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Games like Big Hops

If Big Hops is your kind of game, the closest matches are Pizzapocalypse 2, Demon Tides and Ruffy and the Riverside — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and lighthearted. 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 Big Hops: Tongue-swing, free climb, and build your own path forward in a new kind of 3D platformer! Plant veggie bounce pads, tightropes, hookshots, and much more. Find a way home through huge Desert, Ocean, and Mountain worlds and collect bugs, upgrade your backpack, and meet animal friends along the way.

2026ActionIndieAdventure15.99 USDDeck VerifiedWindowsby Luckshot Games
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Steam players who put hours into Big Hops 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. Pizzapocalypse 2

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Big Hops fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Big Hops.

    Use your pizza to bounce, swing and dash in this 3D platformer! Explore different countries, and put a stop to the greedy corporation selling Pizza-in-a-can!

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Demon Tides

    WHY THIS

    Shares a lighthearted mood with Big Hops.

    Second-strongest match for Big Hops fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Big Hops.

    Race across open oceans and uncover a kingdom’s dark secrets. Expressively platform your way across dozens of locales, upgrading your gear and modifying your move-set every step of the way!

    2026ActionAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Ruffy and the Riverside

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Big Hops.

    Third-strongest match for Big Hops fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Big Hops.

    In Ruffy and the Riverside, you wield the magic SWAP to Copy & Paste textures - turn ice into lava or waterfalls into vines! Explore, fight, skate on straw bales, and unleash your imagination in this quirky open-world action game. Dive into an adventure that lets you literally change the world!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Big Hops fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Big Hops.

    Make full use of your advanced move-set to navigate hand-crafted retro worlds without a jump button in this vibrant love letter to the N64 era of collectathons!

    2024ActionIndieAdventure16.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Pru the Pigeon

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Big Hops fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Big Hops.

    Pru the Pigeon is a bite-sized 3D platformer with precise and expressive controls. Join Pru on his quest to save his land Asasco. Explore and collect everything in sight!

    2024ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. TY the Tasmanian Tiger 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares a lighthearted mood with Big Hops.

    Ranked #6 for Big Hops fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Big Hops.

    STREWTH! It's time to go back Down Under with this fully remastered version of TY the Tasmanian Tiger 2: Bush Rescue. Rang, bite, smash and glide your way around the Australian Outback and stop the evil machinations of the diabolical BOSS CASS in this open world adventure.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Demon Turf: Queens Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares a lighthearted mood with Big Hops.

    Ranked #7 for Big Hops fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Big Hops.

    The ultimate version of the 3D Platformer with attitude! Join Beebz on three seperate adventures to ultimately claim the Demon Queen title! Jump, spin and punch your way across the turfs with this Expressive Platformer!

    2021IndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Castle on the Coast

    WHY THIS

    Shares a lighthearted mood with Big Hops.

    Ranked #8 for Big Hops fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Big Hops.

    A hand-drawn, retro 3D collectathon. Parkour through a magic castle as George the Giraffe! String together sweet moves to explore crystal caverns, stone laden halls, and trippy alternate dimensions.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~69% under Big Hops on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Big Hops.

    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 ~69% under Big Hops on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Big Hops.

    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. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~56% under Big Hops on Steam right now. Shares Action with Big Hops.

    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.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Big Hops on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Big Hops.

    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 ↗
  5. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~72% under Big Hops on Steam right now. Shares Action with Big Hops.

    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.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~61% under Big Hops on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Big Hops.

    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 ↗
  7. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Big Hops on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Big Hops.

    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 ↗
  8. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~69% under Big Hops on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Big Hops.

    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 ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Big Hops.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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 Big Hops.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

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

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Big Hops.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. 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 Big Hops.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. 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 Big Hops.

    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 ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Demon Tides

    WHY THIS

    Shares a lighthearted mood with Big Hops.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Big Hops.

    Race across open oceans and uncover a kingdom’s dark secrets. Expressively platform your way across dozens of locales, upgrading your gear and modifying your move-set every step of the way!

    2026ActionAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Ruffy and the Riverside

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Big Hops.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Big Hops.

    In Ruffy and the Riverside, you wield the magic SWAP to Copy & Paste textures - turn ice into lava or waterfalls into vines! Explore, fight, skate on straw bales, and unleash your imagination in this quirky open-world action game. Dive into an adventure that lets you literally change the world!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Big Hops.

    Make full use of your advanced move-set to navigate hand-crafted retro worlds without a jump button in this vibrant love letter to the N64 era of collectathons!

    2024ActionIndieAdventure16.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. TY the Tasmanian Tiger 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares a lighthearted mood with Big Hops.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Big Hops.

    STREWTH! It's time to go back Down Under with this fully remastered version of TY the Tasmanian Tiger 2: Bush Rescue. Rang, bite, smash and glide your way around the Australian Outback and stop the evil machinations of the diabolical BOSS CASS in this open world adventure.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Demon Turf: Queens Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares a lighthearted mood with Big Hops.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Big Hops.

    The ultimate version of the 3D Platformer with attitude! Join Beebz on three seperate adventures to ultimately claim the Demon Queen title! Jump, spin and punch your way across the turfs with this Expressive Platformer!

    2021IndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Castle on the Coast

    WHY THIS

    Shares a lighthearted mood with Big Hops.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Big Hops.

    A hand-drawn, retro 3D collectathon. Parkour through a magic castle as George the Giraffe! String together sweet moves to explore crystal caverns, stone laden halls, and trippy alternate dimensions.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Big Hops

Is Big Hops verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — Big Hops 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 Big Hops cost?
Big Hops is listed on Steam at 15.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Big Hops?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Big Hops are Pizzapocalypse 2, Demon Tides, Ruffy and the Riverside.
Who developed Big Hops?
Big Hops was developed by Luckshot 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 Big Hops.

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