Games like To the Moon
If To the Moon is your kind of game, the closest matches are A Bird Story, Finding Paradise and RETRYS — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its characters feel deeply human, emotional payoff is unforgettable and non linear memory exploration. 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 →To the Moon is a 2012 indie adventure RPG developed by Freebird Games that presents its narrative through memory-exploration and memento-puzzle mechanics within a non-linear-narrative structure. Players interact with environments and solve tile-flipping puzzles as they guide the experience. Reviewers and players describe it as atmospheric and emotional, with characters that feel deeply human and an emotional payoff that resonates long after completion. Players highlight the non-linear-memory-exploration as a distinctive hook and describe the soundtrack as hauntingly beautiful. Currently priced at $9.99 USD, the game holds a 96% positive rating from over 19,000 Steam reviews and is marked as playable on Steam Deck.
About To the Moon: A story-driven experience about two doctors traversing backwards through a dying man's memories to artificially fulfill his last wish.
Players who liked To the Moon also play
Steam players who put hours into To the Moon 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.
A Bird Story
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with To the Moon.
Top pick for To the Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with To the Moon.
An experimental short from the creator of To the Moon & Finding Paradise: A simple & surreal 1-hour interactive animation about a boy and an injured bird, told without dialogues.If you're looking for To the Moon-like experience, I'd suggest playing Finding Paradise first.
Finding Paradise
WHY THIS
Shares a poignant mood with To the Moon.
Second-strongest match for To the Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with To the Moon.
Two doctors traverse backwards through a dying man's memories to fulfill his last wish. This is To the Moon's standalone sequel, but can also be played first.
RETRYS
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for To the Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with To the Moon.
“Oh, brave hero—please fix the bugs in this RPG!” It’s a little weird and quirky, but it’s a story that will stay with you. A little fantasy of laughter and tears — a story for the grown-up heart.
interViolence
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for To the Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with To the Moon.
Wander through a secret lair. Help a young supervillain move out of his lifelong home. Think about your past, and his uncertain future. The third entry in the Violence series.
Slumberer's Universe
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for To the Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with To the Moon.
Slumberer’s Universe is a psychological horror JRPG about a grieving middle-schooler trapped in a fading world, having to confront buried memories, the parts of himself he's tried to escape, and the question of whether life is still worth living.
Thistledown: A Tragedy of Blood
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for To the Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with To the Moon.
Thistledown is a tragedy, dealing with themes of pain, loss, and hopelessness. It's a small story set in an expansive fantasy world.
Robotherapy
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for To the Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with To the Moon.
An emotional dark comedy about robots doing therapy. In Robotherapy, you're a robot therapist in a dystopian society that killed all the humans, but is still not happy. Treat patients, meet weird robots and enter their minds. If killing all humans doesn't bring happiness, then what does?
Radiant One
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for To the Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with To the Moon.
Radiant One is art. It makes you think about the meaning of human existence in today's rapidly changing world.
Reviewers mention these as similar to To the Moon
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OneShot
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with To the Moon.
Reviewers of To the Moon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with To the Moon.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Finding Paradise
WHY THIS
Shares a poignant mood with To the Moon.
Reviewers of To the Moon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with To the Moon.
Two doctors traverse backwards through a dying man's memories to fulfill his last wish. This is To the Moon's standalone sequel, but can also be played first.
Pony Island
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with To the Moon.
Reviewers of To the Moon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with To the Moon.
Pony Island is a suspense puzzle game in disguise. You are in limbo, trapped in a malevolent and malfunctioning arcade machine devised by the devil himself. It is not a game about ponies.
NieR:Automata™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with To the Moon.
Reviewers of To the Moon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with To the Moon.
NieR: Automata tells the story of androids 2B, 9S and A2 and their battle to reclaim the machine-driven dystopia overrun by powerful machines.
Impostor Factory
WHY THIS
Shares a poignant mood with To the Moon.
Reviewers of To the Moon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with To the Moon.
A bonkers time-loop tragicomedy murder mystery thriller featuring multiple casualties and a suspicious cat, from the creator of To the Moon & Finding Paradise.
Gone Home
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with To the Moon.
Reviewers of To the Moon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with To the Moon.
June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.
Firewatch
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with To the Moon.
Reviewers of To the Moon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with To the Moon.
Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.
What Remains of Edith Finch
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with To the Moon.
Reviewers of To the Moon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with To the Moon.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below To the Moon at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under To the Moon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with To the Moon.
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 To the Moon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with To the Moon.
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 To the Moon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with To the Moon.
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 To the Moon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with To the Moon.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under To the Moon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with To the Moon.
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 To the Moon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with To the Moon.
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 To the Moon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with To the Moon.
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 To the Moon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with To the Moon.
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 To the Moon.
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 To the Moon.
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 To the Moon.
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 with To the Moon.
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 and Adventure with To the Moon.
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 To the Moon.
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 and Adventure with To the Moon.
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.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Freebird Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Freebird Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Finding Paradise
WHY THIS
Shares a poignant mood with To the Moon.
Another title from Freebird Games, the studio behind To the Moon. Shares Indie and Adventure with To the Moon.
Two doctors traverse backwards through a dying man's memories to fulfill his last wish. This is To the Moon's standalone sequel, but can also be played first.
Impostor Factory
WHY THIS
Shares a poignant mood with To the Moon.
Another title from Freebird Games, the studio behind To the Moon. Shares Indie and Adventure with To the Moon.
A bonkers time-loop tragicomedy murder mystery thriller featuring multiple casualties and a suspicious cat, from the creator of To the Moon & Finding Paradise.
A Bird Story
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with To the Moon.
Another title from Freebird Games, the studio behind To the Moon. Shares Indie and Adventure with To the Moon.
An experimental short from the creator of To the Moon & Finding Paradise: A simple & surreal 1-hour interactive animation about a boy and an injured bird, told without dialogues.If you're looking for To the Moon-like experience, I'd suggest playing Finding Paradise first.
Just a To the Moon Series Beach Episode
WHY THIS
Shares a poignant mood with To the Moon.
Another title from Freebird Games, the studio behind To the Moon. Shares Indie and Adventure with To the Moon.
The Beach Episode™ of To the Moon, Finding Paradise, and Impostor Factory. But something's off.
The Mirror Lied
WHY THIS
Another title from Freebird Games, the studio behind To the Moon. Shares Indie and Adventure with To the Moon.
This isn't a horror game. Nothing will jump out at you.
Frequently asked about To the Moon
- Does To the Moon run on Steam Deck?
- To the Moon 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 To the Moon cost?
- To the Moon is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to To the Moon?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside To the Moon are A Bird Story, Finding Paradise, RETRYS.
- Who developed To the Moon?
- To the Moon was developed by Freebird Games and published by Freebird Games, Serenity Forge.
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 To the Moon.
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