Games like Transient: Extended Edition
If Transient: Extended Edition is your kind of game, the closest matches are Waking Tides, SIGNALIS and Call of Cthulhu® — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its multiple endings encourage replayability, atmospheric and contemplative. 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 Transient: Extended Edition: H.P. Lovecraft meets Cyberpunk. Delve deep into a dystopian world and investigate what is happening to you and your friends in a domed city. Solve puzzles, hack systems and plug in to explore other dimensions. Discover a truth that might tear apart your sanity and question your very existence.
Players who liked Transient: Extended Edition also play
Steam players who put hours into Transient: Extended Edition 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.
Waking Tides
WHY THIS
Top pick for Transient: Extended Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
Welcome to "Waking Tides," a small but captivating atmospheric adventure game that thrives on experimentation. Delve into a world where augmented reality extends your gameplay, seamlessly blurring the lines between reality and fantasy.
SIGNALIS
WHY THIS
Shares environmental puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Transient: Extended Edition.
Second-strongest match for Transient: Extended Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
A classic survival horror experience set in a dystopian future where humanity has uncovered a dark secret. Unravel a cosmic mystery, escape terrifying creatures, and scavenge an off-world government facility as Elster, a technician Replika searching for her lost dreams.
Call of Cthulhu®
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Transient: Extended Edition.
Third-strongest match for Transient: Extended Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
1924. Private Investigator Pierce is sent to look into the tragic death of the Hawkins family. Plunge into a world of creeping madness and cosmic horror. Cryptic clues, shadowy figures, and pure terror bar your way as you fight to retain your sanity and solve an otherworldly mystery.
>observer_
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Transient: Extended Edition.
Ranked #4 for Transient: Extended Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
The original first‑person cyberpunk horror detective tale set in a decaying, neon‑scarred future. As an Observer who invades minds to hunt for clues, you will sift through corrupted memories to track down a mysterious killer and confront your own dark past.
LOST ZION
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Transient: Extended Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
Lost Zion is an atmospheric cyberpunk horror game. Awakened by a faint signal as a service bot, explore the forsaken megacity of Lost Zion. Uncover the Emperor's horrific secrets. Obey your sole command: Activate the Gravity Core.
Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Transient: Extended Edition.
Ranked #6 for Transient: Extended Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
Explore disturbing corners of the human psyche. Delve into a dimension of nightmares, the occult and a tense psychological world created in classic Lovecraftian style. As police detective Howard E. Loreid, you are tasked to solve the murder of Clark Field, a wealthy man involved in the occult.
The Sinking City Remastered
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Transient: Extended Edition.
Ranked #7 for Transient: Extended Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
Powered by Unreal Engine 5, The Sinking City Remastered brings the eerie, atmospheric world of Oakmont back to life with enhanced gameplay and fully relit environments, perfect for both newcomers and returning players.
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Into The Matrix
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Transient: Extended Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
"Into The Matrix" is a multiplayer horror game where you and your friends must explore, survive, and outsmart dangers . Many entities are after you, but the Overseer is the true threat. Can you escape its grasp?
Magrunner: Dark Pulse
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Transient: Extended Edition.
Reviewers of Transient: Extended Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
Magrunner: Dark Pulse is an action-puzzle game in which technology confronts the Cthulhu Mythos, penned by H.P. Lovecraft. Equipped with your Magtech glove, you must harness the ability to magnetically polarize and manipulate objects in the environment to survive and surpass challenging puzzles.
>observer_
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Transient: Extended Edition.
Reviewers of Transient: Extended Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
The original first‑person cyberpunk horror detective tale set in a decaying, neon‑scarred future. As an Observer who invades minds to hunt for clues, you will sift through corrupted memories to track down a mysterious killer and confront your own dark past.
Conarium
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Transient: Extended Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
Conarium is a chilling Lovecraftian game, which follows a gripping story involving four scientists and their endeavor to challenge what we normally consider to be the ‘absolute’ limits of nature. Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s novella "At the Mountains of Madness", but largely set after the original story.
Portal
WHY THIS
Shares an unsettling mood with Transient: Extended Edition.
Reviewers of Transient: Extended Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
Alone in the Dark
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Transient: Extended Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
Return to Derceto Manor in this reimagination of Alone in the Dark, a love letter to the 90’s cult classic horror game.
Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Transient: Extended Edition.
Reviewers of Transient: Extended Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
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.
moon: Remix RPG Adventure
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Transient: Extended Edition.
Reviewers of Transient: Extended Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
Don't be a hero. Experience the love. Experience moon. moon is an anti-RPG steeped in story and character, mood and music.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Transient: Extended Edition at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Transient: Extended Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Transient: Extended Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Transient: Extended Edition.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Transient: Extended Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Transient: Extended Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Transient: Extended Edition.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Transient: Extended Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Transient: Extended Edition.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Transient: Extended Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Transient: Extended Edition.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Transient: Extended Edition.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Transient: Extended Edition.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Transient: Extended Edition.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Transient: Extended Edition.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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More from Stormling Studios
Other recommendable Steam games by Stormling Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Conarium
WHY THIS
Another title from Stormling Studios, the studio behind Transient: Extended Edition. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
Conarium is a chilling Lovecraftian game, which follows a gripping story involving four scientists and their endeavor to challenge what we normally consider to be the ‘absolute’ limits of nature. Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s novella "At the Mountains of Madness", but largely set after the original story.
Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Transient: Extended Edition.
Another title from Stormling Studios, the studio behind Transient: Extended Edition. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
Explore disturbing corners of the human psyche. Delve into a dimension of nightmares, the occult and a tense psychological world created in classic Lovecraftian style. As police detective Howard E. Loreid, you are tasked to solve the murder of Clark Field, a wealthy man involved in the occult.
Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage
WHY THIS
Shares document collection, environmental puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Transient: Extended Edition.
Another title from Stormling Studios, the studio behind Transient: Extended Edition. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
In "The Dark Lineage" you re-take the role of police detective Howard Loreid, a man tormented by the paranormal happenings around him. Howard discovers that his own terrible past has some connection to the madness that is about to swallow him, yet again.
Lunacy: Saint Rhodes
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Transient: Extended Edition.
Another title from Stormling Studios, the studio behind Transient: Extended Edition. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
Lunacy: Saint Rhodes is a first-person psychological horror adventure game. Explore your dark family history, solve puzzles and experience a gut-wrenching feeling of terror. You are being watched; never alone, never safe.
Veil of Madness
WHY THIS
Another title from Stormling Studios, the studio behind Transient: Extended Edition. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transient: Extended Edition.
In Veil of Madness, the mind is the battlefield and your deck is your only weapon. Plunged into a first-person nightmare, you'll battle horrors without and madness within through strategic card combat and harrowing psychological mystery.
Frequently asked about Transient: Extended Edition
- Does Transient: Extended Edition run on Steam Deck?
- Transient: Extended Edition 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 Transient: Extended Edition cost?
- Transient: Extended Edition is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Transient: Extended Edition?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Transient: Extended Edition are Waking Tides, SIGNALIS, Call of Cthulhu®.
- Who developed Transient: Extended Edition?
- Transient: Extended Edition was developed by Stormling Studios and published by Iceberg Interactive.
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