Games like Highly Likely
If Highly Likely is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ynglet: Prologue, Watch Over Christmas and The Ballad Singer — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its slow but deliberate pacing, atmospheric 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.
Get personalized picks →About Highly Likely: The first part of the trilogy, Highly Likely, is a surreal 2D Adventure about a funny and somewhat naive character called Mikola who is trying to do all he can to save his homestead.
Players who liked Highly Likely also play
Steam players who put hours into Highly Likely 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.
Ynglet: Prologue
WHY THIS
Top pick for Highly Likely fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Highly Likely.
Ynglet: Prologue presents the first levels of my new game Ynglet! You’ll jump between bubbles that float in the sky like you’re a space dolphin, as you melt into a highly reactive and dynamic soundtrack created by Ynglet’s custom (and needlessly complicated) music software!
Watch Over Christmas
WHY THIS
Shares point and click and a nostalgic mood with Highly Likely.
Second-strongest match for Highly Likely fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Highly Likely.
Santa has been kidnapped and Holidays are at stake. Watch Over Christmas is a unique Christmassy game that tells the story of a 12-year-old boy, Cisco, who is called upon to save everyone’s most beloved holiday. Believe in the Magic and save Santa!
The Ballad Singer
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Highly Likely.
Third-strongest match for Highly Likely fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Highly Likely.
The Ballad Singer is an asymmetric adventure, inspired by RPGs and game books, where you can experience many dynamic stories. Forge the fate of Hesperia through the stories of four different adventurers in a fantasy world completely illustrated and narrated.
Gerda: A Flame in Winter
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Highly Likely.
Ranked #4 for Highly Likely fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Highly Likely.
You have five days to save your husband, who has just been arrested by the Gestapo. Investigate, explore and form allegiances in this story-rich RPG-lite. Who will you trust?
Journey
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Highly Likely fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Highly Likely.
Explore the ancient, mysterious world of Journey as you soar above ruins and glide across sands to discover its secrets.
Weakless
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Highly Likely.
Ranked #6 for Highly Likely fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Highly Likely.
Weakless is a beautiful, puzzle-adventure game with stunning organic environments, filled with curious life forms and a bioluminescent glow. Play as two Weavelings – carefree, wooden creatures – one of which is deaf, the other blind. Switch between the two, solve unique puzzles and save their world!
Card Shark
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Highly Likely.
Ranked #7 for Highly Likely fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Highly Likely.
Card Shark is an adventure game full of cunning, intrigue, and delectable deceit. Enter a world where you’ll need to play your opponents better than you play your cards.
GRIS
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Highly Likely fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Highly Likely.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Highly Likely at current Steam store prices.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Highly Likely on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Highly Likely.
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?
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Highly Likely on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Highly Likely.
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...
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Highly Likely on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Highly Likely.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~93% under Highly Likely on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Highly Likely.
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?
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Highly Likely on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Highly Likely.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Human Fall Flat
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Highly Likely on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Highly Likely.
Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Highly Likely on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Highly Likely.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~87% under Highly Likely on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Highly Likely.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
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.
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 Adventure with Highly Likely.
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.
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.
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 Adventure with Highly Likely.
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.
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 Adventure with Highly Likely.
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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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Ynglet: Prologue
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Highly Likely.
Ynglet: Prologue presents the first levels of my new game Ynglet! You’ll jump between bubbles that float in the sky like you’re a space dolphin, as you melt into a highly reactive and dynamic soundtrack created by Ynglet’s custom (and needlessly complicated) music software!
Gerda: A Flame in Winter
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Highly Likely.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Highly Likely.
You have five days to save your husband, who has just been arrested by the Gestapo. Investigate, explore and form allegiances in this story-rich RPG-lite. Who will you trust?
Weakless
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Highly Likely.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Highly Likely.
Weakless is a beautiful, puzzle-adventure game with stunning organic environments, filled with curious life forms and a bioluminescent glow. Play as two Weavelings – carefree, wooden creatures – one of which is deaf, the other blind. Switch between the two, solve unique puzzles and save their world!
Card Shark
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Highly Likely.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Highly Likely.
Card Shark is an adventure game full of cunning, intrigue, and delectable deceit. Enter a world where you’ll need to play your opponents better than you play your cards.
GRIS
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Highly Likely.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
Frequently asked about Highly Likely
- How much does Highly Likely cost?
- Highly Likely is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Highly Likely?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Highly Likely are Ynglet: Prologue, Watch Over Christmas, The Ballad Singer.
- Who developed Highly Likely?
- Highly Likely was developed by Mikola Games.
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