Games like NZ78
If NZ78 is your kind of game, the closest matches are PROXIMATE, Thirty Flights of Loving and TOMORROW DON'T COME - Puzzling Depression — 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 NZ78: A short atmospheric sci-fi story told through text and ink-wash images, as New Zealand faces strange events beyond explanation.
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PROXIMATE
WHY THIS
Top pick for NZ78 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with NZ78.
Congratulations, contractor! You've been approved to trial our cutting-edge AI visor. Use it to explore the Neuras lab and recover the staff's research. Your visor is safe, reliable, and up to 99% accurate. Just don't ask why the "ketchup" in the corner makes such a horrible crunching sound.
Thirty Flights of Loving
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for NZ78 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with NZ78.
This surprising first-person story tells the tale of a heist gone wrong. Encounter high-flying schemers, lovelorn criminals, and more stray kittens than you can shake a stick at.
TOMORROW DON'T COME - Puzzling Depression
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for NZ78 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with NZ78.
TOMORROW DON'T COME is a contextual puzzle game about depression and how it feels to be stuck.
Some Goodbyes We Made
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for NZ78 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with NZ78.
I have some memories of saying goodbye that I don't want to forget, so I turned them into 11 minigames and backed them up in this collection.
Gone Home
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for NZ78 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with NZ78.
June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.
You know my name?
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for NZ78 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with NZ78.
A short visual novel about finding your name and a girl in the fog.
Florence
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for NZ78 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with NZ78.
Florence Yeoh feels a little... stuck. Her life is an endless routine of work, sleep, and spending too much time on social media. Then one day, she meets a cello player named Krish who changes everything about how she sees the world and herself.
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for NZ78 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with NZ78.
A dice-driven RPG, in a human and heartfelt sci-fi world. You are an escaped android, with a malfunctioning body, a price on your head and no memory of your past. Get a ship, find a crew, and take on contracts while you navigate across the Starward Belt.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with NZ78.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with NZ78.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with NZ78.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with NZ78.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with NZ78.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with NZ78.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
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Frequently asked about NZ78
- What games are most similar to NZ78?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside NZ78 are PROXIMATE, Thirty Flights of Loving, TOMORROW DON'T COME - Puzzling Depression.
- Who developed NZ78?
- NZ78 was developed by emagnetic.
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 NZ78.
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