Games like Bystander
If Bystander is your kind of game, the closest matches are WARMA, BONEWORKS and The Escapists — 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.
Get personalized picks →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.
Players who liked Bystander also play
Steam players who put hours into Bystander 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.
BONEWORKS
WHY THIS
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.
The Escapists
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match 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!
Rebel Galaxy
WHY THIS
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.
Plebby Quest: The Crusades
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 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?”
Objects in Space
WHY THIS
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.
The Magic Circle
WHY THIS
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?
Party Hard 2
WHY THIS
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!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Bystander at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Bystander on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Bystander.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~50% under Bystander on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bystander.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Bystander on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Bystander.
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 ~67% under Bystander on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Bystander.
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
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Priced ~67% under Bystander on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Bystander.
"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 ~67% under Bystander on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Bystander.
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 ~67% under Bystander on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Bystander.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Bystander.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Aimlabs
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Bystander.
Aimlabs is the aim trainer of choice for over 45 Million players, from beginners to esports pros. Our unique aim analysis optimizes your gameplay, targets your weaknesses & builds key skills for any FPS game! Time to warm up with our unlimited scenarios & rank up in-game!
Clicker Heroes
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bystander.
Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.
TrackMania Nations Forever
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A free game in the truest sense of the word, TrackMania Nations Forever lets you drive at mind-blowing speeds on fun and spectacular tracks in solo and multiplayer modes.TrackMania Nations Forever offers a new "Forever" version of the Stadium environment, a solid solo mode and 65 brand new, progressively challenging tracks.
Endless Sky
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Bystander.
Endless Sky is a 2D space trading and combat game inspired by the classic Escape Velocity series. Work your way up from a relatively wimpy shuttle, cargo ship, or fighter, to a highly upgraded and customized flagship or to a massive fleet of warships or freighters.
Devolverland Expo
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Bystander.
Devolverland Expo is a first-person 'marketing simulator' set within an abandoned convention center after the annual Devolver Digital game expo was mysteriously canceled.
Soda Dungeon 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Bystander.
Everyone’s favorite laid-back dungeon crawler returns in Soda Dungeon 2. Featuring a new adventure, a whole town to upgrade, crafting, new classes, alternate dimensions, and more! It’s everything you loved about the original plus all the stuff you’ve been asking for.
Time Clickers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Bystander.
Time Clickers is what's called an 'incremental game'. There's always a fun upgrade to look forward to, and the numbers keep getting bigger! Hire a team to fight for you, even when you're offline!
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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.
hack_me
WHY THIS
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.
Numberline 2
WHY THIS
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.
ThinkAhead
WHY THIS
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.
30 Seconds To Jail
WHY THIS
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.
Indie Dev Simulator
WHY THIS
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.
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, The Escapists.
- Who developed Bystander?
- Bystander was developed by Egor Magurin and published by Indovers Studio.
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