Games like Showa American Story
If Showa American Story is your kind of game, the closest matches are Robots at Midnight, Blight Night and CORPSE CARNIVAL — 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 Showa American Story: SHOWA AMERICAN STORY is a brand new RPG and an enthusiastic love letter to the 80s' pop culture that features a strong taste of B-Movies. Follow Chouko's journey of truth and revenge across North America as she grows stronger.
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Steam players who put hours into Showa American Story 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.
Robots at Midnight
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Top pick for Showa American Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Showa American Story.
Bash through gangs of hostile robots and corrupt bosses in this stylish & punchy Action-RPG. As Zoe, a scrappy agile hero, you’ll search for your past while fighting for the future.
Blight Night
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Second-strongest match for Showa American Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Showa American Story.
The shadows whisper secrets you were never meant to hear. Step into Blight Night, a retro survival horror where the past won’t stay buried. Relive the chilling VHS-era terror of the 1980s, where every sound makes you question if you're truly alone.
CORPSE CARNIVAL
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Third-strongest match for Showa American Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Showa American Story.
"CORPSE CARNIVAL" is a top-down action-adventure game where you will play as Li Xiaomeng, a first-year student at the "Linge" Military Academy, and escape from a city filled with zombies and monsters alongside "Asami Yuki."
Dead eat dead
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Ranked #4 for Showa American Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Showa American Story.
This is a retro style 2D pixel art survival adventure shooter. You control a character armed with a shotgun and grenades. You need to search level for supplies and keys to open locked doors. You can push and move boxes and fuel barrels located on game levels.
Stray Children
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Ranked #5 for Showa American Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Showa American Story.
“The Olders, they come to eat the Children…” All of the adults have become monsters, the rumors say. Nowhere is safe outside these walls. Welcome to Stray Children — a bittersweet, fairy tale RPG.
Kingdom of Night
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Ranked #6 for Showa American Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Showa American Story.
Hunt down nightmarish demons and save the town of Miami, AZ in this 80s-themed, isometric action-RPG. With an expansive, interconnected map and open-ended quests, explore freely while unraveling the main story. Kingdom of Night is a unique blend of coming-of-age drama, cosmic horror, and true love.
WrestleQuest
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Ranked #7 for Showa American Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Showa American Story.
TAG TEAM WITH DESTINY! Pro wrestling and RPG fantasy collide in the ultimate pixel powered adventure. “Macho Man” Randy Savage and tons of other icons offer guidance as you powerbomb your way to glory beyond the ring. This hero’s journey ain’t just an epic quest, it’s WRESTLEQUEST!
Ys X: Nordics
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Ranked #8 for Showa American Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Showa American Story.
Explore uncharted islands, engage in fast-paced action combat, and experience the high seas adventures of unlikely allies Adol and Karja in Ys X: Nordics!
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Showa American Story.
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 Action and Adventure with Showa American Story.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Showa American Story.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Showa American Story.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Showa American Story.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Showa American Story.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Showa American Story.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Frequently asked about Showa American Story
- What games are most similar to Showa American Story?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Showa American Story are Robots at Midnight, Blight Night, CORPSE CARNIVAL.
- Who developed Showa American Story?
- Showa American Story was developed by NEKCOM Entertainment and published by 4Divinity, 2P Games (Asia excluding Japan).
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 Showa American Story.
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