Games like Escape: Close Call
If Escape: Close Call is your kind of game, the closest matches are Kitten Rampage, Just Get Through and PIXELMAN — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its funny, retro and tense. 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 Escape: Close Call: Escape: Close Call is an adrenaline pumping driving game which rewards near crashes with style points, encouraging risk and thrill seeking. Escape enemy vehicles increasing in difficulty while completing missions, maneuvering through the landscape, and earning coins to upgrade your vehicle with weapons.
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Steam players who put hours into Escape: Close Call 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.
Kitten Rampage
WHY THIS
Top pick for Escape: Close Call fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Escape: Close Call.
Kitten Rampage is a silly, fun, destructive all-in-one kind of game. Destruction is a must, destroy as much as possible! Roam, hunt, explore and explode everything as an adorable Kitten in a third person view. Conquer the world from humans and other enemies as the deadliest kitten alive!
Just Get Through
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Escape: Close Call.
Second-strongest match for Escape: Close Call fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Escape: Close Call.
Just Get Through is a randomly generated platformer with roguelike elements. Featuring a destructible environment, sandbox mode, user-created levels, various gamemodes, hardcore mode, color palettes, deadly traps, explosions and more.
PIXELMAN
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Escape: Close Call.
Third-strongest match for Escape: Close Call fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Escape: Close Call.
PIXELMAN is a retro styled, action-filled, high-score chaser arcade game, where you control the title character in his mission to rescue the citizens of Pixville from the evil Baron Von Pixel and his contraptions.
Asteroid Bounty Hunter
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Escape: Close Call.
Ranked #4 for Escape: Close Call fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Escape: Close Call.
Asteroid Bounty Hunter is a space shooter mixed with interesting boss fights and breathtaking visuals, with a reward system to take your skill to another level.
Flying Tigers: Shadows Over China
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Escape: Close Call fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Escape: Close Call.
FLYING TIGERS: SHADOWS OVER CHINA is an air-combat action game based on the historical events of America’s secret volunteer squadrons that defended China against Japan in the China-Burma-India theatre of World War 2.
BADLAND: Game of the Year Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Escape: Close Call fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Escape: Close Call.
With BADLAND: Game of the Year Edition, experience the multi-award-winning action adventure like never before - redesigned for Steam.
Unrailed!
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Escape: Close Call.
Ranked #8 for Escape: Close Call fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Escape: Close Call.
Unrailed! is a co-op multiplayer game where you have to work together with your friends to build a train track across endless procedurally generated worlds. Master random encounters with its inhabitants, upgrade your train and keep it from derailing!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Escape: Close Call
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Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Escape: Close Call cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit launches you into a new open-world landscape behind the wheel of the world's fastest and most beautiful cars. From Criterion, the award-winning studio behind the Burnout series, Hot Pursuit will redefine racing games for a whole new generation.
Retro City Rampage™ DX
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Escape: Close Call cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Escape: Close Call.
OPEN-WORLD carjacking goes back to the '80s in this 8-BIT nostalgic throwback. Run missions! Outrun the law! Rampage the city with weapons, power-ups and vehicles!
Super Hexagon
WHY THIS
Shares high score chasing with Escape: Close Call.
Reviewers of Escape: Close Call cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Escape: Close Call.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Hotline Miami
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Escape: Close Call cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Escape: Close Call.
Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Escape: Close Call at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Escape: Close Call on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Escape: Close Call.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Escape: Close Call on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Escape: Close Call.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Escape: Close Call on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Escape: Close Call.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Escape: Close Call on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Escape: Close Call.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Escape: Close Call on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Escape: Close Call.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Escape: Close Call on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Escape: Close Call.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Escape: Close Call on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Escape: Close Call.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Escape: Close Call on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Escape: Close Call.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
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 Escape: Close Call.
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. Shares Action with Escape: Close Call.
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.
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Frequently asked about Escape: Close Call
- How much does Escape: Close Call cost?
- Escape: Close Call is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Escape: Close Call?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Escape: Close Call are Kitten Rampage, Just Get Through, PIXELMAN.
- Who developed Escape: Close Call?
- Escape: Close Call was developed by Tarboosh Games.
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 Escape: Close Call.
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