Games like Upheaval
If Upheaval is your kind of game, the closest matches are Alcyone: The Last City, Saga · The Circle and Survive, Resist, Collaborate - a World War 2 Choice-Based Story — 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 Upheaval also play
Steam players who put hours into Upheaval 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.
Alcyone: The Last City
WHY THIS
Top pick for Upheaval fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Upheaval.
Alcyone: The Last City is an interactive sci-fi novel where your choices can lead to the salvation or destruction of the last refuge of civilisation in the universe. Immerse yourself in a branching narrative of diverse characters, intrigue, and world-altering decisions.
Saga · The Circle
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Upheaval fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Upheaval.
The Holy Sword has been drawn. Now gather the Knights of the Round Table to rebuild the kingdom. Explore and investigate war-torn Britain, and fight in tactical battles where stealing turns matters. In this Literary CRPG, every choice shapes your values, your allies, and the fate of Britain itself.
Survive, Resist, Collaborate - a World War 2 Choice-Based Story
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Upheaval fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Upheaval.
A fully narrated branching narrative game set in occupied Netherlands during World War 2. Every choice shapes the fate of a young Dutch civilian. Will you resist the Germans? Simply try to survive? Or join them in the fight against Bolshevism? Based on real events.
VIDEOVERSE
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Upheaval fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Upheaval.
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…
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Upheaval fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Upheaval.
A dice-driven RPG, in a human and heartfelt sci-fi world. You are an escaped android, with a malfunctioning body, a price on your head and no memory of your past. Get a ship, find a crew, and take on contracts while you navigate across the Starward Belt.
Esoteric Ebb
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Upheaval fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Upheaval.
Esoteric Ebb is a single-player CRPG inspired by the freedom of tabletop adventures. Unravel a political conspiracy with your goblin sidekick. Roll dice in tense encounters. Become a cleric of legends or completely ruin the campaign.
Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
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Ranked #7 for Upheaval fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Upheaval.
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
DREAMIO: AI-Powered Adventures
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Ranked #8 for Upheaval fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Upheaval.
DREAMIO is a 'choose-your-own-adventure' game where stories and visuals are dynamically created through the power of generative AI in response to your decisions. Explore endless worlds with limitless possibilities; go anywhere, do anything.
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 Upheaval.
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 Upheaval.
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 Upheaval.
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 Indie and Adventure with Upheaval.
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 Upheaval.
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 Upheaval.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Upheaval.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Upheaval.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
VIDEOVERSE
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Upheaval.
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…
Esoteric Ebb
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with Upheaval.
Esoteric Ebb is a single-player CRPG inspired by the freedom of tabletop adventures. Unravel a political conspiracy with your goblin sidekick. Roll dice in tense encounters. Become a cleric of legends or completely ruin the campaign.
Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Upheaval.
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
DREAMIO: AI-Powered Adventures
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Upheaval.
DREAMIO is a 'choose-your-own-adventure' game where stories and visuals are dynamically created through the power of generative AI in response to your decisions. Explore endless worlds with limitless possibilities; go anywhere, do anything.
Frequently asked about Upheaval
- What games are most similar to Upheaval?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Upheaval are Alcyone: The Last City, Saga · The Circle, Survive, Resist, Collaborate - a World War 2 Choice-Based Story.
- Who developed Upheaval?
- Upheaval was developed by Alex Leone.
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 Upheaval.
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