Games like Unrest
If Unrest is your kind of game, the closest matches are Paradigm Island, Sky of Tides and Lost in the Void : Chapter One — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its interconnected character perspectives, morally ambiguous political dilemmas and atmospheric. 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 Unrest: Unrest is a role playing adventure game set in a fantasy interpretation of ancient India that adapts to death, failure, and the choices you make. Play as ordinary people in a struggle for safety, freedom, and a chance at peace. Use conversation, manipulation (and rarely, violence) to achieve your goals.
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Paradigm Island
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Top pick for Unrest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Unrest.
Step into the shoes of a young mercenary in the midst of an identity crisis. Explore a surreal world on the edge of collapse, shape your identity through choice, and navigate a web of shifting loyalties, hidden agendas, and uncomfortable truths.
Sky of Tides
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Unrest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Unrest.
Sky of Tides is a choice-driven isometric sci-fi adventure following Rin D’Lorah as she searches for her missing father in a shattered world where oceans float in the sky. Shape her through decisions, balance who she is becoming, and uncover a mystery where every choice quietly rewrites the future.
Lost in the Void : Chapter One
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Unrest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Unrest.
Rediscover the magic of your childhood dreams with Lost in the Void, an immersive isometric pixel art adventure infused with RPG elements inspired by the nostalgic era of the 80s.
Travelling At Night
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Ranked #4 for Unrest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Unrest.
CONJURE. CONFESS. DISAPPEAR. Be an exorcist, a stage magician, or - worse yet - a writer, in this globe-trotting choices-matter CRPG. In a very alternate 1940s Europe, choose sides; choose motives; choose your History.
Ru Lin Wai Shi Fan Jin
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Ranked #5 for Unrest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Unrest.
Fan Jin, who has failed in the exam for decades, has only one way to change his life - to pass the exam and become a successful candidate.
Fay's Factory
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Unrest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Unrest.
Fay’s Factory is a story-based RPG at heart, with deckbuilding elements on top. Manufacture magic and fight duels. Go on hand-crafted adventures. Investigate, argue and lie. Become a great middle manager or a decent human being.
Shivering Hearts
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Ranked #7 for Unrest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Unrest.
Shivering Hearts is a light-hearted role-playing game illustrated through detailed, hand-drawn watercolour paintings. Explore a world that reacts to your choices.
Expelled!
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Shares morality system and an atmospheric mood with Unrest.
Ranked #8 for Unrest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Unrest.
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Unrest
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Torment: Tides of Numenera
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Reviewers of Unrest cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Unrest.
Torment: Tides of Numenera is the thematic successor to Planescape: Torment, one of the most critically acclaimed role-playing games of all time. Immerse yourself in a single-player, isometric, story-driven RPG set in Monte Cook’s Numenera universe. What does one life matter? Find your answer.
Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Shares dialogue driven choices and an atmospheric mood with Unrest.
Reviewers of Unrest cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and RPG with Unrest.
Uncover secrets of past lives in this story-rich, tactical roleplaying game set in Sigil, a dark fantasy city at the heart of the Dungeons & Dragons multiverse. Explore the planes, survive combat alongside a party of bizarre companions, and solve puzzles unlike any ever seen in the genre.
Elysium
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Reviewers of Unrest cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Unrest.
Wake up on a paradise-like abandoned island with your friends. Explore the lands of an ancient civilization and uncover the mysteries behind their collapse as you build, craft, and tame corrupted machines. Most importantly, survive the unwelcome lands of Elysium!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Unrest at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Unrest on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Unrest.
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 ~50% under Unrest on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Unrest.
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!
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~50% under Unrest on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Unrest.
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 ~50% under Unrest on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Unrest.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Unrest on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Unrest.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~70% under Unrest on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Unrest.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~50% under Unrest on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Unrest.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
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Priced ~50% under Unrest on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Unrest.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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 Adventure with Unrest.
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 Unrest.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Unrest.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Unrest.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Unrest.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Unrest.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
A Date with Death
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Unrest.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Unrest.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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Frequently asked about Unrest
- Does Unrest run on Steam Deck?
- Unrest 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 Unrest cost?
- Unrest is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Unrest?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Unrest are Paradigm Island, Sky of Tides, Lost in the Void : Chapter One.
- Who developed Unrest?
- Unrest was developed by Pyrodactyl.
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 Unrest.
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