Games like First Response
If First Response is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist, The Beginner's Guide and Gone Home — 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.
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Steam players who put hours into First Response 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.
Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist
WHY THIS
Top pick for First Response fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with First Response.
A 15 minute heist game by Crows Crows Crows & Directed by William Pugh (The Stanley Parable). Slip into the soft-soled shoes of the mastermind responsible for the greatest heist- oh god I can’t do this any more, i’m joining the strike. good luck writing the steam description. -tina
The Beginner's Guide
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for First Response fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with First Response.
The Beginner's Guide is a narrative video game from Davey Wreden, the creator of The Stanley Parable. It lasts about an hour and a half and has no traditional mechanics, no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand.
Gone Home
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for First Response fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with First Response.
June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.
Home is Where One Starts...
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for First Response fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with First Response.
Home is Where One Starts... is a short, first-person exploration game in the same vein as Dear Esther or Gone Home. It’s a story about childhood, hope, and the miracle of memory. You play as a little girl from a broken home somewhere in the American South.
Thirty Flights of Loving
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for First Response fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with First Response.
This surprising first-person story tells the tale of a heist gone wrong. Encounter high-flying schemers, lovelorn criminals, and more stray kittens than you can shake a stick at.
Brukel
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for First Response fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with First Response.
A first-person exploration game based on the actual memories of a 92-year-old grandmother, told to players in her own voice. Take pictures of what remains of her abandoned childhood home to uncover the dark, traumatic events that she had to fight through as a teenage girl.
What Remains of Edith Finch
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for First Response fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with First Response.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
Nephise
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for First Response fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with First Response.
Nephise is a short and atmospheric puzzle game with narration. It is a relaxing and mysterious experience especially with the help of its music.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below First Response at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under First Response on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with First Response.
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 First Response on Steam right now. Shares Indie with First Response.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under First Response on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with First Response.
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 First Response on Steam right now. Shares Indie with First Response.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under First Response on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with First Response.
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 First Response on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with First Response.
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 First Response on Steam right now. Shares Indie with First Response.
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.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under First Response on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with First Response.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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 First Response.
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 First Response.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with First Response.
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 First Response.
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 First Response.
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 and Simulation with First Response.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about First Response
- How much does First Response cost?
- First Response is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to First Response?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside First Response are Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist, The Beginner's Guide, Gone Home.
- Who developed First Response?
- First Response was developed by Lauren Harman.
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 First Response.
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