Games like The Outbound Ghost
If The Outbound Ghost is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sunburn, Spriters, Hopes Blooming Dawn and Tidewatch — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its fast travel reduces tedium, atmospheric and cozy. 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 Outbound Ghost: The Outbound Ghost is an adventure RPG about helping ghosts ascend to the afterlife. Battle the past using figments of your personality. Craft badges to earn abilities. Explore a town of troubled spooks and discover life can be tough, even when you're dead.
Players who liked The Outbound Ghost also play
Steam players who put hours into The Outbound Ghost 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.
Sunburn
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Outbound Ghost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Outbound Ghost.
Stranded on a remote, unforgiving island, you are in complete control of a miserable group of castaways. Their fate rests entirely with you. Will you help them survive long enough to escape, or drag them deeper into the island to face its darkest mysteries?
Spriters, Hopes Blooming Dawn
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Outbound Ghost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Outbound Ghost.
Spriters: Hopes Blooming Dawn is an RPG-style game that takes you on an epic adventure through a world filled with magic, mystery, and danger. Battle dangerous creatures, collect Gems with unique powers, and uncover the mysteries of your past in this engaging and innovative game.
Tidewatch
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Outbound Ghost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Outbound Ghost.
In Tidewatch, a mystery RPG inspired by the Finnish summer, you are the Head of the Coast Guard searching for your missing friend. Navigate your crew’s relationships from rivalry to romance, as your bonds shift the weather, your skills, and tactical turn-based combat.
RPGSteam ↗Chinese Strange Stories
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Outbound Ghost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Outbound Ghost.
Step into a living Chinese painting that blends the mystical, supernatural, and the struggles of daily life in the final years of the Ming dynasty. Experience a unique mix of classic turn-based RPG mechanics and dynamic card battling, where strategy and fate intertwine.
Beggar's Road
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Outbound Ghost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Outbound Ghost.
A darkly comic medieval roguelike where you travel between towns, recruit desperate companions, and survive strange encounters through difficult choices, scarce resources, and shifting alliances with bishops, merchants, and bandits.
Nocturnis
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Outbound Ghost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Outbound Ghost.
Nocturnis is a narrative-driven, party-based tactical RPG where a desperate attempt to restore magic twists mankind into beasts. Explore a handcrafted world, master tactical combat, and reach the Moon Temple before the night ends. Your choices and combat prowess will determine what remains by dawn.
Origin Hunt
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Ranked #7 for The Outbound Ghost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Outbound Ghost.
A story-rich RPG with challenging turn-based combat and an absurd amount of control over how you build your party. Exploit mechanics, break the rules, and play how YOU want. Experience an emotional story brought to life by memorable characters. Terrible puns included at no extra charge.
Beast Saga
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Outbound Ghost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Outbound Ghost.
Beast Saga is an open-world RPG set in a martial arts universe where you play as a young wolf tribe member named Lang Jiusi. Immerse yourself in a world of free exploration, gathering, crafting, life skills, martial arts cultivation, forming alliances and experiencing unique Jianghu adventures.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Outbound Ghost at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Outbound Ghost on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Outbound Ghost.
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.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under The Outbound Ghost on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Outbound Ghost.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
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Priced ~50% under The Outbound Ghost on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Outbound Ghost.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~50% under The Outbound Ghost on Steam right now. Shares RPG with The Outbound Ghost.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~75% under The Outbound Ghost on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with The Outbound Ghost.
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!
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 The Outbound Ghost.
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 Outbound Ghost.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Outbound Ghost.
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 The Outbound Ghost.
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 Outbound Ghost.
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 The Outbound Ghost.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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 The Outbound Ghost.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Outbound Ghost.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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More from Conradical Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Conradical Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Desktop Defender
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with The Outbound Ghost.
Another title from Conradical Games, the studio behind The Outbound Ghost. Shares Indie with The Outbound Ghost.
An idle auto-battler that sits in the corner of your screen while you do other things.
Lootbox Lyfe
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Outbound Ghost.
Another title from Conradical Games, the studio behind The Outbound Ghost. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Outbound Ghost.
Explore a desolate world in the genre defining platformvania. Lootbox Lyfe is a Metroidvania with Movement Option Progression. Save your species through delving into an interconnected world riddled with platforming obstacles. Unlock new areas as you obtain new movement options.
Girabox
WHY THIS
Another title from Conradical Games, the studio behind The Outbound Ghost. Shares Indie with The Outbound Ghost.
A minimalist puzzle game in which you rotate the world instead of controlling the player. Play through the many level packs and compare your score to others in the leaderboards.
Soul Stalker
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Outbound Ghost.
Another title from Conradical Games, the studio behind The Outbound Ghost.
A bullet heaven roguelike where you assume the role of the steward of ghosts bound to eternal life on earth. Wield 4 to 6 weapons simultaneously to fend off waves of apparitions determined to defeat your spirited friends.
Wanted Shadows
WHY THIS
Another title from Conradical Games, the studio behind The Outbound Ghost. Shares Indie and RPG with The Outbound Ghost.
Decimate thousands of demons on All Hallows' Eve to protect your infernal home. Wanted Shadows is a bullet heaven roguelite where the difference between overpowering and being overpowered lies in your skill and wit.
Little Laps
WHY THIS
Another title from Conradical Games, the studio behind The Outbound Ghost.
Race through minimalist tracks designed for precision and flow. Master the one-button controls, beat your best times, and experience racing distilled to its purest form. Can you perfect your little laps?
Wanted Shadows: Unchained
WHY THIS
Another title from Conradical Games, the studio behind The Outbound Ghost. Shares Indie with The Outbound Ghost.
A survivors-like game where you defeat creatures of the night trying to take over the underworld. Vanquish the invasion, perfect your build, and become purgatory's master.
Card Corner
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with The Outbound Ghost.
Another title from Conradical Games, the studio behind The Outbound Ghost. Shares Indie with The Outbound Ghost.
An idle poker game that sits in the corner of your screen while you do other things.
Frequently asked about The Outbound Ghost
- Does The Outbound Ghost run on Steam Deck?
- The Outbound Ghost is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does The Outbound Ghost cost?
- The Outbound Ghost is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Outbound Ghost?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Outbound Ghost are Sunburn, Spriters, Hopes Blooming Dawn, Tidewatch.
- Who developed The Outbound Ghost?
- The Outbound Ghost was developed by Conradical Games, Radhood and published by Conradical Games.
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