Transience similar games & best alternatives

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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

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Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
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How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Transience. These titles are not in What to play next.

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

Last update: 26/08/2026