Games like When I Was Young
If When I Was Young is your kind of game, the closest matches are Operation Highjump: The Fall of Berlin, HUNDRED FIRES: The rising of red star - EPISODE 2 and Men of War: Vietnam — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its captures 1960s 70s authenticity, hardcore combat challenges players and atmospheric. 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 When I Was Young: When I Was Young is a stylish and challenging 2D action game set during the Vietnam War. Fight your way through the brutal firefights enjoying a unique combat system and a story-driven campaign. Immerse yourself in the fascinating entourage of the 1960s!
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Steam players who put hours into When I Was Young 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.
Operation Highjump: The Fall of Berlin
WHY THIS
Top pick for When I Was Young fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with When I Was Young.
In the last days of World War II, lead a suicide mission to hunt down the enemy leaders, steal their experimental technology and recover the art pieces and relics. A combination of frenetic action, tactical missions and an explosive run & gun platforming adventure.
HUNDRED FIRES: The rising of red star - EPISODE 2
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for When I Was Young fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with When I Was Young.
Hundred Fires is an action, stealth and infiltration game with an exciting story and incredible cinematics. This is a one man infiltration mission, you alone cannot defeat the entire Soviet army, you must use your best skills to hide, sneak away from the enemy and go undetected.
Men of War: Vietnam
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with When I Was Young.
Third-strongest match for When I Was Young fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Men of War: Vietnam brings the acclaimed real-time tactics series into a new theater of war – the jungles of Southeast Asia, 1968. Experience the chaos of the Vietnam War through two story-driven campaigns that reveal both sides of the conflict.
Call of Duty®: Black Ops
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Ranked #4 for When I Was Young fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with When I Was Young.
The biggest first-person action series of all time and the follow-up to critically acclaimed Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare 2 returns with Call of Duty®: Black Ops.
Battle of Finland: Winter War
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Ranked #5 for When I Was Young fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with When I Was Young.
Battle of Finland: Winter War is a 2D side-scrolling action platformer. The Soviet Union began the conquest of Finland on November 30 1939, thus the Winter War was started. Can you help small Finland stop the red army steam rolling over Finland?
Sword of Destiny
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Ranked #6 for When I Was Young fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with When I Was Young.
Fight to restore the peace and justice in the world by thwarting the treacherous plans of the King, who turns the innocent into mindless skeletons to conquer the world.
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with When I Was Young.
Ranked #7 for When I Was Young fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with When I Was Young.
Brothers in Arms Hell's Highway brings the critically acclaimed squad-based WWII shooter into the next generation of gaming with amazing graphics and sound, new cutting-edge gameplay features and a totally redesigned online component.
Frontline: The Great Patriotic War
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Shares an atmospheric mood with When I Was Young.
Ranked #8 for When I Was Young fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with When I Was Young.
A tactical scale strategy game that invites the players to take command of the URSS forces in an epic struggle for the control of Russia during World War Two.
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Men of Valor
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Reviewers of When I Was Young cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with When I Was Young.
Vietnam, 1965. You are Dean Shepard, a "cherry" to the 'Nam with zero war experience other than standard boot camp training at Parris Island, SC. Along with your platoon, you will fight the NVA and the Vietcong in true historic locales and battles.
Medal of Honor: Airborne
WHY THIS
Reviewers of When I Was Young cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with When I Was Young.
Step into the boots of Boyd Travers, Private First Class of the “All-American” 82nd Airborne Division, and revolutionize the way the war is fought. From a rocky beginning in Sicily to war winning triumphs in the heart of Germany, fight the epic WWII battles that turned America’s first paratroopers into combat legends.
Medal of Honor™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with When I Was Young.
Reviewers of When I Was Young cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with When I Was Young.
Fight Today's War: Elite Special Forces in a gritty combat campaign using the surgical tactics of Tier 1 Operators combined with the sledgehammer force of Army Rangers.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below When I Was Young at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~58% under When I Was Young on Steam right now. Shares Indie with When I Was Young.
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
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Priced ~58% under When I Was Young on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with When I Was Young.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under When I Was Young on Steam right now. Shares Action with When I Was Young.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under When I Was Young on Steam right now. Shares Action with When I Was Young.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under When I Was Young on Steam right now. Shares Indie with When I Was Young.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under When I Was Young on Steam right now. Shares Indie with When I Was Young.
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
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Priced ~58% under When I Was Young on Steam right now. Shares Indie with When I Was Young.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~92% under When I Was Young on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with When I Was Young.
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?
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 When I Was Young.
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 Action and Adventure with When I Was Young.
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 Action and Indie with When I Was Young.
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 When I Was Young.
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 When I Was Young.
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 Action and Indie with When I Was Young.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with When I Was Young.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
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Frequently asked about When I Was Young
- How much does When I Was Young cost?
- When I Was Young is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to When I Was Young?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside When I Was Young are Operation Highjump: The Fall of Berlin, HUNDRED FIRES: The rising of red star - EPISODE 2, Men of War: Vietnam.
- Who developed When I Was Young?
- When I Was Young was developed by WallRus Group and published by Art Games Studio S.A..
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