Games like Hiraeth
If Hiraeth is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dandelion Void, Dao's Cover and Mortal Frame: Reforged in Survival — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and hypnotic. 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 Hiraeth: ☵ HIRAETH is a sci-fi, first-person realistic survival game set on the desolate alien planet Ahra Prime, now offering an introduction to Story Mode with tasks and a multi‑stage quest. Explore on foot, by vehicle, or underwater as the planet tests you. Only the strong survive – but how long… and you?
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Steam players who put hours into Hiraeth 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.
Dandelion Void
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Top pick for Hiraeth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hiraeth.
Explore jungle-choked corridors of a derelict ark, adrift between the stars. Construct shelters and loot powerful artifacts from the skeletal remains of your starfaring ancestors. But never let your guard down, because the jungle is alive and hostile…
Dao's Cover
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Second-strongest match for Hiraeth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hiraeth.
An unconventional post-apocalyptic survival sandbox game. Abandon endless combat and embrace a more authentic living experience in the apocalypse.
Mortal Frame: Reforged in Survival
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Third-strongest match for Hiraeth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hiraeth.
"Mortal Frame" is a sci-fi RPG combining open-world exploration and sandbox survival. The player explores a challenging world, gathers resources, crafts gear, captures AI companions, and upgrades modification chips to enhance their abilities, facing powerful foes and uncovering hidden mysteries.
No Man's Sky
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Shares exploration, resource management and an atmospheric mood with Hiraeth.
Ranked #4 for Hiraeth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Hiraeth.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Waste Walkers
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Shares day night cycle, survival management and an atmospheric mood with Hiraeth.
Ranked #5 for Hiraeth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hiraeth.
Waste Walkers is a gritty post-apocalyptic role playing game that allows players to discover the horrors of the apocalypse through a harsh struggle for survival.
Fargone
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Shares crafting and an atmospheric mood with Hiraeth.
Ranked #6 for Hiraeth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Hiraeth.
Fargone is an RPG-based survival game with a strong focus on creating a living, breathing world through dynamic events, and NPC interactions. Set in a fictional land known only as The Barrens, you must survive by any means, whether that be alone or by allying yourself with a faction.
Northern Lights
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Hiraeth.
Ranked #7 for Hiraeth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hiraeth.
Northern Lights is an open world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the arctic tundra. Clinging to life, you must use real-life survival techniques to gather resources, craft, and hunt while tending to your health and sanity. Can you survive your way out of the mysterious island?
Cataclysm: The Last Generation
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Shares survival management, inventory management, atmospheric and a tense mood with Hiraeth.
Ranked #8 for Hiraeth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Hiraeth.
A post-apocalyptic roguelike set in modern-day New England. Scavenge tools to craft an arsenal capable of dealing with the ever-evolving hordes of zombies, mutants, aliens, and robots in one of the deepest survival sims around.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Hiraeth at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~80% under Hiraeth on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hiraeth.
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
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Priced ~60% under Hiraeth on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Hiraeth.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~60% under Hiraeth on Steam right now. Shares Action with Hiraeth.
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.
Bloons TD 6
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Priced ~44% under Hiraeth on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Hiraeth.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
People Playground
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Priced ~60% under Hiraeth on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Hiraeth.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Hiraeth.
Priced ~60% under Hiraeth on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Hiraeth.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hiraeth.
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 Hiraeth.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hiraeth.
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 Hiraeth.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hiraeth.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hiraeth.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
93, Kuindzhi
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hiraeth.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
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Frequently asked about Hiraeth
- Does Hiraeth work on Steam Deck?
- Hiraeth is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Hiraeth cost?
- Hiraeth is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Hiraeth?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hiraeth are Dandelion Void, Dao's Cover, Mortal Frame: Reforged in Survival.
- Who developed Hiraeth?
- Hiraeth was developed by Jade Horse.
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 Hiraeth.
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