Games like Backbone: Prologue on PC
Closest overall match: Penumbra: Requiem (★ 3.4). Quickest to finish: Penumbra: Requiem at about 1 hours.
These 8 games score highest on our similarity model for Backbone: Prologue — weighted by shared tags, genre overlap, rating proximity and release era. What ties them together most: Singleplayer, Point & Click and Steam Achievements.
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67%
1. Penumbra: Requiem
Shares Captions available and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2008
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 67
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 82%
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
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66%
2. Smile For Me
Shares Captions available, Point & Click, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; rated 0.6 higher.
- Year
- 2019
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 80%
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
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63%
3. The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles
Shares Point & Click, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 3.1
- Metacritic
- 73
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 79%
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
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63%
4. Reversion - The Escape (1st Chapter)
Shares Point & Click, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; rated 1.5 lower.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 1.8
- Playtime
- 2h
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
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62%
5. Alpha Polaris: A Horror Adventure Game
Shares Point & Click, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.0
- Playtime
- 2h
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
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62%
6. Tails Noir
Shares Point & Click, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; same developer.
- Year
- 2021
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 68
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 73%
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
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62%
7. Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller
Shares Captions available, Point & Click, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; rated 0.4 higher.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.7
- Playtime
- 4h
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
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61%
8. Still There
Shares Point & Click, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2019
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 78%
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
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What is the best game like Backbone: Prologue on PC?
On our similarity model, Penumbra: Requiem is the closest match to Backbone: Prologue on PC — shares Captions available and Singleplayer.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Backbone: Prologue on five signals: weighted tag overlap (rare tags count more), genre overlap, platform family overlap, rating and playtime proximity, and release era. The list is recomputed nightly as ratings and new releases change.
Base game data via RAWG.