Games like Sometimes They Come Back
If Sometimes They Come Back is your kind of game, the closest matches are PermaNight, Last Day: Zombie Survival VR and Lastbane — 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 Sometimes They Come Back: Clear up the mysteries and horrors of the ominous Freedom Towers and try to salvage your life. Investigate, talk with the other residents to reveal their secrets, solve puzzles, cry, suffer... and try to play through the game — before the game plays through you.
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Steam players who put hours into Sometimes They Come Back 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.
PermaNight
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Top pick for Sometimes They Come Back fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sometimes They Come Back.
Survive in a world full of darkness. Gain resources. Kill entities. Repeat. But beware, there might be entities lurking around...
Last Day: Zombie Survival VR
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Sometimes They Come Back fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sometimes They Come Back.
A stranger, who awakens in a room with no recollection of how they got there, soon discovers they're pawns in a deadly game perpetrated by a notorious unknown person.
Lastbane
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Sometimes They Come Back fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sometimes They Come Back.
Lastbane is a CO-OP asymmetric horror game. Together with your friends, you must try to escape the map silently without being caught by sound-sensitive creatures that react to microphones and in-game voice chat.
IMHA
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Sometimes They Come Back fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sometimes They Come Back.
IMHA is a first-person shooter set on an island ravaged by a demon invasion. Battle your way through endless hordes of enemies and survive the onslaught of relentless ghouls and demons.
OUTBREAK FALL: BIOHAZARD
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Sometimes They Come Back fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Sometimes They Come Back.
Survive the fall of civilization in OUTBREAK FALL: BIOHAZARD — a fast-paced FPS where you fight infected hordes, explore ruined cities, and upgrade your gear to endure relentless outbreaks and escape the chaos.
DEMON SIEGE
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Ranked #6 for Sometimes They Come Back fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Sometimes They Come Back.
A retro-inspired boomer shooter where every powerup stacks infinitely. Become an unstoppable demon-slaying powerhouse with insane speed, massive jumps, multi-bullet weapons, and game-breaking builds.
ActionSteam ↗Resurection.
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Sometimes They Come Back fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sometimes They Come Back.
Resurrection is a wave-based indie FPS by Bad Dev Studios. Fight endless, aggressive zombie hordes in a burning city. spend points at the random weapon box for better firearms, manage your ammo, and use precision sniping to survive increasingly difficult waves.
Radiant Exodus
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Ranked #8 for Sometimes They Come Back fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sometimes They Come Back.
A quiet night turns to horror as strange lights fill the sky and Gleam City falls apart. Play as Sarah, an ex-soldier fighting to survive, searching for her missing father, and facing something the world wasn't meant to see.
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 Sometimes They Come Back.
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 Action with Sometimes They Come Back.
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. Shares Action and Indie with Sometimes They Come Back.
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 Indie with Sometimes They Come Back.
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. Shares Indie with Sometimes They Come Back.
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 Action and Indie with Sometimes They Come Back.
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 Sometimes They Come Back.
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 Sometimes They Come Back.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about Sometimes They Come Back
- What games are most similar to Sometimes They Come Back?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Sometimes They Come Back are PermaNight, Last Day: Zombie Survival VR, Lastbane.
- Who developed Sometimes They Come Back?
- Sometimes They Come Back was developed by Asylum Labs and published by Bonus Stage Publishing.
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 Sometimes They Come Back.
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