Games like Distant Future
If Distant Future is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sunfall '80, Vanisha and Imminence — 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 Distant Future: DISTANT FUTURE: A futuristic RPG about winning a game tournament! Level up the ranks in shoot-'em-up duels, meet expressive and quirky characters, build your deck of abilities and decide if winning is even worth it.

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Steam players who put hours into Distant Future 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.
Sunfall '80
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Top pick for Distant Future fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Distant Future.
Pilot a lone ship across a stark, vector-style battlefield as the world steadily collapses into the sun. Combat focuses on precision: aim carefully, fire deliberately, and dodge incoming shots from autonomous enemy constructs that track and engage on sight.
Vanisha
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Distant Future fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Distant Future.
A progression-driven twin-stick shooter. Customize ships, combine powerful cards, and forge unique builds through a massive talent tree as you race to stop the Anomaly.
Imminence
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Distant Future fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Distant Future.
A brutal 16-bit sci-fi shoot-’em-up inspired by the golden age of the Sega Genesis. Fight across multiple worlds, upgrade your ship, and confront the forces behind the Augmentation Program.
VectaGuard
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Ranked #4 for Distant Future fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Distant Future.
Arcade-inspired shmup action where neon vector caverns explode with modern visuals, dynamic music, weapon upgrades and intense score chasing.
Torment Hexus
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Ranked #5 for Distant Future fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Distant Future.
Technofascist cyberpunk CEOs must die! Charge spells with the match-3 grid, then cast them on your enemies in turn-based tactical roguelike combat. Climb the tower, kill the boss, and maybe make the world a better place.
Chronoform
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Distant Future fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Distant Future.
A sci-fi precision puzzle-platformer where every death becomes a tool. Replay ghost echoes of your past runs to manipulate machinery, solve intricate timing puzzles, and escape a deadly research facility.
VECTORHYTHM
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Distant Future fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Distant Future.
VECTORHYTHM is a neon bullet heaven where well-timed attacks charge your Power and strengthen your weapons. Chase high scores in quick Arcade runs or shape your own build through Survivors mode, with every song driving the fight.
Fast Finger Rule
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Ranked #8 for Distant Future fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Distant Future.
Fast Finger Rule is a minimalistic battle planet duel simulator. To make precise shots you just need to click on your planet at right time. Game has 10+ planet shield types and 15+ planets of 3 different tiers.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Distant Future.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Distant Future.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Distant Future.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Distant Future.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Distant Future.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Distant Future.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Distant Future.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
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Frequently asked about Distant Future
- What games are most similar to Distant Future?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Distant Future are Sunfall '80, Vanisha, Imminence.
- Who developed Distant Future?
- Distant Future was developed by Cdodge.
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 Distant Future.
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