Games like Adverse Action
If Adverse Action is your kind of game, the closest matches are Last Seen, Mistport and PROTOCOL BOUND — 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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Last Seen
WHY THIS
Top pick for Adverse Action fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Adverse Action.
Reopen your late father's phone repair shop to survive. But every device holds someone's secrets — and the deeper you dig, the closer you get to the sister who vanished. Repair. Extract. Investigate. The truth has a price, and so does staying clean.
Mistport
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Adverse Action fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Adverse Action.
Mistport sets you as a booth inspector, in a gloomy Victorian city. Inspect documents for ships that pull into the misty harbor, identify suspicious individuals, and uncover mysteries that will shape the city’s fate. Stay loyal to your post or venture into the mists of insanity. The choice is yours.
PROTOCOL BOUND
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Adverse Action fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Adverse Action.
BOUND is a psychological thriller where you search through private conversations, hidden files, and recordings on devices that aren't your own. Manipulate others, uncover dark secrets, and shape the outcome through the choices you make.
Dead Man's Pass
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Adverse Action fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Adverse Action.
Inspect travel passes and question the strangers who reach your mountain gate after dark. In this yokai inspection game, compare every face, paper, and answer, then let them pass, turn them away, or draw your sword. Your family and the village bear the cost.
Better Than Us
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Ranked #5 for Adverse Action fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Adverse Action.
Better Than Us is a sci-fi narrative game about secrets, deception, and what happens when a few people hoard most of the world's wealth. By maintaining a complex web of lies, you'll convince the freakishly ultra-rich you belong among them long enough to take what they treasure most: their stuff.
VSCS-II
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Adverse Action fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Adverse Action.
VSCS-II is a retro-styled narrative game about privacy and security. Using an upgraded '80s operating system, navigate an underground network to make connections, unearth conspiracies, and ultimately decide the fate of the dark web.
Strange Antiquities
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Ranked #7 for Adverse Action fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Adverse Action.
Become the custodian of a store dealing in occult antiquities. Explore the quaint and gloomy town of Undermere, where strange goings-on and dark mysteries abound. Find and identify arcane artefacts, use your collection to aid the townsfolk with their unusual problems — and remember to pet your cat!
Zombie Apocalypse Survival Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Adverse Action fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Adverse Action.
From the creators that brought you The Test Trilogy & many other experiences, comes Zombie Apocalypse Survival Simulator. Will you survive in the new world? Or will you become just another victim to looters, bandits, or worst of all... The Voracious Dead. There's only one way to find out...
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Adverse Action at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Adverse Action on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Adverse Action.
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 ~62% under Adverse Action on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Adverse Action.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Adverse Action on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Adverse Action.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Adverse Action on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Adverse Action.
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!
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Adverse Action on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Adverse Action.
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 ~62% under Adverse Action on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Adverse Action.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Adverse Action on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Adverse Action.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Adverse Action on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Adverse Action.
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?
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.
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 Adverse Action.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Adverse Action.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
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 Adverse Action.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Adverse Action.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Adverse Action.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Adverse Action.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Adverse Action.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Frequently asked about Adverse Action
- How much does Adverse Action cost?
- Adverse Action is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Adverse Action?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Adverse Action are Last Seen, Mistport, PROTOCOL BOUND.
- Who developed Adverse Action?
- Adverse Action was developed by Quiet Machines.
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