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WallRus Group · 2020 · Windows

Steam: 71 % positive of 163 reviews, as of Oct 28

When I Was Young is a stylish and challenging 2D action game set during the Vietnam War. Fight your way through the brutal firefights enjoying a unique combat system and a story-driven campaign. Immerse yourself in the fascinating entourage of the 1960s!

24 games that play like When I Was Young and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Men of Valor, Vietnam War and Hotline Miami.

Player tags

  • Action
  • Adventure
  • Indie
  • 2D
  • Pixel Graphics
  • Historical
  • War
  • Military
Map region: War & Military
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Plays and looks like When I Was Young

These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like When I Was Young

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam97 % positive of 232Shared: Historical · War · Military
  2. UnMetal94 % positive of 2,473Shared: Pixel Graphics · War · Military
  3. Laika: Aged Through Blood90 % positive of 6,043Shared: Difficult · Platformer · Story Rich
  4. Operation Warcade VR93 % positive of 278Shared: Military · Retro · Action
  5. 198X85 % positive of 608Shared: Pixel Graphics · Retro · Action
  6. Door Kickers: Action Squad94 % positive of 8,797Shared: Pixel Graphics · Retro · Action
  7. CONSCRIPT: Director’s Cut90 % positive of 2,050Shared: Pixel Graphics · Historical · War
  8. Iron Storm75 % positive of 136Shared: Action · Adventure · Indie
  9. The Caribou Trail89 % positive of 669
  10. A.W.O.L.77 % positive of 1,159Shared: Military · Retro · Action
  11. Air Conflicts: Vietnam34 % positive of 229Shared: Action
  12. Steel Assault77 % positive of 387Shared: Pixel Graphics · Difficult · Platformer

By look

Looks like When I Was Young

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Trench Face93 % positive of 760
  2. RUNNING WITH RIFLES87 % positive of 14,708
  3. March of the Living69 % positive of 433
  4. Death Road to Canada91 % positive of 9,170
  5. RATUZ87 % positive of 348
  6. The Happyhills Homicide 2: Out For Blood94 % positive of 758
  7. The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark95 % positive of 1,641
  8. Last Group Out80 % positive of 593
  9. Chromosome Evil 286 % positive of 253
  10. Night Raider84 % positive of 1,924
  11. 坏小孩95 % positive of 1,590
  12. Bloody Walls79 % positive of 1,540

At a glance

What games like When I Was Young have in common

  • The tags they share most often with When I Was Young: War (13 of 24), Military (12) and Historical (9).
  • They came out between 2010 and 2026, 10 of them after When I Was Young (2020).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Katana ZERO (96 % positive of 66,629).

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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