Games like Hourglass: Prologue
If Hourglass: Prologue is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dead Watch, Echo Weaver and Escape Protocol — 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 Hourglass: Prologue: Hourglass: Prologue is the first part of the puzzle-adventure „Hourglass“ where you can create a time-clone of yourself to solve challenging puzzles. Play as Aywa, a young adventurer traveling to Egypt to find her missing father - an archeologist, who never returned from his latest expedition.
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Dead Watch
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Top pick for Hourglass: Prologue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hourglass: Prologue.
You're stuck in a time loop ⌛. Whenever you find a dead body, you go back to the past. The only way to escape the loop is to cheat destiny & change the future. Explore the castle and uncover its dark secrets to prevent the next murder.
Echo Weaver
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Second-strongest match for Hourglass: Prologue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hourglass: Prologue.
Time is your greatest resource and secrets are your only upgrades. Master an unraveling time loop in this knowledge-based Metroidvania. As the last Weaver, exploit time-altering anomalies and use what you learn to break the cycle. Explore what remains. Uncover the mystery. Perfect the loop.
Escape Protocol
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Hourglass: Prologue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hourglass: Prologue.
Survive a shifting ship consumed by an anomaly. Explore, manage resources, unlock routes, and face unspeakable horrors in a survival roguelike with classic horror DNA
Disturbing Mirroring
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Ranked #4 for Hourglass: Prologue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Hourglass: Prologue.
Behold the mirroring of another hidden reality: a first‑person mystery and puzzle game where the uncomfortable truth is revealed only through mirrors. Unravel enigmas invisible to the naked eye and cross to the other side of the glass to explore secret rooms that do not exist on this side.
IndieSteam ↗5 Days
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Ranked #5 for Hourglass: Prologue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hourglass: Prologue.
Five days is a fully open world, no limits time travel puzzle adventure. This game isn't just a time loop of the same day on repeat, this game lets you travel between five different days. Use your knowledge of the future and ability to travel to the past to assassinate a heavily defended king.
ChronoTecture: The Eprologue
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Ranked #6 for Hourglass: Prologue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hourglass: Prologue.
ChronoTecture: The Eprologue is an indie FPS adventure game created by an architectural designer. Discover a surreal world and story about Cats, Time-Travel, Life, Death, and Dreams. Featuring gameplay with futuristic archery, time-control, exploration, and platforming.
Mai: Child of Ages
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Ranked #7 for Hourglass: Prologue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Hourglass: Prologue.
Travel through time and help Mai and her Grandfather uncover the mysteries of the world after the Last Great War. Explore the connections between ancient eras and dystopian futures in an adventure that blends thrilling combat with precision platforming.
Hourglass
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Hourglass: Prologue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hourglass: Prologue.
In Hourglass you can create a time-clone of yourself to solve challenging puzzles. You will play as Aywa, a young adventurer who is traveling to Egypt to find her missing father - an archeologist, who never returned from his latest expedition.
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 Hourglass: Prologue.
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 Hourglass: Prologue.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hourglass: Prologue.
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 Hourglass: Prologue.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Hourglass: Prologue.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Hourglass: Prologue.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hourglass: Prologue.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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More from Cyberwave
Other recommendable Steam games by Cyberwave, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Hourglass
WHY THIS
Another title from Cyberwave, the studio behind Hourglass: Prologue. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hourglass: Prologue.
In Hourglass you can create a time-clone of yourself to solve challenging puzzles. You will play as Aywa, a young adventurer who is traveling to Egypt to find her missing father - an archeologist, who never returned from his latest expedition.
Solarpunk™
WHY THIS
Another title from Cyberwave, the studio behind Hourglass: Prologue. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hourglass: Prologue.
Solarpunk is a survival game in a technically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.
Balloon Flight
WHY THIS
Another title from Cyberwave, the studio behind Hourglass: Prologue. Shares Indie with Hourglass: Prologue.
Balloon Flight is a crazy First-Person Arcade Game where you can spawn and pop balloons wherever you want. Jump on on your glider and fly as far as possible before time runs out!
Sloth Simulator (almost)
WHY THIS
Another title from Cyberwave, the studio behind Hourglass: Prologue.
Sloth Simulator is a round based combat mini game with fun gadgets and action heavy movement skills to unlock.
Frequently asked about Hourglass: Prologue
- What games are most similar to Hourglass: Prologue?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hourglass: Prologue are Dead Watch, Echo Weaver, Escape Protocol.
- Who developed Hourglass: Prologue?
- Hourglass: Prologue was developed by Cyberwave.
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