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Games like Dum-Dum

If Dum-Dum is your kind of game, the closest matches are Euphoria: Supreme Mechanics, Death and Taxes and Battle Simulator — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, mysterious and nostalgic. 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 Dum-Dum: Travel back to 1985 to discover more about the self-proclaimed “greatest operating system of all time." Navigate the weird quirks of Hogo OS 1985 Edition, solve puzzles, play mini-games, and unravel the story behind why this one-time cutting edge computer system was mysteriously lost to time.

2021StrategyIndieAdventureSimulationCasual14.99 USDWindowsby Hogo Company
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Absurdist humor blends with cohesive storytellingExplore a 1985 era os interface like a sandboxPlay nostalgic mini games from the eraAtmosphericMysteriousNostalgic

Players who liked Dum-Dum also play

Steam players who put hours into Dum-Dum 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. Euphoria: Supreme Mechanics

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Dum-Dum.

    Top pick for Dum-Dum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dum-Dum.

    The ability to discern hidden connections is both a gift and a curse. The covert mechanisms of reality do not reveal themselves to any and all, and there is a price to pay for this knowledge…

    2020StrategyIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Death and Taxes

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Dum-Dum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dum-Dum.

    In this 2D, short narrative-based game, you assume the role of the Grim Reaper... on an office job. Your job is to decide which people are going to live or die. The consequences of your choices are yours to bear, while the mystery of your incarnation awaits revelation!

    2020StrategyIndieAdventure12.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Battle Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Dum-Dum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dum-Dum.

    Soldier to the assault! Deploy your troops and destroy the enemy army!

    2018ActionStrategyIndie1.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Sorry, James

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Dum-Dum.

    Ranked #4 for Dum-Dum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dum-Dum.

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    2017StrategyIndieAdventure6.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Day D: Tower Rush

    WHY THIS

    Shares a retro mood with Dum-Dum.

    Ranked #5 for Dum-Dum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dum-Dum.

    Onwards to the past! Learn the real power of science! Help the professor and his loyal companion deal with hordes of dinosaurs.

    2016ActionSportsStrategy14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Train Valley

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Dum-Dum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dum-Dum.

    Build railways, manage traffic and stay accident-free. Play in Europe, America, Japan and USSR in 1830-2020. Complete the story mode from the Gold Rush of 1849 to the first manned spaceflight, and then explore the random mode. Management. Construction. Trains. Welcome to Train Valley!

    2015ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Deep Sea Tycoon: Diver's Paradise

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Dum-Dum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dum-Dum.

    A gentle, casual Tycoon game - sit back & chill out under the hypnotic waves. Breed sealife & raise money for your wildlife charity, then ensure the animals & divers are happy & healthy!

    2019StrategyIndieAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Putin Life

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Dum-Dum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dum-Dum.

    Putin Life - a game that allows you to feel not only the leader of the Russian Federation, but perhaps the Lord of the world.Rob, steal, enslave.

    2019ActionStrategyIndie0.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dum-Dum at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Dum-Dum on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dum-Dum.

    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 ~67% under Dum-Dum on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Dum-Dum.

    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. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Dum-Dum on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dum-Dum.

    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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Dum-Dum on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Dum-Dum.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Dum-Dum on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dum-Dum.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Dum-Dum on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dum-Dum.

    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...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Dum-Dum on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dum-Dum.

    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 ↗
  8. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Dum-Dum on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Dum-Dum.

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

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dum-Dum.

    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 ↗
  2. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dum-Dum.

    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!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dum-Dum.

    A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dum-Dum.

    The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...

    2017IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  6. The Supper

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dum-Dum.

    The Supper is a short adventure game about the darkest side of the human soul. Ms. Appleton was always a wellspring of kindness, until The Voice started talking to her.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dum-Dum.

    Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  8. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dum-Dum.

    Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Dum-Dum

How much does Dum-Dum cost?
Dum-Dum is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Dum-Dum?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dum-Dum are Euphoria: Supreme Mechanics, Death and Taxes, Battle Simulator.
Who developed Dum-Dum?
Dum-Dum was developed by Hogo Company.

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 Dum-Dum.

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