Games like Obversion
If Obversion is your kind of game, the closest matches are Manifold Garden, Axyz and The Talos Principle 2 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and mysterious. 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 Obversion: Obversion is a challenging yet accessible abstract first-person puzzle platformer set in a vibrant universe of cubes.
Players who liked Obversion also play
Steam players who put hours into Obversion 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.
Manifold Garden
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Obversion.
Top pick for Obversion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Obversion.
Rediscover gravity and explore an Escher-esque world of impossible architecture. Witness infinity in first-person and master its rules to solve physics-defying puzzles. Cultivate a garden to open new paths forward, where an eternal expanse awaits.
Axyz
WHY THIS
Shares procedural level design and an atmospheric mood with Obversion.
Second-strongest match for Obversion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Obversion.
Roll, flip gravity and bend perspective in Axyz. Use your environmental and spatial awareness to beat over 100 levels and soak in the vaporwave in this tribute to 90s puzzle games.
The Talos Principle 2
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Obversion.
Third-strongest match for Obversion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
The Talos Principle 2 is a thought-provoking first-person puzzle experience that greatly expands on the first game's philosophical themes and stunning environments with increasingly mind-bending challenges.
Time in Time
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Obversion.
Ranked #4 for Obversion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Obversion.
Time in Time is a side scroller puzzle-platformer game where you control everything with timers..
EDGE
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Obversion.
Ranked #5 for Obversion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Obversion.
EDGE, the award winning retro-styled platform game has been extended! Now with over 40 brand new levels, additional music and all-new races against the notorious Dark Cube!
Etherborn
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Obversion.
Ranked #6 for Obversion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Obversion.
Delve into an environmental puzzle platformer built on exploring and understanding gravity-shifting structures. You are a voiceless being that has just been born into a world where a bodiless voice awaits your arrival. Go forth and seek your purpose.
The Art of Reflection
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Obversion.
Ranked #7 for Obversion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Obversion.
Traverse mirrors as if they were natural extensions of space to solve puzzles and uncover secrets. Reshape your perspective to perform gravity-shifting acrobatics as you jungle-gym through a sprawling environment. You'll never look in a mirror the same way again.
The Last Cube
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Obversion.
Ranked #8 for Obversion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Obversion.
Cube puzzler and an epic adventure. Stamp stickers to the sides of your cube to imbue each surface with unique powers, which are vital to solving puzzles and finding secrets.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Obversion
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Portal
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Obversion.
Reviewers of Obversion cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
The Witness
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Obversion.
Reviewers of Obversion cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Obversion.
You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.
Metamorphic
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Obversion.
Reviewers of Obversion cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Obversion.
Darkness. Falling. Light. A metallic, geometric cavern surrounds you. A single source of light beckons you forward, up – towards the only exit.
The Magic of Three
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Obversion.
Reviewers of Obversion cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Obversion.
The Magic of Three - is a hybrid between a puzzle platformer and a Match 3 game. Make careful use of precious gems to activate your golem's special abilities. Match stones of the same color to clear the path and reach the exit, and take delight in the challenging and clever level design.
Qbeh-1: The Atlas Cube
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Obversion.
Reviewers of Obversion cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Obversion.
QBEH-1 is an atmospheric 1st-person puzzle platformer that takes players on a quest through a series of divergent worlds. Each world is filled with new puzzles that require special cubes to solve as well as fun secrets to uncover. Includes a LEVEL EDITOR and STEAM WORKSHOP support!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Obversion at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Obversion on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Obversion.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Obversion on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Obversion.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Obversion on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Obversion.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Obversion on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Obversion.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Obversion on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Obversion.
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 ~70% under Obversion on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Obversion.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Obversion on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Obversion.
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.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Obversion on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Obversion.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Obversion.
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 with Obversion.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Obversion.
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 Obversion.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Obversion.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Obversion.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Obversion.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Manifold Garden
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Obversion.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Obversion.
Rediscover gravity and explore an Escher-esque world of impossible architecture. Witness infinity in first-person and master its rules to solve physics-defying puzzles. Cultivate a garden to open new paths forward, where an eternal expanse awaits.
The Talos Principle 2
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Obversion.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box.
The Talos Principle 2 is a thought-provoking first-person puzzle experience that greatly expands on the first game's philosophical themes and stunning environments with increasingly mind-bending challenges.
Etherborn
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Obversion.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Obversion.
Delve into an environmental puzzle platformer built on exploring and understanding gravity-shifting structures. You are a voiceless being that has just been born into a world where a bodiless voice awaits your arrival. Go forth and seek your purpose.
The Art of Reflection
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Obversion.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Obversion.
Traverse mirrors as if they were natural extensions of space to solve puzzles and uncover secrets. Reshape your perspective to perform gravity-shifting acrobatics as you jungle-gym through a sprawling environment. You'll never look in a mirror the same way again.
Frequently asked about Obversion
- How much does Obversion cost?
- Obversion is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Obversion?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Obversion are Manifold Garden, Axyz, The Talos Principle 2.
- Who developed Obversion?
- Obversion was developed by Adrian Marple.
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 Obversion.
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