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Games like Chronographer

If Chronographer is your kind of game, the closest matches are 火起雪中寺, At Eternity's Hatch and Redux — 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 Chronographer: You have no health, no mana, no XP. You only have time, and every step spends it. You travel backward from the present day to the Big Bang, through many different periods. Every discovery earns you more time to venture further, and brings you closer to the mystery at the heart of a loop.

IndieAdventureWindowsby SciFunGames
Chronographer — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Chronographer 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. 火起雪中寺

    WHY THIS

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

    Huoqi Xuezhong Temple is a 3D suspense exploration game. The ancient temple covered in heavy snow suddenly caught fire. A mysterious shadow transported you back three hours before the fire started. Faced with six people gathered at this temple with different purposes.

    2025IndieAdventure10.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. At Eternity's Hatch

    WHY THIS

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

    Stranded at sea in an alternate timeline, you must master a complex time travel system to find a way home while piecing together the mystery of an obsessed captain and his quest that led him to the Greenland Sea in search of a supernatural anomaly.

    IndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. Redux

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Chronographer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Chronographer.

    A puzzle game about destroying your past self.

    2022StrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. KUTO: The Lock of Time

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Chronographer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chronographer.

    A 2D action-platformer metroidvania built around rewinding time. Wield the Scythe of Kronos, chain dashes and strikes, and rewind death itself as you explore interconnected ancient sanctuaries and hunt down the pantheon that betrayed you.

    2027ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  5. Echo Resonance

    WHY THIS

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

    A classic science-fiction point-and-click adventure inspired by the genre’s greatest titles, where you’ll control two characters and solve ingenious puzzles using an innovative temporal superposition mechanic.

    2026IndieAdventure7.64 USDSteam ↗
  6. Time Machine VR

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Chronographer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Chronographer.

    You are a time traveller tasked with exploring the Jurassic era and the creatures that once ruled the prehistoric oceans. Use an array of advanced tech tools to track, examine, and discover the scientific secrets of mosasaurs, livyatans, and megalodons, among others!

    2016IndieAdventureSimulation29.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Time Idle RPG

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Chronographer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Chronographer.

    Idle RPG game that uses real life Time as the core mechanic and currency. Featuring offline progress, prestige, unfolding mechanics, trees, and much more!

    2023IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Dead Watch

    WHY THIS

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

    You're stuck in a time loop ⌛. Whenever you find a dead body, you go back to the past. The only way to escape the loop is to cheat destiny & change the future. Explore the castle and uncover its dark secrets to prevent the next murder.

    ActionSportsIndieSteam ↗

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 Chronographer.

    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 Chronographer.

    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. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

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

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. 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 Chronographer.

    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 ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Chronographer

What games are most similar to Chronographer?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Chronographer are 火起雪中寺, At Eternity's Hatch, Redux.
Who developed Chronographer?
Chronographer was developed by SciFunGames.

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 Chronographer.

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