Games like The Chronos Principle
If The Chronos Principle is your kind of game, the closest matches are Chronescher, Number Stomper and CUBOID — 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 The Chronos Principle: The Chronos Principle is a breathtaking journey through a series of intricate puzzles that explore the concept of time manipulation.
Players who liked The Chronos Principle also play
Steam players who put hours into The Chronos Principle 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.
Chronescher
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Top pick for The Chronos Principle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Chronos Principle.
Chronescher is a challenging turn-based puzzle game in Escher-esque spaces. Use impossible geometries, teleportation and environmental snapshots to navigate your mind and uncover your lost memories.
Number Stomper
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Chronos Principle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Chronos Principle.
Number Stomper is a minimalistic puzzle game where you move in one of 4 directions to step on numbers, reducing their value by 1. Clear every number on the grid to complete a level. Explore the different tile types and challenge yourself with 100 levels!
CUBOID
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Third-strongest match for The Chronos Principle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Chronos Principle.
CUBOID is a challenging spatial puzzle game with minimalist design, where you progress through a labyrinth of levels using a unique mechanic of merging with world blocks.
Nullum
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Ranked #5 for The Chronos Principle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Chronos Principle.
Nullum is a minimalist puzzle game. The goal is to eliminate all tiles by creating matching numbers.
Quadulo
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Ranked #6 for The Chronos Principle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Chronos Principle.
Connecting blocks of the same color creates an island. Building all islands solves the puzzle. Challenging block puzzle game - easy to learn, hard to master, and endlessly satisfying!
Minesweeper Twist
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Ranked #7 for The Chronos Principle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Chronos Principle.
A variant of the classic game Minesweeper on an irregular grid, where each tile can have between 6 and 10 neighbors, leading to more challenging and mind-bending levels.
A Simple Square
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Ranked #8 for The Chronos Principle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Chronos Principle.
A Simple Square is a minimalist puzzle game where every move changes the level. Slide in straight lines, erase the tiles behind you, plan your path, and reach the exit without trapping yourself.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Chronos Principle at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~80% under The Chronos Principle on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Chronos Principle.
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?
The Test
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Priced ~60% under The Chronos Principle on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Chronos Principle.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~70% under The Chronos Principle on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Chronos Principle.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~80% under The Chronos Principle on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Chronos Principle.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
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Priced ~60% under The Chronos Principle on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Chronos Principle.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
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Priced ~80% under The Chronos Principle on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Chronos Principle.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
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Priced ~80% under The Chronos Principle on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Chronos Principle.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~60% under The Chronos Principle on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Chronos Principle.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Chronos Principle.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Chronos Principle.
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 The Chronos Principle.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Chronos Principle.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Chronos Principle.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Chronos Principle.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Chronos Principle.
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.
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Frequently asked about The Chronos Principle
- How much does The Chronos Principle cost?
- The Chronos Principle is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Chronos Principle?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Chronos Principle are Chronescher, Number Stomper, CUBOID.
- Who developed The Chronos Principle?
- The Chronos Principle was developed by Logisk Studio Inc..
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 The Chronos Principle.
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