Games like what-if
If what-if is your kind of game, the closest matches are Orbital Abyss: Cipher Division, Where Control Ends and Witch's Last Curse — 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 what-if: A guided ARG that spans across dimensions. Decipher cryptography, search digital footprints, and retrace scientist Jessie's journey to uncover what happened to her and her assistant.
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Steam players who put hours into what-if 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.
Orbital Abyss: Cipher Division
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Top pick for what-if fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with what-if.
Decipher interstellar transmissions encoded via substitution ciphers aboard Eremite Station. In this choice driven narrative, uncover secrets from planetary factions while conversing with crewmates to reveal their stories and troubles. The ripples of your choices may be felt throughout the galaxy.
Where Control Ends
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Second-strongest match for what-if fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with what-if.
Where Control Ends is a psychological visual novel about Astra, a young girl trying to hold herself together after a night she cannot fully remember.
Witch's Last Curse
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for what-if fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with what-if.
A fantasy RPG about saving a medieval town from a spreading curse as the Witch's Apprentice. Spend your limited daily actions investigating secrets, earning the trust of townsfolk, discovering the ingredients your ritual actually needs, and holding back the thorns before time runs out.
Year Unknown
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Ranked #4 for what-if fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with what-if.
A story-based exploration game about the very far future. With the help of two Artificial Intelligences, explore a universe conquered by humanity, uncover your purpose in it, and try to stop it from falling apart.
MoonShot
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Ranked #5 for what-if fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with what-if.
You're a NASA intern working on the Apollo 11 project. Each day, you have a checklist to complete. Your tasks are well-reasoned and appropriate to your skill level as an intern. The Apollo team are all competent professionals. Everything goes very well, and you have no difficulties at all. 😛
To Type a Tale
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Ranked #6 for what-if fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with what-if.
To Type a Tale is a fantasy choose-your-own-adventure story where the only method of interaction is typing. Story progress, choices, and menus are all achieved through typing highlighted words.
Whitematter
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Ranked #7 for what-if fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with what-if.
Down becomes up - shift your direction of gravity to the walls and ceiling in this first-person puzzler. Solve challenging room-based puzzles that flex your spatial reasoning skills, rather than precise timing. Compete with others on the leaderboard, or take it slow and steady - the choice is yours.
Never Gives Up Her Dead
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Ranked #8 for what-if fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with what-if.
Time is running out after a meteor strikes your interstellar starship. While the crew is under full alert, only you seem to notice the strange red portals opening up throughout the ship. Old school text-based parser: no graphics, huge worlds, no hints. Recommended for text game veterans.
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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 what-if.
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 what-if.
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.
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 what-if.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with what-if.
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 and Adventure with what-if.
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 what-if.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with what-if.
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.
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Frequently asked about what-if
- Does what-if have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — what-if supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to what-if?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside what-if are Orbital Abyss: Cipher Division, Where Control Ends, Witch's Last Curse.
- Who developed what-if?
- what-if was developed by Other Tales Interactive.
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 what-if.
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