Games like Flashback
If Flashback is your kind of game, the closest matches are Another World – 20th Anniversary Edition, IZBOT 2 and Belle Boomerang — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, cinematic and nostalgic. 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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Players who liked Flashback also play
Steam players who put hours into Flashback 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.
Another World – 20th Anniversary Edition
WHY THIS
Shares rotoscoped animation and an atmospheric mood with Flashback.
Top pick for Flashback fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Flashback.
Also known as Out Of This World™, Another World is a pioneer action/platformer that released across more than a dozen platforms since its debut in 1991. Along the years, Another World™ has attained cult status among critics and sophisticated gamers alike.
IZBOT 2
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Flashback fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Flashback.
IZBOT 2 is a fast paced precision platformer that will test your mettle and will leave you always wanting to complete just one more level. Use your cat like reflexes to guide our hero IZBOT through buzz saws, lasers and a ton of pointy spikes to save the metropolis from the evil Bedlor once more.
Belle Boomerang
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Flashback.
Third-strongest match for Flashback fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Flashback.
A fast-action platformer packed with beautiful pixel art and exciting variation in every level!
Palette Swap
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Flashback fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Flashback.
A monochrome action platformer where the palette changes the environment around you
Glowmonkey2k
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Flashback fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Flashback.
Fight through a corrupted digital world as Glowmonkey, switching weapons on the fly to defeat enemies immune to the wrong attack.
Proxyma
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Flashback fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Flashback.
Proxyma is a hardcore retro-style 2D platformer that challenges you to finish 13 increasingly hard levels in a single run.
Robot-X
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Flashback fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Flashback.
A fast-paced platform shooter inspired by 90s classics. Follow Robot-X on a journey to protect the city from a new danger, fight bosses and jump over pits in this retro experience.
POGOMAN
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Flashback fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Flashback.
POGOMAN is a fast-paced physics platformer where you navigate tough, nerve-wracking levels on a pogostick. Master cool maneuvers, unlock abilities, and survive intense challenges as you bounce through unique biomes. Precision and timing are everything. Oh, and don`t get hit in the head.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Flashback
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Live the Life
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Flashback.
Reviewers of Flashback cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Live the Life is the first person life simulation game focused on the deep player's interaction with the environment. Design your apartment using advanced building features, visit stores to buy furniture, food and clothing you like, and more completely free content coming soon
Robot terminator
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Flashback cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Flashback.
This is a third person action adventure game，The player is on an island full of monsters，Players can explore freely in bad weather，The player must kill the monster or avoid the monster's attack and survive as long as possible.
Future Wars
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Flashback.
Reviewers of Flashback cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Battle it out on the proving grounds and get ready for Future Wars. Similar to classic titles such as Advance Wars and Battle Isle, the game takes strategy gaming away from the micro-management overkill that it has become and using simple, proven rock-paper-scissors principles, reopens the genre to everyone.
Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Flashback.
Reviewers of Flashback cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Flashback.
Built from scratch, enjoy breathtaking visuals, enhanced audio and improved, deeper gameplay as New 'n' Tasty reignites the original Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee using the latest next-generation technology.
The Running Man
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Flashback cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Flashback.
If you want to relax, this game is not for you, this game is made to make you rage. go through challenging and hard levels and run to the finish line. will you take the challenge?
Elijah and the Out of this World Adventure
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Flashback cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Flashback.
A sci-fi action game that explores the great sites of Ohio!
Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Flashback.
Reviewers of Flashback cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Flashback.
Armed with your investigative skills and the tools of the Blade Runner trade, you'll be immersed in a world that lives and breathes around you with breakthrough lighting and visual effects. Your ability to survive will be put to the test in the richest game environment ever created.
PREDATOR AND WRECK
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Flashback cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Flashback.
Test your mettle with the award-winning stealth horror/sci-fi game PREDATOR AND WRECK. Keep your eyes and ears open, and be on the lookout for the strange, mutating, man-eating life form stalking the space station while you attempt to make your escape and unravel a mystery.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Flashback at current Steam store prices.
Miss Neko
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Flashback on Steam right now. Shares Action with Flashback.
Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)
QUICKERFLAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Flashback on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Flashback.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Gachi Heroes
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Flashback on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Flashback.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Flashback on Steam right now. Shares Action with Flashback.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
Shotgun Legend
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Flashback on Steam right now. Shares Action with Flashback.
Eugene must battle aliens and the undead in search of a truck rim, as it seems to be his ticket home.
Love wish
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Flashback on Steam right now. Shares Action with Flashback.
Love Wish is an easy, fun and challenging jigsaw puzzle.♪(^∇^*) Put the pieces together to restore the full picture of the girls. Collect their photos and animations and remember this wonderful moment❤
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Flashback.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Flashback.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Flashback.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Flashback.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Flashback.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Flashback.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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More from Paul Cuisset
Other recommendable Steam games by Paul Cuisset, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Subject 13
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Flashback.
Another title from Paul Cuisset, the studio behind Flashback. Shares Adventure with Flashback.
Play as Franklin Fargo, a quiet physics professor who has led a bitter existence ever since his fiancée died in a holdup in which he was supposed to be the victim. One morning, he wakes up in the middle of an abandoned scientific facility. His only link with the outside world is a voice that calls him "Subject 13".
Flashback 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Flashback.
Another title from Paul Cuisset, the studio behind Flashback. Shares Action and Adventure with Flashback.
Immerse yourself in an action-packed cyberpunk universe where the fate of humanity itself hangs in the balance. The Morphs are preparing their final attack, determined to enslave every civilization in the Solar System — and it's your mission to fight back!
DarkStone Restoration
WHY THIS
Another title from Paul Cuisset, the studio behind Flashback.
Darkstone Restoration brings the classic action RPG back to modern PCs with improved stability, compatibility, controls, readability, and quality-of-life improvements — while preserving the spirit of the original game.
Frequently asked about Flashback
- Does Flashback run on Steam Deck?
- Flashback is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Flashback cost?
- Flashback is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Flashback?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Flashback are Another World – 20th Anniversary Edition, IZBOT 2, Belle Boomerang.
- Who developed Flashback?
- Flashback was developed by Paul Cuisset and published by Microids.
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 Flashback.
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