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Games like What Comes After

If What Comes After is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hanako's Flower Shop, Coffee Talk and Penny's Path — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its emotional storytelling resonates deeply, contemplative and emotional. 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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About What Comes After: What Comes After is a side-scrolling adventure and a short heartwarming story about learning how to love yourself. Help Vivi in her journey on the train to the afterlife and back.

2020IndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDWindows · macOSby Pikselnesia, Rolling Glory Jam
What Comes After — Steam game cover
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Emotional storytelling resonates deeplyHand drawn art style feels warm and invitingMessages about self worth and hopeContemplativeEmotionalPoignant

Players who liked What Comes After also play

Steam players who put hours into What Comes After 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.

  1. Hanako's Flower Shop

    WHY THIS

    Shares a relaxing mood with What Comes After.

    Top pick for What Comes After fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with What Comes After.

    Hanako’s Flower Shop is a heartfelt visual novel where you run a flower shop, crafting bouquets using the language of flowers. Listen to customers’ stories, shape Hanako’s journey through choices, and navigate her struggle to honor her grandpa’s legacy while discovering her own path.

    2025IndieCasual14.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Coffee Talk

    WHY THIS

    Shares a relaxing mood with What Comes After.

    Second-strongest match for What Comes After fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Comes After.

    Coffee Talk is a coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator about listening to fantasy-inspired modern peoples’ problems, and helping them by serving up a warm drink or two.

    2020IndieAdventureCasual12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Penny's Path

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for What Comes After fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with What Comes After.

    In this voice-acted, hand-painted visual novel about women and witchcraft, a brush with the coronavirus sends Penny back in time to the New England witch hunts. As Penny meets strong female characters who challenge past and present stereotypes, she discovers her own special role in the changing seasons of time.

    2020AdventureCasualFreeSteam ↗
  4. In Your Books

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for What Comes After fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with What Comes After.

    In Your Books is a short adventure game where you play the granddaughter of a bookseller. After her disappearance you'll have to take the place of your grandmother. Recommend books, learn to know the locals, solve secret mechanisms and discover where she left.

    2022IndieCasual5.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. The Railway

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for What Comes After fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Comes After.

    The vibe of a typical Russian train is conveyed through illustrations, sounds, and characters. So, hold your seat on the train!

    2021IndieAdventureCasual1.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. If Found...

    WHY THIS

    Shares an emotional mood with What Comes After.

    Ranked #6 for What Comes After fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with What Comes After.

    If Found... is a game about going home, coming out and erasing everything.

    2020IndieCasual12.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Farming Camp

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for What Comes After fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Comes After.

    Every summer, Evertree Farming Camp searches for the next best Evertree Farmer, someone ready to raise the bar in agriculture. In hopes of a better future, young Alessandra enters the contest to claim the title, but she will have to face her peers and discover what it means to be an Evertree Farmer.

    IndieAdventureSimulationSteam ↗
  8. Many Nights a Whisper

    WHY THIS

    Shares an emotional mood with What Comes After.

    Ranked #8 for What Comes After fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with What Comes After.

    A short interactive essay on dreams, pressure, and expectations. Take part in an ancient ritual where one shot determines the fate of a generation.

    2025IndieCasual2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to What Comes After

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Neo Cab

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with What Comes After.

    Reviewers of What Comes After cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Comes After.

    A visual novel about emotional survival in an automated world. Play as Lina, the last human cab driver. It’s your first night driving the lonely streets of Los Ojos, and your best friend has just disappeared. Stay on the road. Stay on the search. Stay human.

    2019IndieAdventureRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares a poignant mood with What Comes After.

    Reviewers of What Comes After cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Comes After.

    Spiritfarer® is a cozy management game about dying. As ferrymaster to the deceased, build a boat to explore the world, care for your spirit friends, and release them into the afterlife. The Spiritfarer Farewell Edition includes the heartwarming base game and three major content updates.

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Dying Light: The Beast

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of What Comes After cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with What Comes After.

    BECOME THE BEAST. SURVIVE THE NIGHT. A terrifying new chapter in the Dying Light universe begins. As Kyle Crane, explore the vast and unpredictable wilderness, uncover a deadly evolution of the infected, and learn to control the beastly powers awakening inside you.

    2025ActionAdventureRPG59.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below What Comes After at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under What Comes After on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Comes After.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under What Comes After on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Comes After.

    You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under What Comes After on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Comes After.

    A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under What Comes After on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with What Comes After.

    This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Placid Plastic Duck Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under What Comes After on Steam right now. Shares Casual with What Comes After.

    The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.

    2022SimulationCasual1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Peggle Deluxe

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under What Comes After on Steam right now. Shares Casual with What Comes After.

    Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.

    2007Casual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under What Comes After on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with What Comes After.

    shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Test: Hypothesis Rising

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under What Comes After on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Comes After.

    The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with What Comes After.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with What Comes After.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Comes After.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with What Comes After.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with What Comes After.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Comes After.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with What Comes After.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. 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 What Comes After.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about What Comes After

How much does What Comes After cost?
What Comes After is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to What Comes After?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside What Comes After are Hanako's Flower Shop, Coffee Talk, Penny's Path.
Who developed What Comes After?
What Comes After was developed by Pikselnesia, Rolling Glory Jam and published by Rolling Glory Jam.

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 What Comes After.

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