Games like Dogworld
If Dogworld is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cosmobreeder Yiffai, Solateria and Hollow Knight — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and immersive. 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 Dogworld: Shoot, jump, and slide your way through a ruined, mysterious, dog-filled world as you fight to save humanity from the clutches of a rogue AI named Daddy.
Players who liked Dogworld also play
Steam players who put hours into Dogworld 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.
Cosmobreeder Yiffai
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dogworld.
Top pick for Dogworld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dogworld.
Travel to a forgotten world and study alien creatures in this authentic retro metroidvania!
Solateria
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dogworld.
Second-strongest match for Dogworld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dogworld.
Solateria is a hand-drawn action Metroidvania with parry-focused combat. A small fire warrior journeys to find the Primordial Flame, the world’s last hope against the Shadow Plague. Defeat foes with stylish parries and explore mysterious realms to uncover the world’s secrets.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dogworld.
Third-strongest match for Dogworld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dogworld.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
VVVVVV
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dogworld.
Ranked #4 for Dogworld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dogworld.
VVVVVV is a platform game all about exploring one simple mechanical idea - what if you reversed gravity instead of jumping?
Rusted Moss
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dogworld.
Ranked #5 for Dogworld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dogworld.
Rusted Moss is a twin-stick shooter metroidvania where you sling around the map with your grapple, blasting your way through witches and rusted machine monstrosities alike. This wasteland once harboring mankind has since fallen, and Fae long forgotten now knock on humanity's door...
Waking Mars
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dogworld.
Ranked #6 for Dogworld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dogworld.
In 2097, life is discovered on Mars. When your mission of first contact becomes trapped by a cave-in, you must master the alien ecosystem to survive. Soon you stumble upon more than anyone expected, and with time running out, you will make a decision that determines the fate of a lost planet.
The Talos Principle
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dogworld.
Ranked #7 for Dogworld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dogworld.
The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).
Grapple Dog
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dogworld.
Ranked #8 for Dogworld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dogworld.
Jump, Swing and Zip your way through colourful worlds and exciting challenges in this unique 2D action-platformer! Master the power of the Grapple on your adventure to save the world!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dogworld at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Dogworld on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dogworld.
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 Dogworld on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dogworld.
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 Dogworld on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dogworld.
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 Dogworld on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dogworld.
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 Dogworld on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dogworld.
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 Dogworld on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dogworld.
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 Dogworld on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dogworld.
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 Dogworld on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dogworld.
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 Dogworld.
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 Dogworld.
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 Dogworld.
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 and Adventure with Dogworld.
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 Dogworld.
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 Dogworld.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dogworld.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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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.
Cosmobreeder Yiffai
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dogworld.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Dogworld.
Travel to a forgotten world and study alien creatures in this authentic retro metroidvania!
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dogworld.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Dogworld.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
VVVVVV
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dogworld.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Dogworld.
VVVVVV is a platform game all about exploring one simple mechanical idea - what if you reversed gravity instead of jumping?
Grapple Dog
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dogworld.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Dogworld.
Jump, Swing and Zip your way through colourful worlds and exciting challenges in this unique 2D action-platformer! Master the power of the Grapple on your adventure to save the world!
Frequently asked about Dogworld
- How much does Dogworld cost?
- Dogworld is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dogworld?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dogworld are Cosmobreeder Yiffai, Solateria, Hollow Knight.
- Who developed Dogworld?
- Dogworld was developed by Lateralis Heavy Industries.
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 Dogworld.
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