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- Released: 2017
- Developer: Egor Magurin
- Price: $2.99checked Nov 2
- 25% of 8 reviews
- Genres: Action, Indie, Adventure, Simulation
- Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux
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About Bystander
The closest matches to Bystander: Beat Cop, Breathedge, Through the Darkest of Times, [Chilla's Art] Stigmatized Property | 事故物件, and House of Lizards. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
If Bystander is your kind of game, the closest matches are Beat Cop, Breathedge and Through the Darkest of Times — 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.
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.
Is Bystander worth buying?
Too few reviews to call
A summary of what players say, not a promise you'll like it. Every signal is listed below.
- Only 8 Steam reviews so far, not enough to judge.
- On sale: 79% off, now $0.62 (checked Oct 3).
Top critical reviews
The most up-voted negative English reviews in our sample, quoted as written.
“When 'Papers, Please' goes online. The game is similar. You make a judgement on the item based on the state regulation and/or some task given to you. The game is really in early stage but foundation of game mechanic is already laid and can…”
“*Sigh* This game was just tiring. I wouldn't come to say it was a complete rip off of Paper's Please, but it was a very similar game but just worse. Mainly to the point that I played, at most, 10 minutes, I saw multiple repeats of the same…”
People who play it also play: Beat Cop, Breathedge, Through the Darkest of Times
Frequently asked about Bystander
Can I run it?
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 Beat Cop, Breathedge, Through the Darkest of Times.
Who developed Bystander?
Bystander was developed by Egor Magurin and published by Indovers Studio.