Games like Heal
If Heal is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Almost Gone, Euclidean Skies and Rattle Spring — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its emotional ending resonates deeply, puzzles reveal story subtly and atmospheric. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Heal: Guide an old man through the dark and atmospheric world of Heal in this abstract 2D puzzle-adventure point-and-click game.
Players who liked Heal also play
Steam players who put hours into Heal also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
The Almost Gone
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Heal.
Top pick for Heal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heal.
Experience the intricate dioramas and connections of your life, and the ripples we all make, in this award-winning narrative puzzle game about death, loss, and mental health.
Euclidean Skies
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Heal.
Second-strongest match for Heal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heal.
Euclidean Skies combines marvelous architecture and turn-based movements to create a beautiful world with mind-bending puzzles. The game’s focus is on shifting and rotating the world to gain tactical advantage and overpower the enemies in 55 elegant, but incredibly challenging levels.
Rattle Spring
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Heal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heal.
Rattle Spring is a surreal, eerie puzzle adventure inspired by Rusty Lake. When your cousin vanishes from her family’s desert health resort, you must adventure into unsettling spaces, cryptic characters, and generational trauma to solve the interconnected puzzles and uncover the truth.
Indecision.
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Heal.
Ranked #4 for Heal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Heal.
A haiku platformer. It's short and vague.
Mosaic
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Heal.
Ranked #5 for Heal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heal.
Enter a world that’s utterly surreal and eerily familiar. Escape the mundanity of your existence in an experience that will stay with you. Mosaic is a narrative-driven modern adventure game with a story that lasts about 2-3 hours.
Related
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Heal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heal.
Waking up from a nightmare, Jessica finds confirmation to her suspicions. To figure out her past, she goes to an orphanage, where she hopes to find answers to questions that she tried so hard to forget.
The Stillness of the Wind
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Heal.
Ranked #7 for Heal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heal.
A quiet game of life and loss. One by one, everyone left the village for the city. Everyone, except Talma. Approaching her final years, she maintains a simple way of life tending to her homestead, surviving, subsisting, whilst increasingly disturbing letters arrive from her family in the city.
What Happened to Lily?
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Heal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heal.
What Happened to Lily? Is a real-time first-person horror game. Discover the secrets and spooky truths behind the mysterious event at Miller Farm.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Heal
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Silence of the Sleep
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Heal.
Reviewers of Heal cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heal.
You play as a man called Jacob Reeves. A man who has lost his reason to live. He throws himself into a blackness to end his misery, but instead of it being the end he wakes up without a memory of his life before.
DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Heal.
Reviewers of Heal cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heal.
DISTRAINT is a 2D psychological horror adventure game for PC. In order to secure a partnership in a famous company, Price seizes the property of an elderly woman. In that very moment, he finds out the price of his humanity.
Myst
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Heal.
Reviewers of Heal cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heal.
Welcome to Myst: a starkly beautiful island, eerily tinged with mystery and shrouded in intrigue. Built from the ground up to play in 2D & VR, explore Myst in a whole new dimension! Journey to the Ages, unravel puzzles, and be a part of the surrealistic adventure that will become your own.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Heal at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Heal on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heal.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Heal on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heal.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Heal on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heal.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Heal on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heal.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~79% under Heal on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heal.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Heal on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Heal.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Heal on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heal.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Heal on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heal.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Heal.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Heal.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Heal.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heal.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Heal.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heal.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Heal.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Jesse Makkonen
Other recommendable Steam games by Jesse Makkonen, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Heal.
Another title from Jesse Makkonen, the studio behind Heal. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heal.
DISTRAINT is a 2D psychological horror adventure game for PC. In order to secure a partnership in a famous company, Price seizes the property of an elderly woman. In that very moment, he finds out the price of his humanity.
DISTRAINT 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Heal.
Another title from Jesse Makkonen, the studio behind Heal. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heal.
You are Price, a man who sold his humanity to get a partnership from a leading company: McDade, Bruton & Moore. DISTRAINT 2 follows on from the events of the first game. It's a sinister tale about restoring hope and finding your purpose.
Without a Dawn
WHY THIS
Another title from Jesse Makkonen, the studio behind Heal. Shares Indie with Heal.
Without a Dawn is a dark, psychological, and philosophical visual horror novel featuring hauntingly beautiful pseudo-ASCII art.
Silence of the Sleep
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Heal.
Another title from Jesse Makkonen, the studio behind Heal. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heal.
You play as a man called Jacob Reeves. A man who has lost his reason to live. He throws himself into a blackness to end his misery, but instead of it being the end he wakes up without a memory of his life before.
Afterdream
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Heal.
Another title from Jesse Makkonen, the studio behind Heal. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heal.
Get lost in a lucid dream, bending the lines between reality and fiction. Utilize the strange camera to navigate through the ghosts' mysterious residence. Find the purpose of your nocturnal visit in a vivid and dreamlike setting.
Frequently asked about Heal
- Is Heal verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Heal is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Heal cost?
- Heal is listed on Steam at 6.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Heal?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Heal are The Almost Gone, Euclidean Skies, Rattle Spring.
- Who developed Heal?
- Heal was developed by Jesse Makkonen.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Heal.
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