Games like The Man Came Around
If The Man Came Around is your kind of game, the closest matches are Disco Elysium - The Final Cut, Glasshouse and The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales — 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 The Man Came Around: The Man Came Around is a survival game with narrative choices. Play five activists fleeing a police state. Cross the border. Evade the cops. Scavenge resources. Survive the elements. Will you put your group at risk to help others along the way, or betray your principles to survive?
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Steam players who put hours into The Man Came Around 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.
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
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Top pick for The Man Came Around fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Man Came Around.
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.
Glasshouse
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Second-strongest match for The Man Came Around fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Man Came Around.
Feudalpunk CRPG, with Turn-based combat, set in a lockdown apartment block at the dawn of a world war. Investigate the mysterious triple murder next door, fight the Political Conspiracy, and make terrible choices before the flatmates do it for you!
RPGSteam ↗The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales
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Third-strongest match for The Man Came Around fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Man Came Around.
The Bookwalker is a narrative adventure in which you play as Etienne Quist, a writer-turned-thief with the ability to dive into books. Use your powers to journey between reality and book worlds, and steal legendary items like Thor's Hammer and Excalibur to restore your ability to write.
XO
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Ranked #4 for The Man Came Around fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Man Came Around.
Build a fleet and lead humanity to safety. Grow your fleet using force, diplomacy or guile... and try to stay ahead of the relentless Harvesters. Each ship you add to your fleet gives you powers but also reduces your limited resources in this challenging RTS-with-pause game.
Pathologic 2
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Ranked #5 for The Man Came Around fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Man Came Around.
Pathologic 2 is a groundbreaking open-world horror RPG. Resist the plague. Make medicine. Heal people. Perform an autopsy. Trade to get what you need. Fight and kill if necessary. Survive. Struggle with an outbreak in a secluded rural town that is rapidly turning into hell.
Beholder
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Ranked #6 for The Man Came Around fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Man Came Around.
You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?
Beholder 2
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Ranked #7 for The Man Came Around fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Man Came Around.
You are an intern at the central ministry of a totalitarian state with your whole career ahead of you. Work your way up the ladder by scheming against employees, spying on your boss, and completing paperwork. Or do you turn against the state and expose corruption. The choice is still yours to make!
Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You
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Ranked #8 for The Man Came Around fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Man Came Around.
Big Brother has arrived - and it’s you. Investigate the lives of citizens to find those responsible for a series of terror attacks. Information from the internet, personal communications and private files are all accessible to you. But, be warned, the information you supply will have consequences.
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Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
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Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares RPG with The Man Came Around.
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.
Pathologic 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Man Came Around.
Pathologic 2 is a groundbreaking open-world horror RPG. Resist the plague. Make medicine. Heal people. Perform an autopsy. Trade to get what you need. Fight and kill if necessary. Survive. Struggle with an outbreak in a secluded rural town that is rapidly turning into hell.
Beholder
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Man Came Around.
You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?
Beholder 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Man Came Around.
You are an intern at the central ministry of a totalitarian state with your whole career ahead of you. Work your way up the ladder by scheming against employees, spying on your boss, and completing paperwork. Or do you turn against the state and expose corruption. The choice is still yours to make!
Frequently asked about The Man Came Around
- Does The Man Came Around run on Steam Deck?
- The Man Came Around is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- Is The Man Came Around free to play?
- Yes — The Man Came Around is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to The Man Came Around?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Man Came Around are Disco Elysium - The Final Cut, Glasshouse, The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales.
- Who developed The Man Came Around?
- The Man Came Around was developed by Thierry Brim.
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 The Man Came Around.
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