Games like Echoes
If Echoes is your kind of game, the closest matches are Kamiya Detective Agency: High School Girl Vanished in The Summer, Call of the Forgotten and of the Devil — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its artwork evolves with discoveries, slow burning psychological unease and atmospheric. 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 Echoes: Echoes is a 2D narrative game where you play as Ricky Fox, a detective haunted by the death of his best friend, Arthur. Step into Greenhearth, a small town full of secrets, and make choices that will shape your investigation. Will you crack the case with your sanity intact?
Players who liked Echoes also play
Steam players who put hours into Echoes 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.
Kamiya Detective Agency: High School Girl Vanished in The Summer
WHY THIS
Top pick for Echoes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Echoes.
A mystery set in Fukuoka, Japan. Former cop Kengo Kamiya and assistant Hikaru tackle a high school girl's disappearance. A "Photoreal Novel" fully utilizing actual photos and AI. Enjoy snappy banter and unexpected twists in this simple, choice-driven mystery visual novel.
Call of the Forgotten
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Echoes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Echoes.
A hand-drawn point-and-click adventure featuring a detective noir story set in a cyberpunk world, infused with cosmic horror.
AdventureSteam ↗of the Devil
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Echoes.
Third-strongest match for Echoes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Echoes.
Immerse yourself in neon, smoke, and high-stakes legal gambles as a Defense Attorney with uniquely Killer insights in this episodic, diabolically stylish visual novel adventure game.
Confidential Killings - A Detective Game
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Echoes.
Ranked #4 for Echoes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Echoes.
A series of murders is shocking Hollywood! Use your detective skills: search the crime scene, find clues, solve the mystery. Who is pulling the strings behind these Confidential Killings?
Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Echoes.
Ranked #5 for Echoes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Echoes.
In this point-and-click urban thriller, down-and-out private eye Kathy Rain will embark on her most dangerous case yet — the pursuit of the notorious serial killer known as the Soothsayer. Find clues, gather evidence, connect the dots, and confront the murderer before the hunter becomes the hunted…
The Wolf Among Us
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Echoes.
Ranked #6 for Echoes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Echoes.
From the makers of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead, comes a thriller based on the award-winning Fables comic books. As Bigby Wolf you will discover that a brutal, bloody murder is just a taste of things to come in a game series where your every decision can have enormous consequences.
Expelled!
WHY THIS
Shares branching narrative and an atmospheric mood with Echoes.
Ranked #7 for Echoes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Echoes.
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
Saturnalia
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Echoes.
Ranked #8 for Echoes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Echoes.
A Single-Player Survival Horror Adventure: play as a cast of characters exploring an isolated village haunted by an ancient ritual—but beware, its labyrinthine roads will change each time you lose all your characters.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Echoes at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Echoes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Echoes.
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 ~50% under Echoes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Echoes.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Echoes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Echoes.
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 ~50% under Echoes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Echoes.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Echoes on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Echoes.
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 ~70% under Echoes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Echoes.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Echoes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Echoes.
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.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Echoes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Echoes.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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 Echoes.
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 Echoes.
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.
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 Echoes.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Echoes.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Echoes.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Echoes.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Echoes.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Echoes.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
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More from Nova-box
Other recommendable Steam games by Nova-box, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Along the Edge
WHY THIS
Shares branching narrative and an atmospheric mood with Echoes.
Another title from Nova-box, the studio behind Echoes. Shares Indie with Echoes.
Following the loss of a baby, a breakup, and a surprise heritage, Daphné decides to leave everything behind to start a new life in the French countryside. There, she discovers she's the last descendant of a line of witches. Will she embrace the family tradition?
Seers Isle
WHY THIS
Shares branching narrative and an atmospheric mood with Echoes.
Another title from Nova-box, the studio behind Echoes. Shares Indie with Echoes.
Seers Isle is a narrative game, set in a fantasy version of medieval northern Europe, where your choices impact the fate of a group of characters.
Across the Grooves
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Echoes.
Another title from Nova-box, the studio behind Echoes. Shares Indie with Echoes.
Your choices affect the destiny of Alice, drastically changing her reality and allowing her to explore alternative destinies by modifying her past. Travel across European cities, meet colourful characters and solve the mystery.
End of Lines
WHY THIS
Shares branching narrative and an atmospheric mood with Echoes.
Another title from Nova-box, the studio behind Echoes. Shares Indie and Adventure with Echoes.
Travel across landscapes devastated by a catastrophic climate meltdown, following a small family in search of somewhere habitable. With limited supplies and facing potential death at every turn, your choices will decide their fate. Will they manage to settle down?
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
of the Devil
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Echoes.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Echoes.
Immerse yourself in neon, smoke, and high-stakes legal gambles as a Defense Attorney with uniquely Killer insights in this episodic, diabolically stylish visual novel adventure game.
Expelled!
WHY THIS
Shares branching narrative and an atmospheric mood with Echoes.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Echoes.
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
Saturnalia
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Echoes.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Echoes.
A Single-Player Survival Horror Adventure: play as a cast of characters exploring an isolated village haunted by an ancient ritual—but beware, its labyrinthine roads will change each time you lose all your characters.
Frequently asked about Echoes
- How much does Echoes cost?
- Echoes is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Echoes?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Echoes are Kamiya Detective Agency: High School Girl Vanished in The Summer, Call of the Forgotten, of the Devil.
- Who developed Echoes?
- Echoes was developed by Nova-box.
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 Echoes.
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