Games like Bystander
Below are 15 hand-picked alternatives to Bystander for fans of action, indie, adventure, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Bystander also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, more from Egor Magurin. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About Bystander: Bystander is an opportunity to become an agent for tracking the network during totalitarianism. Your task is to search among other people's correspondence on the network those that contradict the current laws, copies of which you will receive by fax.
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Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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BONEWORKS
Second-strongest match for Bystander fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bystander.
BONEWORKS is an Experimental Physics VR Adventure. Use found physics weapons, tools, and objects to fight across dangerous playscapes and mysterious architecture.
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Plebby Quest: The Crusades
Third-strongest match for Bystander fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bystander.
Survive ambitious rulers dreaming of an empire, outsmart treacherous neighbors longing to burn your spoils, and navigate the religion’s predictably unreasonable demands; you need ask only one question as you build your legacy – “Will you burn them, or be burnt?”
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Rebel Galaxy
Ranked #4 for Bystander fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bystander.
Rebel Galaxy is a swashbuckling space adventure, with action-packed combat, exploration, discovery, trade, and “negotiation” with the outlandish denizens at the edge of the known universe.
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The Escapists
Ranked #5 for Bystander fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bystander.
The Escapists provides players the opportunity of experiencing a light-hearted insight into everyday prison life with the main objective being that of escaping!
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Objects in Space
Ranked #6 for Bystander fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bystander.
Objects in Space is a retro space game centred on 2D point-and-click stealth action in a massive open world. Players have their own customisable ships and can meet people, become a trader, bounty hunter, explorer, scavenger or all of them at once.
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The Magic Circle
Ranked #7 for Bystander fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bystander.
In this darkly comedic story, you are the hero of an unfinished fantasy game, and your designers have failed you. Steal the power of a game god - trap their creations, swap behaviors and body parts, crafting your own unique solutions to free-form puzzles. Can you release a game ...from the inside?
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Party Hard 2
Ranked #8 for Bystander fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bystander.
It's 3am and you just want to get some sleep. Welcome back to Party Hard! Stop parties using hundreds of new ways, incidentally destroy a drug syndicate, and save the Earth from an alien invasion. May the chickens be with you!
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More from Egor Magurin
Other recommendable Steam games by Egor Magurin, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
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hack_me
Another title from Egor Magurin, the studio behind Bystander. Shares Indie and Simulation with Bystander.
Hack_me is a hacker simulator game. The main objective in game – is to hack big companies's servers to show people that there is nothing in this world that protected on 100%. You’ll need to use your cmd, bruteforce, SQL-injectors and other programs to hack servers.
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Numberline 2
Another title from Egor Magurin, the studio behind Bystander. Shares Indie with Bystander.
NumberLine 2 is the continuation of the popular (no.) puzzle. You must repeat the indicated image from the numbers. But it isn't so easy - you can create only blocks with a "1", but when you create it, the numbers on all adjacent blocks are incremented by 1.
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ThinkAhead
Another title from Egor Magurin, the studio behind Bystander. Shares Indie with Bystander.
The concept of the game is to fill the board tiles using the knight chess piece. Levels start of simple, but become more complex leading up to the 10x10 board at the 60th level. Easy mode shows you the cells uoy can click on. It will help you to get uset to the gameplay.
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30 Seconds To Jail
Another title from Egor Magurin, the studio behind Bystander. Shares Indie with Bystander.
An indie game about cops, drugs and Bob Marley where you have 30 seconds to hide your drugs.
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Indie Dev Simulator
Another title from Egor Magurin, the studio behind Bystander. Shares Indie and Simulation with Bystander.
In this game, you're playing as game developer and encounter typical problems like eating and sleeping. You need to correctly allocate your time for human needs, hobbies and work, to live another day as indie developer.
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Frequently asked about Bystander
- How much does Bystander cost?
- Bystander is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Bystander?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Bystander are WARMA, BONEWORKS, Plebby Quest: The Crusades.
- Who developed Bystander?
- Bystander was developed by Egor Magurin and published by Indovers Studio.
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 Bystander.
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