Games like Tacoma
If Tacoma is your kind of game, the closest matches are Gone Home, The Station and What Remains of Edith Finch — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and immersive. 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 →Tacoma is a sci-fi adventure game released in 2017 by Fullbright, set aboard a high-tech space station in 2088. Players explore the deserted vessel to uncover the fate of its crew, piecing together events through environmental storytelling and interactive AR recordings. The gameplay centers on timeline replay mechanics that allow players to rewind, fast-forward, and switch between crew members' perspectives, revealing hidden details and contradictions in their accounts. Players describe the experience as atmospheric and contemplative, with the speculative sci-fi setting providing a fresh backdrop for the unfolding mystery. Reviewers highlight how the story gradually reveals itself through discovered emails and logs. Priced at $19.99, Tacoma runs approximately two to three hours and holds an 89% positive rating from over 2,200 Steam reviews. The game is verified for Steam Deck and designed for relaxed, solo play.
About Tacoma: Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative adventure from the creators of Gone Home. Set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088, explore every detail of how the station’s crew lived and worked, finding the clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster.
Players who liked Tacoma also play
Steam players who put hours into Tacoma 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.
Gone Home
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Tacoma.
Top pick for Tacoma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tacoma.
June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.
The Station
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Tacoma.
Second-strongest match for Tacoma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tacoma.
The Station is a first-person sci-fi mystery set on a space station sent to study a sentient alien civilization. Assuming the role of a recon specialist, players must unravel a mystery which will decide the fate of two civilizations.
What Remains of Edith Finch
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Tacoma.
Third-strongest match for Tacoma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tacoma.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
Event[0]
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Tacoma.
Ranked #4 for Tacoma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tacoma.
Event[0] is a sci-fi narrative exploration game where you build a relationship with a lonely spaceship computer to get home to Earth.
Firewatch
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Tacoma.
Ranked #5 for Tacoma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tacoma.
Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.
Return to Grace
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Tacoma.
Ranked #6 for Tacoma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Tacoma.
A daring space archaeologist has just unearthed the ancient resting place of a long lost A.I. god known as Grace. Adventure with various fractured A.I. personalities as you uncover the great mystery of why she was shut down all those years ago.
Deliver Us The Moon
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Tacoma.
Ranked #7 for Tacoma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tacoma.
The Moon has gone dark, cutting off Earth’s last source of energy. As a lone astronaut, you’ll explore abandoned lunar bases, solve intricate puzzles, and navigate stunning zero-gravity environments. Operate advanced vehicles, uncover hidden truths, and survive in this gripping sci-fi thriller.
Ambrosia Sky: Act One
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Tacoma.
Ranked #8 for Tacoma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Tacoma.
You left. Now they’re dead. Ambrosia Sky: Act One is an immersive sim about exploring an asteroid colony devastated by an unknown contamination. Survive and harvest strains of hostile alien fungi, explore treacherous environments, and find meaning and beauty in so much death—the first of two acts.
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Reviewers mention these as similar to Tacoma
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The Invisible Hours
WHY THIS
Shares perspective switching and an atmospheric mood with Tacoma.
Reviewers of Tacoma cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Tacoma.
The Invisible Hours is a complex murder mystery in VR, in which players freely explore an intricate web of interwoven stories within a sprawling mansion. This is not a game. This is not a movie. This is a piece of immersive theatre with many tangled threads.
Outer Wilds
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Tacoma.
Reviewers of Tacoma cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Tacoma.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
The Outer Worlds
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Tacoma.
Reviewers of Tacoma cross-mention this title as a similar play.
The Outer Worlds is an award-winning single-player RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division. As you explore a space colony, the character you decide to become will determine how this player-driven story unfolds. In the colony's corporate equation, you are the unplanned variable.
>observer_
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Tacoma.
Reviewers of Tacoma cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tacoma.
The original first‑person cyberpunk horror detective tale set in a decaying, neon‑scarred future. As an Observer who invades minds to hunt for clues, you will sift through corrupted memories to track down a mysterious killer and confront your own dark past.
Firewatch
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Tacoma.
Reviewers of Tacoma cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tacoma.
Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.
Event[0]
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Tacoma.
Reviewers of Tacoma cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tacoma.
Event[0] is a sci-fi narrative exploration game where you build a relationship with a lonely spaceship computer to get home to Earth.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Tacoma.
Reviewers of Tacoma cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Winner of more than 200 Game of the Year Awards, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition brings the epic fantasy to life in stunning detail. The Special Edition includes the critically acclaimed game and add-ons with all-new features.
Subnautica
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Tacoma.
Reviewers of Tacoma cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tacoma.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Tacoma at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Tacoma on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tacoma.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Tacoma on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tacoma.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Tacoma on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tacoma.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Tacoma on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tacoma.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Tacoma on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tacoma.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
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 Tacoma.
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 Tacoma.
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 Tacoma.
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 Tacoma.
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 Tacoma.
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 Tacoma.
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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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Gone Home
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Tacoma.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tacoma.
June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.
What Remains of Edith Finch
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Tacoma.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tacoma.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
Firewatch
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Tacoma.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tacoma.
Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.
Return to Grace
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Tacoma.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Tacoma.
A daring space archaeologist has just unearthed the ancient resting place of a long lost A.I. god known as Grace. Adventure with various fractured A.I. personalities as you uncover the great mystery of why she was shut down all those years ago.
Deliver Us The Moon
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Tacoma.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tacoma.
The Moon has gone dark, cutting off Earth’s last source of energy. As a lone astronaut, you’ll explore abandoned lunar bases, solve intricate puzzles, and navigate stunning zero-gravity environments. Operate advanced vehicles, uncover hidden truths, and survive in this gripping sci-fi thriller.
Ambrosia Sky: Act One
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Tacoma.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Tacoma.
You left. Now they’re dead. Ambrosia Sky: Act One is an immersive sim about exploring an asteroid colony devastated by an unknown contamination. Survive and harvest strains of hostile alien fungi, explore treacherous environments, and find meaning and beauty in so much death—the first of two acts.
Frequently asked about Tacoma
- Is Tacoma verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Tacoma is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Tacoma cost?
- Tacoma is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Tacoma?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Tacoma are Gone Home, The Station, What Remains of Edith Finch.
- Who developed Tacoma?
- Tacoma was developed by Fullbright and published by Fullbright, Serenity Forge.
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