Games like The State of Nowhere
If The State of Nowhere is your kind of game, the closest matches are Labeloop, Crustacean Station! and Press a Button Simulator — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its 100 achievements for completionists, atmospheric and dark. 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 The State of Nowhere also play
Steam players who put hours into The State of Nowhere 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.
Labeloop
WHY THIS
Top pick for The State of Nowhere fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The State of Nowhere.
Labeloop is a darkly comic incremental clicker about a debt you can't escape. Slap labels on the Company's bottles, hit your nightly rent, and claw your way out of an ever-deeper hole. Clear your debt and they'll thank you with a bullet — then bill you for the funeral.
Crustacean Station!
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The State of Nowhere fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The State of Nowhere.
Work a day job at Crustacean Station checking identification and sending a vibrant cast of sea creatures on trains to their desired destinations!
Press a Button Simulator
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The State of Nowhere fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The State of Nowhere.
Welcome to Press a Button Simulator: a new and exciting twist on modern video games. Gone is the time of tryhards and sweats, and in is the new age of only pressing a button! Will you find all the secrets? Of course not! There is only one: You get to press a button!
Age Of GoldFarmers
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The State of Nowhere fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The State of Nowhere.
Age of Gold Farmers is a black comedy sim about a NEET youth surviving on in-game currency. After failing at life, he discovers "gold farming." Grind for items, track market prices, and grow your channel—all while dodging your parents' glares and managing your health.
IT Outage Desk
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The State of Nowhere fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with The State of Nowhere.
Start as a help desk technician and build your way to the top. Resolve tickets, hire staff, automate your department, and survive the increasingly absurd chaos of corporate IT in this humorous incremental clicker.
Raccoon Inc.
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The State of Nowhere fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The State of Nowhere.
Bin Dive is tired of eating from the trash! Help this enterprising raccoon build a business up from flipping junk to a sprawling mega corporation unlike the world has ever seen. Start businesses, upgrade them, hire animals to help you, sit back and watch the money flow in this idler tycoon.
Duty Guvnor
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The State of Nowhere fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The State of Nowhere.
A darkly comic, turn-based roguelike of 1970s London police night duty. Dispatch your few constables, fill your four cells, back gambles over the radio — and keep the streets safe until 06:00. Every shift deals fresh trouble, and every choice follows your career. Just make it through the week.
Office Leveling
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The State of Nowhere fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The State of Nowhere.
Office Leveling is a minimalist stealth clicker where you secretly play a clicker at work while pretending to be productive. Click to level up, complete office tasks, handle coworkers, dodge your boss, and solve small puzzles before anyone catches you.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The State of Nowhere at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The State of Nowhere on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The State of Nowhere.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The State of Nowhere on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The State of Nowhere.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The State of Nowhere on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The State of Nowhere.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The State of Nowhere on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The State of Nowhere.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The State of Nowhere on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The State of Nowhere.
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?
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The State of Nowhere on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The State of Nowhere.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The State of Nowhere.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The State of Nowhere.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The State of Nowhere.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The State of Nowhere.
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 with The State of Nowhere.
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 The State of Nowhere.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about The State of Nowhere
- Does The State of Nowhere run on Steam Deck?
- The State of Nowhere is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does The State of Nowhere cost?
- The State of Nowhere is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The State of Nowhere?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The State of Nowhere are Labeloop, Crustacean Station!, Press a Button Simulator.
- Who developed The State of Nowhere?
- The State of Nowhere was developed by Anomaly Works.
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 State of Nowhere.
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