Games like What Lies Between
If What Lies Between is your kind of game, the closest matches are Zeitgeist, Beta MAX and Dystofarm — 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.
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Players who liked What Lies Between also play
Steam players who put hours into What Lies Between 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.
Zeitgeist
WHY THIS
Top pick for What Lies Between fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with What Lies Between.
Equipped with your pot plant companion, travel through the roots of time delving into the past and present depths of an ancient submerged city. Exploring grand halls, navigating between walls, and taking advantage of ancient mechanisms on your mission to steal the heart of the city.
Beta MAX
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for What Lies Between fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with What Lies Between.
Use four-dimensional thinking to manipulate time and navigate through this mind bending retro inspired realm. Solve puzzles to help Max find his way home in this atmospheric first-person puzzle platformer.
Dystofarm
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for What Lies Between fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with What Lies Between.
"Dystofarm" is an exciting sidescroller. Take control of a farmer with unique powers to harvest the souls of mutated creatures and customize your inventory with weapons, shields, and hats. Explore a mysterious world, defeat monsters, and uncover the origins of mutations.
EQI
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for What Lies Between fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with What Lies Between.
EQI is a trippy first-person arcade game with spatial puzzles, and a synthwave soul. You find yourself in a digital world that twists and changes around you, challenging your senses, focus, and reflexes. Interface with the great mystery and transcend.
GRAPPIN
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for What Lies Between fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with What Lies Between.
After a difficult awakening, you stumble upon the Grip, a mysterious artifact and grappling hook. Climb up the Mountain to bring back the Grip to the top and unravel the mystery surrounding the Grip. Bon voyage!
Froggo's Adventure: Verdant Venture
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for What Lies Between fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with What Lies Between.
A Simple and Bite-sized retro 2D Platformer about a frog on another side-scrolling adventure
Chromatic Conundrum
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for What Lies Between fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with What Lies Between.
Chromatic Conundrum is a first person puzzle game where you manipulate light. Combine different colors and form shadows to illuminate your way through an enigmatic world.
Akimbot
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for What Lies Between fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with What Lies Between.
In the action-adventure platformer, Akimbot, blast your way through armies of robots, pilot spaceships and forge your own path to save the universe from impending doom! Set in a sci-fi world where only robots exist, travel the galaxy and experience non-stop robot mayhem and explosive action!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below What Lies Between at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under What Lies Between on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with What Lies Between.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under What Lies Between on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with What Lies Between.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~70% under What Lies Between on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with What Lies Between.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under What Lies Between on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with What Lies Between.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
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Priced ~50% under What Lies Between on Steam right now. Shares Action with What Lies Between.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™
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Priced ~50% under What Lies Between on Steam right now. Shares Action with What Lies Between.
Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~60% under What Lies Between on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with What Lies Between.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
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Priced ~60% under What Lies Between on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with What Lies Between.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with What Lies Between.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with What Lies Between.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with What Lies Between.
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 Adventure with What Lies Between.
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 What Lies Between.
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.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with What Lies Between.
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.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
EQI
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with What Lies Between.
EQI is a trippy first-person arcade game with spatial puzzles, and a synthwave soul. You find yourself in a digital world that twists and changes around you, challenging your senses, focus, and reflexes. Interface with the great mystery and transcend.
GRAPPIN
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with What Lies Between.
After a difficult awakening, you stumble upon the Grip, a mysterious artifact and grappling hook. Climb up the Mountain to bring back the Grip to the top and unravel the mystery surrounding the Grip. Bon voyage!
Froggo's Adventure: Verdant Venture
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with What Lies Between.
A Simple and Bite-sized retro 2D Platformer about a frog on another side-scrolling adventure
Frequently asked about What Lies Between
- How much does What Lies Between cost?
- What Lies Between is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to What Lies Between?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside What Lies Between are Zeitgeist, Beta MAX, Dystofarm.
- Who developed What Lies Between?
- What Lies Between was developed by Lunar Burst.
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 What Lies Between.
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