Games like Happy Grumps
If Happy Grumps is your kind of game, the closest matches are Delver, Dungeon Souls and Overture — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Happy Grumps: A Calamity of Grumpiness has descended upon Happy Meadows! Spread Happiness to a Grumpy world in this turn-based strategy game where each attempt creates a randomly generated challenge.
Players who liked Happy Grumps also play
Steam players who put hours into Happy Grumps 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.
Delver
WHY THIS
Top pick for Happy Grumps fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Happy Grumps.
Delve into the shifting dungeons on your hunt for the Yithidian orb, but getting it might just be the easy part. Delver is a single player first-person action roguelike dungeon crawler, just like you wished they used to make.
Dungeon Souls
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Happy Grumps fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Happy Grumps.
Dungeon Souls is an action-adventure roguelike dungeon crawler which draws heavy inspiration from Nuclear Throne, Risk of Rain, and Overture. Explore vast procedurally generated dungeons, collect loot, and slay hordes of challenging enemies!
Overture
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Happy Grumps fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Happy Grumps.
Overture is an action-adventure roguelike which draws heavy inspiration from hits such as Diablo, Realm of The Mad God, Zelda, and The Binding of Isaac. Explore vast randomly generated dungeons and slay hordes of cunning enemies!
Crying Suns
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Happy Grumps fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Happy Grumps.
Crying Suns is a tactical rogue-lite that puts you in the role of a space fleet commander as you explore a mysteriously fallen empire. In this story rich experience inspired by Dune and Foundation, each successful run will uncover the truth about the Empire... and yourself as well.
March of the Living
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Happy Grumps fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Happy Grumps.
Roguelike-like inspired by FTL and popular zombie fiction. Guide a group of survivors to a rumoured safe haven.
Legend of Dungeon
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Happy Grumps fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Happy Grumps.
Legend of Dungeon is a randomly generated action RPG Beat'em'up with heavy Rogue-like elements, striking visuals, and dynamic music.
Crown Trick
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Happy Grumps fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Happy Grumps.
Enter a labyrinth that moves as you move, where mastering the elements is key to defeating enemies and uncovering the mysteries of this underground world. With a new experience awaiting every time you enter the dungeon, let the power bestowed by the crown guide you in this challenging adventure!
Heat Signature
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Happy Grumps fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Happy Grumps.
Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Happy Grumps at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Happy Grumps on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Happy Grumps.
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 Happy Grumps on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Happy Grumps.
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 Happy Grumps on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Happy Grumps.
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 Happy Grumps on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Happy Grumps.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Happy Grumps on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Happy Grumps.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Happy Grumps on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Happy Grumps.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Happy Grumps on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Happy Grumps.
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 Happy Grumps on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Happy Grumps.
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.
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 Happy Grumps.
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.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Happy Grumps.
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?
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 Happy Grumps.
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 with Happy Grumps.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Happy Grumps.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Happy Grumps.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
Frequently asked about Happy Grumps
- How much does Happy Grumps cost?
- Happy Grumps is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Happy Grumps?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Happy Grumps are Delver, Dungeon Souls, Overture.
- Who developed Happy Grumps?
- Happy Grumps was developed by Glenn LaBarre, Drew Conley and published by Glenn LaBarre, Drew Conley.
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 Happy Grumps.
For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.