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Games like ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos

If ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos is your kind of game, the closest matches are TOKYO CHRONOS, A Line Held Tight and 201 - The Bad Number — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its multiple endings reward replayability, atmospheric 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 ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos: A sci-fi adventure full of robot battles, pop music, and emotion. Featuring one of the largest branching storylines ever in a VR game with 15-20 hours of gameplay, Altdeus will place you in the shoes of Chloe, a pilot in humanity's forces fighting massive hostile organisms known as the Meteora.

2021Adventure29.99 USDMetacritic 78Windowsby MyDearest Inc.
ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos — Steam game cover
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Steam players who put hours into ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos 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. TOKYO CHRONOS

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos.

    Top pick for ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos.

    TOKYO CHRONOS is the VR game that has multiple-choice decision points as well as more than one ending. The game takes place in Shibuya, Tokyo, which has only eight people, including you, the protagonist, Kyosuke Sakurai. Why are they there?

    2019AdventureSimulation29.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. A Line Held Tight

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos.

    Tensions both political and personal are rising at the Brightworld mining colony. In this dynamic sci-fi visual novel you must decide where your heart and loyalties lie if you’re to shape the future and save yourself.

    IndieAdventureRPGSteam ↗
  3. 201 - The Bad Number

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos.

    "201 - The Bad Number" is an interactive science fiction game-book set on a post-apocalyptic Mars. In a world where only 200 people remain, each new inhabitant may hasten civilization's end. Players make choices that impact the fate of humanity and the colony in a unique dystopian setting.

    2024IndieAdventure4.02 USDSteam ↗
  4. KORA

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos.

    In a "perfect" city governed by AI, you're just an ordinary repair technician trying to survive. Then a routine job goes wrong, you get kidnapped, and the woman who taught you everything you know seems to have known it would happen all along.

    2026IndieAdventureRPGSteam ↗
  5. Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos.

    Ranked #5 for ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos.

    Survive the mystery that awaits the JFS Gun-Dog in deep space in this retro visual novel / graphic adventure.

    2025IndieAdventureRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Low Effort Romance

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos.

    Low Effort Romance is an otome visual novel about two tired adults who accidentally fall for each other between quarterly reports. Can you juggle deadlines, nosy coworkers, group projects, and a romance that keeps almost happening on company property?

    2026IndieAdventureSteam ↗
  7. EULA ~2026 Human Creativity Report~

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos.

    An image created by AI — is it yours? An AI art tool is placed before a nameless illustrator. To accept, or to refuse. A visual novel that tells the same story in different forms. Your choices shape the ending - there is no right answer.

    2026IndieAdventureCasualSteam ↗
  8. Always On

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos.

    Choices matter in this interactive short story. It only takes about 1 hour to play through once, but there are multiple endings to explore. You play as an AI assistant to the 7 year old Evie. What kind of bot will you be?

    2025IndieAdventureRPG3.99 USDSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos

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. TOKYO CHRONOS

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos.

    Reviewers of ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos.

    TOKYO CHRONOS is the VR game that has multiple-choice decision points as well as more than one ending. The game takes place in Shibuya, Tokyo, which has only eight people, including you, the protagonist, Kyosuke Sakurai. Why are they there?

    2019AdventureSimulation29.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Project LUX

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos.

    Reviewers of ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos.

    The crime... is murder. Our story takes place in a court trial, set in a futuristic world where most humans have cyberbrains. The defendant on trial is an agent who coordinates with artists to create the data for cyberbrains to interact with people’s emotions. The victim is a girl artist named Lux.

    2018IndieAdventureCasual24.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. AI: The Somnium Files

    WHY THIS

    Shares an emotional mood with ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos.

    Reviewers of ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos.

    Play as detective Kaname Date on the case of an elusive serial killer in this thrilling, sci-fi murder mystery.

    2019Adventure4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Persona 5 Royal

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos.

    Reviewers of ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    Don the mask and join the Phantom Thieves of Hearts as they stage grand heists, infiltrate the minds of the corrupt, and make them change their ways!

    2022RPG11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Hollow Knight

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos.

    Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Portal 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos.

    The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

    2011ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~73% under ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Don't Starve Together

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos.

    Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

    2016ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~73% under ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. It Takes Two

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos.

    Embark on the craziest journey of your life in It Takes Two. Invite a friend to join for free with Friend’s Pass and work together across a huge variety of gleefully disruptive gameplay challenges. Winner of GAME OF THE YEAR at the Game Awards 2021.

    2021ActionAdventure13.99 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.

    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 ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos.

    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 Adventure with ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos.

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

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

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

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

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos.

    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 ↗
  7. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  8. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from MyDearest Inc.

Other recommendable Steam games by MyDearest Inc., ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. TOKYO CHRONOS

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos.

    Another title from MyDearest Inc., the studio behind ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos. Shares Adventure with ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos.

    TOKYO CHRONOS is the VR game that has multiple-choice decision points as well as more than one ending. The game takes place in Shibuya, Tokyo, which has only eight people, including you, the protagonist, Kyosuke Sakurai. Why are they there?

    2019AdventureSimulation29.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Innocent Forest: The Bird of Light

    WHY THIS

    Another title from MyDearest Inc., the studio behind ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos. Shares Adventure with ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos.

    The “FullDive Novel”: Visual Novels meets Virtual Reality in this ultimate immersive reading experience.

    2018AdventureSimulationCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Innocent Forest 2: The Bed in the Sky

    WHY THIS

    Another title from MyDearest Inc., the studio behind ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos. Shares Adventure with ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos.

    The “FullDive Novel”: Visual Novels meets Virtual Reality in this ultimate immersive reading experience. With character dialogue voiced by high-profile voice actors, and illustrated pages turning into 360-degree VR animated scenes, you will be absorbed in the story, and feel as one with the protagonist.

    2018AdventureSimulationCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. DYSCHRONIA: Chronos Alternate - Dual Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos.

    Another title from MyDearest Inc., the studio behind ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos. Shares Adventure with ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos.

    Solve an impossible murder case in the far-flung future in this VR & Non-VR investigation action adventure! Multi-awarded title DYSCHRONIA: Chronos Alternate - Dual Edition contains all three episodes from the acclaimed trilogy.

    2024ActionAdventure34.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Brazen Blaze -3vs3 Brawl Arena-

    WHY THIS

    Another title from MyDearest Inc., the studio behind ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos.

    Brazen Blaze is a 3v3 Smack & Shoot VR Action game with emphasis on close quarter melee combat! Choose from a range of unique Runners each equipped with individual skills meant to destroy whatever blocks your path to sure victory!

    2024ActionFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  6. The Exit 8 VR

    WHY THIS

    Another title from MyDearest Inc., the studio behind ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos. Shares Adventure with ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos.

    The popular indie game “The Exit 8” is reborn and brought to virtual life as “The Exit 8 VR”! Experience the eerie and thrilling atmosphere of Japan's underground passageways, now with new anomalies!

    2024IndieAdventureSimulation6.99 USDSteam ↗

Frequently asked about ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos

Does ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos work on Steam Deck?
ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
How much does ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos cost?
ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos are TOKYO CHRONOS, A Line Held Tight, 201 - The Bad Number.
Who developed ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos?
ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos was developed by MyDearest Inc..

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 ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos.

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