Games like Ever Forward
If Ever Forward is your kind of game, the closest matches are GRIS, Neva and Filament — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its checkpoint system prevents frustration, atmospheric and contemplative. 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 Ever Forward: A girl trapped in a strange world somewhere between reality and imagination. Help her find her way in this adventure puzzle game.
Players who liked Ever Forward also play
Steam players who put hours into Ever Forward 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.
GRIS
WHY THIS
Top pick for Ever Forward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ever Forward.
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.
Neva
WHY THIS
Shares environmental puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Ever Forward.
Second-strongest match for Ever Forward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ever Forward.
Experience the moving tale of a young woman and her lifelong bond with a magnificent wolf as they embark on a thrilling adventure through a rapidly dying world.
Filament
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ever Forward.
Third-strongest match for Ever Forward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ever Forward.
Solve challenging cable-based puzzles and uncover what really happened to the crew of The Alabaster. Now with Hint System (for those ultra tricky puzzles).
Projection: First Light
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Ever Forward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ever Forward.
Projection: First Light follows Greta on a puzzle-platforming adventure through a mythological shadow puppet world, as she embarks on a journey across cultures meeting legendary heroes.
Hollow Knight: Silksong
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ever Forward.
Ranked #5 for Ever Forward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ever Forward.
Discover a vast, haunted kingdom in Hollow Knight: Silksong! Explore, fight and survive as you ascend to the peak of a land ruled by silk and song.
Evan's Remains
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ever Forward.
Ranked #6 for Ever Forward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ever Forward.
Years after a boy genius named Evan disappears, a bizarre letter arrives. Evan wants a girl named Dysis to come find him. As Dysis, you’ll need to solve an intricate series of puzzles to unravel the entire mystery—and bring Evan home.
YesterMorrow
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Ever Forward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ever Forward.
YesterMorrow is a single-player time travelling 2D platformer, mixing action sequences with puzzle elements. Follow the engaging story of Yui, who travels back into the past to save her family and the remnants of a world now trapped in Never-ending Night.
Lumote: The Mastermote Chronicles
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ever Forward.
Ranked #8 for Ever Forward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ever Forward.
Meet Lumote, the squishiest bioluminescent creature, in this beautiful 3D puzzle platformer. Take control of the world’s inhabitants on a quest into the Great Depths to seize control from the Mastermote.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Ever Forward at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Ever Forward on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Ever Forward.
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 Ever Forward on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Ever Forward.
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 ~47% under Ever Forward on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ever Forward.
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?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ever Forward on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ever Forward.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Ever Forward on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ever Forward.
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 Ever Forward on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ever Forward.
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 Ever Forward on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ever Forward.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Ever Forward on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Ever Forward.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
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 Ever Forward.
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 Ever Forward.
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 Ever Forward.
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 Ever Forward.
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 Ever Forward.
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 Ever Forward.
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 Ever Forward.
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.
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
More from Pathea Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Pathea Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
My Time at Portia
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ever Forward.
Another title from Pathea Games, the studio behind Ever Forward. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ever Forward.
Start a new life in the enchanting town of Portia! Restore your Pa's neglected workshop to its former glory by fulfilling commissions, growing crops, raising animals, and befriending the quirky inhabitants of this charming post-apocalyptic land!
My Time at Sandrock
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ever Forward.
Another title from Pathea Games, the studio behind Ever Forward. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ever Forward.
Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!
Let's School
WHY THIS
Another title from Pathea Games, the studio behind Ever Forward. Shares Indie and Casual with Ever Forward.
Dive into the exhilarating role of a headmaster entrusted to revive your alma mater! Beyond just bricks and mortar, train teachers, recruit students. Sculpt your school into a unique educational haven! Let's School!
Planet Explorers
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ever Forward.
Another title from Pathea Games, the studio behind Ever Forward. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ever Forward.
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Superball
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Ever Forward.
Another title from Pathea Games, the studio behind Ever Forward. Shares Indie with Ever Forward.
Superball is a multiplayer 3v3 action game. An all-out blast of football in a cyberpunk setting. Choose a hero with unique abilities and conquer the sport of the future. Your accurate passes and strikes, as well as artful defense will lead your team to victory!
Ever Forward Prologue
WHY THIS
Another title from Pathea Games, the studio behind Ever Forward. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ever Forward.
A girl trapped in a strange world somewhere between reality and imagination. Help her find her way in this adventure puzzle game.
Super Buckyball Tournament Preseason
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Ever Forward.
Another title from Pathea Games, the studio behind Ever Forward. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ever Forward.
Super Buckyball Tournament Preseason is currently offline. Please join us again in early February 2021 for another round of SBT!
Let's School Homeroom
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Ever Forward.
Another title from Pathea Games, the studio behind Ever Forward. Shares Indie and Casual with Ever Forward.
Let's School: Homeroom is the prologue of Let's School. You can experience 2 weeks of in game time. If you like the experience, please go to Let's School Full Version's Store page and add to wishlist!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
GRIS
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ever Forward.
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.
Neva
WHY THIS
Shares environmental puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Ever Forward.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ever Forward.
Experience the moving tale of a young woman and her lifelong bond with a magnificent wolf as they embark on a thrilling adventure through a rapidly dying world.
Filament
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ever Forward.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ever Forward.
Solve challenging cable-based puzzles and uncover what really happened to the crew of The Alabaster. Now with Hint System (for those ultra tricky puzzles).
Hollow Knight: Silksong
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ever Forward.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ever Forward.
Discover a vast, haunted kingdom in Hollow Knight: Silksong! Explore, fight and survive as you ascend to the peak of a land ruled by silk and song.
Evan's Remains
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ever Forward.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ever Forward.
Years after a boy genius named Evan disappears, a bizarre letter arrives. Evan wants a girl named Dysis to come find him. As Dysis, you’ll need to solve an intricate series of puzzles to unravel the entire mystery—and bring Evan home.
Frequently asked about Ever Forward
- How much does Ever Forward cost?
- Ever Forward is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Ever Forward?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ever Forward are GRIS, Neva, Filament.
- Who developed Ever Forward?
- Ever Forward was developed by Pathea Games.
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 Ever Forward.
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