Games like Garlic
If Garlic is your kind of game, the closest matches are Super Magbot, Super Mombo Quest and Downwell — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its checkpoints prevent excessive frustration, challenging and comedic. 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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Players who liked Garlic also play
Steam players who put hours into Garlic 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.
Super Magbot
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Garlic.
Top pick for Garlic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Garlic.
A precise 2D platformer with a twist. NO JUMPING. Master your magnetic powers to beat each level with speed and skill. Enjoy classic 16-bit gaming vibes, tackle challenging achievements and compete for global leaderboard supremacy along the way.
Super Mombo Quest
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Garlic.
Second-strongest match for Garlic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Garlic.
Bounce and stomp through an enormous interconnected world, doing some intense acrobatics and getting huge combos! A superfast precision platformer that mixes up a Metroidvania world with classic Arcade mechanics.
Downwell
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Garlic.
Third-strongest match for Garlic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Garlic.
Downwell is a curious game about a young person venturing down a well in search of untold treasures with only his Gunboots to protect him.
Tiny Thor
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Garlic.
Ranked #4 for Garlic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Garlic.
Jump into this challenging retro platformer! Play as Thor, use his mighty hammer and unique items to explore the Northern Realms. Beware of mythical creatures blocking your path to become a god!
Donut Dodo
WHY THIS
Shares precision platforming and a retro mood with Garlic.
Ranked #5 for Garlic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Garlic.
If a long lost arcade game from 1983 resurfaced today, it would be Donut Dodo - a classic 2D platformer from the golden era, tough as nails and challenging for the whole family! Ready to top the high score table?
Sunblaze
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Garlic.
Ranked #6 for Garlic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Garlic.
Sunblaze is a brain-twisting precision platformer with hundreds of challenging, handcrafted levels to keep you dying for hours and hours.
RITE
WHY THIS
Shares precision platforming and a challenging mood with Garlic.
Ranked #7 for Garlic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Garlic.
RITE is a high-speed, precision platformer where you must conquer a series of challenging trials, a rite of passage for every Nim.
Sir Lovelot
WHY THIS
Shares precision platforming and a retro mood with Garlic.
Ranked #8 for Garlic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Garlic.
Sir Lovelot is on a quest to find the love of his life. Join him in this wacky tight platformer, where impressing cheeky damsels is harder than a heart of stone!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Garlic
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Super Meat Boy
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Garlic.
Reviewers of Garlic cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Garlic.
The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!
Mute Crimson+
WHY THIS
Shares precision platforming and a retro mood with Garlic.
Reviewers of Garlic cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Garlic.
Be a ninja and go on an action platforming adventure to save the world. Climb walls, slice up bad guys, master tricky platforming sequences and face ruthless bosses.
Celeste
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Garlic.
Reviewers of Garlic cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Garlic.
Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.
Battletoads
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Garlic.
Reviewers of Garlic cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Garlic.
• Over-the-top combat with combos and hard-hitting morph attacks • Wild, varied gameplay sequences for all types of gamers • Hand-drawn animation feels like playing a cartoon • Drop-in couch co-op for three players
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Garlic at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Garlic on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Garlic.
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 Garlic on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Garlic.
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 Garlic on Steam right now. Shares Action with Garlic.
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 Garlic on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Garlic.
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 Garlic on Steam right now. Shares Action with Garlic.
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 Garlic on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Garlic.
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 Garlic on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Garlic.
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 Garlic on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Garlic.
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.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Garlic.
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 Garlic.
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 Garlic.
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 Garlic.
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 Garlic.
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 Garlic.
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 Garlic.
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
More from Sylph
Other recommendable Steam games by Sylph, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Bad School Boy
WHY THIS
Another title from Sylph, the studio behind Garlic. Shares Action and Indie with Garlic.
experience the thrill of being a dunce in BadSchoolBoy !!
Jar Battlers
WHY THIS
Another title from Sylph, the studio behind Garlic. Shares Action and Indie with Garlic.
Jar Battlers located in a toriyama-ish retro style pixelated world, where you have to get rid of your opponents using jars, bombs and more, in the numerous arenas of this crazy tournament!!
Thrill Penguin
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Garlic.
Another title from Sylph, the studio behind Garlic. Shares Action and Indie with Garlic.
crazy parkour game with No cycles, No texts, No complicated weird mechanics, Just have fun and get the thrill now !!
Furi Demake - The Chain
WHY THIS
Shares boss fights and a retro mood with Garlic.
Another title from Sylph, the studio behind Garlic. Shares Action and Indie with Garlic.
Fight your way free in this 8-bit-inspired version of Furi's first boss fight against The Chain. Frantic action, nervous controls, a blend of shoot and sword fight reimagined in 90s style. Only 1 boss fight! A gift to Furi’s fans.
Quick Quest
WHY THIS
Another title from Sylph, the studio behind Garlic. Shares Adventure with Garlic.
In Fantasy world, evil knights are threatening the equilibrium, Only you can fight them to restore the peace and the good balance of things.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Super Magbot
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Garlic.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Garlic.
A precise 2D platformer with a twist. NO JUMPING. Master your magnetic powers to beat each level with speed and skill. Enjoy classic 16-bit gaming vibes, tackle challenging achievements and compete for global leaderboard supremacy along the way.
Super Mombo Quest
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Garlic.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Garlic.
Bounce and stomp through an enormous interconnected world, doing some intense acrobatics and getting huge combos! A superfast precision platformer that mixes up a Metroidvania world with classic Arcade mechanics.
Downwell
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Garlic.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Garlic.
Downwell is a curious game about a young person venturing down a well in search of untold treasures with only his Gunboots to protect him.
Tiny Thor
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Garlic.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Garlic.
Jump into this challenging retro platformer! Play as Thor, use his mighty hammer and unique items to explore the Northern Realms. Beware of mythical creatures blocking your path to become a god!
Donut Dodo
WHY THIS
Shares precision platforming and a retro mood with Garlic.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Garlic.
If a long lost arcade game from 1983 resurfaced today, it would be Donut Dodo - a classic 2D platformer from the golden era, tough as nails and challenging for the whole family! Ready to top the high score table?
RITE
WHY THIS
Shares precision platforming and a challenging mood with Garlic.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Garlic.
RITE is a high-speed, precision platformer where you must conquer a series of challenging trials, a rite of passage for every Nim.
Frequently asked about Garlic
- Does Garlic work on Steam Deck?
- Garlic is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Garlic cost?
- Garlic is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Garlic?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Garlic are Super Magbot, Super Mombo Quest, Downwell.
- Who developed Garlic?
- Garlic was developed by Sylph.
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 Garlic.
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