Games like Away From Life
If Away From Life is your kind of game, the closest matches are Whisper of the Swallows, Soulmask and Reign Of Kings — 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 →About Away From Life: You survived a helicopter crash; going home is your top priority. Live as a castaway - survive the dangers of the islands by using your environment to find food, build shelter, craft tools to extend your stay, explore the secrets of the islands and their surrounding waters, and carve your way home.
Players who liked Away From Life also play
Steam players who put hours into Away From Life 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.
Whisper of the Swallows
WHY THIS
Shares base building, crafting and an atmospheric mood with Away From Life.
Top pick for Away From Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Away From Life.
Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
Soulmask
WHY THIS
Shares base building, crafting and an atmospheric mood with Away From Life.
Second-strongest match for Away From Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Away From Life.
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
Reign Of Kings
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with Away From Life.
Third-strongest match for Away From Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Away From Life.
Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!
SpaceCraft
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Away From Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Away From Life.
The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate.
Project Castaway
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Away From Life.
Ranked #5 for Away From Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Away From Life.
Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.
Ars Notoria
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Away From Life.
Ranked #6 for Away From Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Away From Life.
Ars Notoria is an open-world survival crafting game set in a rich fantasy world. Learn six distinct schools of magic, gather resources, build your base, expand your influence, and stand against the ever-shifting threat of the Enthralled. You are the one destined to change the kingdom.
ARK: Survival Ascended
WHY THIS
Shares base building, crafting and an atmospheric mood with Away From Life.
Ranked #7 for Away From Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Away From Life.
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
Rust
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with Away From Life.
Ranked #8 for Away From Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Away From Life.
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Away From Life at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~49% under Away From Life on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Away From Life.
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 ~49% under Away From Life on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Away From Life.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~54% under Away From Life on Steam right now. Shares Action with Away From Life.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~49% under Away From Life on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Away From Life.
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 ~49% under Away From Life on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Massively Multiplayer with Away From Life.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Away From Life on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Away From Life.
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 ~69% under Away From Life on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Away From Life.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~49% under Away From Life on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Away From Life.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Away From Life.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Away From Life.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Away From Life.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Away From Life.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Away From Life.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Away From Life.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
93, Kuindzhi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Away From Life.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
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Frequently asked about Away From Life
- Does Away From Life run on Steam Deck?
- Away From Life 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 Away From Life cost?
- Away From Life is listed on Steam at 9.74 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Away From Life have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Away From Life supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, LAN Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Away From Life?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Away From Life are Whisper of the Swallows, Soulmask, Reign Of Kings.
- Who developed Away From Life?
- Away From Life was developed by Cursor Games.
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 Away From Life.
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