Games like Distant Transmission
If Distant Transmission is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Simplest Game in the World, Inkslinger and Typefighters (Steam Edition) — 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.
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Steam players who put hours into Distant Transmission 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 Simplest Game in the World
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Top pick for Distant Transmission fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Distant Transmission.
You can beat this game with any key on your keyboard. ANY key, I mean it.
Inkslinger
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Second-strongest match for Distant Transmission fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Distant Transmission.
As an Inkslinger at Brassknee's renowned Wordshop, it's your job to write letters for the citizens of Isle Shammer. But through the veil of work lies forgotten trauma. A voice begins to speak to you in recurring daydreams, telling you about your tragic past in Nomania.
Typefighters (Steam Edition)
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Third-strongest match for Distant Transmission fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Distant Transmission.
Typefighters is a competitive multiplayer game where two players battle each other using their typing skills. Its variety of modes does not only emphasise typing speed and correctness, but also other skills like reaction time, sustained attention, creativity, tactics and anticipating the opponents moves.
Last Days
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Ranked #4 for Distant Transmission fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Distant Transmission.
The gods have blessed New Canaan for four hundred years, and everyone - including Sister Ginsetsu - thought it would go on forever, until the day Ginsetsu met the gods of New Canaan. Since then, the story between the maiden who calls herself a god, and the maiden who will become a god has begun.
A Normal Lost Phone
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Ranked #6 for Distant Transmission fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Distant Transmission.
A Normal Lost Phone is a game about exploring the intimacy of an unknown person whose phone was found by the player.
SIMULACRA 2
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Ranked #7 for Distant Transmission fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Distant Transmission.
A dead influencer. An obsessed detective. Three suspects. Piece the truth together by going through the victim’s phone messages, videos, and social media in the follow up to the critically acclaimed SIMULACRA.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Distant Transmission.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Distant Transmission.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Distant Transmission.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Distant Transmission.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Distant Transmission.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Distant Transmission.
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.
A Date with Death
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Distant Transmission.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Distant Transmission.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Frequently asked about Distant Transmission
- Does Distant Transmission have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Distant Transmission supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Distant Transmission?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Distant Transmission are The Simplest Game in the World, Inkslinger, Typefighters (Steam Edition).
- Who developed Distant Transmission?
- Distant Transmission was developed by Caleb Foss.
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 Distant Transmission.
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