Games like Chrono
If Chrono is your kind of game, the closest matches are Time Storm, Beta MAX and PROJECT : GENESIS — 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 Chrono: Chrono is a puzzle/platformer game where you control how time affects objects in the world. By freezing time, fast-forwarding, or rewinding objects, you can crack a wide variety of puzzles. The goal is to escape the facility where you are trapped, before time runs out.
Players who liked Chrono also play
Steam players who put hours into Chrono 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.
Time Storm
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Top pick for Chrono fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Chrono.
Use your ability to go back in time to overcome obstacles and reach your goal. Are you ready to help your future self?
Beta MAX
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Second-strongest match for Chrono fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Chrono.
Use four-dimensional thinking to manipulate time and navigate through this mind bending retro inspired realm. Solve puzzles to help Max find his way home in this atmospheric first-person puzzle platformer.
PROJECT : GENESIS
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Third-strongest match for Chrono fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Chrono.
You wake up in a research facility and hear from the managing AI that humanity is in crisis due to an unknown virus. The AI requests that you conduct various experiments. Recognizing the dangers outside the facility, you decide to proceed with the experiments.
A Space Between Time
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Ranked #4 for Chrono fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Chrono.
Play as a robot with time-manipulating abilities. You can go to places you've never been before by going back in time in the X and Y axes independently. Just beware pockets of time corruption, and tracking your positions in time consumes a lot of memory. At max capacity, you can no longer function.
Timeworks
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Ranked #5 for Chrono fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Chrono.
Timeworks is a time-traveling 3D puzzle platformer with a bouncy cartoon style. Work along past versions of yourself to solve puzzles, create unique Items, and fill out your quotas for your mysterious employers.
The Janus Problem
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Ranked #6 for Chrono fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Chrono.
A first-person 3D puzzle game where the player can reverse time.
Magnetism
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Ranked #7 for Chrono fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Chrono.
We are recruiting new test subjects for a new in-house experiment at our facility. We ask that new recruits have good jumping skills and good logical thinking. For those interested, please report to the main lobby to receive further instructions.
Braid
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Ranked #8 for Chrono fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Chrono.
This is the original version of Braid from 2009, which may not work well on newer systems. For an updated version of the game with nicer graphics, more levels and a large amount of developer commentary, see Braid, Anniversary Edition.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Chrono at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~67% under Chrono on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chrono.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~50% under Chrono on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chrono.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~67% under Chrono on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Chrono.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Peggle Deluxe
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Priced ~67% under Chrono on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Chrono.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
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Priced ~67% under Chrono on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Chrono.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~67% under Chrono on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chrono.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
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Priced ~67% under Chrono on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Chrono.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Chrono.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chrono.
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 and Casual with Chrono.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chrono.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chrono.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Chrono.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Chrono.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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Frequently asked about Chrono
- How much does Chrono cost?
- Chrono is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Chrono?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Chrono are Time Storm, Beta MAX, PROJECT : GENESIS.
- Who developed Chrono?
- Chrono was developed by David Simoes.
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 Chrono.
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