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Games like The Denizen

If The Denizen is your kind of game, the closest matches are Tell Some Story: Foz, zakon and Esoteric: Apostate — 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 The Denizen: Deep in an abandoned city’s barely beating heart, a lone intelligence awakens.

ActionIndieAdventureWindowsby Kristian Lander Stow
The Denizen — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into The Denizen 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. Tell Some Story: Foz

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for The Denizen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Denizen.

    Action-adventure + Third person shooter. The year is 2042, the near future, the gloomy world of cyberpunk will offer you the role of detective Foz. Random circumstances drag the hero into a showdown between gangs and corporations, where he has to make a choice on whose side he is.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. zakon

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for The Denizen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Denizen.

    Zakon is an arcade-flight game with an emphasis on fighting big monsters in a country called Krasnogorie. You play as a new police division flying the jet, tasked to protect the city from the inside and outside enemies.

    ActionIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗
  3. Esoteric: Apostate

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Denizen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Denizen.

    Embody the enhanced cybernetic might of the future. Scan your surroundings, gather powerful weapons and supplies, and obliterate the techno-zealots of the Church of Hope. Protect the girl in an intense third-person stealth-action experience designed for solo play.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  4. Bounty Hunters

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for The Denizen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Denizen.

    Bounty Hunters is a Third Person Shooter set in a Cyberpunk themed city It uses a Horde/Firefight type game system to throw waves of bad guys at the player, your job is to survive and kill the boss.

    2022ActionIndieCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. REPLIK

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The Denizen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Denizen.

    REPLIK is a solo extraction-soulslike where your mistakes come back to haunt you! Scavenge for resources between warring factions and empower your Replikas to rise from hunted to hunter. In a world where life is fabricated, death still comes at a price.

    ActionIndieSteam ↗
  6. LIBERATED

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for The Denizen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Denizen.

    Lock, load, and get ready for a new kind of action adventure! Immerse yourself in a noir rain-soaked city inside a paperback comic. Uncover a cyberpunk conspiracy against human rights. THIS is the revolution.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Welcome to Doll Town

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for The Denizen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Denizen.

    In "Welcome to Doll Town," explore a cursed village where lifelike dolls roam. Uncover the dark secret that led a prosperous town turn into a living nightmare.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure12.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. 《Drifting : Weight of Feathers》

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for The Denizen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Denizen.

    Play as a gorgeous female wanted-criminal Faye. Utilize her grappling hook and acrobatics to fight enemies and traverse the ocean-engulfed planet Bluestar! (This game has steep learning curve, play with caution)

    2021ActionIndieAdventure11.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Denizen.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Denizen.

    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 ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

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

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Denizen.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Denizen.

    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 ↗
  7. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Denizen.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Denizen.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Denizen

What games are most similar to The Denizen?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Denizen are Tell Some Story: Foz, zakon, Esoteric: Apostate.
Who developed The Denizen?
The Denizen was developed by Kristian Lander Stow and published by 10C Games.

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 The Denizen.

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