Games like Year Unknown
If Year Unknown is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rusts Of Corruption, Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector and KARMA: The Dark World — 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 Year Unknown: A story-based exploration game about the very far future. With the help of two Artificial Intelligences, explore a universe conquered by humanity, uncover your purpose in it, and try to stop it from falling apart.
Players who liked Year Unknown also play
Steam players who put hours into Year Unknown 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.
Rusts Of Corruption
WHY THIS
Top pick for Year Unknown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Year Unknown.
You've mysteriously awoken on an isolated island on an unknown world. A corrupting force spreads through the island, leaving only a short amount of time to learn about the islands mysteries... Who will you meet? What will you learn? Are you ready to see the world die?
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Year Unknown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Year Unknown.
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.
KARMA: The Dark World
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Year Unknown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Year Unknown.
KARMA: The Dark World is a first-person cinematic psychological thriller set in a dystopian world where the Leviathan Corporation is omnipresent. The year is 1984, the place is East Germany, and things are not quite what they seem.
TR-49
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Year Unknown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Year Unknown.
A World War II computer. An archive of lost books. A world-changing secret. Narrative deduction meets audio drama, from the creators of Overboard!, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
No Longer Home
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Year Unknown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Year Unknown.
No Longer Home is a game about letting go of the life you've built due to circumstances beyond your control. Immerse yourself in the lives of Bo and Ao and learn about their dreams, frustrations and fears. Welcome the magic of the everyday and somewhat extraordinary.
While We Wait Here
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Year Unknown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Year Unknown.
Share thoughts and hot food with your last ever clients, as you wait for the world to end.
The Forgotten City
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Year Unknown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Year Unknown.
The Forgotten City is a narrative-driven time loop adventure in ancient Rome. Discover the ruins of an ancient underground city, travel 2000 years into the past, and unravel the mystery of who destroyed it by cleverly exploiting the power to wind back time. The fate of the city is in your hands.
Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Year Unknown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Year Unknown.
Between Horizons is a narrative 2.5D sci-fi detective adventure. 33 years into the Zephyr's journey, its mission is suddenly jeopardized. Can you find the culprit before it's too late? Experience an enthralling story set in a semi-open world that branches and ends based on your choices.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Year Unknown at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Year Unknown on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Year Unknown.
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 Year Unknown on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Year Unknown.
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 Year Unknown on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Year Unknown.
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 Year Unknown on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Year Unknown.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Year Unknown on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Year Unknown.
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 Year Unknown on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Year Unknown.
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 Year Unknown on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Year Unknown.
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 Year Unknown on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Year Unknown.
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 Year Unknown.
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 Year Unknown.
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 Year Unknown.
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 and Adventure with Year Unknown.
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 Indie and Adventure with Year Unknown.
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 Year Unknown.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Year Unknown.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Year Unknown.
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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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
KARMA: The Dark World
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Year Unknown.
KARMA: The Dark World is a first-person cinematic psychological thriller set in a dystopian world where the Leviathan Corporation is omnipresent. The year is 1984, the place is East Germany, and things are not quite what they seem.
TR-49
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Year Unknown.
A World War II computer. An archive of lost books. A world-changing secret. Narrative deduction meets audio drama, from the creators of Overboard!, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
No Longer Home
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Year Unknown.
No Longer Home is a game about letting go of the life you've built due to circumstances beyond your control. Immerse yourself in the lives of Bo and Ao and learn about their dreams, frustrations and fears. Welcome the magic of the everyday and somewhat extraordinary.
While We Wait Here
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Year Unknown.
Share thoughts and hot food with your last ever clients, as you wait for the world to end.
The Forgotten City
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Year Unknown.
The Forgotten City is a narrative-driven time loop adventure in ancient Rome. Discover the ruins of an ancient underground city, travel 2000 years into the past, and unravel the mystery of who destroyed it by cleverly exploiting the power to wind back time. The fate of the city is in your hands.
Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Year Unknown.
Between Horizons is a narrative 2.5D sci-fi detective adventure. 33 years into the Zephyr's journey, its mission is suddenly jeopardized. Can you find the culprit before it's too late? Experience an enthralling story set in a semi-open world that branches and ends based on your choices.
Frequently asked about Year Unknown
- How much does Year Unknown cost?
- Year Unknown is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Year Unknown?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Year Unknown are Rusts Of Corruption, Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector, KARMA: The Dark World.
- Who developed Year Unknown?
- Year Unknown was developed by Julian Heuser.
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 Year Unknown.
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