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Games like Ire: A Prologue

If Ire: A Prologue is your kind of game, the closest matches are OXENFREE II: Lost Signals, Last Days of Lazarus and What Happened to Lily? — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its anxious, atmospheric and dark. 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.

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About Ire: A Prologue: It’s 1986, and you’re stranded in the Bermuda Triangle -- but not alone. Trapped in a terrifying loop with a monster, you’ll have to stay one step ahead to survive and uncover the truth. Ready or not, here it comes.

2025ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby ProbablyMonsters
Ire: A Prologue — Steam game cover
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Bermuda triangle setting with a missing father mysteryCollectibles build the lore and storyEnvironmental clues piece together the storyAnxiousAtmosphericDark

Players who liked Ire: A Prologue also play

Steam players who put hours into Ire: A Prologue 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.

  1. OXENFREE II: Lost Signals

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Ire: A Prologue.

    Top pick for Ire: A Prologue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Ire: A Prologue.

    Five years after the events of OXENFREE, Riley returns to her hometown of Camena to investigate mysterious radio signals. What she finds is more than she bargained for.

    2023IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Last Days of Lazarus

    WHY THIS

    Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with Ire: A Prologue.

    Second-strongest match for Ire: A Prologue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Ire: A Prologue.

    After their mother's suicide, Lazarus returns home to his sister Lyudmila. But unexplained events make the world and even reality collapse around him. Looming death, a spreading malediction and the supernatural threaten his sanity, yet Lazarus pushes forward to find the truth about his family.

    2022IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. What Happened to Lily?

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Ire: A Prologue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Ire: A Prologue.

    What Happened to Lily? Is a real-time first-person horror game. Discover the secrets and spooky truths behind the mysterious event at Miller Farm.

    2025IndieAdventureCasual3.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Broken Pieces

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Ire: A Prologue.

    Ranked #4 for Ire: A Prologue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Ire: A Prologue.

    Broken Pieces is a psychological thriller taking place in a french coastal village somehow outside the flow of time. Solve the mysteries by putting the pieces of the story back together by figuring out the enigma behind this mystical place.

    2022ActionAdventureRPG9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Midnight Scenes: The Goodbye Note

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Ire: A Prologue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Ire: A Prologue.

    Follow Dr. Richard P. Griffin during the scariest journey of his life. Welcome to a dimension of horror. Welcome to Midnight Scenes.

    2020IndieAdventure3.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Anamorphine

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Ire: A Prologue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Ire: A Prologue.

    Explore the past as you resolve the present in Anamorphine, a surreal adventure of rendered emotions. Journey into the mind of the main character, a young man in denial. His subconscious is pushing him to face his past - or be consumed by it.

    2018IndieAdventure19.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Chasing Static

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Ire: A Prologue.

    Ranked #7 for Ire: A Prologue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Ire: A Prologue.

    A psychological horror short story. Explore the untouched wilderness of rural Wales as you uncover the forgotten remains of a mysterious facility and find the truth behind the missing villagers of Hearth.

    2021IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Adios

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Ire: A Prologue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Ire: A Prologue.

    A pig farmer decides he no longer wants to dispose of bodies for the mob. What follows is a discussion between him and his would-be killer.

    2021IndieAdventure17.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Ire: A Prologue

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. SOMA

    WHY THIS

    Shares exploration, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Ire: A Prologue.

    Reviewers of Ire: A Prologue cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Ire: A Prologue.

    From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.

    2015ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Monstrum

    WHY THIS

    Shares a stressful mood with Ire: A Prologue.

    Reviewers of Ire: A Prologue cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    Monstrum takes the traditional survival horror formula and remixes it completely with procedurally generated levels, permadeath, and AI driven predators, ensuring that nowhere on its derelict cargo ship is ever truly safe.

    2015Indie17.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Ire: A Prologue.

    Reviewers of Ire: A Prologue cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Ire: A Prologue.

    Enter the virtual world of Under A Killing Moon, where it is December 2042, and you, as Tex Murphy, must stop the forces of evil before they destroy mankind and rob you of your next unemployment check. This thrilling and hilarious adventure is unlike anything you've seen before.

    2014Adventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Phantasmagoria

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Ire: A Prologue.

    Reviewers of Ire: A Prologue cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Ire: A Prologue.

