Games like Phonopolis
If Phonopolis is your kind of game, the closest matches are Stories of Blossom, Royal Legends: Marshes Curse Collector's Edition and Totally Nutz: An 80s Adventure — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, cinematic 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 →Phonopolis is a story-driven adventure puzzle game developed and published by Amanita Design, set for release in 2026 at $22.49 USD. Players explore a dystopian city rendered as a hand-painted 3D world constructed from cardboard, guiding protagonist Felix through a wide variety of playful puzzles. The game combines point-and-click mechanics with a story-rich narrative and family-friendly tone. Reviewers highlight the hand-drawn aesthetic and relaxing gameplay loop, with 94% of 1056 Steam reviews giving positive feedback. Players describe the experience as a resonant journey featuring avant-garde artistic influences.
About Phonopolis: Phonopolis is a story-driven puzzle adventure set in a hand-painted 3D world made of cardboard. Solve a wide variety of playful puzzles and help Felix end the Leader's oppressive influence in a resonant dystopian city inspired by avant-garde art.
Players who liked Phonopolis also play
Steam players who put hours into Phonopolis 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.
Stories of Blossom
WHY THIS
Top pick for Phonopolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Phonopolis.
An accessible point and click adventure that joins Clara as she brings to life three short tales told by her nurturing grandfather. Explore storybook illustrations, become friends with cute creatures found in odd situations, and help solve their problems.
Royal Legends: Marshes Curse Collector's Edition
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Phonopolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Phonopolis.
The people of Libertyville are in danger! Evil and witchcraft are gaining strength to carry out an insidious plan to take over the city. Help the authorities stop the Swamp Witch and save innocent people!
Totally Nutz: An 80s Adventure
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Phonopolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Phonopolis.
Step back into the 80s in this hand-drawn, hidden-object puzzle adventure about a family of squirrels chasing a big dream. Join the Nutz family as they journey from their quiet home in the suburbs to the big city in search of the legendary Acorn Games.
Pack my LunchBox
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Phonopolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Phonopolis.
Pack my LunchBox is a cute and relaxing puzzle game where you assemble lunchboxes based on customer wishes. Read the cards, consider their likes and dislikes, and choose the perfect meal, drink, and snack. Meet all the conditions to clear the level!
CHUCHEL
WHY THIS
Shares point and click and a whimsical mood with Phonopolis.
Ranked #5 for Phonopolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Phonopolis.
CHUCHEL is a comedy adventure game from the creators of Machinarium, Botanicula and Samorost. Join the hairy hero Chuchel and his rival Kekel as they will be facing numerous puzzles and challenges in their quest to retrieve the precious cherry!
Faraway: Jungle Escape
WHY THIS
Shares environmental puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Phonopolis.
Ranked #6 for Phonopolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Phonopolis.
Faraway: Jungle Escape is a relaxing adventure escape game full of new puzzles to solve. The second sequel of the Faraway trilogy.
YOUR HOUSE
WHY THIS
Shares point and click, environmental puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Phonopolis.
Ranked #7 for Phonopolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Phonopolis.
A narrative puzzle-thriller that blurs the lines between games and books, reality and fiction, puzzles and storytelling.
Townframe
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Phonopolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Phonopolis.
A relaxing puzzle game where you recreate towns from people's memories. These people will give you written puzzles and to solve them you'll be able to either modify the buildings or use different tools, such as one that makes wind, and many others. Each puzzle will surprise you in a different way.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Phonopolis at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~78% under Phonopolis on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Phonopolis.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under Phonopolis on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Phonopolis.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under Phonopolis on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Phonopolis.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~78% under Phonopolis on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Phonopolis.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under Phonopolis on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Phonopolis.
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?
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 and Casual with Phonopolis.
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 Phonopolis.
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 Indie with Phonopolis.
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 Phonopolis.
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 Phonopolis.
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 and Casual with Phonopolis.
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 and Adventure with Phonopolis.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Phonopolis.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Amanita Design
Other recommendable Steam games by Amanita Design, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Machinarium
WHY THIS
Shares point and click, environmental puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Phonopolis.
Another title from Amanita Design, the studio behind Phonopolis. Shares Indie and Adventure with Phonopolis.
Machinarium is the award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost series, Botanicula and CHUCHEL. Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang!
Pilgrims
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Phonopolis.
Another title from Amanita Design, the studio behind Phonopolis. Shares Indie and Adventure with Phonopolis.
Pilgrims is a playful adventure game, created by the team behind Machinarium and Samorost. Roam the land as you please and make new friends, share a laugh with your fellow travelers and help them complete their little stories, your way. How many different solutions can you find?
Creaks
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Phonopolis.
Another title from Amanita Design, the studio behind Phonopolis. Shares Indie and Adventure with Phonopolis.
The ground starts shaking, light bulbs are breaking - and something rather unusual is happening right behind the walls of your very room. Equipped with nothing but wit and courage, you slowly descend into a world inhabited by avian folk and seemingly deadly furniture monsters.
Botanicula
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Phonopolis.
Another title from Amanita Design, the studio behind Phonopolis. Shares Indie and Adventure with Phonopolis.
Humor-filled indie adventure game created by the makers of Machinarium and Samorost.
Samorost 3
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Phonopolis.
Another title from Amanita Design, the studio behind Phonopolis. Shares Indie and Adventure with Phonopolis.
Samorost 3 is an exploration adventure and puzzle game from the award-winning creators of Machinarium and Botanicula. Travel across space to nine unique worlds teeming with colorful challenges, creatures and surprises to discover, brought to life with beautiful artwork, sound and music.
CHUCHEL
WHY THIS
Shares point and click and a whimsical mood with Phonopolis.
Another title from Amanita Design, the studio behind Phonopolis. Shares Indie and Adventure with Phonopolis.
CHUCHEL is a comedy adventure game from the creators of Machinarium, Botanicula and Samorost. Join the hairy hero Chuchel and his rival Kekel as they will be facing numerous puzzles and challenges in their quest to retrieve the precious cherry!
Happy Game
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Phonopolis.
Another title from Amanita Design, the studio behind Phonopolis. Shares Indie and Adventure with Phonopolis.
A little boy falls asleep to a horrible nightmare. Can you make him happy again?
Samorost 2
WHY THIS
Shares point and click and an atmospheric mood with Phonopolis.
Another title from Amanita Design, the studio behind Phonopolis. Shares Indie and Adventure with Phonopolis.
Samorost 2 tells a surreal story of a space gnome whose dog just got kidnapped by mischievous aliens. Set out on a short expedition to rescue the pup, deal with curious strangers and relax to the soothing music by Tomáš "Floex" Dvořák.
Frequently asked about Phonopolis
- How much does Phonopolis cost?
- Phonopolis is listed on Steam at 22.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Phonopolis?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Phonopolis are Stories of Blossom, Royal Legends: Marshes Curse Collector's Edition, Totally Nutz: An 80s Adventure.
- Who developed Phonopolis?
- Phonopolis was developed by Amanita Design.
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