Games like Selfless Heroes
If Selfless Heroes is your kind of game, the closest matches are Upalu Mundi, Kaizen: A Factory Story and Great Permutator — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, 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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Upalu Mundi
WHY THIS
Top pick for Selfless Heroes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Selfless Heroes.
Upalu Mundi is a puzzle game set in a dwarven world at the dawn of railways. Lay tracks, build stations and set switches to keep goods moving and profits soaring. Read the news to see how the public reacts as you shape the future of transportation!
Kaizen: A Factory Story
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Selfless Heroes.
Second-strongest match for Selfless Heroes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Selfless Heroes.
Kaizen is an open-ended puzzle automation game from the original Zachtronics team, set in 1980s Japan. Design, build, and optimize production lines to create iconic products, like calculators, camcorders, and arcade machines.
Great Permutator
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Selfless Heroes.
Third-strongest match for Selfless Heroes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Selfless Heroes.
Great Permutator is a puzzle. Hard and tricky. One in which you will have to build a complex system of conveyors and various devices so that the colored boxes can travel across the factory and arrive at right places and in right order. If you are into clever engineering puzzles, this game is for you.
Opus Magnum
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Selfless Heroes.
Ranked #4 for Selfless Heroes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Selfless Heroes.
Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!
Prime Mover
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Selfless Heroes.
Ranked #5 for Selfless Heroes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Selfless Heroes.
Retrace the path of the Prime Mover to uncover the story of the Byte of Burden! Prime Mover is an open-ended puzzle game about designing circuit boards.
SpaceChem
WHY THIS
Shares visual programming and a contemplative mood with Selfless Heroes.
Ranked #6 for Selfless Heroes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Selfless Heroes.
Zachtronics is back with an ambitious new design-based puzzle game. Take on the role of a Reactor Engineer working for SpaceChem, the leading chemical synthesizer for frontier colonies. Construct elaborate factories to transform raw materials into valuable chemical products!
Human Resource Machine
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Selfless Heroes.
Ranked #7 for Selfless Heroes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Selfless Heroes.
Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job. From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno.
Linkito
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Selfless Heroes.
Ranked #8 for Selfless Heroes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Selfless Heroes.
Unleash your brainpower in Linkito and ignite the insurgency! Link, build, solve, defuse, and decode by using your logic. Craft your own challenges in the level editor or tackle community creations.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Selfless Heroes at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Selfless Heroes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Selfless Heroes.
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 ~50% under Selfless Heroes on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Selfless Heroes.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Selfless Heroes on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Selfless Heroes.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Selfless Heroes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Selfless Heroes.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Selfless Heroes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Selfless Heroes.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Super Hexagon
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Selfless Heroes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Selfless Heroes.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Selfless Heroes on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Selfless Heroes.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Nodebuster
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Selfless Heroes on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Selfless Heroes.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Selfless Heroes.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Selfless Heroes.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Selfless Heroes.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Selfless Heroes.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Selfless Heroes.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Selfless Heroes.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Selfless Heroes.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
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Frequently asked about Selfless Heroes
- Does Selfless Heroes run on Steam Deck?
- Selfless Heroes is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Selfless Heroes cost?
- Selfless Heroes is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Selfless Heroes?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Selfless Heroes are Upalu Mundi, Kaizen: A Factory Story, Great Permutator.
- Who developed Selfless Heroes?
- Selfless Heroes was developed by Félicien Brochu.
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