Transience similar games & best alternatives

Transience

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2025

Should you play it?

Become an Accountant - a hired mercenary who keeps the books balanced by any means necessary. This time though, you are the intended target. Take a journey through New Houston in the year 2056 and follow one man's tale of revenge as he escapes Transience.

What works
  • Solid and satisfying gunplay
  • Engaging tactical stealth gameplay
  • Weapon customization on the fly
  • Immersive cyberpunk-noir atmosphere
  • Active developer support and updates
Things to keep in mind
  • Ai is inconsistent and exploitable
  • Slow and punishing early pacing
  • Some bugs and performance issues
  • Excessive and sometimes annoying dialogue
  • Linear level design limits exploration

What to play next

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Top picks

Games that feel the closest overall

  • Dread Templar

  • Zortch

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  • Tower of Guns

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  • HOLE

  • The Last Stand: Aftermath

  • Little Witch Nobeta

  • Project Warlock II
Hidden Gems

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

  • Zortch

  • ADACA

  • Gryphon Knight Epic
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Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Why this game works” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

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Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

Transience: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Fellowship, Violence, Survival, Cooperation. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Leadership, Relaxation, Fantasy.

Why this game works

A motivational profile of the game, with the closest similar game for each player motivation.

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