Games like Hourturn
If Hourturn is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Chronos Principle, No Way Up and Echo Resonance — 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 Hourturn: Hourturn is an atmospheric game that begins inside a large, constantly turning hourglass. You are a tiny grain of sand within it, striving to stop it and escape, but what awaits the grain of sand outside? Is this the only way to measure time?
Players who liked Hourturn also play
Steam players who put hours into Hourturn 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.
The Chronos Principle
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Top pick for Hourturn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hourturn.
The Chronos Principle is a breathtaking journey through a series of intricate puzzles that explore the concept of time manipulation.
Echo Resonance
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Third-strongest match for Hourturn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hourturn.
A classic science-fiction point-and-click adventure inspired by the genre’s greatest titles, where you’ll control two characters and solve ingenious puzzles using an innovative temporal superposition mechanic.
The Mensional
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Ranked #4 for Hourturn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hourturn.
Adventures of different characters with their unique atmosphere and puzzles.
horonox
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Ranked #5 for Hourturn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Hourturn.
A puzzle game about time travel—and its consequences. Move through space and time, resolve paradoxes, and close time loops. Actions echo along each timeline, where cause and effect run both ways. Yet your journey moves inexorably onward, revealing what shattered the balance between past and future.
Ajar
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Ranked #6 for Hourturn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hourturn.
Ajar is a point-and-click escape room, where every puzzle tells a story. Crawling with psychological horror and hand-drawn art, you’ll play as an ill-fated girl haunted by death, determined to find your missing brother - even if it kills you.
Micromega
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Ranked #8 for Hourturn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hourturn.
Micromega is a contemplative, pinball-inspired puzzle game set in an entirely hand-drawn world. Guide a fragile crystal sphere through forgotten machinery, where playful physics, delightful chaos, and experimentation reward creative thinking with emergent solutions.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hourturn.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Hourturn.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hourturn.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hourturn.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hourturn.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hourturn.
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 Hourturn
- What games are most similar to Hourturn?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hourturn are The Chronos Principle, No Way Up, Echo Resonance.
- Who developed Hourturn?
- Hourturn was developed by Khata.
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 Hourturn.
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