Games like The Short Trip
If The Short Trip is your kind of game, the closest matches are Corpse Mansion, The Last Market and Dead Engine — 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 The Short Trip: The Short Trip is a game about driving and surviving in an endless desert along a somewhat-long almost-short road.
Players who liked The Short Trip also play
Steam players who put hours into The Short Trip 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.
Corpse Mansion
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Top pick for The Short Trip fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Short Trip.
Infiltrate a city under total military lockdown as Detective Draven Vaughn. Search for your missing partner, scavenge for supplies, and customize your arsenal to survive the reanimating dead. In Helga City, every choice counts—and time is running out.
The Last Market
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Short Trip fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Short Trip.
The Last Market is an open-world game set in a post-apocalyptic world where you run your own market in a safe zone for survivors. Fight zombies, collect sellable items, and grow your market by selling them.
Dead Engine
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Short Trip fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Short Trip.
Fight to survive against zombies in a pixel-art post-apocalyptic city. Loot and merge items, expand your backpack. In your camp, recruit survivors but burn the bitten. Trading uncovers haunting survivor stories.
dead run
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Ranked #4 for The Short Trip fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Short Trip.
Travel around a fully-explorable, post-apocalyptic version of Earth and find the source of a mysterious radio signal. Collect supplies along the way to stay alive. Is there anyone out there?
Ocean Is Home : Island Life Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Short Trip fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Short Trip.
Ocean is Home is an island life simulator and an open world adventure rolled into one. Starting with a small house and an old pickup truck, you can build an estate and become a significant person in a warm tropical paradise.
The Last Hope
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Ranked #6 for The Short Trip fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Short Trip.
You’ve made the biggest mistake in history. Now, you're the last hope. Explore the UK, Russia, Germany, Norway, Egypt, USA, Mars, and the Moon. Search for food, face creatures, travel through time, and fight to restore humanity. Survive or perish—your choices shape the future.
Alaskan Road Truckers
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Ranked #7 for The Short Trip fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Short Trip.
Brave the challenging conditions of Alaskan life in the definitive trucker simulator. Be the master of your own destiny as you take jobs, transport cargo and experience a sense of freedom on foot and in your cab.
Poly Roam
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Ranked #8 for The Short Trip fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Short Trip.
Poly Roam is a survival, driving road-trip game featuring a large, explorable environment that is procedurally generated. Loot, gather, and drive as much as you can.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Short Trip at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Short Trip on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Short Trip.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Short Trip on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Short Trip.
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 ~70% under The Short Trip on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Short Trip.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Short Trip on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with The Short Trip.
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.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Short Trip on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Short Trip.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Short Trip on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Short Trip.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Short Trip on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Short Trip.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
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Priced ~80% under The Short Trip on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Short Trip.
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!
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 and Casual with The Short Trip.
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. Shares Action and Adventure with The Short Trip.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Short Trip.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Short Trip.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Short Trip.
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 Action and Indie with The Short Trip.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Short Trip.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about The Short Trip
- How much does The Short Trip cost?
- The Short Trip is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Short Trip?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Short Trip are Corpse Mansion, The Last Market, Dead Engine.
- Who developed The Short Trip?
- The Short Trip was developed by OcarinaGames.
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 Short Trip.
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