Games like City of Chains
If City of Chains is your kind of game, the closest matches are Pegasus: Broken Wings, Forgotten Stars and Heroes of Time — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 City of Chains: City of Chains is a dark sci-fi RPG set in a dystopian city. Take control of a small group of escaped fugitives and lead them to their freedom. Decide whether to fight head on or to avoid combat, to help others or to go your own way, to show mercy or to kill. Your actions could affect the fate of the city.
Players who liked City of Chains also play
Steam players who put hours into City of Chains 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.
Pegasus: Broken Wings
WHY THIS
Top pick for City of Chains fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with City of Chains.
Follow a new set of events involving Pegasus-5 crew with them being stuck in a city under curfew after a terrorist attack and getting entangled in a massive conspiracy. Stick close to your allies, build romantic relations, and make important choices.
Forgotten Stars
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for City of Chains fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with City of Chains.
Forgotten Stars is a tactical RPG where you recruit your own crew of space pirates. Plunder your opponents, build bonds with your crew, and embark on your journey through the darkest corners of space.
Heroes of Time
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for City of Chains fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with City of Chains.
Join young adventurers from the future on a quest through time, battling ancient evils and futuristic threats to save the world.
Trials of Guinevere
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with City of Chains.
Ranked #4 for City of Chains fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with City of Chains.
Trials of Guinevere combines strategic, turn-based combat with the emotional, character-focused storyline of a visual novel. In this high fantasy adventure, the heroes must band together to save their home, and their loved ones.
Rain of Reflections: Set Free
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with City of Chains.
Ranked #5 for City of Chains fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with City of Chains.
Rain of Reflections is an atmospheric, dystopian adventure game with exploration and deep character interactions. Its turn-based strategic confrontations are uniquely centered around a motivation mechanic.
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WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for City of Chains fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with City of Chains.
helps super game bears buy the strongest gold version of GBC game consoles in history! This world is full of "death traps".. Prevent you from buying this gold GBC! Can you buy a regular GBC or a unique GBC Gold Edition in a dangerous human world? Is this a life or a game? (Bear) it's up to you!
Sense - 不祥的预感: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with City of Chains.
Ranked #7 for City of Chains fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with City of Chains.
A 2.5D horror game inspired by Clock Tower and Fatal Frame, mixing cyberpunk with traditional Cantonese folklore. With careful attention to pacing, atmosphere and storytelling, Sense hopes to return the horror genre to its roots by celebrating visceral horror and the slow, fearful creep of dread.
Choose Wisely
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with City of Chains.
Ranked #8 for City of Chains fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with City of Chains.
This game features no specific hero. You, as the player, can decide who makes it out alive. Your actions determine the outcome of the game. In total there are 9 playable characters and more than 50 different paths.
Reviewers mention these as similar to City of Chains
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Shadowrun Returns
WHY THIS
Reviewers of City of Chains cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with City of Chains.
The unique cyberpunk-meets-fantasy world of Shadowrun has gained a huge cult following since its creation nearly 25 years ago. Now, creator Jordan Weisman returns to the world of Shadowrun, modernizing this classic game setting as a single player, turn-based tactical RPG.
Fallout 4
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with City of Chains.
Reviewers of City of Chains cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with City of Chains.
From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.
Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with City of Chains.
Reviewers of City of Chains cross-mention this title as a similar play.
The year is 2052 and the world is a dangerous and chaotic place. Terrorists operate openly - killing thousands; drugs, disease and pollution kill even more. The world's economies are close to collapse and the gap between the insanely wealthy and the desperately poor grows ever wider.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below City of Chains at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under City of Chains on Steam right now. Shares Indie with City of Chains.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under City of Chains on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with City of Chains.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under City of Chains on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with City of Chains.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under City of Chains on Steam right now. Shares Indie with City of Chains.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under City of Chains on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with City of Chains.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under City of Chains on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with City of Chains.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under City of Chains on Steam right now. Shares Indie with City of Chains.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under City of Chains on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with City of Chains.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with City of Chains.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with City of Chains.
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.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with City of Chains.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with City of Chains.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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 City of Chains.
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.
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with City of Chains.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
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 City of Chains.
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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More from Astronomic Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Astronomic Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Atonement: Scourge of Time
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with City of Chains.
Another title from Astronomic Games, the studio behind City of Chains. Shares Indie and Adventure with City of Chains.
The last king was killed over 400 years ago and the global rule of the land ceased to exist. The Vindicator is coming. ~a decadent, dark fantasy world with a new take on the concepts of Angels and Demons!
Insincere
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with City of Chains.
Another title from Astronomic Games, the studio behind City of Chains. Shares Indie with City of Chains.
You are Joseph Walker. After waking up in a strangely deserted science facility with no recollection of how you got there, you hear the voice of an A.I. The A.I. promises to be your guide and to help you out of the facility. However, it is clear right away that it’s not telling you everything.
Incitement 3
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with City of Chains.
Another title from Astronomic Games, the studio behind City of Chains. Shares Indie and Adventure with City of Chains.
An expansive dystopian sci-fi world awaits you! Equipment customization, a varied cast and an epic story in this sci-fi epic from Astronomic Games.
Outrage
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a contemplative mood with City of Chains.
Another title from Astronomic Games, the studio behind City of Chains. Shares Indie and Adventure with City of Chains.
Outrage is a short cyberpunk dungeon crawler. You manage a team of vigilantes and must undertake various missions in the city to strengthen your team and your cause in order to bring a powerful enemy to justice.
Atonement 2: Ruptured by Despair
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with City of Chains.
Another title from Astronomic Games, the studio behind City of Chains. Shares RPG with City of Chains.
Three weeks have passed since the events of Atonement: Scourge of Time, but the world is yet in peril. Elleria and her allies find themselves in an alternate timeline where events took a grimmer turn. She will now have to go head to head against her other self in order to stop the impending threat.
Mercury: Cascade into Madness
WHY THIS
Shares choice and consequence and a dark mood with City of Chains.
Another title from Astronomic Games, the studio behind City of Chains. Shares Indie and Adventure with City of Chains.
Mercury is a quirky and violent vigilante. After experiencing a traumatic event in her life, she saw it as her purpose to take to the streets and fight crime, only to become entangled in something huge that could threaten the entire city. Cyberpunk RPG with choice and consequence.
Renegade Grounds: Episode 1
WHY THIS
Another title from Astronomic Games, the studio behind City of Chains. Shares Indie and Adventure with City of Chains.
First episode of a thrilling adventure! Two mercenaries, Agela and Ingus, are tasked to infiltrate the criminal underworld to retrieve a device of high value that was stolen from the council. The job gets more complex as more factions join the hunt for the item, but to Agela and Ingus, failure is not an option!
Snares of Ruin
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with City of Chains.
Another title from Astronomic Games, the studio behind City of Chains. Shares Indie and RPG with City of Chains.
You are detective Hank Anderson , and you’ve just been transferred to another city to help solve a series of unusual crimes. Upon arrival, you are greeted with a gory scene and a revelation of several instances of a deadly disease that turns people into savage zombie-like husks.
Frequently asked about City of Chains
- How much does City of Chains cost?
- City of Chains is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to City of Chains?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside City of Chains are Pegasus: Broken Wings, Forgotten Stars, Heroes of Time.
- Who developed City of Chains?
- City of Chains was developed by Astronomic Games and published by New Reality Games.
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