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Games like Afterplace

If Afterplace is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sivers, Knuckle Paradise ® and Deluge — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its charming and memorable characters, atmospheric 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.

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About Afterplace: Made by one person, an open world adventure game filled with silly characters and terrible secrets. Explore the woods, find hidden paths, hack and slash through strange monsters, and try very, very hard not to break reality. Or don't. You do you.

2024ActionIndieAdventureRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedWindows · macOS · Linuxby Evan Kice
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Blends humor and poignant storytellingCharming and memorable charactersDreamlike open world that rewards curiosity and explorationAtmosphericContemplativeCozy

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Steam players who put hours into Afterplace 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.

  1. Sivers

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Afterplace fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Afterplace.

    Sivers is an RPG-roguelike with a unique style, where waves of enemies test your strategy. Use spells and build defenses, develop your hero, and fight bosses and varied foes. Victory on the first try is unlikely — every attempt brings you closer to success!

    2026ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  2. Knuckle Paradise ®

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Afterplace fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Afterplace.

    A pixel-powered, combo-packed character action game starring Jane (a retired boxer) and her sidekick, Cocotte (a warrior… chicken?). Fight everybody. Learn combos from a pirate seagull. Fight harder. Level up your chicken. Find your kidnappers. Teach them a lesson.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. Deluge

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Afterplace fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Afterplace.

    Deluge is a horror-centric JRPG where you play as the resurrected warrior Hudson, a corpse tasked with infiltrating a battered community. Bound to a tyrant’s will, yet haunted by your own past, you must make choices and battle your path forward to either redemption or ruin.

    2026StrategyIndieRPGSteam ↗
  4. NUSNUR

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Afterplace fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Afterplace.

    Explore the multiverse with different versions of NUSNURs where every universe has its own mechanics, style, story, and lore. Observe how their lives connect and how everything ends.

    2025ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. The Hero is too Powerful so let's Pleeeease Settle this Peacefully!

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Afterplace fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Afterplace.

    How strong is too strong? Find out from the hero's victims in this adventure RPG as you talk things out (or destroy everything) on your way to save the hero's childhood friend!

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  6. God of War

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Afterplace.

    Ranked #6 for Afterplace fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Afterplace.

    His vengeance against the Gods of Olympus years behind him, Kratos now lives as a man in the realm of Norse Gods and monsters. It is in this harsh, unforgiving world that he must fight to survive… and teach his son to do the same.

    2022ActionAdventureRPG49.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Forspoken

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Afterplace fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Afterplace.

    Forspoken follows the journey of Frey, a young New Yorker transported to the beautiful and cruel land of Athia. In search of a way home, Frey must use her newfound magical abilities to traverse sprawling landscapes and battle monstrous creatures.

    2023ActionAdventureRPG20.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Void Sols

    WHY THIS

    Shares hidden collectibles and atmospheric with Afterplace.

    Ranked #8 for Afterplace fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Afterplace.

    Abstract ruins. Hostile shapes. No escape but forward... Death isn’t the end as you know it. Here, it’s how you grow! Each defeat teaches you more as you rise again to defeat foes with stolen blades and bows. Pushing through a broken world warped by cruelty and shadows. Welcome. This is Void Sols.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Afterplace

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Undertale

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Afterplace.

    Reviewers of Afterplace cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Afterplace.

    UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

    2015IndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. TUNIC

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Afterplace.

    Reviewers of Afterplace cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Afterplace.

    Explore a land filled with lost legends, ancient powers, and ferocious monsters in TUNIC, an isometric action game about a small fox on a big adventure.

    2022ActionAdventureRPG29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Yume Nikki

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Afterplace.

    Reviewers of Afterplace cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterplace.

    This is a game in which you traverse the extremely dark world inside a dream.

    2018IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. OMORI

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Afterplace cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterplace.

    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.

    2020IndieAdventureRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. MOTHER

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Afterplace.

    Reviewers of Afterplace cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Afterplace.

    MOTHER is a first-person psychological horror game about protecting your children while descending deeper & deeper into madness. Defend them at all costs. Be careful, because their death is permanent!

    2020Indie2.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Afterplace at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Afterplace on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Afterplace.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Afterplace on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Afterplace.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under Afterplace on Steam right now. Shares Action with Afterplace.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Afterplace on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Afterplace.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Afterplace on Steam right now. Shares Action with Afterplace.

    Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Afterplace on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Afterplace.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Afterplace on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterplace.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Afterplace on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Afterplace.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Afterplace.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Afterplace.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterplace.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Afterplace.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Afterplace.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Afterplace.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Afterplace.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. 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 Afterplace.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Afterplace

Is Afterplace verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — Afterplace is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
How much does Afterplace cost?
Afterplace is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Afterplace?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Afterplace are Sivers, Knuckle Paradise ®, Deluge.
Who developed Afterplace?
Afterplace was developed by Evan Kice and published by indie.io.

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 Afterplace.

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