Games like A Story of Distress
If A Story of Distress is your kind of game, the closest matches are HammerBorn: Tears Of Mani, Wolf and Pigs and The Ninth Way — 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 A Story of Distress: You and your brother set off to the big city of Aston in order to become successful merchants, but things go wrong when your brother gets murdered, filling your heart with pure rage. Take your vengeance on those who defied you. Use stealth to your advantage and try not to get consumed by rage.
Players who liked A Story of Distress also play
Steam players who put hours into A Story of Distress 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.
HammerBorn: Tears Of Mani
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Top pick for A Story of Distress fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with A Story of Distress.
A Roguelike RPG VR Experience - Craft, build, and survive in this procedurally generated land full of fantasy and wonder. Explore and unlock secrets, events, and mysterious creatures in the world of Hammerborn: Tears of Mani
Wolf and Pigs
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for A Story of Distress fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with A Story of Distress.
Wolf & Pigs: Out for Vengeance is a fresh take on the classic fable “The Three Little Pigs.” When the notorious Pig Brothers Gang invades the New World to build their compound, an unlikely protector vows to put an end to the Pigs greedy, nature-destroying ways!
The Ninth Way
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for A Story of Distress fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with A Story of Distress.
The Ninth Way is an action game which will accompany you on a journey of magic, intrigue and mystery. You will be able to combine the elements at your disposal to create new powerful spells and conjurations in your fight.
Yoren
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Ranked #4 for A Story of Distress fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with A Story of Distress.
Yoren is the first cutting-edge realistic VR magic game. Cast spells by drawing rune gestures, explore the openworld collecting crafting ingredients for potions and battle the numerous bosses of fallen kingdoms in the world of Yoren.
FILE 9
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Ranked #5 for A Story of Distress fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with A Story of Distress.
FILE 9, built by Alfred Cypress, is one of the Sub Terminals housing several areas for Cypress training simulations. Each designed with their own unique features, using everything from stealth, weapons, searching, and sometimes strategy to achieve objectives.
Unknightly
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Ranked #6 for A Story of Distress fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with A Story of Distress.
Unknightly is a medieval VR stealth game designed from the ground up for virtual reality. You assume the role of a retired master-thief as he is drawn back into a life once thought left behind.
Demeo
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Ranked #7 for A Story of Distress fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with A Story of Distress.
Adventurers, it’s time to unite! Gather your friends and battle the dark forces that have overtaken the world of Resolution Games' award-winning RPG dungeon crawler, Demeo. The next generation of tabletop adventure has arrived!
Legendary Tales
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Ranked #8 for A Story of Distress fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with A Story of Distress.
Legendary tales is a VR Action roleplaying game with up to 4 player co-op. Collect items, enhance your abilities and fight your way through an ever changing dungeon to make your own Legendary Tales.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below A Story of Distress at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under A Story of Distress on Steam right now. Shares Indie with A Story of Distress.
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
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Priced ~50% under A Story of Distress on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with A Story of Distress.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under A Story of Distress on Steam right now. Shares Action with A Story of Distress.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~50% under A Story of Distress on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with A Story of Distress.
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
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Priced ~50% under A Story of Distress on Steam right now. Shares Indie with A Story of Distress.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under A Story of Distress on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with A Story of Distress.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~50% under A Story of Distress on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with A Story of Distress.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~70% under A Story of Distress on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with A Story of Distress.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Story of Distress.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with A Story of Distress.
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.
Waltz of the Wizard (Legacy demo)
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Story of Distress.
Store page for the legacy demo of Waltz of the Wizard created as a prototype to showcase the power of room-scale VR. Please find the full product in the description below.
SCP: Secret Laboratory
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with A Story of Distress.
Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.
Clicker Heroes
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with A Story of Distress.
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.
Bloons TD Battles
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with A Story of Distress.
Go head to head with other players in a Bloon-popping battle for victory. From the creators of best-selling Bloons TD 5, this all new Battles game is specially designed for multiplayer combat, featuring the ability to control bloons directly and send them charging past your opponent's defenses.
One-armed robber
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with A Story of Distress.
One-armed robber is a chaotic first-person heist game that centers around a uniquely challenging premise. Players take the role of a determined robber equipped with only one arm, tasked with pulling off daring heists on banks, shops, and various establishments.
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Frequently asked about A Story of Distress
- How much does A Story of Distress cost?
- A Story of Distress is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to A Story of Distress?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside A Story of Distress are HammerBorn: Tears Of Mani, Wolf and Pigs, The Ninth Way.
- Who developed A Story of Distress?
- A Story of Distress was developed by Yellow Panda Games.
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