Games like When We Arrive
If When We Arrive is your kind of game, the closest matches are FORJ, Nomën Ipsa and My Friend, Dysentery — 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 When We Arrive: The god Auran has vanished. Journey alone or with friends through a fantasy world, searching for Auran's temple. No combat, no heroes. Just bad decisions, stolen rations, goblin kidnappings and the faint hope that your friends won't simply leave you behind.
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Steam players who put hours into When We Arrive 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.
FORJ
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Top pick for When We Arrive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with When We Arrive.
Fight through cursed arenas, extract with the loot, and reforge it into power. A co-op action roguelite where hand-built golems mine, craft and run your shop while you battle, and every weapon can be enhanced, imbued, socketed and rerolled at your forge.
Nomën Ipsa
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for When We Arrive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with When We Arrive.
Hardcore, retro-styled RPG focused on boss fights with interesting mechanics. Demanding. At times grind-y. There are leaderboards to climb! You can team up with your friends (so they can call you useless when you inevitably miss a mechanic), or go solo. Your call, play however you want.
My Friend, Dysentery
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for When We Arrive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with When We Arrive.
A darkly comedic "Horribly Realistic Fantasy Travel Simulator" survival adventure roguelike inspired by Oregon Trail. Journey to the Promised Land to kill a dragon! Fight monsters, manage supplies & disasters, and learn that fantasy journeys are nothing heroic like the films, but cripplingly brutal.
Kowloon 666
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Ranked #4 for When We Arrive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with When We Arrive.
Sequel to "School 666". Welcome to Kowloon Walled City!!! A co-op horror game about Kowloon, made by Lokin who still living in Kowloon.
Arcrelium
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Ranked #5 for When We Arrive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with When We Arrive.
A tactical deck-builder on a hex grid where your gear is your deck, every action is a card, and your only resource is the cards in your hand. Fight solo through scaling roguelite levels or battle friends online.
Attuned
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Ranked #6 for When We Arrive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with When We Arrive.
Classic MMO dungeons as a 1-4 player co-op rogue-like! Randomized selections of spells, rooms and bosses offer unique challenges each time you form your party and enter the dungeon. Chase loot to prepare for the toughest encounters but manage your risk or you might not even make it there.
Bravest Burden
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Ranked #7 for When We Arrive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with When We Arrive.
A dark fantasy Action RPG for a fellowship of four. Create your hero and brave a ravaged world with up to 3 friends or strangers. Survive brutal encounters, overcome obstacles, hunt for powerful gear to perfect your build, and stand together to protect the prophecy.
Paper Nomad
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Ranked #8 for When We Arrive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with When We Arrive.
Your token, character sheets, and maps are endlessly customizable so you can adapt games to fit your quests, or create your own rules from scratch. Spark adventure, foster creativity, forge friendships, and unite tabletop communities across the globe with games that are easy to play.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below When We Arrive at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under When We Arrive on Steam right now. Shares Indie with When We Arrive.
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
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Priced ~50% under When We Arrive on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with When We Arrive.
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!
How to Fish
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Priced ~50% under When We Arrive on Steam right now. Shares Indie with When We Arrive.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under When We Arrive on Steam right now. Shares Indie with When We Arrive.
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
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Priced ~50% under When We Arrive on Steam right now. Shares Indie with When We Arrive.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under When We Arrive on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with When We Arrive.
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
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Priced ~70% under When We Arrive on Steam right now. Shares Indie with When We Arrive.
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 When We Arrive on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with When We Arrive.
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.
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 When We Arrive.
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 Indie and Adventure with When We Arrive.
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 When We Arrive.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with When We Arrive.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with When We Arrive.
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 When We Arrive.
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 When We Arrive.
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.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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Frequently asked about When We Arrive
- Does When We Arrive run on Steam Deck?
- When We Arrive 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 When We Arrive cost?
- When We Arrive is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does When We Arrive have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — When We Arrive supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to When We Arrive?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside When We Arrive are FORJ, Nomën Ipsa, My Friend, Dysentery.
- Who developed When We Arrive?
- When We Arrive was developed by Two Pixels UG.
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 When We Arrive.
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