Games like STERN
If STERN is your kind of game, the closest matches are SHLEMO, Mortal Shell II and Salt and Sanctuary — 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.
Get personalized picks →About STERN: Anarchy and lawlessness flourish in the city, and at the same time, due to the explosion of a chemical plant, all residents inhabiting the city are turning into unknown creatures and creatures that crave human flesh. No more rules, no more laws!
Players who liked STERN also play
Steam players who put hours into STERN 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.
SHLEMO
WHY THIS
Top pick for STERN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with STERN.
Action-packed stories of 3 different guys who kill people to get to a briefcase with supposed wealth. The question is which of them will get it, will it solve their problems, which of them will die and what is in the briefcase?
Mortal Shell II
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for STERN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with STERN.
Their Flesh Is Your Weapon. Mortal Shell II is a standalone sequel action-RPG with adrenaline-charged, high-stakes combat. Possess warrior Shells, dethrone false gods, redeem a ravaged world.
Salt and Sanctuary
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for STERN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with STERN.
Explore a haunting, punishing island in this stylized 2D action RPG. Salt and Sanctuary combines fast and brutal 2D combat with richly developed RPG mechanics in a cursed realm of forgotten cities, blood-soaked dungeons, and desecrated monuments.
Maneater
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for STERN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with STERN.
Experience the ultimate power fantasy as the apex predator of the seas - a giant Shark! Terrorize the coastal waterways. Tear swimmers and divers limb from limb, give the humans a reason to fear you!
BUTCHER
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for STERN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with STERN.
BUTCHER is a fast-paced, blood-soaked 2D shooter where carnage is the only way forward. Become a ruthless cyborg tasked with eradicating humanity, leaving nothing but blood, guts, and destruction in your wake. There's no such thing as too much violence in this grim, retro-styled gorefest.
WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for STERN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with STERN.
WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers is a soulslike, action RPG set in the land of Shu during the dark and tumultuous late Ming Dynasty, plagued with warring factions and a mysterious illness spawning monstrous creatures.
The Outer Worlds 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for STERN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with STERN.
The Outer Worlds 2 is the sequel to the award-winning first-person sci-fi RPG from Obsidian Entertainment.
The Ascent
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for STERN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with STERN.
The Ascent is a solo and co-op Action-shooter RPG set in a cyberpunk world. The mega corporation that owns you and everyone, The Ascent Group, has just collapsed. Can you survive without it?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below STERN at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under STERN on Steam right now. Shares Indie with STERN.
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 ~50% under STERN on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with STERN.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under STERN on Steam right now. Shares Action with STERN.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under STERN on Steam right now. Shares Indie with STERN.
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 ~50% under STERN on Steam right now. Shares Indie with STERN.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under STERN on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with STERN.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under STERN on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with STERN.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under STERN on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with STERN.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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 STERN.
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 Action and Adventure with STERN.
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 Action and Indie with STERN.
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 STERN.
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 Action and Indie with STERN.
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 STERN.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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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.
Salt and Sanctuary
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with STERN.
Explore a haunting, punishing island in this stylized 2D action RPG. Salt and Sanctuary combines fast and brutal 2D combat with richly developed RPG mechanics in a cursed realm of forgotten cities, blood-soaked dungeons, and desecrated monuments.
Maneater
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with STERN.
Experience the ultimate power fantasy as the apex predator of the seas - a giant Shark! Terrorize the coastal waterways. Tear swimmers and divers limb from limb, give the humans a reason to fear you!
The Outer Worlds 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with STERN.
The Outer Worlds 2 is the sequel to the award-winning first-person sci-fi RPG from Obsidian Entertainment.
Frequently asked about STERN
- How much does STERN cost?
- STERN is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to STERN?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside STERN are SHLEMO, Mortal Shell II, Salt and Sanctuary.
- Who developed STERN?
- STERN was developed by StoneBlade.
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 STERN.
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