Games like Mr. Sun's Hatbox
If Mr. Sun's Hatbox is your kind of game, the closest matches are Signal Decay, Stimuli and Patch Quest — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and funny. 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 Mr. Sun's Hatbox: Mr Sun’s Hatbox is a slapstick, roguelite platformer about getting the job done at all costs. Upgrade your HQ, your team, and your tools so you can take on increasingly dangerous (and ridiculous) missions, wearing hats with amazing (or questionable) potential.
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Steam players who put hours into Mr. Sun's Hatbox 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.
Signal Decay
WHY THIS
Shares permadeath and a contemplative mood with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
Top pick for Mr. Sun's Hatbox fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
Assemble a cyber agent team to infiltrate procedurally-generated bases in this co-op stealth roguelike adventure. Master highly tactical combat, a cache of cyber weaponry, and teamwork to save humanity from mind-control.
Stimuli
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Mr. Sun's Hatbox fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
Stimuli is a Sci-Fi Action Platformer where you are a test subject trapped in a mysterious laboratory and must escape! With a new mechanic added every level, a challenging combat system, and well hidden Easter Eggs, the game delivers fast paced adventure in a sleek indie style!
Patch Quest
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
Third-strongest match for Mr. Sun's Hatbox fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
In a labyrinth surrounded by vicious monsters, Explorers must rely on their Lasso to survive! Capture and tame ANY monster to leap, glide, surf, tunnel and websling through a treacherous, patchwork maze. This roguelike/metroidvania seems cute, but it’s a deceptively difficult bullet-hell challenge!
Regulators
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Mr. Sun's Hatbox fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
Regulators is a tactical top-down shooter where you lead a team of mercenaries to clear the city from mutating villains using your weapons, gadgets, special super powers and intelligence.
Streets of Rogue
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
Ranked #5 for Mr. Sun's Hatbox fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
Fight, sneak, and hack your way through randomly generated cities. It's like Nuclear Throne meets Deus Ex, mixed with the anarchy of GTA. Rogue-lite meets immersive sim, and goes completely insane.
20XX
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
Ranked #6 for Mr. Sun's Hatbox fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
20XX is a roguelike action platformer that you can play with a friend. Jump and shoot your way through ever-changing levels, collect awesome new powers, and battle mighty bosses in the name of saving the human race maybe!
Card Hog
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
Ranked #7 for Mr. Sun's Hatbox fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
Card Hog is a pig-based dungeon crawler with roguelike and deck building elements. Take the role of an adventurous hog and interact with more than 100 cards of dangerous enemies, powerful weapons and exciting spells!
Wuppo: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
Ranked #8 for Mr. Sun's Hatbox fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
Play as an exiled 'wum' looking for a new home in this bizarre but charming world, filled with strange creatures, puzzles, monsters and political chaos.
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The Swindle
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
Reviewers of Mr. Sun's Hatbox cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
The Swindle is a steampunk cybercrime caper about breaking into buildings, hacking their systems, stealing all their cash, and quickly running away again before the police show up.
Spelunky
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
Reviewers of Mr. Sun's Hatbox cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
Spelunky is a unique platformer with randomized levels that offer a challenging new experience each time you play. Journey deep underground and explore fantastic places filled with all manner of monsters, traps, and treasure.
Darkest Dungeon®
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Mr. Sun's Hatbox cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
XCOM® 2
WHY THIS
Shares base management and a challenging mood with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
Reviewers of Mr. Sun's Hatbox cross-mention this title as a similar play.
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
Reviewers of Mr. Sun's Hatbox cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
Ushering in a new era for the METAL GEAR franchise with cutting-edge technology powered by the Fox Engine, METAL GEAR SOLID V: The Phantom Pain, will provide players a first-rate gaming experience as they are offered tactical freedom to carry out open-world missions.
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Mr. Sun's Hatbox cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear. A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.
METAL GEAR & METAL GEAR 2: Solid Snake
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Mr. Sun's Hatbox cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
The first and second title in the METAL GEAR series that established the stealth action genre, as well as the basic mechanics of the series.
METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
Reviewers of Mr. Sun's Hatbox cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
Developed by Kojima Productions and PlatinumGames, METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE takes the renowned METAL GEAR franchise into exciting new territory with an all-new action experience. The game seamlessly melds pure action and epic story-telling that surrounds Raiden – a child soldier transformed into a half-human, half-cyborg ninja who...
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Mr. Sun's Hatbox at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Mr. Sun's Hatbox on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
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 Mr. Sun's Hatbox on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
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 Mr. Sun's Hatbox on Steam right now. Shares Action with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
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 Mr. Sun's Hatbox on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
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 Mr. Sun's Hatbox on Steam right now. Shares Action with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
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 Mr. Sun's Hatbox on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
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 Mr. Sun's Hatbox on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
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 Mr. Sun's Hatbox on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
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 Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
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 with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
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 Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
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 Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
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 Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
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.
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More from Kenny Sun
Other recommendable Steam games by Kenny Sun, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Circa Infinity
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
Another title from Kenny Sun, the studio behind Mr. Sun's Hatbox. Shares Action and Indie with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
Circa Infinity is a brain-melting circular platformer by Kenny Sun, with a pulse-pounding soundtrack by Jack + Jim Fay.
Tender: Creature Comforts
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
Another title from Kenny Sun, the studio behind Mr. Sun's Hatbox. Shares Indie with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
Tender is a narrative game that explores connection and rejection in the era of swipe culture. It’s a story told by and through the modern interface for finding love.
YANKAI'S TRIANGLE
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
Another title from Kenny Sun, the studio behind Mr. Sun's Hatbox. Shares Indie with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
YANKAI'S TRIANGLE is a love letter to TRIANGLES. A puzzling puzzle game about the beauty and joy of infinitely tapping on TRIANGLES for some reason.
YANKAI'S PEAK.
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
Another title from Kenny Sun, the studio behind Mr. Sun's Hatbox. Shares Indie with Mr. Sun's Hatbox.
Pyramid-Pushing Puzzles.
Frequently asked about Mr. Sun's Hatbox
- Is Mr. Sun's Hatbox verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Mr. Sun's Hatbox is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Mr. Sun's Hatbox cost?
- Mr. Sun's Hatbox is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Mr. Sun's Hatbox have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Mr. Sun's Hatbox supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, Shared/Split Screen Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Mr. Sun's Hatbox?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mr. Sun's Hatbox are Signal Decay, Stimuli, Patch Quest.
- Who developed Mr. Sun's Hatbox?
- Mr. Sun's Hatbox was developed by Kenny Sun and published by Raw Fury.
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