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Games like A Night at the Races

If A Night at the Races is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sky Reach, Celerity and Hirocato - The Delivery Hero — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and dark. 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.

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About A Night at the Races: Play as a guy who is trying to beat a platformer to pay his debts.

2019ActionIndieCasual9.99 USDWindowsby Mushy Jukebox
A Night at the Races — Steam game cover
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Berry hard platforming tests muscle memoryDifficulty can be adjusted to tasteDystopian aesthetic shines in cutscenesAtmosphericChallengingDark

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Steam players who put hours into A Night at the Races 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.

  1. Sky Reach

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for A Night at the Races fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with A Night at the Races.

    Climb fast or fall. In this neon cyberpunk platformer, every jump counts—fire energy waves, create platforms on impact, and push your limits solo or in local co-op.

    2026ActionIndieCasual3.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Celerity

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with A Night at the Races.

    Second-strongest match for A Night at the Races fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with A Night at the Races.

    Celerity is a fast-paced FPS parkour game. Use Wall Running, Grappling Hooks, Hookshots and many more, chain your moves and never lose momentum.

    2021ActionIndieCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Hirocato - The Delivery Hero

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for A Night at the Races fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with A Night at the Races.

    Jump, dash, rewind, and deliver food on time in Hirocato - The Delivery Hero! Play as Cato, a crazy cute cat on a food delivery mission. Parkour through tricky levels, avoid obstacles, and rewind time to fix mistakes. Enjoy hand-made pixel art and great music. Can you complete every delivery?

    2024ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Rooftop Renegade

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for A Night at the Races fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with A Night at the Races.

    Power up your hoverblades in this speedrunning platformer! Weave through futuristic cities making split second pathing decisions. Boost through constant bombardment and dangerous hazards. Go it alone or bring up to 3 friends for local multiplayer mayhem.

    2023ActionIndieRacing17.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. PuppeTNetiK - Speedrun Challenge

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for A Night at the Races fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Casual with A Night at the Races.

    Try to take control of this military climbing prototype with the help of a magnet in a multitude of locations! Reach the top of the leaderboards!

    2021ActionAdventureCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. NETRUN

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for A Night at the Races fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with A Night at the Races.

    With dual grappling hooks in hand, swing, thrust, and dash your way to victory in this fast, momentum-based precision platformer packed with traps, enemies, and physics-based challenges.

    2026ActionIndieSteam ↗
  7. Run or Die

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with A Night at the Races.

    Ranked #7 for A Night at the Races fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with A Night at the Races.

    Run or Die is a fast paced Endless Runner that focuses on movement based abilities (and a huge Ion Cannon)! Players must make decisions in the blink of an eye in order to make their way through a hazardous city environment where every run is different!

    2014ActionIndieCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. This Is No Cave

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with A Night at the Races.

    Ranked #8 for A Night at the Races fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with A Night at the Races.

    A one-click parkour game in space. Zoom through intricate levels using your suit's thrusters and grapple hook, all while evading colossal alien worms and racing against the clock.

    2025ActionIndieRacing3.84 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to A Night at the Races

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Super Meat Boy

    WHY THIS

    Shares a dark mood with A Night at the Races.

    Reviewers of A Night at the Races cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with A Night at the Races.

    The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!

    2010Indie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Papers, Please

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with A Night at the Races.

    Reviewers of A Night at the Races cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with A Night at the Races.

    Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.

    2013IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Hotline Miami

    WHY THIS

    Shares a dark mood with A Night at the Races.

    Reviewers of A Night at the Races cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with A Night at the Races.

    Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.

    2012ActionIndie9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below A Night at the Races at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under A Night at the Races on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with A Night at the Races.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under A Night at the Races on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with A Night at the Races.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under A Night at the Races on Steam right now. Shares Action with A Night at the Races.

    Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under A Night at the Races on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with A Night at the Races.

    An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under A Night at the Races on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with A Night at the Races.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~90% under A Night at the Races on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with A Night at the Races.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under A Night at the Races on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with A Night at the Races.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under A Night at the Races on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with A Night at the Races.

    Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with A Night at the Races.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with A Night at the Races.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with A Night at the Races.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with A Night at the Races.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with A Night at the Races.

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with A Night at the Races.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. 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 A Night at the Races.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with A Night at the Races.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about A Night at the Races

How much does A Night at the Races cost?
A Night at the Races is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to A Night at the Races?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside A Night at the Races are Sky Reach, Celerity, Hirocato - The Delivery Hero.
Who developed A Night at the Races?
A Night at the Races was developed by Mushy Jukebox.

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 A Night at the Races.

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