Games like There Came an Echo
If There Came an Echo is your kind of game, the closest matches are Nexus Defenders, Panzer Strike and Lornsword Winter Chronicle — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its music is fantastic, atmospheric and contemplative. 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 There Came an Echo: There Came an Echo is a real-time strategy game in which the player assumes command of a small squadron, using an advanced voice recognition system to issue orders. It features a character-driven sci-fi narrative that stars Wil Wheaton, Ashly Burch, Laura Bailey, Yuri Lowenthal, and more!
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Nexus Defenders
WHY THIS
Top pick for There Came an Echo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with There Came an Echo.
Tower Defense meets a Visual Novel narrative. Place an arsenal of towers to halt the invading enemy. Use special abilities such as napalm strikes, EMP blasts, and orbital lasers. A sci-fi space drama, filled with dialogue choices.
Panzer Strike
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for There Came an Echo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with There Came an Echo.
Authentic RTS gameplay straight out of the 2000s. Command your troops, develop strategies, and win World War II battles. Huge maps, thousands of units, long-range firepower, and no building mechanics!
Lornsword Winter Chronicle
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with There Came an Echo.
Third-strongest match for There Came an Echo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with There Came an Echo.
Lornsword Winter Chronicle is a story-driven action strategy game. Be the general on the battlefield and take direct action to command your soldiers and set up your economy. The Lorn Empire counts on you, keep your mind pure and your Lornsword sharp!
Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with There Came an Echo.
Ranked #4 for There Came an Echo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with There Came an Echo.
"Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive" is the first strategy game ever to combine a movie-based and story-driven atmosphere of an adventure game with the intellectual challenge of a real time tactic game.In this western-style title, discover a game of strategy and tactics played out in exceptional real time.
Satellite Reign
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with There Came an Echo.
Ranked #5 for There Came an Echo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with There Came an Echo.
Satellite Reign is a real-time, class-based strategy game, set in an open-world cyberpunk city. You command a group of 4 agents through rain-soaked, neon-lit streets, where the law is the will of mega-corporations.
The Red Solstice
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with There Came an Echo.
Ranked #6 for There Came an Echo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with There Came an Echo.
2280 A.D. The last few survivors of a ruined Earth seek a new home: Mars, a planet whose inhabitants didn't take too kindly to outsiders. The Red Solstice is a tense, tactical, squad-based action game. Fight to survive with up to 8 players in co-op, or lead your own squad in single-player mode.
Fire Commander
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with There Came an Echo.
Ranked #7 for There Came an Echo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with There Came an Echo.
See what it means to face the fire. Command a firefighting unit in an exciting tactical RTS. Save lives, manage your water supplies and care for your team in 30+ missions. Be a real hero!
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with There Came an Echo.
Ranked #8 for There Came an Echo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with There Came an Echo.
Shadow Tactics is a hardcore tactical stealth game set in Japan around the Edo period. A new Shogun seizes power over Japan and enforces nationwide peace. In his battle against conspiracy and rebellion, he recruits five specialists with extraordinary skills for assassination, sabotage and espionage.
Reviewers mention these as similar to There Came an Echo
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Before the Echo
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with There Came an Echo.
Reviewers of There Came an Echo cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with There Came an Echo.
Before the Echo combines elements of both rhythm and role-playing games to create an entirely unique experience.
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
WHY THIS
Reviewers of There Came an Echo cross-mention this title as a similar play.
The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear. A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.
XCOM® 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with There Came an Echo.
Reviewers of There Came an Echo cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with There Came an Echo.
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
[the Sequence]
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with There Came an Echo.
Reviewers of There Came an Echo cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with There Came an Echo.
[the Sequence] is a logic construction puzzler.Let your mind be your guide: Lay down seven different kinds of modules as your roadblocks to get you (portrayed as a binary data point) to a sweet destination.Apply an out-of-the-box thinking to get you to the next level!
![[the Sequence] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/454320/header.jpg?t=1614154788)
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below There Came an Echo at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under There Came an Echo on Steam right now. Shares Indie with There Came an Echo.
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 ~67% under There Came an Echo on Steam right now. Shares Indie with There Came an Echo.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under There Came an Echo on Steam right now. Shares Indie with There Came an Echo.
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?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under There Came an Echo on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with There Came an Echo.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under There Came an Echo on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with There Came an Echo.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under There Came an Echo on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with There Came an Echo.
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...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under There Came an Echo on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with There Came an Echo.
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 ~67% under There Came an Echo on Steam right now. Shares Indie with There Came an Echo.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
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 with There Came an Echo.
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.
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 There Came an Echo.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with There Came an Echo.
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 with There Came an Echo.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with There Came an Echo.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with There Came an Echo.
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.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
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Frequently asked about There Came an Echo
- How much does There Came an Echo cost?
- There Came an Echo is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to There Came an Echo?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside There Came an Echo are Nexus Defenders, Panzer Strike, Lornsword Winter Chronicle.
- Who developed There Came an Echo?
- There Came an Echo was developed by Iridium Studios.
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