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Games like Reach

If Reach is your kind of game, the closest matches are DragonHill VR, Unknightly and Budget Cuts 2: Mission Insolvency — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging 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.

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About Reach: The ground-breaking new title from nDreams Elevation – the VR-immersion expert’s pioneering new studio. Embody a reluctant hero, wield extraordinary abilities, and journey into a perilous world of crossed realities. Are you ready to make the leap?

2025ActionAdventure39.99 USDWindowsby nDreams Elevation
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Players who liked Reach also play

Steam players who put hours into Reach 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. DragonHill VR

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Reach fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Reach.

    This is an action-adventure game built for virtual reality. You play as an adventurer, freely roam and explore in a medieval open world. Complete a series of quests to unlock skills and upgrade equipment, and finally defeat the dragon in the hill cave.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Unknightly

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Reach.

    Second-strongest match for Reach fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Reach.

    Unknightly is a medieval VR stealth game designed from the ground up for virtual reality. You assume the role of a retired master-thief as he is drawn back into a life once thought left behind.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Budget Cuts 2: Mission Insolvency

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Reach.

    Third-strongest match for Reach fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Reach.

    Built from the ground-up for Virtual Reality, Budget Cuts 2 is an action-adventure stealth game where you zip, sneak, and stab your way through enemy-filled offices, trains, warehouses, and skyscrapers to take down the evil efficiency robots at TransCorp.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow

    WHY THIS

    Shares checkpoint based progression, resource gathering and atmospheric with Reach.

    Ranked #4 for Reach fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Reach.

    Step into the shadows in Thief VR. You are Magpie, a cunning thief orphaned by Baron Northcrest and shaped by the streets. Use VR mechanics to steal, evade, and outsmart the City's forces. Your goal? A relic in Northcrest's vault, which uncovers a far greater artifact with a powerful legacy.

    2025Adventure19.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Budget Cuts

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Reach.

    Ranked #5 for Reach fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Reach.

    Budget Cuts is a VR stealth game where you dexterously zip, sneak or rambo your way forward through thrilling, oil-splatter filled combat!

    2018ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. STRIDE: Fates

    WHY THIS

    Shares precision platforming, real time combat, sci fi and an intense mood with Reach.

    Ranked #6 for Reach fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Reach.

    Step into the shoes of a parkour spec-ops officer. Traverse your way through the rooftops and basements of dystopian Airon City - from slums to affluent skyscrapers. Deal with power shifts in gangs, dirty family feuds, corporate secrets, forbidden tech, and other obstacles to understand your past.

    2024ActionSportsAdventure29.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Rise of the Tomb Raider™

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Reach fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Reach.

    Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration includes the base game and Season Pass featuring all-new content. Explore Croft Manor in the new “Blood Ties” story, then defend it against a zombie invasion in “Lara’s Nightmare”.

    2016ActionAdventure29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Sairento VR

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with Reach.

    Ranked #8 for Reach fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Reach.

    VR was made for this. Perform triple jumps, wall runs, power slides and slow time down while blasting away at a foe before landing to deliver a blade attack on another. Kit yourself with katanas, firearms, bows, throwing glaives and legendary relics. Keep upgrading as you play. PURE CYBER NINJA FUN.

    2018ActionStrategyIndie8.99 USDSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Reach

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Mirror's Edge™

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Reach.

    Reviewers of Reach cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Reach.

    In a city where information is heavily monitored, couriers called Runners transport sensitive data. In this seemingly utopian paradise, a crime has been committed, & you are being hunted. You are a Runner called Faith and this innovative first-person action-adventure is your story.

    2009ActionAdventure6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Tomb Raider Game of the Year

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Reach cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Reach.

    Tomb Raider explores the intense origin story of Lara Croft and her ascent from a young woman to a hardened survivor.

    2013ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Half-Life: Alyx

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Reach.

    Reviewers of Reach cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Reach.

    Half-Life: Alyx is Valve’s VR return to the Half-Life series. It’s the story of an impossible fight against a vicious alien race known as the Combine, set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2. Playing as Alyx Vance, you are humanity’s only chance for survival.

    2020ActionAdventure59.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. The Climber

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Reach cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Reach.

    Dylan and Isis are the couple of characters in this new game. They face challenges of Rafting, Rapel and Tracking in 3 diferent phases. In these modalities they will be exposed to the forces of nature and to complete their paths without risks, they know that they should respect it as the first rule.

    2017ActionSportsAdventure3.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Mirror's Edge™ Catalyst

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Reach.

    Reviewers of Reach cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Reach.

    Mirror's Edge™ Catalyst raises the action-adventure bar through fluid, first person action and immerses players in Faith's story as she fights for freedom.

    2020ActionAdventure6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Adventures of Prince Shiratama ~Climb the mountains~

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Reach cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Reach.

    Aim for the top of the mountain with Prince Shiratama. Highly difficult platformer game with a casual appearance.

    2024ActionIndieCasual1.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Reach at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Reach on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Reach.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Phasmophobia

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Reach on Steam right now. Shares Action with Reach.

    Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.

    2020ActionIndieEarly Access19.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Reach on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Reach.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Left 4 Dead 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Reach on Steam right now. Shares Action with Reach.

    Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.

    2009Action9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Schedule I

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Reach on Steam right now. Shares Action with Reach.

    From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.

    2025ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Hollow Knight

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Reach on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Reach.

    Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. The Forest

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Reach on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Reach.

    As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Reach on Steam right now. Shares Action with Reach.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. 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 Reach.

    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 ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  4. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

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

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

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

    The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

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

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft

    WHY THIS

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

    Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.

    2021IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Reach

Does Reach work on Steam Deck?
Reach is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
How much does Reach cost?
Reach is listed on Steam at 39.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Reach?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Reach are DragonHill VR, Unknightly, Budget Cuts 2: Mission Insolvency.
Who developed Reach?
Reach was developed by nDreams Elevation and published by nDreams.

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 Reach.

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