Games like Beam
If Beam is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bionic Bay, This Side Up and The Gun Goes; BOOM! — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its hidden collectibles encourage exploration, atmospheric and challenging. 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 Beam: BEAM is a challenging precision platformer with puzzle elements in which you need to manipulate various light beams and tightly maneuver MARBLE in order to save both your lives.
Players who liked Beam also play
Steam players who put hours into Beam 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.
Bionic Bay
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Beam.
Top pick for Beam fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beam.
A scientist uses a unique teleportation instrument to escape an ancient biomechanical world filled with imaginative technology, deadly traps, and hidden secrets.
This Side Up
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Beam fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beam.
Run and grab to deliver boxes in a mind-bending multi-gravitational warehouse inspired by the drawings of MC Escher!
The Gun Goes; BOOM!
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Beam fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beam.
Oh no, you have lost your legs! Use your sci-fi gun to rocket jump your way up, but be careful; one wrong move and you might just fall right to where you started.
Ziode Shadow
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Beam fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beam.
WARNING: This game requires you to think for yourself! Ziode Shadow is a 2D platform/puzzle game about a hungover planet explorer, and his unwanted bot companion. He must utilize many different objects, and manipulate his surroundings, enabling both him, and his support pod to navigate the terrain.
Driving Is Hard
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Beam.
Ranked #5 for Beam fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beam.
Prove your skills by driving the Bathtub on Wheels! Solve puzzles, collect soap, and dive into Jeff's family drama. Drive, Fall, Learn, Repeat.
DEPLOYMENT
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Beam.
Ranked #6 for Beam fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beam.
An intense competitive top-down shooter: choose your class, capture turrets, progress, and dominate in the arena. top-down shooter, multiplayer shooter, arena shooter, class-based shooter, sci-fi shooter
Heavenly Bodies
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Beam fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beam.
Wrangle the hands and arms of a 1970s space cosmonaut and push, pull and twist your way through an increasingly precarious range of physically simulated stellar scenarios, where without gravity, nothing is still, nothing is secure, and nothing is simple.
Oddworld: Soulstorm Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Beam.
Ranked #8 for Beam fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beam.
Oddworld: Soulstorm is the explosive second game in a brand new Oddworld Quintology that tells the continuing story of Abe and his comrades as they discover further crimes against Mudokonkind and look for the spark that will ignite a revolution.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Beam at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~74% under Beam on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Beam.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Beam on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Beam.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Beam on Steam right now. Shares Action with Beam.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Beam on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Beam.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Beam on Steam right now. Shares Action with Beam.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
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 Beam.
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 Action and Adventure with Beam.
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 Action and Indie with Beam.
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 Beam.
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 Beam.
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 Action and Indie with Beam.
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 Beam.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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More from Binary Impact
Other recommendable Steam games by Binary Impact, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Parking World: Build & Manage
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Beam.
Another title from Binary Impact, the studio behind Beam.
Build, manage, and expand your own lucrative parking enterprise in this management sim. Parking World puts the power to build your perfect parking garage at your fingertips while solving everybody else's parking problems in unique narrative scenarios or without any objectives in freeplay mode.
Forensics: Crime Scene Detective
WHY THIS
Another title from Binary Impact, the studio behind Beam.
Become a forensic specialist in a realistic crime lab simulator. Investigate crime scenes, collect microscopic evidence, and identify perpetrators in the lab using DNA and digital analysis. Based on the experience and insights of experts from the State Criminal Police Office Rhineland-Palatinate.
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Frequently asked about Beam
- How much does Beam cost?
- Beam is listed on Steam at 18.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Beam?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Beam are Bionic Bay, This Side Up, The Gun Goes; BOOM!.
- Who developed Beam?
- Beam was developed by Binary Impact and published by CobraTekku Games.
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 Beam.
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