Games like The Silent Age
If The Silent Age is your kind of game, the closest matches are Escape Everlit, Splittown and Small Town Robot — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its clever time travel puzzles, engaging narrative and atmospheric. 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 →The Silent Age is a single-player indie adventure released in 2015 by House On Fire. Players navigate a post-apocalyptic world through side-scrolling point-and-click gameplay, solving puzzles that center on time-travel mechanics and visual storytelling. The game blends alternate history with detective and psychological horror elements within a retro sci-fi setting. Reviewers highlight the clever time-travel puzzles and engaging narrative as standout features, while players describe the experience as atmospheric, immersive, and nostalgic, with polished visuals and sound design contributing to the retro sci-fi atmosphere. The game is priced at $9.99 and runs at a chill difficulty with a short length. It is playable on Steam Deck and holds a 93% positive rating from 2,754 Steam reviews.
About The Silent Age: Experience a post-apocalyptic world like never before in The Silent Age, a thrilling point-and-click adventure game. Use time travel to unravel the mystery behind humanity's disappearance and save the world from extinction. Start your journey now!
Players who liked The Silent Age also play
Steam players who put hours into The Silent Age 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.
Escape Everlit
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with The Silent Age.
Top pick for The Silent Age fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Silent Age.
A narrative-driven sci-fi mystery. Switch between four playable protagonists trapped in an island mansion to explore, investigate, piece together clues from their mysterious past, and uncover the truth behind their predicament.
Splittown
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and a nostalgic mood with The Silent Age.
Second-strongest match for The Silent Age fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Silent Age.
Splittown is a point-and-click adventure inspired by 90s classics such as Day of the Tentacle and Sam & Max Hit The Road. You are Leonard Nimby, a former top agent of the IM5, hot on the trail of a villanous mayoral candidate on the eve of a fateful election.
Small Town Robot
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Silent Age fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Silent Age.
Explore the small town of ShadeCreek in this Indie point-and-click adventure.
The Posthumous Investigation
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Silent Age.
Ranked #4 for The Silent Age fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Silent Age.
A dead man hired you to solve his own murder. You have one day. Fourteen suspects. And as many attempts as it takes. A hand-drawn noir mystery set in 1937 Rio de Janeiro, where every suspect has a life, a schedule, and something to hide.
Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Silent Age.
Ranked #5 for The Silent Age fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Silent Age.
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.
Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Silent Age.
Ranked #6 for The Silent Age fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Silent Age.
Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches is a first-person point-and-click adventure inspired by Welsh mythology, focused on investigation, puzzles, and a dark, atmospheric mystery.
Discolored
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Silent Age.
Ranked #7 for The Silent Age fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Silent Age.
Locals whisper of a roadside diner that’s lost its color. You are sent to investigate.
Murder Is Game Over: Streaming Death
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Silent Age fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Silent Age.
Embark on a thrilling pixel art adventure with Detective Guy & Cleo as they solve a mysterious murder. Explore an eerie seaside village, search for clues, interview suspects, and unravel the truth in this whodunit mystery.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Silent Age at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Silent Age on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Silent Age.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Silent Age on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Silent Age.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Silent Age on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Silent Age.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Silent Age on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Silent Age.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under The Silent Age on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Silent Age.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under The Silent Age on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Silent Age.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Silent Age on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Silent Age.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Silent Age on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Silent Age.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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 Silent Age.
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 Silent Age.
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 Silent Age.
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 Silent Age.
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 Silent Age.
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 Silent Age.
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 Silent Age.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about The Silent Age
- Does The Silent Age run on Steam Deck?
- The Silent Age is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does The Silent Age cost?
- The Silent Age is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Silent Age?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Silent Age are Escape Everlit, Splittown, Small Town Robot.
- Who developed The Silent Age?
- The Silent Age was developed by House On Fire.
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 Silent Age.
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