Games like We Were Here Before
If We Were Here Before is your kind of game, the closest matches are 异馆十二月, Ostera : The curse of... and Choose Your Own Alternative — 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 We Were Here Before: The frontier does not want to be settled. A narrative highly replayable story game where your choices build a settlement, shape its story, and seal its fate. Every run ends. Every obituary tells a story only you lived.
Players who liked We Were Here Before also play
Steam players who put hours into We Were Here Before 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.
异馆十二月
WHY THIS
Top pick for We Were Here Before fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with We Were Here Before.
Manage a mysterious entertainment house in a fog-shrouded town. Train your heroines, build relationships through fixed dialogue choices, explore dangerous locations, and uncover the truth behind a repeating cycle in this mystery visual novel with multiple endings.
Ostera : The curse of...
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for We Were Here Before fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with We Were Here Before.
Welcome to Ostera: The curse of... Join the Adventure! Shape Your Destiny, Kiss Rats, and Slap Kids!
Choose Your Own Alternative
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for We Were Here Before fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with We Were Here Before.
A text-based adventure where you're tasked to exorcise your friend’s Inner Demon. You have 30 days to analyze objects filled with memories, discover which one is the reason for her possession and sacrifice it. Do not deviate from your mission. Save your friend no matter the cost.
Sunset Magna Carta
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for We Were Here Before fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with We Were Here Before.
Sunset Magna Carta (formerly Fertility, Crime, and Economy) is a political simulation game. As a cabinet minister of the United Realm, you will implement policies, handle social crises, and try to sustain order and national prosperity. Be careful: consequences may defy your intentions.
The Ultimate Death Clock
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for We Were Here Before fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with We Were Here Before.
You find yourself in a singularity with Death itself. With few chances to speak with the living, Death proposes a little game. Do you dive deep within yourself to indulge this cosmic guide and find out when you will meet again on official business? The Ultimate Death Clock awaits!
Rootless
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for We Were Here Before fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Guide Trask, a young seedling born into a cave-dwelling family that fears the outside world. Uncover the secrets of a mysterious tree and fight to save everyone trapped in their isolated home. Explore strange environments, absorb animal traits, and overcome dangers in this adventure.
RPGSteam ↗Astronaut: The Best
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for We Were Here Before fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with We Were Here Before.
Astronaut: The Best is an occult management adventure where people aren't just numbers: they're screwups. You must run a proper space academy using lies, witchcraft, and/or hard work. Guide cadets through a roguelite web of scandals and challenges, or the government will have you killed.
Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for We Were Here Before fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with We Were Here Before.
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below We Were Here Before at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under We Were Here Before on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with We Were Here Before.
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 ~67% under We Were Here Before on Steam right now. Shares Indie with We Were Here Before.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under We Were Here Before on Steam right now. Shares Indie with We Were Here Before.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under We Were Here Before on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with We Were Here Before.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under We Were Here Before on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with We Were Here Before.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under We Were Here Before on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with We Were Here Before.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under We Were Here Before on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with We Were Here Before.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under We Were Here Before on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with We Were Here Before.
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.
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 with We Were Here Before.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with We Were Here Before.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with We Were Here Before.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Simulation with We Were Here Before.
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 We Were Here Before.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with We Were Here Before.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with We Were Here Before.
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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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
The Ultimate Death Clock
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with We Were Here Before.
You find yourself in a singularity with Death itself. With few chances to speak with the living, Death proposes a little game. Do you dive deep within yourself to indulge this cosmic guide and find out when you will meet again on official business? The Ultimate Death Clock awaits!
Astronaut: The Best
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with We Were Here Before.
Astronaut: The Best is an occult management adventure where people aren't just numbers: they're screwups. You must run a proper space academy using lies, witchcraft, and/or hard work. Guide cadets through a roguelite web of scandals and challenges, or the government will have you killed.
Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with We Were Here Before.
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
Frequently asked about We Were Here Before
- How much does We Were Here Before cost?
- We Were Here Before is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to We Were Here Before?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside We Were Here Before are 异馆十二月, Ostera : The curse of..., Choose Your Own Alternative.
- Who developed We Were Here Before?
- We Were Here Before was developed by Inkdrift.
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 We Were Here Before.
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