Games like The Wake
If The Wake is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mechgrave Overdrive, SealChain: Call of Blood and Star Rift Saga — 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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Steam players who put hours into The Wake 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.
Mechgrave Overdrive
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Wake.
Mechgrave Overdrive is a sci-fi arena shooter where you pilot a mech, fight enemy waves, collect materials and credits, extract your resources, and upgrade weapons and equipment to survive increasingly dangerous runs.
SealChain: Call of Blood
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Wake.
SealChain is a roguelike game where items can link together to form chain reactions. Items can also be arranged into specific formations to create seals, granting special effects.
Star Rift Saga
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Wake.
Embark on a Metroidvanian journey across a mysterious alien world where every ability unlocks new secrets and every corner hides danger or discovery. Fight enemies and bosses across multiple biomes, collect items and skills on your quest, and upgrade yourself and even the outpost itself.
Crossout
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Wake.
Crossout - the postapocalyptic MMO action game where you can create a unique design for an armoured vehicle from dozens of parts and then drive it into multiplayer battles raging on land and in the skies alike.
The Sinking City Remastered
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Wake.
Powered by Unreal Engine 5, The Sinking City Remastered brings the eerie, atmospheric world of Oakmont back to life with enhanced gameplay and fully relit environments, perfect for both newcomers and returning players.
Transience
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Wake.
Become an Accountant - a hired mercenary who keeps the books balanced by any means necessary. This time though, you are the intended target. Take a journey through New Houston in the year 2056 and follow one man's tale of revenge as he escapes Transience.
Vox Machinae
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Wake.
Strap yourself into the cockpit of a robot seven times taller than a Tyrannosaurus Rex and prepare to do battle in Vox Machinae: the ultimate giant robot combat action-simulator for both VR and standard screens.
Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Wake.
A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Wake.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Wake.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Wake.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Wake.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Wake.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Wake.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Wake.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Wake.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Crossout
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with The Wake.
Crossout - the postapocalyptic MMO action game where you can create a unique design for an armoured vehicle from dozens of parts and then drive it into multiplayer battles raging on land and in the skies alike.
Vox Machinae
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Wake.
Strap yourself into the cockpit of a robot seven times taller than a Tyrannosaurus Rex and prepare to do battle in Vox Machinae: the ultimate giant robot combat action-simulator for both VR and standard screens.
Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Wake.
A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
Frequently asked about The Wake
- What games are most similar to The Wake?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Wake are Mechgrave Overdrive, SealChain: Call of Blood, Star Rift Saga.
- Who developed The Wake?
- The Wake was developed by Playground Pigeon and published by Ultimate Publishing, Ultimate Games S.A., PlayWay S.A..
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 Wake.
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