Games like The Entropy Centre
If The Entropy Centre is your kind of game, the closest matches are Tacoma, Tempus Vitae and Humanity Lost — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 →The Entropy Centre is a 2022 first-person adventure set in a post-apocalyptic science fiction world, developed by Stubby Games and published by Playstack. Players solve physics-based puzzles by rewinding objects through time, using the mechanic to redirect objects and navigate through a futuristic facility. The game features terminal messages that advance the narrative as players progress. Reviewers highlight that the atmosphere and sound design enhance immersion, and players describe the puzzles as satisfying challenges that demand creative thinking. The time-rewind mechanic is frequently called fresh and innovative by those who have played it, while many note the story as intriguing and engaging. Available for $19.99, the game runs on Steam Deck and takes a medium amount of time to complete as a solo experience. It holds an 89% positive rating from 1978 Steam reviews.
About The Entropy Centre: Think in reverse. Outsmart the impossible. A mind-bending first-person adventure where you solve ingenious and complex puzzles by rewinding objects through time.
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Steam players who put hours into The Entropy Centre 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.
Tacoma
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Entropy Centre.
Top pick for The Entropy Centre fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Entropy Centre.
Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative adventure from the creators of Gone Home. Set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088, explore every detail of how the station’s crew lived and worked, finding the clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster.
Tempus Vitae
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Entropy Centre fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Entropy Centre.
You are Alex, a time-displaced astronaut unraveling the space station Theia doomed in both the war-torn 2185 and the post-apocalyptic 2385 to find your lost brother. Master an arsenal of time travel abilities and weapons in this sci-fi metroidvania FPS: Tempus Vitae.
Humanity Lost
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Entropy Centre.
Third-strongest match for The Entropy Centre fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Entropy Centre.
Will you save humanity? You are on a mission to find a new planet for humans to inhabit. In this story driven FPS space opera you will explore open world planets, find weapons, upgrade your character, and befriend alien species.
The Abandoned Planet
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Entropy Centre.
Ranked #4 for The Entropy Centre fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Entropy Centre.
A throw-back, retro-inspired, point and click adventure with chunky and beautiful pixel art
Hardspace: Shipbreaker
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Entropy Centre.
Ranked #5 for The Entropy Centre fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!
Return to Grace
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Entropy Centre.
Ranked #6 for The Entropy Centre fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Entropy Centre.
A daring space archaeologist has just unearthed the ancient resting place of a long lost A.I. god known as Grace. Adventure with various fractured A.I. personalities as you uncover the great mystery of why she was shut down all those years ago.
Wanderer: The Fragments of Fate
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Entropy Centre.
Ranked #7 for The Entropy Centre fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Entropy Centre.
Step into the unknown and embark on an epic, time travel adventure, completely re-imagined. Introducing Wanderer: The Fragments of Fate, a remake of the critically acclaimed VR adventure game - Wanderer. There’s no telling where you’ll go and who you’ll become as you unravel the mysteries of time.
Prey
WHY THIS
Shares physics based puzzles and an atmospheric mood with The Entropy Centre.
Ranked #8 for The Entropy Centre fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Entropy Centre.
In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.
Reviewers mention these as similar to The Entropy Centre
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Relicta
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Entropy Centre.
Reviewers of The Entropy Centre cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Entropy Centre.
Relicta is a first-person physics-based puzzle game where you need to creatively combine magnetism and gravity to unravel the secrets of Chandra Base.
The Talos Principle
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Entropy Centre.
Reviewers of The Entropy Centre cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Entropy Centre.
The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).
Q.U.B.E. 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Entropy Centre.
Reviewers of The Entropy Centre cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Entropy Centre.
Q.U.B.E. 2 is the sequel to the hit first-person puzzle game Q.U.B.E. You are Amelia Cross, a stranded archaeologist who has awoken among the ruins of an ancient alien landscape. With the distant help of another survivor you must solve the puzzles of this mysterious world and find a way back home.
The Turing Test
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Entropy Centre.
Reviewers of The Entropy Centre cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Entropy Centre.
The Turing Test is a challenging first-person puzzle game set on Jupiter’s moon, Europa. You are Ava Turing, an engineer for the International Space Agency (ISA) sent to discover the cause behind the disappearance of the ground crew stationed there.
Portal
WHY THIS
Shares physics based puzzles and a contemplative mood with The Entropy Centre.
Reviewers of The Entropy Centre cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
Portal 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Entropy Centre.
Reviewers of The Entropy Centre cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Entropy Centre.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
ReLoaded
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Entropy Centre cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Entropy Centre.
If you like your games violent, you’re in for a sick treat with Re-Loaded, the sequel to the popular blood-fest shooter Loaded. Re-Loaded is set over a number of 3D levels each more harrowing than the last. The sound effects will have you cringing, and the character animations show each minuscule trait of the six maniacs.
Titanfall - The Final Hours
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Entropy Centre.
Reviewers of The Entropy Centre cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Written over the past four years, journalist Geoff Keighley ("The Final Hours of Portal 2") chronicles the making of TITANFALL from Respawn Entertainment. This longform app features never-before-seen photos, video and concept art from early development versions of the game.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Entropy Centre at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Entropy Centre on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Entropy Centre.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Portal 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Entropy Centre.
Priced ~50% under The Entropy Centre on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Entropy Centre.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Entropy Centre on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Entropy Centre.
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?
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Entropy Centre on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Entropy Centre.
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...
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Entropy Centre on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Entropy Centre.
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.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~95% under The Entropy Centre on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Entropy Centre.
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?
Papers, Please
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Entropy Centre on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Entropy Centre.
Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.
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.
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 The Entropy Centre.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Adventure with The Entropy Centre.
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.
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 Adventure with The Entropy Centre.
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.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Tacoma
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Entropy Centre.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Entropy Centre.
Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative adventure from the creators of Gone Home. Set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088, explore every detail of how the station’s crew lived and worked, finding the clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster.
Hardspace: Shipbreaker
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Entropy Centre.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box.
Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!
Return to Grace
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Entropy Centre.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Entropy Centre.
A daring space archaeologist has just unearthed the ancient resting place of a long lost A.I. god known as Grace. Adventure with various fractured A.I. personalities as you uncover the great mystery of why she was shut down all those years ago.
Prey
WHY THIS
Shares physics based puzzles and an atmospheric mood with The Entropy Centre.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Entropy Centre.
In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.
Frequently asked about The Entropy Centre
- Does The Entropy Centre run on Steam Deck?
- The Entropy Centre is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does The Entropy Centre cost?
- The Entropy Centre is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Entropy Centre?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Entropy Centre are Tacoma, Tempus Vitae, Humanity Lost.
- Who developed The Entropy Centre?
- The Entropy Centre was developed by Stubby Games and published by Playstack.
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