Games like Transience
If Transience is your kind of game, the closest matches are Beyond Enemy Lines - Vietnam, Rushaug: Feline Warfare and PAYDAY 2 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 Transience: Become an Accountant - a hired mercenary who keeps the books balanced by any means necessary. This time though, you are the intended target. Take a journey through New Houston in the year 2056 and follow one man's tale of revenge as he escapes Transience.
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Steam players who put hours into Transience 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.
Beyond Enemy Lines - Vietnam
WHY THIS
Top pick for Transience fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Transience.
A tactical Vietnam War shooter with open mission areas. Infiltrate, ambush, or go in loud. Customize weapons, use vehicles, and play solo, in coop, or PvP. Create missions with the built-in editor.
Rushaug: Feline Warfare
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Transience fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Transience.
A tactical platformer combining stealth and fast-paced gunplay with action and story-driven missions in a vast explorable world with a large variety of environments. Infiltrate enemy outposts, prevent nuclear war, and uncover the enemy's top secret weapon; Project Emerald.
PAYDAY 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Transience.
Third-strongest match for Transience fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Transience.
PAYDAY 2 is an action-packed, four-player co-op shooter that once again lets gamers don the masks of the original PAYDAY crew - Dallas, Hoxton, Wolf and Chains - as they descend on Washington DC for an epic crime spree.
PAYDAY 3
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Transience fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Transience.
PAYDAY 3 is the ultimate co-op FPS crime fantasy. Choose between stealth or loud playstyles, customize your character, and get ready to pull off the perfect heist.
BREAKPOINT: Viper Squad
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Transience fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Transience.
A high-velocity sci-fi shooter built around charge management, explosive team fights, and Drivers who flip the match with their abilities.
Rogue & Raccoon
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Transience fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Transience.
Lead an elite strike unit against powerful drug cartels in a tactical FPS. Fight intense battles while coordinating with your trained Red Panda infiltration partner who can scout enemies, access tight spaces, and unlock paths no human can reach.
ActionSteam ↗Code-Black
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Transience fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Transience.
A First-Person Single-Player Zombie Survival game where you, "Rugir J.z" live through the initial events of a mass zombie outbreak, shoot, kill, upgrade, explore. Do you think you can survive, or possibly escape…
Skin Deep
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Transience.
Ranked #8 for Transience fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Transience.
Skin Deep is an immersive first-person shooter. We got sneezing. We got things getting stuck in your feet. Stalk through a vast non-linear starship and sneak, subvert, and sabotage to survive in this stellar sandbox. You're outnumbered, outgunned, and have no shoes. Welcome to Skin Deep!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Transience
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Thief
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Transience.
Reviewers of Transience cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Transience.
Garrett, the Master Thief, steps out of the shadows into the City. In this treacherous place, where the Baron’s Watch spreads a rising tide of fear and oppression, his skills are the only things he can trust. Even the most cautious citizens and their best-guarded possessions are not safe from his reach.
Red Dead Redemption 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Transience.
Reviewers of Transience cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Transience.
Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde Gang are outlaws on the run. With federal agents and bounty hunters massing on their heels, the gang must rob, steal, and fight their way across the rugged heartland in order to survive.
PAYDAY 3
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Transience cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Transience.
PAYDAY 3 is the ultimate co-op FPS crime fantasy. Choose between stealth or loud playstyles, customize your character, and get ready to pull off the perfect heist.
Homefront®: The Revolution
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Transience.
Reviewers of Transience cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Transience.
Homefront®: The Revolution is an open-world first person shooter where you must lead the Resistance movement in guerrilla warfare against a superior military force.
Metro Exodus
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Transience.
Reviewers of Transience cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Transience.
Flee the shattered ruins of the Moscow Metro and embark on an epic, continent-spanning journey across the post-apocalyptic Russian wilderness. Explore vast, non-linear levels, lose yourself in an immersive, sandbox survival experience, and follow a thrilling story-line that spans an entire year in the greatest Metro adventure yet.
Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Transience.
Reviewers of Transience cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Transience.
The year is 2052 and the world is a dangerous and chaotic place. Terrorists operate openly - killing thousands; drugs, disease and pollution kill even more. The world's economies are close to collapse and the gap between the insanely wealthy and the desperately poor grows ever wider.
Battlefield™ 6
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Transience cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Transience.
The ultimate all-out warfare experience. In a war of tanks, fighter jets, and massive combat arsenals, your squad is the deadliest weapon.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Transience at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Transience on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Transience.
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 Transience on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Transience.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Transience on Steam right now. Shares Action with Transience.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Transience on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Transience.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Transience on Steam right now. Shares Action with Transience.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
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 Transience.
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 Transience.
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 Transience.
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 Transience.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Transience.
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 Transience.
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 Transience.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Transience.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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Frequently asked about Transience
- Does Transience work on Steam Deck?
- Transience is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Transience cost?
- Transience is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Transience?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Transience are Beyond Enemy Lines - Vietnam, Rushaug: Feline Warfare, PAYDAY 2.
- Who developed Transience?
- Transience was developed by RESURGENT.
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 Transience.
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