Games like A Golden Wake
If A Golden Wake is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hellfire 1988: An Oregon Story, Streetlight Syndicate and Loretta — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its historical authenticity feels grounded, puzzles avoid moon logic 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 A Golden Wake: The rise and fall story of a real estate agent in 1920s Miami. Based on historical events. From Francisco González, creator of the Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator series, Shardlight, and Lamplight City.
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Hellfire 1988: An Oregon Story
WHY THIS
Top pick for A Golden Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Golden Wake.
Hellfire 1988: An Oregon Story is a story-rich visual novel with point-and-click adventure game elements. Featuring a 30,000 word interactive script, hundreds of story choices, challenging puzzles, and a thrilling hard rock soundtrack, Hellfire 1988 is a compelling dramatic adventure.
Streetlight Syndicate
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for A Golden Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with A Golden Wake.
A casual incremental game set in 1920s prohibition-era New York. Run 20 rackets, gamble at The Action, fight rival hitmen, and ascend the ranks of organized crime. A complete story with multiple endings.
Loretta
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with A Golden Wake.
Third-strongest match for A Golden Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Golden Wake.
Loretta is a psychological thriller that makes the player an accessory to the heroine’s crimes, leading her through a self-crafted nightmare. Loretta’s story revolves around a woman handling betrayal, her husband’s infidelity, and reclaiming her agency during the socially tumultuous 1940s.
The Slaughter: Act One
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with A Golden Wake.
Ranked #4 for A Golden Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Golden Wake.
The Slaughter is a noir point-and-click adventure set in Victorian London, laced with adult themes and dark humour. Follow the trail of a killer through atmospheric London locations and surreal dream worlds, meeting a cast of interesting, insane and eccentrically British characters along the way.
Midnight Market
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for A Golden Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with A Golden Wake.
Welcome to the seedy side of town, try to make money, while dodging knife fights, and running from the law.
Green Mist over Portland
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for A Golden Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Golden Wake.
A detective noir puzzle deduction game. Explore a non-linear timeline during the cold war on a globe-trotting adventure following a trail of spies from a quiet English harbour town to a frozen Finnish fishing village and the corridors of an intelligence service rotten at its core.
Criminal Archives: Alphabetic Murders Collector's Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with A Golden Wake.
Ranked #7 for A Golden Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with A Golden Wake.
Are the murders of three different people connected? Or are we dealing with three different incidents? Cunning and logic are your best weapons in solving this case!
Furies & Magazines - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for A Golden Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with A Golden Wake.
Graphic Novel Style Top Down Shooting Action Game which tells the story of Ivan Vinogradov, the victim of the CIA's top-secret project.
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Shardlight
WHY THIS
Shares point and click adventure and an atmospheric mood with A Golden Wake.
Reviewers of A Golden Wake cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Golden Wake.
A post-apocalyptic adventure game from the publisher that brought you Primordia, Gemini Rue and Technobabylon! A young woman stricken with a deadly plague searches for a cure in a hostile world.
Rosewater
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with A Golden Wake.
Reviewers of A Golden Wake cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Golden Wake.
A thrilling Western adventure in the alternate 19th century world of Lamplight City! Embark on a harrowing journey across the frontier with Harley Leger and her ragtag posse, encountering bandits, rebels, visionaries, eccentrics, and many more friends and foes on your quest for fame and riches.
Deponia
WHY THIS
Reviewers of A Golden Wake cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Golden Wake.
In Deponia, the world has degenerated into a vast garbage dump, in which the crotchety Rufus ekes out his sorry existence.
Lamplight City
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with A Golden Wake.
Reviewers of A Golden Wake cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Golden Wake.
A steampunk-ish detective adventure from the creator of A Golden Wake and Shardlight! Can you help private investigator Miles Fordham find justice for his clients and track down his partner's killer before his entire world comes apart?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below A Golden Wake at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under A Golden Wake on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with A Golden Wake.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under A Golden Wake on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with A Golden Wake.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under A Golden Wake on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with A Golden Wake.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under A Golden Wake on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with A Golden Wake.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under A Golden Wake on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Golden Wake.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under A Golden Wake on Steam right now. Shares Indie with A Golden Wake.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under A Golden Wake on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with A Golden Wake.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under A Golden Wake on Steam right now. Shares Indie with A Golden Wake.
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.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with A Golden Wake.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with A Golden Wake.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with A Golden Wake.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with A Golden Wake.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 A Golden Wake.
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 A Golden Wake.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with A Golden Wake.
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.
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Frequently asked about A Golden Wake
- Does A Golden Wake work on Steam Deck?
- A Golden Wake is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does A Golden Wake cost?
- A Golden Wake is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to A Golden Wake?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside A Golden Wake are Hellfire 1988: An Oregon Story, Streetlight Syndicate, Loretta.
- Who developed A Golden Wake?
- A Golden Wake was developed by Grundislav Games.
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