Games like Prologue: Go Wayback!
If Prologue: Go Wayback! is your kind of game, the closest matches are Yosemite Forest Ranger, The Sushi Bar | 寿司バー and Denizen — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its beautiful atmospheric forest environment, atmospheric and bleak. 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 Prologue: Go Wayback!: Prologue: Go Wayback! is a single-player open-world emergent survival roguelike where every journey is unique. Traverse a new wilderness that is generated for you every time you play. Chart your path, overcome the elements, and write your own story of exploration.

Players who liked Prologue: Go Wayback! also play
Steam players who put hours into Prologue: Go Wayback! 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.
Yosemite Forest Ranger
WHY THIS
Top pick for Prologue: Go Wayback! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Prologue: Go Wayback!.
In Yosemite Forest Ranger you will fill the shoes of Theodore Thompson. You will find out why he left the big city life to be a Forest Ranger through Story Rich Gameplay and Voice Acting. With a Survival aspect as well. A very Rich Open World with loads of Forageables and Wildlife to Explore.
The Sushi Bar | 寿司バー
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Prologue: Go Wayback! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Prologue: Go Wayback!.
The Sushi Bar | 寿司バー is a Japanese-style horror game where you play as a sushi chef working the night shift.
Denizen
WHY THIS
Shares inventory management and a contemplative mood with Prologue: Go Wayback!.
Third-strongest match for Prologue: Go Wayback! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Prologue: Go Wayback!.
Make a living for yourself in a city full of opportunity while you meet a variety of locals, explore unique locations, and work your way to the top in this open-world life simulator.
Tales From The Cache
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Prologue: Go Wayback! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Prologue: Go Wayback!.
Dive into the exciting world of treasure hunting. A geocaching expedition that has you discovering secret locations, solving challenging puzzles, and exploring abandoned places. Cache in, adventure out!
Northern Lights
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Prologue: Go Wayback!.
Ranked #5 for Prologue: Go Wayback! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Prologue: Go Wayback!.
Northern Lights is an open world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the arctic tundra. Clinging to life, you must use real-life survival techniques to gather resources, craft, and hunt while tending to your health and sanity. Can you survive your way out of the mysterious island?
Touch Grass Together
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Prologue: Go Wayback! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Prologue: Go Wayback!.
Touch Grass with your friends, or on your own if you're into that sort of thing, we won't judge even if it is a little weird.
Backrooms: Into the Hole
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Prologue: Go Wayback! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Prologue: Go Wayback!.
Discover an in-between space inspired by the Backrooms series. Make your way forward by jumping into holes, find alternative paths, and survive in this labyrinthine dimension. Play solo or in co-op mode and choose your path to the exit… if there is one.
Prehistoric Hunt
WHY THIS
Shares inventory management and an atmospheric mood with Prologue: Go Wayback!.
Ranked #8 for Prologue: Go Wayback! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Prologue: Go Wayback!.
Dive into intense dinosaur hunting adventures with your friends. Complete hunting contracts for Preton Corporation. Gather rewards, improve your equipment and become a master hunter. Are you the hunter or the hunted?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Prologue: Go Wayback! at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Prologue: Go Wayback! on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Prologue: Go Wayback!.
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 Prologue: Go Wayback! on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Prologue: Go Wayback!.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Prologue: Go Wayback! on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Prologue: Go Wayback!.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Prologue: Go Wayback! on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Prologue: Go Wayback!.
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.
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Prologue: Go Wayback! on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Prologue: Go Wayback!.
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.
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 Prologue: Go Wayback!.
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 Prologue: Go Wayback!.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Prologue: Go Wayback!.
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 Indie and Adventure with Prologue: Go Wayback!.
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 Prologue: Go Wayback!.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Prologue: Go Wayback!.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Prologue: Go Wayback!.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Prologue: Go Wayback!.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Frequently asked about Prologue: Go Wayback!
- Does Prologue: Go Wayback! work on Steam Deck?
- Prologue: Go Wayback! is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Prologue: Go Wayback! cost?
- Prologue: Go Wayback! is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Prologue: Go Wayback!?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Prologue: Go Wayback! are Yosemite Forest Ranger, The Sushi Bar | 寿司バー, Denizen.
- Who developed Prologue: Go Wayback!?
- Prologue: Go Wayback! was developed by PLAYERUNKNOWN Productions.
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 Prologue: Go Wayback!.
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