Games like Esca
If Esca is your kind of game, the closest matches are 808 - Firetower12, Mucorales and Loan Shark — 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 Esca: Esca is a gripping survival RPG where you play as a repair robot maintaining an underwater research station, facing tough decisions and uncovering secrets of your past.
Players who liked Esca also play
Steam players who put hours into Esca 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.
808 - Firetower12
WHY THIS
Top pick for Esca fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Esca.
You are Max. A 17 year old that has just graduated from school. Your mother want's you to get a job. You search endlessely but the luck just isn't on your side. Until one day. You have been accepted as a Fire lookout. A week later, you head out.
Mucorales
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Esca fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Esca.
An enthralling RPG Maker horror game that explores a dark and twisted rendition of the classic fairy tale, Red Riding Hood.
Loan Shark
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Esca fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Esca.
The loan shark is coming for you. Catch enough fish to repay your debt before it is too late. Go fish.
Silent Research
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Esca fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Esca.
Silent Research is a short, atmospheric horror experience. Explore a fog-drenched forest, recover your missing research, and escape—before the silence breaks.
Best Day Ever
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Esca fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Esca.
Play 4 characters, live their unique stories and manage their daily lives to create their best day ever. In this narrative game, your decisions have consequences and change the outcome of the stories.
Kyle is Famous: Complete Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Esca fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Esca.
Kyle tries to prepare for his most important interview yet. Choose his path through over 100 endings and accept the consequences in this comedic adventure.
Run TavernQuest
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Esca fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Esca.
A classic text adventure - but you're not the one playing it. You're the game master for an idiot player named STEVE. Parse the player's enigmatic commands and decide how NPCs react to him. Who knew that running an RPG would be so frustrating?
The Stanley Parable
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Esca fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Esca.
The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Esca at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Esca on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Esca.
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?
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Esca on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Esca.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Esca on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Esca.
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!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Esca on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Esca.
"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!
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Esca on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Esca.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Esca on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Esca.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
TYRONE vs COPS
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Esca on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Esca.
Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.
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 with Esca.
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 Adventure with Esca.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Esca.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Esca.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Esca.
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 Indie and Adventure with Esca.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Esca.
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.
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More from LuN
Other recommendable Steam games by LuN, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Morvyn Gutter
WHY THIS
Another title from LuN, the studio behind Esca. Shares Indie and Adventure with Esca.
In Morvyn Gutter, a pixel art horror RPG, you explore a nightmarish sewer system, battling monsters in turn-based combat. Level up, buy gear, and uncover a twisted story filled with eerie secrets and surreal dangers.
Cryphora
WHY THIS
Another title from LuN, the studio behind Esca. Shares Indie and Adventure with Esca.
A remote mountain cabin, a raging snowstorm, and the line between reality and madness begins to blur. Make difficult choices, explore surreal worlds, and confront what waits in the dark.
Barnacle
WHY THIS
Another title from LuN, the studio behind Esca. Shares Indie and Adventure with Esca.
Investigate an abandoned server frozen in time. Explore liminal, blocky spaces, uncover strange anomalies, and piece together what went wrong. The deeper you go, the more the world shifts, watching and reacting to your presence.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Kyle is Famous: Complete Edition
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Esca.
Kyle tries to prepare for his most important interview yet. Choose his path through over 100 endings and accept the consequences in this comedic adventure.
Run TavernQuest
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Esca.
A classic text adventure - but you're not the one playing it. You're the game master for an idiot player named STEVE. Parse the player's enigmatic commands and decide how NPCs react to him. Who knew that running an RPG would be so frustrating?
The Stanley Parable
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Esca.
The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.
Frequently asked about Esca
- How much does Esca cost?
- Esca is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Esca?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Esca are 808 - Firetower12, Mucorales, Loan Shark.
- Who developed Esca?
- Esca was developed by LuN.
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 Esca.
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