Games like The Unknown
If The Unknown is your kind of game, the closest matches are Omniscient, The ordinary case of Margaret Luoni and Starfall — 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 Unknown: Aboard a small spaceship, you embark on an exploration, daring to face the threats of the universe. Activate your spaceship and uncover the hidden secrets of this vast cosmos.
Players who liked The Unknown also play
Steam players who put hours into The Unknown 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.
Omniscient
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Unknown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Unknown.
Omniscient is a first person horror set aboard a research ship drifting in Neptune's orbit. Your crew is gone. The power is out. And something else lurked onboard. Unarmed and alone, trust your newly enhanced senses to survive. They are your greatest gifts, after all.
The ordinary case of Margaret Luoni
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Unknown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Unknown.
The ordinary case of Margaret Luoni is a sci-fi detective game with a deep story. Help Detective Dirk understand what happened, explore a new futuristic world. There are no obvious solutions here, find your own approach to witnesses and look for hidden places and clues to discovery.
Starfall
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Unknown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Unknown.
A space adventure with retro gfx from the golden age of quest gaming with real type-in commands, puzzles to solve and challenging minigames.
AdventureSteam ↗Trajectory
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Unknown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Unknown.
Trajectory is a first person scifi adventure game that takes place in Earth's orbit, with a dystopian yet whimsical setting. The game has multiple endings and a variety of exotic locations in space and beyond.
A Collection of Bad Moments
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Unknown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Unknown.
A Collection of Bad Moments is an adventure game where the player discovers themselves in various tough situations and must use their wits to figure a way out! The moments vary from a deadly asteroid mission and mysterious virtual reality simulation to an airship duel!
Tacoma
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Unknown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Unknown.
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.
The Abandoned Planet
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Unknown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Unknown.
A throw-back, retro-inspired, point and click adventure with chunky and beautiful pixel art
Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Unknown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Unknown.
Between Horizons is a narrative 2.5D sci-fi detective adventure. 33 years into the Zephyr's journey, its mission is suddenly jeopardized. Can you find the culprit before it's too late? Experience an enthralling story set in a semi-open world that branches and ends based on your choices.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Unknown at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Unknown on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Unknown.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Unknown on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Unknown.
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 ~67% under The Unknown on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Unknown.
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.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Unknown on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Unknown.
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.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Unknown on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Unknown.
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 ~67% under The Unknown on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Unknown.
"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!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Unknown on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Unknown.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
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 Unknown.
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 The Unknown.
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 The Unknown.
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 The Unknown.
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 The Unknown.
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 The Unknown.
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 Unknown.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Unknown.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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More from GOGOIO Games
Other recommendable Steam games by GOGOIO Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
ParryMaster
WHY THIS
Another title from GOGOIO Games, the studio behind The Unknown. Shares Indie and Casual with The Unknown.
Defend yourself in this minimalist one-button incremental defense game. One hit, and it’s over.
The Long Drift
WHY THIS
Another title from GOGOIO Games, the studio behind The Unknown. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Unknown.
Build, upgrade, and watch your tiny universe evolve.
Tick Walk
WHY THIS
Another title from GOGOIO Games, the studio behind The Unknown. Shares Indie and Casual with The Unknown.
A turn-based puzzle game where you cross a grid of bombs, walls, and traps to reach the door. The board only moves when you move, so there's no rush — take your time and find the safe route. Easy to pick up, tough to solve.
Frequently asked about The Unknown
- How much does The Unknown cost?
- The Unknown is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Unknown?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Unknown are Omniscient, The ordinary case of Margaret Luoni, Starfall.
- Who developed The Unknown?
- The Unknown was developed by GOGOIO Games.
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 Unknown.
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