Games like MO:Astray
If MO:Astray is your kind of game, the closest matches are Celeste, Iconoclasts and Valfaris — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, dark and eerie. 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 →MO:Astray is a 2019 pixel-art action-adventure that tasks players with guiding a small creature through a decaying sci-fi facility using precision aimed-jumps and enemy-possession abilities. The game features difficulty-adaptive puzzles, inventive boss-fights, and a surface-sticking mechanic that adds strategic depth to platforming sequences. Players describe the atmosphere as dark, eerie, and melancholic, with enemy thoughts revealing hidden lore throughout the experience. Reviewers highlight that the pixel art and soundtrack combine to create an unsettling world. The game runs verified on Steam Deck and costs $14.99, holding a 91% positive rating from 1194 Steam reviews. It is a challenging solo experience of medium length.
About MO:Astray: MO: Astray is a pixel art, side-scrolling, action-platformer. Lead MO through mind-bending puzzles using special abilities. Bizarre enemies, threatening traps and ingenious level designs await.
Players who liked MO:Astray also play
Steam players who put hours into MO:Astray 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.
Celeste
WHY THIS
Top pick for MO:Astray fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with MO:Astray.
Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.
Iconoclasts
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with MO:Astray.
Second-strongest match for MO:Astray fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with MO:Astray.
Join renegade mechanic Robin and uncover the secrets of a dying planet. Explore a big world filled with intricate puzzles, interesting characters and menacing bosses in a beautiful platform adventure that tells a personal story about faith, purpose and the challenge of helping people.
Valfaris
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with MO:Astray.
Third-strongest match for MO:Astray fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with MO:Astray.
Set in a far corner of space, Valfaris is a heavy metal infused 2D action-platformer and the next game from the team behind Unity Awards finalist, Slain: Back From Hell. Brutal combat. Deadly enemies. Stunning pixel art. Savage soundtrack. Get ready to rip the galaxy a new wormhole.
Blasphemous
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with MO:Astray.
Ranked #4 for MO:Astray fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with MO:Astray.
Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.
YesterMorrow
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for MO:Astray fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with MO:Astray.
YesterMorrow is a single-player time travelling 2D platformer, mixing action sequences with puzzle elements. Follow the engaging story of Yui, who travels back into the past to save her family and the remnants of a world now trapped in Never-ending Night.
Prodeus
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for MO:Astray fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with MO:Astray.
Prodeus is a first-person shooter of old, re-imagined using modern rendering techniques and technology. Experience the quality you’d expect from a modern AAA game, designed with retro aesthetics and gameplay that invoke the tech-imposed limits of older hardware.
Horace
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for MO:Astray fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with MO:Astray.
"The best platformer of 2019."Horace is a huge platforming adventure which pushes the boundaries of the genre with a profound story of a small robot learning of life, the universe and Douglas Adams. Made by videogame lovers for videogame lovers!
The Way
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with MO:Astray.
Ranked #8 for MO:Astray fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with MO:Astray.
Journey to another planet and discover its secrets in order to bring your loved one back to life. Experience an adventure, inspired by old school classics like Another World, Heart of Darkness and Flashback.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below MO:Astray at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under MO:Astray on Steam right now. Shares Indie with MO:Astray.
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 ~67% under MO:Astray on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with MO:Astray.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under MO:Astray on Steam right now. Shares Action with MO:Astray.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under MO:Astray on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with MO:Astray.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under MO:Astray on Steam right now. Shares Action with MO:Astray.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under MO:Astray on Steam right now. Shares Indie with MO:Astray.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under MO:Astray on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with MO:Astray.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under MO:Astray on Steam right now. Shares Indie with MO:Astray.
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.
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 MO:Astray.
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 MO:Astray.
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 MO:Astray.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with MO:Astray.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with MO:Astray.
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 MO:Astray.
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 MO:Astray.
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.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Celeste
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with MO:Astray.
Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.
Iconoclasts
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with MO:Astray.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with MO:Astray.
Join renegade mechanic Robin and uncover the secrets of a dying planet. Explore a big world filled with intricate puzzles, interesting characters and menacing bosses in a beautiful platform adventure that tells a personal story about faith, purpose and the challenge of helping people.
Valfaris
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with MO:Astray.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with MO:Astray.
Set in a far corner of space, Valfaris is a heavy metal infused 2D action-platformer and the next game from the team behind Unity Awards finalist, Slain: Back From Hell. Brutal combat. Deadly enemies. Stunning pixel art. Savage soundtrack. Get ready to rip the galaxy a new wormhole.
Blasphemous
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with MO:Astray.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with MO:Astray.
Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.
Horace
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with MO:Astray.
"The best platformer of 2019."Horace is a huge platforming adventure which pushes the boundaries of the genre with a profound story of a small robot learning of life, the universe and Douglas Adams. Made by videogame lovers for videogame lovers!
Frequently asked about MO:Astray
- Is MO:Astray verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — MO:Astray 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 MO:Astray cost?
- MO:Astray is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to MO:Astray?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside MO:Astray are Celeste, Iconoclasts, Valfaris.
- Who developed MO:Astray?
- MO:Astray was developed by Archpray Inc. and published by Rayark International Limited.
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 MO:Astray.
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