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Games like Torn Away

If Torn Away is your kind of game, the closest matches are Grief like a stray dog, Antivine and Raid on Taihoku — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its story devastates emotionally, bleak and dark. 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 Torn Away: Torn Away is an award winning interactive story with a unique blend of adventure games, side-scrollers, and cinematic first-person levels. Help little Asya find her way home in the middle of war.

2023IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedMetacritic 85Windowsby perelesoq
Torn Away — Steam game cover
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Genre switching keeps gameplay freshHand drawn art style is outstandingStory devastates emotionallyBleakDarkEmotional

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Steam players who put hours into Torn Away 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. Grief like a stray dog

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Torn Away fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Torn Away.

    An isolated village during the war. Men leave one by one, along the winding forest path painted crimson by distant fires, and do not return. Young Nadia becomes a part-time postwoman filling in for her sick mother. She is now a messenger of hope and of trouble.

    2025IndieAdventure3.74 USDSteam ↗
  2. Antivine

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Torn Away fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Torn Away.

    Do plants feel? A unique boy from the village and a girl lost her memory stay together for the adventure in the Chengying plain, a breathtaking place but fulfilled with bushy vines. Through changing viewpoints and the way of thinking, solve puzzles and move towards the source of the Treeman.

    2022IndieCasual6.29 USDSteam ↗
  3. Raid on Taihoku

    WHY THIS

    Shares a melancholic mood with Torn Away.

    Third-strongest match for Torn Away fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Torn Away.

    Raid On Taihoku is an adventure game with the backdrop of WW2 Taiwan. By controlling the characters pass through different danger and safe zones, you will experience the struggles of human nature and cruelty of war.

    2023ActionAdventure12.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. My Memory of Us

    WHY THIS

    Shares a melancholic mood with Torn Away.

    Ranked #4 for Torn Away fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Torn Away.

    My Memory of Us is a moving fairy tale about friendship and hope in the darkest moments of our times. Enter a hand-crafted, gorgeously animated 2D world full of adventure, exploration, stealth and puzzles. Meet the kids brought up in different worlds and help them survive during times of occupation.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure17.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. The Kobolds Left Behind

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Torn Away fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Torn Away.

    A tear-filled story game about the bittersweet last day of three abandoned kobolds.

    2022IndieAdventureRPG5.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Ghost on the Shore

    WHY THIS

    Shares a melancholic mood with Torn Away.

    Ranked #6 for Torn Away fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Torn Away.

    An exploration game about emotional ties that transcend even death. Riley is faced with a headstrong ghost, urging her on an adventure across atmospheric shores, uncovering the island's tragic secret. Choices in dialogue shape the bond between the two, ultimately deciding Riley's fate.

    2022Adventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Neva

    WHY THIS

    Shares a melancholic mood with Torn Away.

    Ranked #7 for Torn Away fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Torn Away.

    Experience the moving tale of a young woman and her lifelong bond with a magnificent wolf as they embark on a thrilling adventure through a rapidly dying world.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Dimhaven - The Lost Source

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Torn Away fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Torn Away.

    Are you ready for an adventure? Challenges, exploration and puzzles in a narrative driven experience, pick up your camera and test your wits in this first-person mystery by the team behind Quern!

    2026IndieAdventureSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Torn Away

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. I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

    WHY THIS

    Shares a bleak mood with Torn Away.

    Reviewers of Torn Away cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Torn Away.

    The adventure plunges you into the tortured and hidden past of five humans. Delve into their darkest fears. Outwit the Master Computer AM in a game of psychological warfare. Disturbing, compelling. An adventure you won't easily forget !!

    2013Adventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™

    WHY THIS

    Shares a melancholic mood with Torn Away.

    Reviewers of Torn Away cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Torn Away.

    Valiant Hearts : The Great War is the story of 4 crossed destinies and a broken love in a world torn apart. Dive into a 2D animated comic book adventure, mixing exploration, action and puzzles. Lost in the middle of the trenches, play as each of the 4 strangers, relive the War and help a young German soldier find his love.

    2014Adventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Fran Bow

    WHY THIS

    Shares an emotional mood with Torn Away.

    Reviewers of Torn Away cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Torn Away.

    Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game that tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.

    2015IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Torn Away at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Torn Away on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Torn Away.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Torn Away on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Torn Away.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Torn Away on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Torn Away.

    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 ↗
  4. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Torn Away on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Torn Away.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Torn Away on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Torn Away.

    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 ↗
  6. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Torn Away on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Torn Away.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Torn Away on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Torn Away.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Noita

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Torn Away on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Torn Away.

    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.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure7.99 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 with Torn Away.

    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 Torn Away.

    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 Torn Away.

    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 Torn Away.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

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

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

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Torn Away.

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

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. 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 Torn Away.

    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 ↗
  8. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Torn Away.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. My Memory of Us

    WHY THIS

    Shares a melancholic mood with Torn Away.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Torn Away.

    My Memory of Us is a moving fairy tale about friendship and hope in the darkest moments of our times. Enter a hand-crafted, gorgeously animated 2D world full of adventure, exploration, stealth and puzzles. Meet the kids brought up in different worlds and help them survive during times of occupation.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure17.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Ghost on the Shore

    WHY THIS

    Shares a melancholic mood with Torn Away.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Torn Away.

    An exploration game about emotional ties that transcend even death. Riley is faced with a headstrong ghost, urging her on an adventure across atmospheric shores, uncovering the island's tragic secret. Choices in dialogue shape the bond between the two, ultimately deciding Riley's fate.

    2022Adventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Neva

    WHY THIS

    Shares a melancholic mood with Torn Away.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Torn Away.

    Experience the moving tale of a young woman and her lifelong bond with a magnificent wolf as they embark on a thrilling adventure through a rapidly dying world.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Torn Away

Is Torn Away verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — Torn Away is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
How much does Torn Away cost?
Torn Away is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Torn Away?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Torn Away are Grief like a stray dog, Antivine, Raid on Taihoku.
Who developed Torn Away?
Torn Away was developed by perelesoq and published by perelesoq, Hawthorn Games.

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