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Games like How We Die

If How We Die is your kind of game, the closest matches are How We Die: Prologue, StarVaders and Right and Down — 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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About How We Die: Pack your bag with good tools, modify your character's dice, and reach the end of the story.

2024StrategyIndieAdventureSimulation14.99 USDWindowsby Doublsb Soft
How We Die — Steam game cover

Players who liked How We Die also play

Steam players who put hours into How We Die 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.

  1. How We Die: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for How We Die fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with How We Die.

    Pack your bag with good tools, modify your character's dice, and reach the end of the story.

    2024StrategyIndieAdventureDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. StarVaders

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for How We Die fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with How We Die.

    Pilot a powerful mech to fight off the alien invasion in this ULTIMATE fusion of deckbuilding and grid-based tactics. Discover game-breaking combos, rewind time to alter your fate, and protect the future of humanity in this endlessly replayable roguelike.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure17.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Right and Down

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for How We Die fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with How We Die.

    A deep roguelike and card game that is played using only two buttons: Right and Down! Choose your hero and explore randomly generated card dungeons, gather powerful artifacts to get new abilities, and fight against mighty enemies! Will you make it to level 50?

    2022StrategyIndie3.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Nowhere Prophet

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for How We Die fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with How We Die.

    Prepare your decks and go on a pilgrimage through the wasteland! Nowhere Prophet is a unique single-player card game. Travel across randomly generated maps and lead your followers in deep tactical combat. Discover new cards and build your deck as you explore this strange, broken world.

    2019StrategyIndieRPG6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Monster Train

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for How We Die fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with How We Die.

    Monster Train is a strategic roguelike deck building game with a twist. Set on a train to hell, you’ll use tactical decision making to defend multiple vertical battlegrounds. With real time competitive multiplayer and endless replayability, Monster Train is always on time.

    2020Strategy4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Wildfrost

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for How We Die fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with How We Die.

    Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…

    2023StrategyIndie11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Drop Duchy

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for How We Die fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with How We Die.

    Build your duchy piece by piece in this refreshing hybrid rogue-lite game. Use block-dropping mechanics to collect resources, recruit troops to fight against belligerent armies, and let every block shape your realm, leading your path to victory!

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Trials of Fire

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for How We Die fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with How We Die.

    A Tactical, Deck-Building Roguelite. Choose 3 Heroes and adventure into a post-Cataclysmic wasteland. Engage enemies in a unique meld of card-play and tactical, positional combat. Level up and scavenge what you can to customise your decks and build a party to take on any challenge!

    2021StrategyIndieRPG3.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below How We Die at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under How We Die on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with How We Die.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under How We Die on Steam right now. Shares Indie with How We Die.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under How We Die on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with How We Die.

    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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under How We Die on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with How We Die.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under How We Die on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with How We Die.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under How We Die on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with How We Die.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under How We Die on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with How We Die.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under How We Die on Steam right now. Shares Indie with How We Die.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with How We Die.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with How We Die.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. 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 How We Die.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with How We Die.

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with How We Die.

    Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.

    2021IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with How We Die.

    USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.

    2025IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. OnlyCans: Thirst Date

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with How We Die.

    Feel The Fizz Inside You™ with the brand new Shize™ Collection!

    2021IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  8. 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 How We Die.

    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.

    2015AdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. StarVaders

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with How We Die.

    Pilot a powerful mech to fight off the alien invasion in this ULTIMATE fusion of deckbuilding and grid-based tactics. Discover game-breaking combos, rewind time to alter your fate, and protect the future of humanity in this endlessly replayable roguelike.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure17.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Nowhere Prophet

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with How We Die.

    Prepare your decks and go on a pilgrimage through the wasteland! Nowhere Prophet is a unique single-player card game. Travel across randomly generated maps and lead your followers in deep tactical combat. Discover new cards and build your deck as you explore this strange, broken world.

    2019StrategyIndieRPG6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Wildfrost

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with How We Die.

    Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…

    2023StrategyIndie11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Trials of Fire

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with How We Die.

    A Tactical, Deck-Building Roguelite. Choose 3 Heroes and adventure into a post-Cataclysmic wasteland. Engage enemies in a unique meld of card-play and tactical, positional combat. Level up and scavenge what you can to customise your decks and build a party to take on any challenge!

    2021StrategyIndieRPG3.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about How We Die

How much does How We Die cost?
How We Die is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to How We Die?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside How We Die are How We Die: Prologue, StarVaders, Right and Down.
Who developed How We Die?
How We Die was developed by Doublsb Soft and published by PsychoFlux Entertainment.

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 How We Die.

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