Games like NORTH
If NORTH is your kind of game, the closest matches are Master Reboot, Jazzpunk: Director's Cut and Mini Mini Golf Golf — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, hypnotic and mysterious. 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 NORTH: Dealing with the issue of the contemporary refugee crisis while at the same time being deeply rooted in a classical cyberpunk atmosphere à la Blade Runner, NORTH features a dark synthpop soundtrack, a sprawling mega-city and weird monster-like inhabitants.
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Steam players who put hours into NORTH 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.
Master Reboot
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with NORTH.
Top pick for NORTH fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with NORTH.
Imagine a world where death is no longer final, where precious memories are saved to enjoy forever, where your soul is immortal. Master Reboot is a haunting first-person sci-fi adventure.
Jazzpunk: Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for NORTH fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with NORTH.
Jazzpunk is a comedy adventure set in an alternate reality Cold War World, plagued with corporate espionage, CyberCrime, and sentient martinis. Gameplay is inspired by spoof comedy films and cartoons of yesteryear, with a focus on weird gadgets, exotic locales, and open-world style exploration.
Mini Mini Golf Golf
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with NORTH.
Third-strongest match for NORTH fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with NORTH.
Mini Mini Golf Golf is an indie storytelling experience that goes beyond the lanes of the here and now into distant memories of a future planetary collapse. Destabilize the present and plunge into a neon psychohistory of a bizarre entity in distress. This is not a game about minigolf.
Tales of the Neon Sea
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with NORTH.
Ranked #4 for NORTH fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with NORTH.
Welcome to a world of intrigue and suspicion. Where humans and robots contend with escalating tensions and mutual distrust. And where gangster felines scheme their way to the top of the food chain. Welcome to the Tales of the Neon Sea!
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WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with NORTH.
Ranked #5 for NORTH fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with NORTH.
The original first‑person cyberpunk horror detective tale set in a decaying, neon‑scarred future. As an Observer who invades minds to hunt for clues, you will sift through corrupted memories to track down a mysterious killer and confront your own dark past.
Else Heart.Break()
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with NORTH.
Ranked #6 for NORTH fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with NORTH.
A game about friendship, love and technology in a place where bits have replaced atoms.
Cradle
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with NORTH.
Ranked #7 for NORTH fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with NORTH.
Cradle is a sci-fi first-person-view quest designed for the player to explore the surrounding world. The story is built around the relations of the protagonist and a mechanical girl who by quirk of fate found themselves amidst the desert.
Kairo
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with NORTH.
Ranked #8 for NORTH fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with NORTH.
Enter the lost world of Kairo. Explore vast abandoned monuments. Bring strange and ancient machinery back to life. Slowly uncover the true purpose of Kairo and fulfil a great destiny.Kairo is an atmospheric 3D exploration and puzzle solving game.
Reviewers mention these as similar to NORTH
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The Void
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with NORTH.
Reviewers of NORTH cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with NORTH.
Only brought to life by scarce sparks of Color, the bleak, grey Void is a peculiar place. The player gets to explore it, get to know the Sisters, Brothers, and other weird creatures inhabiting it, and learn the ways of Color, harvesting it and drawing sigils that change the world around them.
Spec Ops: The Line
WHY THIS
Reviewers of NORTH cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with NORTH.
A Third-Person modern military Shooter designed to challenge players' morality by putting them in the middle of unspeakable situations.
NaissanceE
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with NORTH.
Reviewers of NORTH cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with NORTH.
NaissanceE is an obscure and magical first person exploration game, a philosophical trip and an artistic experience. The adventure takes place in a primitive mysterious structure and the game mainly consists to explore and feel the deep and strong ambiance of this atemporal world.
Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with NORTH.
Reviewers of NORTH cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with NORTH.
Armed with your investigative skills and the tools of the Blade Runner trade, you'll be immersed in a world that lives and breathes around you with breakthrough lighting and visual effects. Your ability to survive will be put to the test in the richest game environment ever created.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below NORTH at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under NORTH on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with NORTH.
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?
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under NORTH on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with NORTH.
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.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under NORTH on Steam right now. Shares Indie with NORTH.
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!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under NORTH on Steam right now. Shares Indie with NORTH.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under NORTH on Steam right now. Shares Indie with NORTH.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under NORTH on Steam right now. Shares Indie with NORTH.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
TYRONE vs COPS
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under NORTH on Steam right now. Shares Indie with NORTH.
Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with NORTH.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with NORTH.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with NORTH.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with NORTH.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Cube Escape: Paradox
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with NORTH.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
Samsara Room
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with NORTH.
You woke up in a mysterious room you have never seen before. Can you find another way out? Samsara Room is a remake of the praised predecessor of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with NORTH.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
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Frequently asked about NORTH
- Does NORTH run on Steam Deck?
- NORTH is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does NORTH cost?
- NORTH is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to NORTH?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside NORTH are Master Reboot, Jazzpunk: Director's Cut, Mini Mini Golf Golf.
- Who developed NORTH?
- NORTH was developed by Outlands and published by Sometimes You.
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 NORTH.
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