Games like Olija
If Olija is your kind of game, the closest matches are Glum Buster, Maeldor: Quest Of The Artifact and Kombo King — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its animations have deliberate character, atmospheric and eerie. 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 Olija: Olija is a game about Faraday's quest, a man shipwrecked then trapped in the mysterious country of Terraphage. Armed with a legendary harpoon, he and other castaways try to leave this hostile country to return to their homelands.
Players who liked Olija also play
Steam players who put hours into Olija 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.
Glum Buster
WHY THIS
Top pick for Olija fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Olija.
Take a mind-bending trip through a mysterious, haunting alternate reality. Use your newly discovered magic, wits, and curiosity to cleanse the world of glum and find a way back to your family. Experience the wonder of this 2009 AIGF Showcase winner and indie cult classic.
Maeldor: Quest Of The Artifact
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Olija fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Olija.
Ready for an adventure? A RPG inspired handcrafted story-driven action-adventure platformer! Control a fellowship of 3 heroes as they travel to Mount Trumnor! Discover a magical world, fight your enemies, upgrade your heroes, find treasures, meet locals and be part of an epic quest to save Maeldor!
Kombo King
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Olija fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Olija.
Feel the heat from the fast-paced action, destructive moves and onslaughts of attacks when you fight to settle the score with your rivals, the Sunless! Combine attacks for as long as you can for the top spot as Kombo King!
Zodiac Revenger
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Olija fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Olija.
Zodiac Revenger is A 2D Platformer Action game. Follow the Cat as he seeks revenge on the one who caused him to lose the Zodiac race, the vile Rat, and sweep away other Zodiacs or any obstacles that stand in his way.
Panda Punch
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Olija fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Olija.
Panda Punch is a puzzle platformer game in which you have to control a red panda and save the world from evil alien robots.
Dimensions
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Olija fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Olija.
An Action-Platformer inspired by Mega Man 2, Dimensions has the player fight crazy bosses, collect and upgrade weapons, and find secrets. Players will take control of a sprite from the 2D universe to save the 3rd dimension universe.
Everslash
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Olija fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Olija.
Everslash is an action platformer game where you have to move quickly and attack with your scythe. Use your Slash Attack move to dodge and strike your foes at the same time; defeat the monsters infesting the lab and find your way out.
Platverse: ABYA's Adventure
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Olija fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Olija.
A hardcore platform-action game! Robot ABYA wakes up in the depths of end - times ruins. With a special water gun, it starts to uncover the apocalypse's truth. As it explores underground ruins, ABYA leaps, climbs, and shoots, pushing survival limits and gradually revealing doomsday mysteries.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Olija
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Prince of Persia: Warrior Within™
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Olija cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Olija.
Enter the dark underworld of Prince of Persia Warrior Within, the sword-slashing sequel to the critically acclaimed Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time™. Hunted by Dahaka, an immortal incarnation of Fate seeking divine retribution, the Prince embarks upon a path of both carnage and mystery to defy his preordained death.
Prince of Persia®
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Olija.
Reviewers of Olija cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Olija.
The critically acclaimed Prince of Persia® franchise returns for the first time on next-generation platforms with an all-new epic journey. Built by the same award-winning Ubisoft Montreal studio that created Assassin's Creed™, Prince of Persia has been in development for over three years to deliver a whole new action-adventure gaming...
Metroidvania Maker
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Olija cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Olija.
Create, play, and share custom Metroidvania worlds with a built-in world editor, co-op play, and player-made adventures.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Olija at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Olija on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Olija.
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 Olija on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Olija.
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 Olija on Steam right now. Shares Action with Olija.
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 Olija on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Olija.
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 Olija on Steam right now. Shares Action with Olija.
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 Olija on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Olija.
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 Olija on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Olija.
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 Olija on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Olija.
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.
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 Olija.
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 Olija.
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 Olija.
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 Olija.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Olija.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Olija.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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More from Skeleton Crew Studio
Other recommendable Steam games by Skeleton Crew Studio, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Forestrike
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Olija.
Another title from Skeleton Crew Studio, the studio behind Olija. Shares Action and Indie with Olija.
Forestrike is a martial arts roguelite where every death brings you closer to winning the fight before it begins. Use your ‘Foresight’ ability to experiment without consequences before fighting for real until earning the ultimate reward - victory without ‘Foresight’.
NINJA SLAYER NEO-SAITAMA IN FLAMES(ニンジャスレイヤー ネオサイタマ炎上)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Olija.
Another title from Skeleton Crew Studio, the studio behind Olija. Shares Action and Indie with Olija.
A fast-paced action platformer based on the world of Ninja Slayer, a hit manga that sold 4.44 million copies! In the fictional cyberpunk city of Neo-Saitama, take control of Ninja Slayer as he does battle with numerous evil ninjas, all to avenge the death of his wife and child.
BackSlash
WHY THIS
Another title from Skeleton Crew Studio, the studio behind Olija. Shares Action and Indie with Olija.
BackSlash is a spell casting brawler featuring style-mixing, arena destruction, and accelerating duels. Combine two styles to plunge into a dance of destruction through flying blades, bone breaking punches and devastating spells.
Frequently asked about Olija
- Is Olija verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Olija 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 Olija cost?
- Olija is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Olija?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Olija are Glum Buster, Maeldor: Quest Of The Artifact, Kombo King.
- Who developed Olija?
- Olija was developed by Skeleton Crew Studio, Thomas Olsson and published by Devolver Digital.
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