Games like NZ78
If NZ78 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Naomi’s End, Thirty Flights of Loving and PROXIMATE — 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.
Players who liked NZ78 also play
Steam players who put hours into NZ78 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.
Naomi’s End
WHY THIS
Top pick for NZ78 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with NZ78.
Naomi wakes decades older in a house she does not recognize, and discovers that escape may cost the future.
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.
PROXIMATE
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match 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.
You know my name?
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Ranked #4 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.
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.
Florence
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 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 #7 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.
Citizen Sleeper
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for NZ78 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with NZ78.
Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below NZ78 at current Steam store prices.
Miss Neko
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under NZ78 on Steam right now. Shares Casual with NZ78.
Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)
QUICKERFLAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under NZ78 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with NZ78.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under NZ78 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with NZ78.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Gachi Heroes
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under NZ78 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with NZ78.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under NZ78 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with NZ78.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with NZ78.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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.
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More from emagnetic
Other recommendable Steam games by emagnetic, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Alien Weapon Test Grounds
WHY THIS
Another title from emagnetic, the studio behind NZ78. Shares Indie with NZ78.
Alien weapons with unique physics await in this fast-paced FPS. Battle waves of enemies across diverse landscapes, lighting, and weather. Beware the unstable space-time continuum.
Alien Grounds
WHY THIS
Another title from emagnetic, the studio behind NZ78. Shares Indie with NZ78.
Single-player arena shooter. Weird weapons. Relentless robots. Easy to play, hard to score. Enter the chaos, shoot the bots, and compete in the Monthly Challenge.
Exit Dream
WHY THIS
Another title from emagnetic, the studio behind NZ78. Shares Indie and Casual with NZ78.
A free first-person horror game about dream puzzles - unsettling, surreal and built on strange logic.
Naomi’s End
WHY THIS
Another title from emagnetic, the studio behind NZ78. Shares Indie and Casual with NZ78.
Naomi wakes decades older in a house she does not recognize, and discovers that escape may cost the future.
Frequently asked about NZ78
- How much does NZ78 cost?
- NZ78 is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to NZ78?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside NZ78 are Naomi’s End, Thirty Flights of Loving, PROXIMATE.
- 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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