Games like Before the Echo
by Iridium Studios
Before the Echo combines elements of both rhythm and role-playing games to create an entirely unique experience.
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$19.99Everhood 2
Mar 4 · Chris Nordgren, Jordi Roca
Both: Music · Rhythm
AN UNCONVENTIONAL ARPG where you battle enemies through musical encounters while being accompanied by a raven who promises to retrieve your voice if you slay the mighty Mind Dragon!🎵
PsychedelicMusicIndieStory Rich2DRPGPixel GraphicsChoices MatterSingleplayerRhythm👍 2,205
-65%$6.99Drums Rock
Jun 14 · Garage51
Both: Rhythm · Music
Drums Rock is an arcade drums game for VR, follow the rhythm of rock with your drums and smash the demons. Live a unique campaign: with different levels, challenges, songs and worlds. Drums Rock is an ideal game to feel like a rock hero, while destroying hordes of demons to the rhythm of rock!
VRRhythmIndieRock MusicCasualMusicDemonsArcadeSingleplayerShoot 'Em Up👍 403
$5.99Frederic: Resurrection of Music Director's Cut
Apr 21 · Forever Entertainment S. A.
Both: Music · Rhythm · Comedy
New version of cult game with new levels and exclusive Steam online multiplayer! Frederic Chopin – a long time deceased classical compositor – returns back from beyond the grave to fight intense musical duels. In his way stand some of the worlds greatest pop stars charmed with enormous profits that wild commercialization provides
IndieActionCasualGreat SoundtrackMusicRhythmComedyMultiplayer👍 252
$19.99Wandersong
Sep 27 · Wishes Ultd., Greg Lobanov, A Shell in the Pit
Both: Music · Comedy · Funny
A musical platforming adventure with an emotional story. Play as a silly bard and use music to interact with everything on a journey around the world. Along the way you'll explore, solve puzzles, and meet a huge cast of characters!
MusicAdventureComedyIndieEmotionalStory RichGreat SoundtrackColorfulCuteFunny👍 2,185
$12.99Old School Musical
Sep 13 · La Moutarde
Both: Rhythm · Music
What has 50 amazing chiptune tracks, a loony story mode, 32 different chicken types to fight, and takes you on a tour of all your favorite retro games? It's Old School Musical! Tib and Rob are the heroes of a wacky adventure that will teach them where all of the bugs in our favorite games come from.
IndieActionAdventureRhythmRetroPixel GraphicsMusicDifficultGreat Soundtrack2D👍 724
-80%$2.99Road to Ballhalla
Aug 5 · Torched Hill
Both: Comedy · Funny · Rhythm
Roll and be trolled on your journey to the legendary place called Ballhalla. Follow the beat to overcome deadly hazards in sync with the music. Style your balls and marble at awful puns in the roll playing game of the year!
ComedyFunnyRhythmPuzzle PlatformerDark HumorMinimalistArcadeMusicDifficultColorful
$9.99Everhood
Mar 4 · Chris Nordgren, Jordi Roca
Both: Music
An UNCONVENTIONAL ADVENTURE RPG that takes place in an inexpressible world filled with amusing musical battles and strange delightful encounters. To put it simply: You are in for a ride.🍄
Great SoundtrackMusicStory RichPsychedelicSingleplayerBullet Hell2DPixel GraphicsSurrealRPG👍 11,438
$10.99Beat Blast
Aug 25 · Woolly Walrus Games
Both: Music · Rhythm
Create musical beats that kill. Beat Blast is a music maker, bullet hell, dungeon crawler, roguelite. Battle through dungeons and defeat big bosses. Collect weapons, passives and musical instruments!
Bullet HellMusicDifficultAction RoguelikeDungeon CrawlerRoguelikeSingleplayerAction2DRhythm👍 387
$1.99Linea, the Game
Jan 4 · KHB-Soft
Both: Music
The goal of the game is to survive for more than 60 seconds on each level, dodging platforms and objects, listening to bitpop soundtracks. Four levels, online-records, achievements and trading cards are waiting for you.
IndieCasualMinimalistDifficultActionFast-PacedArcadeMusicMusic-Based Procedural GenerationPsychedelic👍 883
$9.99弹幕音乐绘 ~风雷幻奏曲~ / Barrage Musical ~A Fantasy of Tempest~
Oct 7 · SlimeSmile
Both: Rhythm
This is a music rhythm STG where stages with highly BGM synchronization will show you a barrage musical; A shop system with dozens of items available offers you infinite possibility; An AI based auto dodging system benefits beginners.
IndieActionBullet HellGreat SoundtrackShoot 'Em UpAnimeShooterFemale ProtagonistRhythm👍 328
$14.99Tiny Echo
Aug 31 · Might and Delight
Explore a lovingly crafted world with all its odd inhabitants as you experience the ethereal realm and deliver messages to the spirits. Make your mark in the wordless narrative - with a Tiny Echo.
AdventureIndieCasualPoint & ClickCuteAtmosphericSingleplayerHand-drawnRelaxingShort👍 477
$9.99Savant - Ascent REMIX
Sep 29 · D-Pad Studio
Both: Music
Savant - Ascent REMIX is an explosive shoot-em-up / scrolling shooter, starring an acrobatic wizard on an elevator-ride. Unlock destructive spells & acrobatic moves as you survive through a tower brimming with robotic fiends!
Bullet HellShoot 'Em UpTwin Stick ShooterScore AttackTime AttackArcadeMusicDark FantasyGothicShooter👍 330
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$4.99ISLANDS: Non-Places
Nov 17 · Carl Burton
Both: Experimental
The familiar becomes magical in this critically acclaimed interactive artscape. Explore ten scenes inspired by the everyday and let your expectations of reality be transformed. Carl Burton's other work has been featured in the New York Times, Serial, Colossal, and Medium.
