Games like Outer Wilds
Looking for games like Outer Wilds? indielist surfaces 12 similar indie games by shared genre and Steam tags, ranked by review count. Outer Wilds is a action game from 2020; the closest matches share its tags and audience. The top match by reviews is SOMA with 45,295 Steam reviews. Each game links to a white-box sales estimate you can audit. Matches are computed from tracked Steam data, not editorial opinion.
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SOMA
2015 · Action
45,295 reviews · 96% positive
HorrorPsychological HorrorAtmospheric
Same: shares Horror and Psychological Horror. Different: leans more into dark.
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Deliver Us The Moon
2019 · Action
9,353 reviews · 88% positive
AdventureIndieAction
Same: shares Adventure and Indie. Different: leans more into space sim.
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Bendy and the Ink Machine
2017 · Action
24,457 reviews · 89% positive
HorrorFirst-PersonSingleplayer
Same: shares Horror and First-Person. Different: leans more into cartoony.
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Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
2014 · Action
8,191 reviews · 89% positive
HorrorIndieAdventure
Same: shares Horror and Indie. Different: leans more into walking simulator.
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MADiSON
2022 · Action
3,334 reviews · 87% positive
HorrorPsychological HorrorFirst-Person
Same: shares Horror and Psychological Horror. Different: leans more into dark.
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No Man's Sky
2016 · Action
307,436 reviews · 85% positive
Open WorldSpaceExploration
Same: shares Open World and Space. Different: leans more into open world survival craft.
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Ori and the Will of the Wisps
2020 · Action
134,102 reviews · 97% positive
BeautifulGreat SoundtrackSingleplayer
Same: shares Beautiful and Great Soundtrack. Different: leans more into metroidvania.
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
2010 · Action
20,154 reviews · 95% positive
HorrorPsychological HorrorAtmospheric
Same: shares Horror and Psychological Horror. Different: leans more into gore.
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We Happy Few
2018 · Action
13,699 reviews · 77% positive
AdventureOpen WorldAction
Same: shares Adventure and Open World. Different: leans more into survival.
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Visage
2020 · Action
10,737 reviews · 84% positive
HorrorPsychological HorrorFirst-Person
Same: shares Horror and Psychological Horror. Different: leans more into survival horror.
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Metal Garden
2025 · Action
3,489 reviews · 97% positive
AtmosphericSci-fiSingleplayer
Same: shares Atmospheric and Sci-fi. Different: leans more into fps.
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Stray
2022 · Adventure
153,072 reviews · 97% positive
AdventureAtmosphericSingleplayer
Same: shares Adventure and Atmospheric. Different: leans more into cats.
Frequently asked questions
- What games are like Outer Wilds?
- indielist matches 12 indie games to Outer Wilds by shared genre and Steam tags, led by SOMA (45,295 reviews). The list is ranked by review count.
- How are "games like Outer Wilds" chosen?
- By overlap of Steam tags and primary genre with Outer Wilds, weighted by review count as a popularity signal. It is computed from tracked data, not hand-picked, and updates as the catalog grows.