhaps.
Second-strongest match for The Great Perhaps fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Great Perhaps.
Experience an unforgettable adventure in space and time. Explore new worlds, face Daleks, Cybermen and Weeping Angels and join two Doctors on an epic quest to save the universe from an unstoppable new threat in this first-person narrative adventure.
DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Great Perhaps.
Third-strongest match for The Great Perhaps fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Great Perhaps.
DISTRAINT is a 2D psychological horror adventure game for PC. In order to secure a partnership in a famous company, Price seizes the property of an elderly woman. In that very moment, he finds out the price of his humanity.
Some Distant Memory
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Great Perhaps.
Ranked #4 for The Great Perhaps fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Great Perhaps.
A hand-drawn story exploration game set 300 years after the apocalypse. You play an archaeologist named Professor Zay, joined by her companion, ARORA, a centuries-old AI capable of recreating human memories from scanned relics.
Through Abandoned: The Underground City
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Great Perhaps.
Ranked #5 for The Great Perhaps fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Great Perhaps.
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.
Deliver Us The Moon
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Great Perhaps.
Ranked #6 for The Great Perhaps fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Great Perhaps.
The Moon has gone dark, cutting off Earth’s last source of energy. As a lone astronaut, you’ll explore abandoned lunar bases, solve intricate puzzles, and navigate stunning zero-gravity environments. Operate advanced vehicles, uncover hidden truths, and survive in this gripping sci-fi thriller.
Lifeless Planet Premier Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Great Perhaps.
Ranked #7 for The Great Perhaps fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Great Perhaps.
PREMIER EDITION - While seeking life on a distant planet, an astronaut discovers an abandoned Russian town. He suspects his mission is a hoax until a mysterious young woman saves him from a strange and deadly phenomenon...
Outer Wilds
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Great Perhaps.
Ranked #8 for The Great Perhaps fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Great Perhaps.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
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Singularity™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Great Perhaps.
Reviewers of The Great Perhaps cross-mention this title as a similar play.
FIGHT THE PAST TO SAVE THE FUTURE. STOP THE SINGULARITY. Learn the truth behind a massive cover-up of the catastrophic SINGULARITY, an event that fractured time and threatens the world as we know it. Armed with powerful, advanced weaponry and the experimental Time Manipulation Device, fight enemies from the past, the present, and...
Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™
WHY THIS
Shares narrative driven progression and an atmospheric mood with The Great Perhaps.
Reviewers of The Great Perhaps cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Great Perhaps.
Valiant Hearts : The Great War is the story of 4 crossed destinies and a broken love in a world torn apart. Dive into a 2D animated comic book adventure, mixing exploration, action and puzzles. Lost in the middle of the trenches, play as each of the 4 strangers, relive the War and help a young German soldier find his love.
Vagrant Hearts
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Great Perhaps.
Reviewers of The Great Perhaps cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Great Perhaps.
Enjoy pure 16-bit RPG goodness! Scarllet and Beatrice are two close sisters. One of them has the gift of healing, the more she knows about her gift the more she realizes how big her responsibility is. Features party splitting, beautiful artworks and an intricate storyline.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Great Perhaps at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Great Perhaps on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Great Perhaps.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Great Perhaps on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Great Perhaps.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Great Perhaps on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Great Perhaps.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Great Perhaps on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Great Perhaps.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under The Great Perhaps on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Great Perhaps.
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 ~70% under The Great Perhaps on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Great Perhaps.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Great Perhaps on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Great Perhaps.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Great Perhaps on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Great Perhaps.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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 and Casual with The Great Perhaps.
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 The Great Perhaps.
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 The Great Perhaps.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Great Perhaps.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Great Perhaps.
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 and Casual with The Great Perhaps.
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 The Great Perhaps.
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.
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Great Perhaps.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Great Perhaps.
DISTRAINT is a 2D psychological horror adventure game for PC. In order to secure a partnership in a famous company, Price seizes the property of an elderly woman. In that very moment, he finds out the price of his humanity.
Through Abandoned: The Underground City
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Great Perhaps.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Great Perhaps.
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.
Deliver Us The Moon
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Great Perhaps.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Great Perhaps.
The Moon has gone dark, cutting off Earth’s last source of energy. As a lone astronaut, you’ll explore abandoned lunar bases, solve intricate puzzles, and navigate stunning zero-gravity environments. Operate advanced vehicles, uncover hidden truths, and survive in this gripping sci-fi thriller.
Outer Wilds
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Great Perhaps.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Great Perhaps.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
Frequently asked about The Great Perhaps
- How much does The Great Perhaps cost?
- The Great Perhaps is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Great Perhaps?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Great Perhaps are The Station, Doctor Who: The Edge of Reality, DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition.
- Who developed The Great Perhaps?
- The Great Perhaps was developed by Caligari Games and published by Daedalic Entertainment.
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