Games like Closer the Distance
If Closer the Distance is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Hearth and Harbour, SEASON: A letter to the future and The Stone Cutter and the Mountain Spirit — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, emotional and melancholic. 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 Closer the Distance: Closer the Distance is a slice-of-life sim that tells a deeply emotional story about the connections between family and friends in the face of tragedy. Unearth long kept secrets, repair strained relationships, and help your loved ones move on.
Players who liked Closer the Distance also play
Steam players who put hours into Closer the Distance 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.
The Hearth and Harbour
WHY THIS
Top pick for Closer the Distance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Closer the Distance.
Transform a run-down restaurant and build a new life for yourself in this management RPG. Decide what kind of restaurant you want to create and what kind of person you want to be. As a storm brews outside, every choice you make has consequences.
SEASON: A letter to the future
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Closer the Distance.
Second-strongest match for Closer the Distance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Closer the Distance.
Leave home for the first time to collect memories before a mysterious cataclysm washes everything away. Ride, record, meet people, and unravel the strange world around you in this third-person meditative exploration game.
The Stone Cutter and the Mountain Spirit
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Closer the Distance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Closer the Distance.
When a poor stone cutter gets tired of his simple life, the Mountain Spirit make his wishes come true! A beautiful Interactive Fairy Tale about the Wills that move us and the Transformations we go through in our lives.
VIDEOVERSE
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Closer the Distance.
Ranked #4 for Closer the Distance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Closer the Distance.
Relive the days of the early internet and dive into this fictional video game era, where the 'Kinmoku Shark’ gaming system and its online social network 'Videoverse' were still popular…
Gravity VR
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Closer the Distance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Closer the Distance.
Gravity VR is a unique short interactive experience in a surreal world with no ground beneath your feet, where everything is forever falling. You'll meet two old brothers living a surprisingly ordinary life... But nothing lasts forever.
Rue Valley
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Closer the Distance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Closer the Distance.
Rue Valley is a narrative adventure about a man trapped in a time loop, surrounded by a colorful cast with complex emotional stories, each hiding unexpected secrets. Dealing with mental challenges, the main character must delve into the anomaly to uncover its enigmatic origins.
The End of You
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Closer the Distance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Closer the Distance.
The End of You is a short, emotional narrative game about love lost, the ghosts of the past, and the painful crawl towards closure.
Life of Fly
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Closer the Distance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Closer the Distance.
Life of Fly features 12 short stories each revolving around the life and weird thoughts of another fly. Be prepared to experience some very unusual content, some interesting thoughts that go way beyond the normal life of a fly, and some entertaining short stories with a twist.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Closer the Distance at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Closer the Distance on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Closer the Distance.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Closer the Distance on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Closer the Distance.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Closer the Distance on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Closer the Distance.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Closer the Distance on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Closer the Distance.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Closer the Distance on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Closer the Distance.
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?
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Closer the Distance on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Closer the Distance.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
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 and Casual with Closer the Distance.
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.
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 Indie with Closer the Distance.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Closer the Distance.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Closer the Distance.
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 and Simulation with Closer the Distance.
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 Indie with Closer the Distance.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Closer the Distance.
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.
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Frequently asked about Closer the Distance
- Does Closer the Distance run on Steam Deck?
- Closer the Distance 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 Closer the Distance cost?
- Closer the Distance is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Closer the Distance?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Closer the Distance are The Hearth and Harbour, SEASON: A letter to the future, The Stone Cutter and the Mountain Spirit.
- Who developed Closer the Distance?
- Closer the Distance was developed by Osmotic Studios and published by Skybound 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 Closer the Distance.
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