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Games like Fourth Time Around

If Fourth Time Around is your kind of game, the closest matches are Paratopic, Box of Broken Nails and What Happened to Lily? — 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 Fourth Time Around: Henry is an elderly man with regrets. Over the course of his life, he has killed three times. He is about to kill again. Survive a home invasion as you recount his life through a series of dreamy vignettes featuring a thief, a friend, a lover, and mysterious bartender.

2026IndieAdventureWindowsby Pennywhistle Studios
Fourth Time Around — Steam game cover

Players who liked Fourth Time Around also play

Steam players who put hours into Fourth Time Around 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. Paratopic

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Fourth Time Around fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fourth Time Around.

    Smuggle contraband VHS tapes across the border. Discover the remnants of illicit industry. Prepare for an assassination. This is Paratopic, an atmospheric retro-3D horror adventure through a cursed fever dream.

    2018IndieAdventure3.29 USDSteam ↗
  2. Box of Broken Nails

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Fourth Time Around fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fourth Time Around.

    First-person psychological horror about ignorance and attempts. Protect yourself as a lone carpenter, hastily look for materials in your house to board up a door that shouldn’t exist. At any cost.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. What Happened to Lily?

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Fourth Time Around fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fourth Time Around.

    What Happened to Lily? Is a real-time first-person horror game. Discover the secrets and spooky truths behind the mysterious event at Miller Farm.

    2025IndieAdventureCasual3.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Mouthwashing

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Fourth Time Around fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fourth Time Around.

    The five crew members of the Tulpar are stranded in the empty reaches of space, shrouded in perpetual sunset. God is not watching.

    2024IndieAdventure12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Layers of Fear 2 (2019)

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Fourth Time Around fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fourth Time Around.

    A first‑person psychological horror game set on a haunted ocean liner. As an actor summoned by an unorthodox director, you’ll confront twisted memories from your past and learn the price of achieving the perfect performance.

    2019IndieAdventureCasual19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Beginner's Guide

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Fourth Time Around fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fourth Time Around.

    The Beginner's Guide is a narrative video game from Davey Wreden, the creator of The Stanley Parable. It lasts about an hour and a half and has no traditional mechanics, no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand.

    2015IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Elision Effect

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Fourth Time Around fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fourth Time Around.

    The Elision Effect is a short surreal puzzle game. The last person finds themselves in an empty office. The place seems off, like it shouldn’t exist. Not knowing what made everyone abandon these liminal spaces, they look for an exit.

    2024IndieAdventureCasual2.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Dead Take

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Fourth Time Around fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fourth Time Around.

    Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.

    2025IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

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 Fourth Time Around.

    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 Adventure with Fourth Time Around.

    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 Fourth Time Around.

    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 Indie with Fourth Time Around.

    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 Fourth Time Around.

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. 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 Fourth Time Around.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. 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 Fourth Time Around.

    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 ↗
  8. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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 ↗

Frequently asked about Fourth Time Around

What games are most similar to Fourth Time Around?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Fourth Time Around are Paratopic, Box of Broken Nails, What Happened to Lily?.
Who developed Fourth Time Around?
Fourth Time Around was developed by Pennywhistle Studios.

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 Fourth Time Around.

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