Games like Retention
Below are 13 hand-picked alternatives to Retention for fans of indie, adventure, casual, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Retention also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, more from Sometimes You. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
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.
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Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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Trekking and Camping | 远足与露营
Top pick 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.
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Waves Running Simulator
Second-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.
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One Night Stand
Third-strongest match 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?
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10mg: Locked In
Ranked #4 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.
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Disturbed
Ranked #5 for Retention fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Retention.
Play as a farmer who struggles to manage a failing farm. You come to a point where there is no more hope, and you must do something.
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Exploring Friscott
Ranked #6 for Retention fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Retention.
You're an adventurer going into Friscott Castle to see what treasures you can find within. Explore, meet the residents, find treasure & more. Be mindful though, as the castle isn't normal, & there are things about it that might drive a person to madness. That, or it might spell your demise.
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Burly Men at Sea
Ranked #7 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.
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ViruStream
Ranked #8 for Retention fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Retention.
One day, the game distribution site “ViruStream” was infected by a virus caused by hackers! Solve the riddles that the hacker gives you and remove the virus! Inspired by a certain experiential escape game, this is a puzzle-solving game with a time limit of 60 minutes!
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Make it indie!
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.
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Energy Balance
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?
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Energy Cycle
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!
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Energy Invasion
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 Trekking and Camping | 远足与露营, Waves Running Simulator, One Night Stand.
- Who developed Retention?
- Retention was developed by Sometimes You.
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 Retention.
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