Games like 201 - The Bad Number
If 201 - The Bad Number is your kind of game, the closest matches are Across Kiloparsecs, Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector and Alone in the crowd — 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.
Get personalized picks →About 201 - The Bad Number: "201 - The Bad Number" is an interactive science fiction game-book set on a post-apocalyptic Mars. In a world where only 200 people remain, each new inhabitant may hasten civilization's end. Players make choices that impact the fate of humanity and the colony in a unique dystopian setting.
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Across Kiloparsecs
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Top pick for 201 - The Bad Number fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with 201 - The Bad Number.
A short science-fiction visual novel where you investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of a close friend.
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
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Second-strongest match for 201 - The Bad Number fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with 201 - The Bad Number.
A dice-driven RPG, in a human and heartfelt sci-fi world. You are an escaped android, with a malfunctioning body, a price on your head and no memory of your past. Get a ship, find a crew, and take on contracts while you navigate across the Starward Belt.
Alone in the crowd
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Third-strongest match for 201 - The Bad Number fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with 201 - The Bad Number.
Settled on a dystopian future, Alone in the Crowd is a humorous puzzle simulation investigative thriller, where you use a weird variety of gadgets to satisfy this mysterious, self proclaimed friendly AI character.
Monitor State
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Ranked #4 for 201 - The Bad Number fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with 201 - The Bad Number.
You are an operator in a dystopia world, watch and punish citizens. Experience a deep narrative with moral dilemmas. Obey, resist or find another path.
Quarantine Circular
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Ranked #5 for 201 - The Bad Number fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with 201 - The Bad Number.
In the middle of a world-ending pandemic, a group of scientists discover the galaxy has been watching. From the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Subsurface Circular, Quarantine Circular is the next mutation in text-based adventure.
Choices That Matter: And The Sun Went Out
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Ranked #6 for 201 - The Bad Number fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with 201 - The Bad Number.
Take part in one of the most complex interactive adventure stories ever written! What if the sun inexplicably vanished only to return hours later? Investigate with your AI companion, Moti. Uncover conspiracies. Discover ancient religions. Travel the globe.
Citizen Sleeper
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Ranked #7 for 201 - The Bad Number fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with 201 - The Bad Number.
Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.
Suhoshin
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Ranked #8 for 201 - The Bad Number fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with 201 - The Bad Number.
Suhoshin is a 2D Visual Novel set in the medieval Joseon period of Korea. While investigating a series of mysterious murders, you will have to make choices that will lead you down different paths toward different endings.
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Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below 201 - The Bad Number at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~75% under 201 - The Bad Number on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with 201 - The Bad Number.
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?
The Test
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Priced ~50% under 201 - The Bad Number on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with 201 - The Bad Number.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~63% under 201 - The Bad Number on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with 201 - The Bad Number.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~75% under 201 - The Bad Number on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with 201 - The Bad Number.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
shapez
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Priced ~75% under 201 - The Bad Number on Steam right now. Shares Indie with 201 - The Bad Number.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~50% under 201 - The Bad Number on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with 201 - The Bad Number.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
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Priced ~50% under 201 - The Bad Number on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with 201 - The Bad Number.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~75% under 201 - The Bad Number on Steam right now. Shares Indie with 201 - The Bad Number.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with 201 - The Bad Number.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with 201 - The Bad Number.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with 201 - The Bad Number.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with 201 - The Bad Number.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with 201 - The Bad Number.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with 201 - The Bad Number.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
A Date with Death
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with 201 - The Bad Number.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with 201 - The Bad Number.
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.
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Frequently asked about 201 - The Bad Number
- How much does 201 - The Bad Number cost?
- 201 - The Bad Number is listed on Steam at 4.02 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to 201 - The Bad Number?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside 201 - The Bad Number are Across Kiloparsecs, Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector, Alone in the crowd.
- Who developed 201 - The Bad Number?
- 201 - The Bad Number was developed by Pavel Kopylov.
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