Games like The Backworld: Prologue
If The Backworld: Prologue is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Backworld, Glory's Fools and START AGAIN: a prologue — 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 The Backworld: Prologue: Experience a non-linear turn-based horror RPG. Navigate through eerie corridors and surreal dimensions, while battling and evading terrifying monsters. Grow stronger by exploring every corner, not grinding battles. Forge your own path to find new colorful worlds, and decide the fate of the universe.
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Steam players who put hours into The Backworld: Prologue 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 Backworld
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Top pick for The Backworld: Prologue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Backworld: Prologue.
Slip between the cracks of reality into a world where danger awaits at every turn. Survive with strategy, battling when necessary or fleeing when the odds are stacked against you. Collect strange items, unlock new abilities, and recruit unique companions. Forge your own path; every choice matters.
Glory's Fools
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Second-strongest match for The Backworld: Prologue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Backworld: Prologue.
A retro RPG set in the mythic Age of Greece. Find allies, choose your path to glory, fighting monsters, men, or even Gods and become a true hero!
START AGAIN: a prologue
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Third-strongest match for The Backworld: Prologue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Backworld: Prologue.
timeloop depression station ✦ In Stars and Time's prototype-thingy-thing
LISA: The Painful
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Ranked #4 for The Backworld: Prologue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Backworld: Prologue.
The miserable journey of a broken man...
Corpse Party (2021)
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Ranked #5 for The Backworld: Prologue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Backworld: Prologue.
Explore the haunted halls of Heavenly Host Elementary in Corpse Party (2021), the horror cult classic now updated for the next generation.
Athenian Rhapsody
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Ranked #6 for The Backworld: Prologue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Backworld: Prologue.
Forge your own story and explore the world of Athens in Athenian Rhapsody, a souls-like platonic dating simulator with cooking-mama and WarioWare style battle mechanics... and by that I mean it's a choose-your-own-adventure action RPG with the ability to trade ENTIRE PLAYTHROUGHS between friends!!
OMORI
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Ranked #7 for The Backworld: Prologue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Backworld: Prologue.
Explore a strange world full of colorful friends and foes. When the time comes, the path you’ve chosen will determine your fate... and perhaps the fate of others as well.
YIIK: A Postmodern RPG
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Ranked #8 for The Backworld: Prologue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Backworld: Prologue.
Experience YIIK: A Postmodern RPG 1.5 (I.V) update with revamped battles and cutscenes. A child relinquishes her name for a birthday invite, hoping to find her brother. Alex's reality unravels, guided by a mysterious cat, witnessing a woman vanish, igniting an obsession that threatens his world.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Backworld: Prologue.
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
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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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Backworld: Prologue.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Backworld: Prologue.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Backworld: Prologue.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Backworld: Prologue.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Backworld: Prologue.
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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Frequently asked about The Backworld: Prologue
- What games are most similar to The Backworld: Prologue?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Backworld: Prologue are The Backworld, Glory's Fools, START AGAIN: a prologue.
- Who developed The Backworld: Prologue?
- The Backworld: Prologue was developed by Numor 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 The Backworld: Prologue.
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