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Games like Advent: Dawn

If Advent: Dawn is your kind of game, the closest matches are 時折記 -Tokioriki-, REDLINE — Strings of Fate and Wordless Forest — 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.

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About Advent: Dawn: Seven strangers. One collapsed cave. No escape. A sci-fi mystery visual novel where every route to survival pulls you closer to a different companion—and a different lie. Will you unravel the mystery before the cave unravels you?

2026IndieAdventure13.59 USDWindows · macOS · Linuxby Spire Games
Advent: Dawn — Steam game cover

Players who liked Advent: Dawn also play

Steam players who put hours into Advent: Dawn 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. 時折記 -Tokioriki-

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Advent: Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Advent: Dawn.

    I can't do this anymore -- but I've decided to choose. There are people I want to protect, but I can't save them all. One old book shatters an ordinary life -- a visual novel of despair and love, where your choices shape the story. Japanese voice / English subtitles / ~10hrs

    2027IndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. REDLINE — Strings of Fate

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Advent: Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Advent: Dawn.

    A sci-fi otome game where your choices shape love — and the future of society.

    IndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. Wordless Forest

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Advent: Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Advent: Dawn.

    You are alone in the forest. You remember nothing. In this live-action interactive survival thriller, the story is written not by dialogue, but by your choices.

    2026IndieAdventureSteam ↗
  4. Monologin

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Advent: Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Advent: Dawn.

    A directionless night-shift worker clings to a dying MMORPG, a legendary White Unicorn mount, and the belief that old games are more "real" in this short psychological horror visual novel about escapism and being left behind.

    2026IndieAdventureSteam ↗
  5. Inescapable: No Rules, No Rescue

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Advent: Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Advent: Dawn.

    Inescapable: No Rules, No Rescue is a social thriller set in a tropical island resort: you’ve been kidnapped and forced to participate in a twisted reality TV show with 10 strangers. At the end of their stay, they’ll each receive $500,000... If they survive.

    2023Adventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. The Test: Secrets of the Soul

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Advent: Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Advent: Dawn.

    You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."

    2023IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. STAY

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Advent: Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Advent: Dawn.

    Award-winning, innovative puzzle-adventure. By communicating through your PC, you must help a kidnapped man escape captivity - in real-time. While you sleep, he is alone. When you return to your PC he has hope. Your encouragement and advice will be the difference between his salvation or despair.

    2018IndieAdventure11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. BAD END

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Advent: Dawn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Advent: Dawn.

    It's rumored that those who play 'BAD END'- a Visual Novel will die in REAL LIFE if they make the wrong decision in the game itself.

    2015IndieAdventureCasual5.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Advent: Dawn at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Advent: Dawn on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Advent: Dawn.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Advent: Dawn on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Advent: Dawn.

    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 ↗
  3. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~41% under Advent: Dawn on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Advent: Dawn.

    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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~54% under Advent: Dawn on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Advent: Dawn.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~41% under Advent: Dawn on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Advent: Dawn.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Advent: Dawn on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Advent: Dawn.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Advent: Dawn on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Advent: Dawn.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Noita

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~41% under Advent: Dawn on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Advent: Dawn.

    Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

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. Shares Indie with Advent: Dawn.

    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 Adventure with Advent: Dawn.

    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. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Advent: Dawn.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Advent: Dawn.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Advent: Dawn.

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. 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 Advent: Dawn.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. 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 Advent: Dawn.

    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 ↗
  8. 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 Advent: Dawn.

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

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

  1. Inescapable: No Rules, No Rescue

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Advent: Dawn.

    Inescapable: No Rules, No Rescue is a social thriller set in a tropical island resort: you’ve been kidnapped and forced to participate in a twisted reality TV show with 10 strangers. At the end of their stay, they’ll each receive $500,000... If they survive.

    2023Adventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Test: Secrets of the Soul

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Advent: Dawn.

    You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."

    2023IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. STAY

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Advent: Dawn.

    Award-winning, innovative puzzle-adventure. By communicating through your PC, you must help a kidnapped man escape captivity - in real-time. While you sleep, he is alone. When you return to your PC he has hope. Your encouragement and advice will be the difference between his salvation or despair.

    2018IndieAdventure11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. BAD END

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Advent: Dawn.

    It's rumored that those who play 'BAD END'- a Visual Novel will die in REAL LIFE if they make the wrong decision in the game itself.

    2015IndieAdventureCasual5.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Advent: Dawn

How much does Advent: Dawn cost?
Advent: Dawn is listed on Steam at 13.59 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Advent: Dawn?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Advent: Dawn are 時折記 -Tokioriki-, REDLINE — Strings of Fate, Wordless Forest.
Who developed Advent: Dawn?
Advent: Dawn was developed by Spire 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 Advent: Dawn.

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