Games like Retention
If Retention is your kind of game, the closest matches are Iron Circus × INDIEPOCALYPSE Game Jam, Charon 卡戎 and Waves Running Simulator — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and melancholic. 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 Retention: This game is about a person who kept running through his life, never looking back at the past. Once during a trip, he gets into trouble. Now he's lying on the cold ground, buried beneath his bicycle. Slides of various moments fly through his head.
Players who liked Retention also play
Steam players who put hours into Retention 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.
Iron Circus × INDIEPOCALYPSE Game Jam
WHY THIS
Top pick for Retention fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Retention.
Six weird games from six killer team-ups between indie game devs and indie comics artists! We've got puzzles, adventures, exploration, and baby werewolves in this collab between Iron Circus Comics x INDIEPOCALYPSE!
Charon 卡戎
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Retention fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Retention.
A point-and-click narrative puzzle game with a delicate art style and soothing pace. In this Underworld at the end of all things, guide souls who lost their memories and speech safely across the Styx. Luckily, our protagonist is about to face the most restless bunch of them all...
Waves Running Simulator
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Retention fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Retention.
Have you seen the enormous waves destroying the planet? If not, you are in the right place! In Waves Running Simulator you have to escape from the tsunami as fast as possible.
Trekking and Camping | 远足与露营
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Retention fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Retention.
Trekking and Camping is a climbing-themed walking simulation game that tells the daily adventures of the protagonist named Allen.
10mg: Locked In
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Retention fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Retention.
Locked In is a two-player visual novel simulating the breakdown of a marriage during lockdown.
Bench Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Retention fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Retention.
You are a park bench. Watch strangers sit, talk, break down, fall in love, argue, and reveal their secrets in a story-rich narrative simulation where your smallest reactions can change everything.
One Night Stand
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Retention.
Ranked #7 for Retention fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Retention.
After a night of fun, passion, and one too many drinks, you wake up the next morning to find a complete stranger lying naked beside you in bed. What do you do?
Burly Men at Sea
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings with Retention.
Ranked #8 for Retention fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Retention.
A branching folktale misadventure about a trio of large, bearded fishermen. Shape a custom tale that begins again where it ends, through waters where lurk creatures from Scandinavian folklore.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Retention at current Steam store prices.
Miss Neko
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Retention on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Retention.
Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)
QUICKERFLAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Retention on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Retention.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Retention on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Retention.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Gachi Heroes
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Retention on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Retention.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Retention on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Retention.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
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 Retention.
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 Retention.
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 Retention.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Retention.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Retention.
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 and Casual with Retention.
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 Retention.
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.
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Make it indie!
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Retention.
Another title from Sometimes You, the studio behind Retention. Shares Indie and Adventure with Retention.
Claw your way through the abyss of the mind and survive the horrors that stalk you as you attempt to survive seven days as... an Indie Developer.
Bacteria
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Retention.
Another title from Sometimes You, the studio behind Retention. Shares Indie and Casual with Retention.
'Bacteria' - A relaxing puzzle game based on the rules of the cellular automaton ‘Life’ devised by John Horton Conway in 1970.
Energy Balance
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Retention.
Another title from Sometimes You, the studio behind Retention. Shares Indie and Casual with Retention.
Energy Balance is a number puzzle. You have to swap power units in such a way that their sums form correct chains both vertically and horizontally. The game is easy to learn, but very hard to master. So, are you ready to peep under the hood of an alien spaceship?
Energy Cycle
WHY THIS
Another title from Sometimes You, the studio behind Retention. Shares Indie and Casual with Retention.
'Energy Cycle' – new puzzle game from the developers of ‘Energy Balance’. When you click each cell on the game field - it changes color, and the colors of adjacent cells horizontally and vertically. Your task to bring all the cells to the same color. Sounds pretty easy, but try to do it!
Energy Invasion
WHY THIS
Another title from Sometimes You, the studio behind Retention. Shares Indie and Casual with Retention.
Energy Invasion - an arcade game inspired by the classic Breakout. Unlike the original game, your ball does not break blocks on its own, but can launch missiles in a chosen direction.
Frequently asked about Retention
- How much does Retention cost?
- Retention is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Retention?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Retention are Iron Circus × INDIEPOCALYPSE Game Jam, Charon 卡戎, Waves Running Simulator.
- Who developed Retention?
- Retention was developed by Sometimes You.
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