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Games like What Was Lost

If What Was Lost is your kind of game, the closest matches are A Week to Remember, Frutiger Aero Horror Alpha 2 and Xenologia — 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.

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About What Was Lost: A cooperative narrative puzzle game about what a couple leaves behind. Two players, two timelines - Past and Present - share a house that remembers everything. Solve together. Remember together. Six chapters playable now in Early Access; the finale arrives in a free update.

IndieAdventureEarly AccessWindowsby Stan Hung
What Was Lost — Steam game cover

Players who liked What Was Lost also play

Steam players who put hours into What Was Lost 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.

  1. A Week to Remember

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for What Was Lost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Was Lost.

    Help Elliot recover his memories and unlock the truth of what happened before it's too late. A Mexican-American gothic, boys' love visual novel, featuring interactive spell crafting and point-and-click exploration.

    2027IndieAdventureCasualSteam ↗
  2. Frutiger Aero Horror Alpha 2

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for What Was Lost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Was Lost.

    You flip PCs as a hobby. An unbelievable flea market find from 2015 turns into a nightmare. The moment you boot this Windows 7 setup, a blinding force sucks you straight into the monitor. Now you are trapped in the strange futuristic world of Frutiger Aero. No soul is in sight. Or so it seems...

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. Xenologia

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for What Was Lost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with What Was Lost.

    Xenologia is a fully illustrated linear visual novel set in the near future. Follow Cory, a young man who's life is falling apart, as he tries to help a stranded alien girl return home.

    AdventureSteam ↗
  4. Halo: Campaign Evolved

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for What Was Lost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with What Was Lost.

    Halo: Campaign Evolved is a faithful yet modernized remake of Halo: Combat Evolved’s campaign, rebuilt from the ground up.

    2026ActionAdventure49.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Kairos: Until the Dawn Breaks

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for What Was Lost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Was Lost.

    A melancholic fantasy visual novel. Kairos, the last twilight hunter of a clan abandoned by its god, walks to the Temple of Dawn chasing the truth of a silent goddess — and what he lost along the way. They were taught to fear the night. It was the light that burned them.

    2026IndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Life is Strange: Double Exposure

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for What Was Lost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with What Was Lost.

    When Max Caulfield finds her friend Safi dead in the snow, she tears open the way to a parallel timeline. Here, Safi is still alive - and still in danger! With her new power to Shift between two timelines – can Max solve and prevent the same murder?

    2024ActionAdventure49.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Life is Strange: True Colors

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for What Was Lost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with What Was Lost.

    Alex Chen hides her 'curse': the psychic power of Empathy, the ability to absorb the emotions of others. When her brother dies in a so-called accident, Alex must embrace her power to find the truth.

    2021ActionAdventure59.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. 恋爱单选题

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for What Was Lost fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Was Lost.

    Male Lord Wu worry because of an accident dying, fell into a coma. Then the mysterious female NPC appeared, creating a different space for Wu Worry to create a chance to save themselves, the protagonist of the game Wu Worry to find out his true love in the end, in order to wake up and survive.

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure10.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with What Was Lost.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with What Was Lost.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Was Lost.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Was Lost.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with What Was Lost.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with What Was Lost.

    A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  7. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with What Was Lost.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with What Was Lost.

    Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about What Was Lost

Does What Was Lost have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — What Was Lost supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
What games are most similar to What Was Lost?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside What Was Lost are A Week to Remember, Frutiger Aero Horror Alpha 2, Xenologia.
Who developed What Was Lost?
What Was Lost was developed by Stan Hung.

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 What Was Lost.

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