Games like It Stares Back
If It Stares Back is your kind of game, the closest matches are Blackguards, Loot River and BANNERMEN — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmosphere is unmatched, esoteric storytelling hooks 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.
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Blackguards
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with It Stares Back.
Top pick for It Stares Back fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with It Stares Back.
What happens when the only hope of a threatened world lies not with heroes in shining armor, but in the hands of a band of misfits and criminals? Blackguards, a new turn-based strategy RPG, explores this very question. You will discover over 180 unique hex-based battlegrounds within a dark and mature story of crime, drugs, and murder.
Loot River
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with It Stares Back.
Second-strongest match for It Stares Back fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with It Stares Back.
Explore procedurally generated labyrinths in this challenging, narrative-rich roguelike. Master deep combat. Slide blocks of ancient ruins. Defeat bestial abominations. Loot, level up, strategize, fight, die and wake up anew. Unlock the secrets of the Loot River. Immortality is a bittersweet gift.
BANNERMEN
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with It Stares Back.
Third-strongest match for It Stares Back fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with It Stares Back.
A singleplayer fast-paced classic RTS game in which you take on the role of a fallen lord on his journey back to become one of the mightiest in the medieval realm of Valtoria.
Stirring Abyss
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with It Stares Back.
Ranked #4 for It Stares Back fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with It Stares Back.
Stirring Abyss is an indie tactical squad-based game with strong RPG elements in which you uncover the ancient mysteries of the depths depicted in the classic vein of Lovecraftian horror.
WARTILE
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with It Stares Back.
Ranked #5 for It Stares Back fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with It Stares Back.
Wartile is a cool-down based strategy game in which you control a warband of Viking figurines in a miniature universe inspired by Norse mythology. Unravel its secrets and rein the powers of the gods.
Blackguards 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with It Stares Back.
Ranked #6 for It Stares Back fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with It Stares Back.
Blackguards 2 is a turn-based strategy-RPG and will deliver challenging hexfield battles and a gritty story filled with violence and crime. - Includes bonus content: Soundtrack, digital Art Book and Strategy Guide Book!
Gears Tactics
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for It Stares Back fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with It Stares Back.
Gears Tactics is the fast-paced, turn-based strategy game from one of the most-acclaimed video game franchises – Gears of War. Outnumbered and fighting for survival, recruit and command your squad to hunt down an evil mastermind who makes monsters.
Tactical Breach Wizards
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for It Stares Back fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with It Stares Back.
In Tactical Breach Wizards, you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles to unravel a modern conspiracy plot. Combine their unique spells in clever ways, or rewind time to try every crazy plan you can think of to punch a Traffic Warlock through a 4th story window.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below It Stares Back at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under It Stares Back on Steam right now. Shares Indie with It Stares Back.
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 It Stares Back on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with It Stares Back.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under It Stares Back on Steam right now. Shares Action with It Stares Back.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under It Stares Back on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with It Stares Back.
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 It Stares Back on Steam right now. Shares Indie with It Stares Back.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under It Stares Back on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with It Stares Back.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under It Stares Back on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with It Stares Back.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under It Stares Back on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with It Stares Back.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
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 It Stares Back.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with It Stares Back.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 It Stares Back.
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 It Stares Back.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with It Stares Back.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with It Stares Back.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with It Stares Back.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with It Stares Back.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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Frequently asked about It Stares Back
- How much does It Stares Back cost?
- It Stares Back is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to It Stares Back?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside It Stares Back are Blackguards, Loot River, BANNERMEN.
- Who developed It Stares Back?
- It Stares Back was developed by Light Arc Studio Ltd.
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