Games like We Stay Behind
If We Stay Behind is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Signifier Director's Cut, BURIED STARS and Kona II: Brume — 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 We Stay Behind: We Stay Behind is a single-player third-person mystery between dreams and reality. A comet is on course to destroy a small town but its inhabitants refuse to leave. Interview the people of Laburnum Creek, explore a beautiful national park and unravel the secrets of this picturesque town.
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Steam players who put hours into We Stay Behind 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.
The Signifier Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Top pick for We Stay Behind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with We Stay Behind.
This story-driven adventure follows a mystery of death and despair from reality into the surreal realms of objective memories and subjective experiences. Search the mind, solve puzzles, and unravel the dark truth in this psychological thriller.
BURIED STARS
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for We Stay Behind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with We Stay Behind.
A mystery adventure set at the collapse site of a live survival audition show. Trapped contestants communicate with each other—and the outside world through social media—as they wait for rescue. But as unexpected events unfold, trust begins to crack, and survival becomes far more complicated.
Kona II: Brume
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for We Stay Behind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with We Stay Behind.
Northern Québec, 1970. A bizarre mist —the Brume— is disconnecting a rural mining village from its quiet reality. Step into the shoes of Detective Carl Faubert as he unfolds the mysteries haunting the region while battling for his own survival.
Radiolight
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for We Stay Behind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with We Stay Behind.
Ashwood Creek, 1985. A child disappears without a trace. A local policeman is drawn into a national park, seeking the truth. Mysterious radio signals beckon him further and further. Investigate, survive and face the unknown in Radiolight— an '80s thriller by solo dev Krystof Knesl.
Dahlia View
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for We Stay Behind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with We Stay Behind.
A child is missing. The police are failing. And you're a retired detective with a bit too much time on your hands. Time to throw out the rules & do whatever it takes to bring the child home. From the developers of I AM RIPPER, The Occupation & Ether One.
Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for We Stay Behind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with We Stay Behind.
On the corner of July Avenue and Yam Street, all is not what it seems. What role will you play in a city's fate?
Anamorphine
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for We Stay Behind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with We Stay Behind.
Explore the past as you resolve the present in Anamorphine, a surreal adventure of rendered emotions. Journey into the mind of the main character, a young man in denial. His subconscious is pushing him to face his past - or be consumed by it.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with We Stay Behind.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with We Stay Behind.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 We Stay Behind.
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 We Stay Behind.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with We Stay Behind.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with We Stay Behind.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with We Stay Behind.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with We Stay Behind.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
BURIED STARS
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with We Stay Behind.
A mystery adventure set at the collapse site of a live survival audition show. Trapped contestants communicate with each other—and the outside world through social media—as they wait for rescue. But as unexpected events unfold, trust begins to crack, and survival becomes far more complicated.
Kona II: Brume
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with We Stay Behind.
Northern Québec, 1970. A bizarre mist —the Brume— is disconnecting a rural mining village from its quiet reality. Step into the shoes of Detective Carl Faubert as he unfolds the mysteries haunting the region while battling for his own survival.
Radiolight
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with We Stay Behind.
Ashwood Creek, 1985. A child disappears without a trace. A local policeman is drawn into a national park, seeking the truth. Mysterious radio signals beckon him further and further. Investigate, survive and face the unknown in Radiolight— an '80s thriller by solo dev Krystof Knesl.
Dahlia View
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with We Stay Behind.
A child is missing. The police are failing. And you're a retired detective with a bit too much time on your hands. Time to throw out the rules & do whatever it takes to bring the child home. From the developers of I AM RIPPER, The Occupation & Ether One.
Frequently asked about We Stay Behind
- What games are most similar to We Stay Behind?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside We Stay Behind are The Signifier Director's Cut, BURIED STARS, Kona II: Brume.
- Who developed We Stay Behind?
- We Stay Behind was developed by Backwoods Entertainment, Application Systems Heidelberg and published by Application Systems Heidelberg.
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 We Stay Behind.
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