Games like The Thing That Happened
If The Thing That Happened is your kind of game, the closest matches are DEADPOINT, Breaking earth and Turn Back Now — 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 The Thing That Happened: Thing That Happened is an Openworld Third Person - Action Adventure Survial game. You can use multiple weapons, attachments, close combat skills tree's and crafting to break through your enemies.
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DEADPOINT
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Top pick for The Thing That Happened fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Thing That Happened.
"Deadpoint" is an engaging third-person survival game set in an apocalyptic world overrun by zombies. Players take on the role of a resourceful scavenger, tasked with navigating the dangerous landscape and ensuring their survival amid the hordes of undead.
Breaking earth
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Second-strongest match for The Thing That Happened fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Thing That Happened.
This is a fantastic 3rd person stealth shooter. You have to collect parts for a spaceship to fly away from a dying earth in a post-apocalyptic world. Fighting enemies and mutated spiders will not make you bored in the game.
Turn Back Now
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Thing That Happened fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Thing That Happened.
Survival horror RPG where you investigate, explore, and endure dynamic psychological threats as a rookie officer. Manage resources, make critical choices, and survive horrific encounters in a tense, atmospheric third-person experience.
Dead No-Head
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Ranked #4 for The Thing That Happened fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Thing That Happened.
Dead No-Head is a third person action adventure story rich game in which Norix is brought back from the dead, with... No head! This headless hero will have quite the unexpected journey ahead of him.
Zero World
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Ranked #5 for The Thing That Happened fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Thing That Happened.
Gather resources, craft items, kill others, raid houses, but don't get raided yourself
萌盟大冒险 Cute Adventure 可爱 射击 生存 shooter Survival 可愛いです 射撃です 生き残ります 冒険です Sopravvivere Süß. Feuer frei. Zu großes risiko? Überleben мил стреля Выживать приключен mignon Des coups de feu La prise de risque Survivre 귀 여운 사격 모험 생존하다 Giro. disparar aventura Sobrevivir 可愛 射擊 生存 冒險 adorabile spari avventura sopravvivere
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Ranked #6 for The Thing That Happened fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Thing That Happened.
Interesting island adventure，Go online with friends and challenge monsters!
Combatant
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Ranked #7 for The Thing That Happened fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Thing That Happened.
In Combatant you will live the story of Alfie, a sharpshooter hired by a rich businessman. Alfie is tasked with recovering some data stolen by a competitor of a technology company, and for that there will be many challenges.
Darker Skies: Remastered for PC
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Ranked #8 for The Thing That Happened fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Thing That Happened.
Darker Skies comes fully remastered to PC. Incorporating new graphical features and gameplay enhancements for the definitive way to play Darker Skies. Survival Horror set after the War of the Worlds.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Thing That Happened at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~78% under The Thing That Happened on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Thing That Happened.
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 ~57% under The Thing That Happened on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Thing That Happened.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~57% under The Thing That Happened on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Thing That Happened.
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.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under The Thing That Happened on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Thing That Happened.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under The Thing That Happened on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Thing That Happened.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
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. Shares Action and Adventure with The Thing That Happened.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Thing That Happened.
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 Action and Indie with The Thing That Happened.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Thing That Happened.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
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 The Thing That Happened.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Thing That Happened.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
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 The Thing That Happened.
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.
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More from Mario Murkl
Other recommendable Steam games by Mario Murkl, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
CyberBorn
WHY THIS
Another title from Mario Murkl, the studio behind The Thing That Happened. Shares Action and Indie with The Thing That Happened.
Welcomme to Cyberborn! A truly Cyberpunk Multiplayer FPS game. The game using Unreal Engine 4 , 4 Different very high detailed maps, with 4 different game modes. 3 Different Class , and 3 different ability. The Game is working as a Single and on LAN as well Your PC is ready? "No More Future"
Until Last Breath
WHY THIS
Another title from Mario Murkl, the studio behind The Thing That Happened. Shares Action and Indie with The Thing That Happened.
The Until Last Breath is a survival action game with multiple guns and character skins. In your dream suddenly you find yourself in a forest, with zombie hordes and they are coming in waves.
HYDE
WHY THIS
Another title from Mario Murkl, the studio behind The Thing That Happened. Shares Action and Indie with The Thing That Happened.
HYDE is an adventure puzzle game, where you discover ancient ruins but , it turns out this ruins are keeping more secrets than it looks like. I am working alone, the whole map in the game is fully custom made.
Frequently asked about The Thing That Happened
- How much does The Thing That Happened cost?
- The Thing That Happened is listed on Steam at 22.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Thing That Happened?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Thing That Happened are DEADPOINT, Breaking earth, Turn Back Now.
- Who developed The Thing That Happened?
- The Thing That Happened was developed by Mario Murkl, Zoltán Árva and published by Jericho Game Development.
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