Games like About Gretel
If About Gretel is your kind of game, the closest matches are Planet Explorers, Salt and Nightingale — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, chill and cozy. 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 About Gretel: As the Gretel, build, explore and survive in the dangerous forest. Fight to survive against mysterious Druids of the forest. If you can survive, maybe you can find out what happened to your twin brother and who kidnapped him.
Players who liked About Gretel also play
Steam players who put hours into About Gretel 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.
Planet Explorers
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with About Gretel.
Top pick for About Gretel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with About Gretel.
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Salt
WHY THIS
Shares crafting and an atmospheric mood with About Gretel.
Second-strongest match for About Gretel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with About Gretel.
Salt is an open world exploration game where you sail from island to island looking for loot and new discoveries! Relax and explore at your own pace, picking a direction and setting sail across a vast ocean filled with quests, merchants, ruins, pirates, and other mysterious places.
Nightingale
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with About Gretel.
Third-strongest match for About Gretel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with About Gretel.
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Voidtrain
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with About Gretel.
Ranked #4 for About Gretel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with About Gretel.
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Crashlands
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for About Gretel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with About Gretel.
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for About Gretel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with About Gretel.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with About Gretel.
Ranked #7 for About Gretel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with About Gretel.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Starbound
WHY THIS
Shares crafting and an atmospheric mood with About Gretel.
Ranked #8 for About Gretel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with About Gretel.
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below About Gretel at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under About Gretel on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with About Gretel.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under About Gretel on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and RPG with About Gretel.
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 ~63% under About Gretel on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with About Gretel.
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.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under About Gretel on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with About Gretel.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under About Gretel on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and RPG with About Gretel.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The Test: Final Revelation
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under About Gretel on Steam right now. Shares RPG with About Gretel.
The third chapter in The Test Trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover who you really are as a person. The Final Revelation is upon us... but are you sure you TRULY want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under About Gretel on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and RPG with About Gretel.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under About Gretel on Steam right now. Shares Action with About Gretel.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
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 About Gretel.
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.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with About Gretel.
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.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with About Gretel.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with About Gretel.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with About Gretel.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and RPG with About Gretel.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with About Gretel.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
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Frequently asked about About Gretel
- How much does About Gretel cost?
- About Gretel is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to About Gretel?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside About Gretel are Planet Explorers, Salt, Nightingale.
- Who developed About Gretel?
- About Gretel was developed by PAXERT GAMES.
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