    Master storyteller Roberta Williams challenges you to experience the ultimate interactive nightmare.

    2016Adventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Still Wakes the Deep

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Ire: A Prologue.

    Reviewers of Ire: A Prologue cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Ire: A Prologue.

    1975. Disaster strikes the Beira D oil rig off the coast of Scotland. Navigate the collapsing rig to save your crew from an otherworldly horror on the edge of all logic and reality in this 3x BAFTA Games Award-winning narrative horror experience.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure34.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Alien: Isolation

    WHY THIS

    Shares environmental puzzle solving, resource management and an atmospheric mood with Ire: A Prologue.

    Reviewers of Ire: A Prologue cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Ire: A Prologue.

    Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger.

    2014Action39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Ire: A Prologue at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Ire: A Prologue on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Ire: A Prologue.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Ire: A Prologue on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Ire: A Prologue.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Left 4 Dead 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Ire: A Prologue on Steam right now. Shares Action with Ire: A Prologue.

    Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.

    2009Action9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Ire: A Prologue on Steam right now. Shares Action with Ire: A Prologue.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Portal 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Ire: A Prologue on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Ire: A Prologue.

    The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

    2011ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Fallout: New Vegas

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Ire: A Prologue on Steam right now. Shares Action with Ire: A Prologue.

    Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

    2010ActionRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Ire: A Prologue on Steam right now. Shares Action with Ire: A Prologue.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~65% under Ire: A Prologue on Steam right now. Shares Action with Ire: A Prologue.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Ire: A Prologue.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Ire: A Prologue.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Ire: A Prologue.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Ire: A Prologue.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Ire: A Prologue.

    A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from ProbablyMonsters

Other recommendable Steam games by ProbablyMonsters, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Storm Lancers

    WHY THIS

    Shares indie with Ire: A Prologue.

    Another title from ProbablyMonsters, the studio behind Ire: A Prologue. Shares Action and Adventure with Ire: A Prologue.

    Storm Lancers is a roguelite, metroidvania-inspired 2D action platformer where you and a friend crash-land on a dying alien world of unstable magic. Bond with Stormhearts to unleash new powers, carve through evolving hordes, and grow ever stronger. Face the Storm in chaotic co-op or brave it solo.

    2025ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Nekome: Nazi Hunter

    WHY THIS

    Another title from ProbablyMonsters, the studio behind Ire: A Prologue. Shares Action with Ire: A Prologue.

    Nekome: Nazi Hunter is a single-player, third-person action combat game where you step into the role of Vano Nastasu, a young Romani man consumed by grief after the brutal murder of his family by Nazi soldiers.

    ActionSteam ↗
  3. Crimson Moon

    WHY THIS

    Another title from ProbablyMonsters, the studio behind Ire: A Prologue. Shares Action and Adventure with Ire: A Prologue.

    A gothic action-adventure RPG of violent angels and dead gods.

    ActionAdventureRPGSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. OXENFREE II: Lost Signals

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Ire: A Prologue.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Ire: A Prologue.

    Five years after the events of OXENFREE, Riley returns to her hometown of Camena to investigate mysterious radio signals. What she finds is more than she bargained for.

    2023IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Last Days of Lazarus

    WHY THIS

    Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with Ire: A Prologue.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Ire: A Prologue.

    After their mother's suicide, Lazarus returns home to his sister Lyudmila. But unexplained events make the world and even reality collapse around him. Looming death, a spreading malediction and the supernatural threaten his sanity, yet Lazarus pushes forward to find the truth about his family.

    2022IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Broken Pieces

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Ire: A Prologue.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Ire: A Prologue.

    Broken Pieces is a psychological thriller taking place in a french coastal village somehow outside the flow of time. Solve the mysteries by putting the pieces of the story back together by figuring out the enigma behind this mystical place.

    2022ActionAdventureRPG9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Ire: A Prologue

Does Ire: A Prologue run on Steam Deck?
Ire: A Prologue 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 Ire: A Prologue cost?
Ire: A Prologue is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Ire: A Prologue?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ire: A Prologue are OXENFREE II: Lost Signals, Last Days of Lazarus, What Happened to Lily?.
Who developed Ire: A Prologue?
Ire: A Prologue was developed by ProbablyMonsters.

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 Ire: A Prologue.

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