IndieCasualSurrealAtmosphericExperimentalAbstractRelaxing👍 325
$9.99The Hex
Oct 16 · Daniel Mullins Games
Both: Funny
In a creaky old tavern, in a forgotten corner of the video-game universe, a storm is raging. An anonymous caller suggests that there is a murder plot. Six video game protagonists are the only plausible suspects...
IndieStory RichSingleplayerMysteryPsychological HorrorPixel GraphicsDarkFunnyGreat Soundtrack2D👍 4,494
$14.99Mushroom 11
Oct 15 · Untame
Both: Experimental
An award-winning anti-platformer where destruction is the only way to move. Mold yourself into any form by destroying your cells, and traverse a devastated landscape filled with brain-twisting puzzles and bizarre mutations. Are you ready to break the mold?
IndieActionAdventurePuzzlePlatformerPuzzle PlatformerPhysicsExperimental2DAtmospheric👍 140
-40%$5.99OneShot
Dec 8 · Future Cat LLC
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Story RichPixel GraphicsIndieGreat SoundtrackCuteAtmosphericPuzzleSingleplayerChoices MatterAdventure👍 59,257
Elegy for a Dead World
Dec 10 · Dejobaan Games, LLC, Popcannibal
Both: Experimental
Explore dead civilizations, write about what you find, and share your stories with the universe: a game about writing fiction.
IndieAdventureStory RichAtmosphericInteractive FictionExplorationWalking SimulatorExperimentalSingleplayerSci-fi👍 121
$3.99A Bird Story
Nov 7 · Freebird Games
An experimental short from the creator of To the Moon & Finding Paradise: A simple & surreal 1-hour interactive animation about a boy and an injured bird, told without dialogues.If you're looking for To the Moon-like experience, I'd suggest playing Finding Paradise first.
IndieStory RichGreat SoundtrackPixel GraphicsShortAdventureSingleplayerInteractive Fiction2DRPG👍 8,206
$14.99Mago
Jun 21 · Dream Potion Games
Both: Funny
Mago is a retro 2D platformer that puts us in the boots of a sorcerer, who was unfortunate enough to eat evil overlords' food. Now he has to rescue his beloved princess from the dinner menu of the evil Gourmet! Nostalgia awaits!
IndieAdventurePlatformerPixel Graphics2DRetroGreat SoundtrackFunnyDifficultSingleplayer👍 933
$1.99Antihorror
Jul 27 · HFM Games
Both: Comedy · Funny
Strange coincidence brought traveler in unfamiliar places. It would be fine, except sinister desolation is starting to embrace the surroundings. There is no another soul around for the tens of kilometers. Or that’s what it seems like? I should probably go deal with that.
ActionIndieHorrorComedyFunnyWalking SimulatorFirst-PersonPsychological HorrorSingleplayerAdventure👍 212
-80%$1.19Lovely Planet
Jul 31 · quicktequila
A First Person Shooter Gun Ballet set in a cutesy abstract world. Jump and shoot your way through five worlds full of treacherous enemies with your trusty semi-automatic!
IndieActionFPSCuteDifficultGreat SoundtrackFast-PacedShooterFirst-PersonSingleplayer👍 1,385
$0.99Wooden House
Sep 5 · GDNomaD
What could be better than relaxing in nature? Taking a break from the hustle and bustle of the city in a small cottage. Spending time reading books by the fireplace. But one night, strange voices began to echo from deep within the basement.
Walking SimulatorShortIndieDarkSurvival HorrorAdventureFirst-PersonSingleplayerPvENature👍 158
$24.99Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition
Feb 22 · Cardboard Computer
KENTUCKY ROUTE ZERO is a magical realist adventure game about a secret highway running through the caves beneath Kentucky, and the mysterious folks who travel it.
AdventureAtmosphericPoint & ClickIndieSurrealStory RichEpisodicGreat SoundtrackNarrativeMystery👍 3,243
Dark Echo
May 11 · RAC7 Games
Trapped in darkness, you must use visualized sound to guide your way through threatening environments. The sounds you create will bounce off obstacles, revealing the shape of the surrounding world. It won't be long before your only way of sensing the world attracts a horrifying evil that devours both sound and souls.
AdventureIndiePuzzleHorrorAtmosphericSingleplayerPsychological HorrorMinimalist2DDark👍 835
$29.99The Talos Principle
Dec 11 · Croteam
The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).
PuzzlePhilosophicalFirst-PersonSci-fiStory RichAtmosphericSingleplayerGreat SoundtrackRobotsExploration👍 29,240
-80%$3.99Arise: A Simple Story
Dec 3 · Piccolo Studio
Embark on an emotional journey of losing the love of one's life. Manipulate time, solve puzzles, reshape surroundings as you push forward into the bittersweet recollections of a past life. This is a story about happiness and hardship, joy and sorrow. A story that all of us will one day experience.
3D PlatformerEmotionalTime ManipulationExplorationCuteRelaxingPuzzle PlatformerLocal Co-OpStory RichPlatformer👍 2,726
$24.99ECHO
Sep 19 · ULTRA ULTRA
After a century in stasis the girl En arrives at her destination: A Palace out of legend. Out here, using forgotten technologies, she hopes to bring back a life that shouldn’t have been lost. But nothing could prepare her for what she’ll face in the ancient halls below.
StealthSci-fiFemale ProtagonistAdventureIndieThird PersonActionAtmosphericSingleplayerHorror👍 1,540








