Games like Return
If Return is your kind of game, the closest matches are Resolutiion, Hack Fate and Hyper Light Drifter — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmosphere is hauntingly beautiful, atmospheric and challenging. 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 Return: Return to your home planet after 200 years of space travel in this atmospheric, art-driven adventure. Shoot, slash, and roll your way through dangerous enemies and ancient bosses, purchase items and unlock powerful weapons, and explore your unfamiliar home for parts to repair your ship.
Players who liked Return also play
Steam players who put hours into Return 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.
Resolutiion
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Return.
Top pick for Return fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Return.
Resolutiion is a zelda-like action-adventure, where an old killer and his AI explore a vast, mysterious world, full of mighty weapons, surreal abilities and gruesome bossfights.
Hack Fate
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Return fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Return.
Hack Fate is a fast-paced, cyberpunk pixel-style hack-and-slash action game. In a flash of lightning, control time and space, switch identities, and deliver swift, fatal blows to all enemies. But if it's the heavens you're up against? Then you shall hack fate itself.
Hyper Light Drifter
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Return.
Third-strongest match for Return fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Return.
Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.
NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Return.
Ranked #4 for Return fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Return.
A brand-new side-scrolling entry to the NINJA GAIDEN series from the team behind Blasphemous, NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound redefines the classic platformer saga in a spectacular, thrilling and challenging ninja adventure.
Curse Crackers: For Whom the Belle Toils
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Return.
Ranked #5 for Return fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Return.
Bounce, vault, and fight your way through a whimsical world with the help of your loyal companion. Eat snacks, collect artifacts, and travel the world to stop Bonnie and her boney band of troublemakers!
Blind Fate: Edo no Yami
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Return.
Ranked #6 for Return fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Return.
Test your limits in this hardcore, cyber-samurai game set in post-apocalyptic Japan. Parry your foes’ blows with your weapon of choice and use implants to attack the weaknesses of unstoppable bosses from Japanese folklore!
Sands of Aura
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Return.
Ranked #7 for Return fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Return.
Sands of Aura is an open-world action adventure with a fantasy setting of a realm in its twilight--a world buried beneath a sea of sand. Sail across the sandseas to return life to a dying world in an unforgettable experience that is equal parts engaging story and unrelenting, souls-like combat.
HAAK
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Return.
Ranked #8 for Return fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Return.
HAAK is a Metroidvania-Platformer. As the mysterious wanderer Haak, you embarked on an epic expedition across the vast cyber-wasteland to find your lost brother. Explore deserted cities and metro, refine your weapons and hack skills, and uncover the secrets behind metal and dust.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Return at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Return on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Return.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Return on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Return.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Return on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Return.
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?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~61% under Return on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Return.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Return on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Return.
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...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Return on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Return.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Return on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Return.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Return on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Return.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
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 Return.
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 Return.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Return.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Return.
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 Return.
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 Return.
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 Return.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Resolutiion
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Return.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Return.
Resolutiion is a zelda-like action-adventure, where an old killer and his AI explore a vast, mysterious world, full of mighty weapons, surreal abilities and gruesome bossfights.
Hyper Light Drifter
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Return.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Return.
Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.
NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Return.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Return.
A brand-new side-scrolling entry to the NINJA GAIDEN series from the team behind Blasphemous, NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound redefines the classic platformer saga in a spectacular, thrilling and challenging ninja adventure.
Sands of Aura
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Return.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with Return.
Sands of Aura is an open-world action adventure with a fantasy setting of a realm in its twilight--a world buried beneath a sea of sand. Sail across the sandseas to return life to a dying world in an unforgettable experience that is equal parts engaging story and unrelenting, souls-like combat.
HAAK
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Return.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Return.
HAAK is a Metroidvania-Platformer. As the mysterious wanderer Haak, you embarked on an epic expedition across the vast cyber-wasteland to find your lost brother. Explore deserted cities and metro, refine your weapons and hack skills, and uncover the secrets behind metal and dust.
Frequently asked about Return
- How much does Return cost?
- Return is listed on Steam at 15.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Return?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Return are Resolutiion, Hack Fate, Hyper Light Drifter.
- Who developed Return?
- Return was developed by Dead Unicorn.
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