Games like Everhood
If Everhood is your kind of game, the closest matches are Everhood 2, Hemomancer and Klang 2 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its soundtrack is outstanding, atmospheric and emotional. 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 →Everhood is a surreal action-adventure RPG set in a psychedelic world where players navigate unusual encounters and musical battles throughout an unpredictable journey. The reverse-rhythm combat system combines with bullet-hell avoidance mechanics to create a distinctive challenge that adapts to player preference through difficulty customization options. Players describe the experience as atmospheric and emotionally resonant, with reviewers highlighting how the narrative shifts unexpectedly while remaining coherent throughout. The adventure is story-driven and achievement-focused, offering a medium-length solo experience that has earned a 96% positive rating from over 8,000 Steam reviews. Available for $9.99 and verified for Steam Deck, the game is noted for its outstanding soundtrack that underscores its surreal tone, making it a compelling choice for fans of experimental indie adventures.
About Everhood: An UNCONVENTIONAL ADVENTURE RPG that takes place in an inexpressible world filled with amusing musical battles and strange delightful encounters. To put it simply: You are in for a ride.🍄
Players who liked Everhood also play
Steam players who put hours into Everhood 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.
Everhood 2
WHY THIS
Top pick for Everhood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Everhood.
AN UNCONVENTIONAL ARPG where you battle enemies through musical encounters while being accompanied by a raven who promises to retrieve your voice if you slay the mighty Mind Dragon!🎵
Hemomancer
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Everhood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Everhood.
A rhythm-enhanced action roguelite RPG with visual novel storytelling. Unravel a story in a surreal world shaped by music, collect trinkets attuned to rhythm, furnish the abyss and make questionable allies. Run with scissors, talk to strangers and make decisions you don’t fully understand.
Klang 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Everhood.
Third-strongest match for Everhood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Everhood.
Klang 2 is a psychedelic rhythm-action game, blindly pursuing full immersion with dance music through high-speed combat.
The Flow Experience
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Everhood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Everhood.
The Flow Experience is a classic 2D action game about evading and blocking enemy attacks through rythmic interactions on your path to personal growth. Move, dash, and guard to protect yourself and find your true potential on this zen-like twist on traditional arcade bullet hells.
Starstruck: Hands of Time
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Everhood.
Ranked #5 for Everhood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Everhood.
Starstruck: Hands of Time is a story-rich rhythm adventure game where you play guitar and abuse time travel! Control a giant hand destroying a miniature town, or play as the two guitarist kids living in it. For extra fun, optionally plug in a Guitar Hero controller!
Wild Chorus
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Everhood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Everhood.
A hand-illustrated musical exploration game where you charm Sound Sprites and protect them from Silence, combine them into Melodies and fix the world (and the soundtrack), in whatever way you choose. No musical ability required!
A Chamber of Stars
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Everhood.
Ranked #7 for Everhood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Everhood.
The rise and fall of a rock n' roll star.
Nientum - Op.ZERO
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Everhood.
Ranked #8 for Everhood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Everhood.
A 2D action-adventure where the story unfolds by tuning the stage with music. A play by Aleph and Liora, who have lost their memories. A beautiful yet eerie stage, and the secret of the forgotten theater await. Your choices will determine the play's ending — and their fates.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Everhood
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Neon White
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Everhood cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Everhood.
Neon White is a single-player speedrunning FPS where you can sacrifice your guns for godlike parkour moves.
Furi
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Everhood cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Everhood.
The jailer is the key, kill him and you’ll be free. Fight your way free in this ultra-responsive, fast-paced sword-fighting and dual-stick shooting game.
Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Everhood.
Reviewers of Everhood cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Everhood.
Game of the Year - The Game Awards 2019 Best Action Game of 2019 - IGN Carve your own clever path to vengeance in the award winning adventure from developer FromSoftware, creators of Bloodborne and the Dark Souls series. Take Revenge. Restore Your Honor. Kill Ingeniously.
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Everhood.
Reviewers of Everhood cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Everhood.
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.
Braid
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Everhood.
Reviewers of Everhood cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Everhood.
This is the original version of Braid from 2009, which may not work well on newer systems. For an updated version of the game with nicer graphics, more levels and a large amount of developer commentary, see Braid, Anniversary Edition.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Everhood at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Everhood on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Everhood.
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 ~50% under Everhood on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Everhood.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Everhood on Steam right now. Shares Action with Everhood.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Everhood on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Everhood.
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 ~50% under Everhood on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Everhood.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Everhood on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Everhood.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Everhood on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Everhood.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Everhood on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Everhood.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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 Everhood.
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 Everhood.
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 Everhood.
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 Everhood.
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 Everhood.
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 Everhood.
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 Everhood.
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.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Everhood 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Everhood.
AN UNCONVENTIONAL ARPG where you battle enemies through musical encounters while being accompanied by a raven who promises to retrieve your voice if you slay the mighty Mind Dragon!🎵
Klang 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Everhood.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Everhood.
Klang 2 is a psychedelic rhythm-action game, blindly pursuing full immersion with dance music through high-speed combat.
Starstruck: Hands of Time
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Everhood.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Everhood.
Starstruck: Hands of Time is a story-rich rhythm adventure game where you play guitar and abuse time travel! Control a giant hand destroying a miniature town, or play as the two guitarist kids living in it. For extra fun, optionally plug in a Guitar Hero controller!
Frequently asked about Everhood
- Is Everhood verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Everhood 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 Everhood cost?
- Everhood is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Everhood?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Everhood are Everhood 2, Hemomancer, Klang 2.
- Who developed Everhood?
- Everhood was developed by Chris Nordgren, Jordi Roca and published by Foreign Gnomes, Surefire.Games.
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