Games like The Thing That Happened
If The Thing That Happened is your kind of game, the closest matches are DEADPOINT, Turn Back Now and Zero 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.
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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.
Turn Back Now
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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.
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.
Zero World
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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.
Gather resources, craft items, kill others, raid houses, but don't get raided yourself
Breaking earth
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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.
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.
Kepler 186F
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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.
Kepler 186F is a narrative-driven sci-fi thriller that puts adventure-puzzle gameplay front and centre. As the Type-37 Crisis Response Robot, you embark on a pure adventure-puzzle odyssey across the frozen dark side of Kepler 186F to investigate the vanished colony.
Dead No-Head
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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.
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.
Pigslaughter
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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.
Pigslaughter is a top-down shooter where you play as a Sigma Force special agent, trying to save human souls from Pig Primes. Explore a sprawling modern city, wield a variety of weapons, eliminate your enemies, and reclaim the stolen capital.
Infected Backrooms: Multiplayer
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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.
Enter the surreal world of Backrooms in our multiplayer 2-8 players Co-Op & PvP game. Become monsters or survivors, where players must infect others or use their guns to stay alive. With fast-paced gameplay and a creepy atmosphere, it's perfect for Backrooms fans for having fun with friends
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 ~58% 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.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~58% under The Thing That Happened on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Thing That Happened.
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!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~42% under The Thing That Happened on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with The Thing That Happened.
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.
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~63% under The Thing That Happened on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Thing That Happened.
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.
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~48% under The Thing That Happened on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Thing That Happened.
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!
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~58% under The Thing That Happened on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Thing That Happened.
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
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Priced ~58% under The Thing That Happened on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Thing That Happened.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~92% under The Thing That Happened on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Thing That Happened.
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?
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
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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.
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!
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 The Thing That Happened.
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.
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Thing That Happened.
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
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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 11.99 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, Turn Back Now, Zero World.
- Who developed The Thing That Happened?
- The Thing That Happened was developed by Mario Murkl, Zoltán Árva and published by Mario Murkl.
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