Games like The Next World
If The Next World is your kind of game, the closest matches are InfiniteCorp: Cyberpunk Cards, 时光枝的秋叶 and Subsurface Circular — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its replayability via branching paths, story driven survival gameplay 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 The Next World: Welcome to The Next World - a strategic visual novel telling the story of a crashed colony ship and its ragged group of survivors, trying to make a new life on the wrong planet. Craft plans, make decisions, and manage your colony's limited resources in a desperate fight to stay alive.
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Steam players who put hours into The Next World 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.
InfiniteCorp: Cyberpunk Cards
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Next World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Next World.
The 2190 year. You are an employee of a corporation dealing in goods distribution and logistics in the “megatower” – the place where all local citizens live. Find yourself in the cyberpunk reality by playing InfiniteCorp, a decision-based strategy card game!
时光枝的秋叶
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Next World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Next World.
If everything you love is destined to be swept away by the tides of time, will you still choose to fight? This is a visual novel about the collision between humanity and artificial intelligence, and between a fragile individual and the overwhelming currents of society.
Subsurface Circular
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with The Next World.
Third-strongest match for The Next World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Next World.
When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.
Love is All Around 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Next World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Next World.
原班人马古装惊艳回归！继承前作心动体验，喜剧元素与深度权谋悬疑剧情交错。“情感线”与“悬疑线”双轨并行——专注情缘可能错失真相，执着探秘或与真爱无缘。你的选择决定命运走向，多重结局待你探索。即刻再续完蛋宇宙的感动与心跳，再一次让你心动！
Bagel Love Story
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Next World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Next World.
A light-hearted and enjoyable short romance VN! The protagonist, Fan Tong, struggles to lose weight in hopes of finding a job, but the journey is far from smooth. Until one day, a cute and sunny girl named Bagel comes into his life, kickstarting a story of weight loss, cross-dressing, and romance!
1bitHeart
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Next World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Next World.
Welcome to 1bitHeart―the latest title from Alicemare and LiEat developer △○□× (Miwashiba). In this unique and endearing adventure game, take on the role of Nanashi, a lonely, agoraphobic boy, as you solve a slew of mysteries around town while also making friends.
Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with The Next World.
Ranked #7 for The Next World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Next World.
From Dischan Media, creators of the highly acclaimed Juniper's Knot, comes Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.Dysfunctional Systems is a visual novel series featuring Winter Harrison, a student mediator from a utopian world. Learning to Manage Chaos is the first entry in the series.What is a mediator?
Memory's Dogma CODE:01
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with The Next World.
Ranked #8 for The Next World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Next World.
Japan, 2030 A.D. Memories can now be digitized and archived, allowing people to communicate with the deceased. With only one week left before his best friend’s memories are deleted, can Hiroki uncover the truth behind Sorano’s death?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Next World at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under The Next World on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Next World.
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 ~62% under The Next World on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Next World.
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!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under The Next World on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Next World.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under The Next World on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Next World.
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 ~62% under The Next World on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Next World.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under The Next World on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Next World.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~77% under The Next World on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Next World.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~54% under The Next World on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Next World.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
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 The Next World.
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.
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!
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 The Next World.
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.
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Next World.
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Next World.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Next World.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Next World.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Sprout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Next World.
Embark on a casual, botanical-puzzle-adventure. Make friends, learn new skills, solve puzzles, and become the mighty oak that you were always meant to be.
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Frequently asked about The Next World
- How much does The Next World cost?
- The Next World is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Next World?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Next World are InfiniteCorp: Cyberpunk Cards, 时光枝的秋叶, Subsurface Circular.
- Who developed The Next World?
- The Next World was developed by Illuminated Games and published by AAD Productions.
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 The Next World.
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