Games like Looking Back
Close alternatives to Looking Back are thin on the ground at the moment. For now, these popular games make a pleasant detour.
Phantom Blade Zero
Phantom Blade Zero is a fast, cinematic kungfu action RPG. You play Soul, a warrior framed for his master's murder, with sixty-six days left to live. Hunt assassins through a dark wuxia world, master dozens of weapons, and unravel a conspiracy before your time runs out.
Emotional, Story-driven
94% of 110,424 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 78,509$59.99Casualties: Unknown
An unforgiving cave-exploration survival sim on an alien planet. You are a test subject sent to retrieve lost cargo across 11 hostile layers, with a simulated cardiovascular and limb system that keeps track of every wound. Bandage, craft, manage your mood, and try to find out what waits at the bottom.
Emotional, Replayable, Surreal
97% of 2,748 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6,079$19.54Queen's Domain
A retro-fantasy action RPG in first person. Washed up on the mysterious Isle of Neasied, you search for your missing father with the Holy Sword Endu, a blade that lets you fly across gaps. Explore a labyrinthine island packed with secrets, fight with stamina and timing, and uncover what the sleeping Queen has begun to stir.
Story-driven, Replayable
95% of 5,816 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8,491$19.99Dressmaker
Dressmaker is a cozy crafting simulation about becoming a dressmaker, from first sketch to final seam. You choose fabrics, cut pattern pieces, sew them together and decorate each dress, then hand finished work over to earn reputation and coin.
Hand-drawn
98% of 20,254 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13,107$14.99Horses of Hoofprint Bay
A hand-drawn barn sim where a run-down shack becomes the stud farm of your dreams. Groom, train and compete your horses, breed foals that inherit their parents' colors and quirks, ride forest and beach trails, and hire staff as your herd grows.
Emotional, Replayable, Hand-drawn
98% of 1,532 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4,019$26.99FINAL FANTASY RESONANCE
A classic-style FINAL FANTASY in HD-2D pixel art: airships, crystals, espers and moogles, turn-based battles built around staggering enemies, and Visions of past heroes fighting beside you. Built for anyone missing old-school party adventures.
Emotional, Story-driven
95% of 5,866 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9,678$49.99Valheim
Valheim puts you in the Tenth World, a Norse mythology afterlife corrupted by hostile forces, to survive solo or together with friends. You sail to unknown shores, raise and defend longhouses, and take down the Forsaken bosses. Beautiful and atmospheric, it rewards building, exploring, and sailing.
Replayable
93% of 477,434 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 61,761$26.99Re2 I Rise Alone
Re2 I Rise Alone is an interactive movie-game where you climb from broke nobody to CEO of a listed company. Train stats, fight in live-action combat, work, invest and flirt over drinks with 10+ romanceable heroines. Your choices and your wallet shape the ending: lonely winner or ladies' man.
Emotional, Story-driven, Replayable
99% of 697 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,747$7.19Playrooms
Someone has to put 200,000 balls back into the ball pits, and the job fell to you. Collect, scoop, unlock new rooms, and when your shift ends and the lights go out one by one, stay in the light. A cleaning job with something almost no one else in it.
Replayable, Surreal
97% of 1,238 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,349$6.99Can 'Em All
A truck drops off a batch of adorable creatures. They are also your income. Shoot them, vacuum up the bodies, crush them into cans and sell the lot, then reinvest in bigger guns, faster conveyors and more automation. A short, funny, physics-driven incremental game about running the least ethical factory in sci-fi.
Replayable, Surreal
97% of 2,907 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,736$6.99TCG Card Shop Simulator
Open a tiny card shop, stock the shelves with booster packs, then give in and rip them open yourself.
96% of 48,607 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4,403$19.99Enshrouded
Embervale is falling to a corrupting fog, and its last chance is you, alone or in co-op. Enshrouded is a survival action RPG about pushing back that fog, shaping a fighter in your own style, and raising whatever you can imagine on land you can reshape.
Replayable
86% of 100,480 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 55,369$39.99
