Games like Pendelum
If Pendelum is your kind of game, the closest matches are First Up, Traceur's Dreamlab VR and 87 Aftermath: A Rolling Ball Game — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Pendelum: Pendelum is a physics-based puzzle platformer with a pendulum that requires patience, skill and creativity.Use only gravity and external influences to reach the goal, create your own puzzles, compare your performance with others and above all - DON'T RAGE!
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First Up
WHY THIS
Top pick for Pendelum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Pendelum.
"First Up" is a cooperative platformer with parkour elements, skills, and various auxiliary devices. "Don't give up, be the first up!"
Traceur's Dreamlab VR
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Pendelum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pendelum.
Traceur's Dreamlab is a place to be for every parkour runner! You can build your own levels, including not only challenging obstacles but also tricky puzzles and share them with the community. Within our multiplayer system you can run against your friends and other online players.
87 Aftermath: A Rolling Ball Game
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Pendelum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pendelum.
The Event of 2187 left no survivors. In an instant, Earth became a barren wasteland - a lifeless rock floating aimlessly through space. Until 4129. That's when Zenith landed. Set years later, 87 Aftermath is the story of a nameless orbling on a quest to escape from Earth and return home.
Active Neurons - Wonders Of The World
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Ranked #4 for Pendelum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pendelum.
A puzzle slasher that trains spatial and logical thinking. Power up your brains!
Meta Lines
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Ranked #5 for Pendelum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pendelum.
When you feel bored, tired and dazzled by the cool game pictures, it's better to play a relaxed, intellectual and simple leisure game Meta Lines, which is suitable for playing while waiting in line for another game. Wish you have a good time !
Pizza Rogue: P.P.M.P.D.E.S.
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Pendelum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Pendelum.
All new employees must pass the course if you wish to become a full fledged Pizza Pups Multidimensional Pizzeria Delivery Employee. Please make sure to provide a valid multiversal drivers license upon test start.
BREAK ARTS III
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Ranked #7 for Pendelum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Pendelum.
With your uniquely crafted mech, dominate both the track and the battlefield. Fight your way through countless battles and aim for ever greater heights! This installment of BREAK ARTS is the ultimate Comprehensive Mech-Customizing Competitive Sport.
Teardown
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Ranked #8 for Pendelum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pendelum.
Prepare the perfect heist in a fully destructible, simulated voxel world. Tear down walls with vehicles or use explosives to create your own shortcuts. Shape the environment to your advantage in the most creative ways you can imagine. Play solo or with up to 12 players in multiplayer.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Pendelum at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~83% under Pendelum on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pendelum.
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
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Priced ~50% under Pendelum on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pendelum.
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 Pendelum on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pendelum.
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
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Priced ~75% under Pendelum on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pendelum.
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 ~83% under Pendelum on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Pendelum.
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.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
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Priced ~50% under Pendelum on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pendelum.
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
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Priced ~50% under Pendelum on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pendelum.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
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Priced ~67% under Pendelum on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Pendelum.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pendelum.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pendelum.
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.
An Arcade Full of Cats
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Pendelum.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Pendelum.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
REFLEXIA Prototype ver.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Pendelum.
REFLEXIA's story starts out as a parody of its genre and ends as a psychological drama.
100 Funny Cats
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pendelum.
🤡🎪🐾100 Funny Cats - Join the cutest adventure in the funny themed locations full of cats! 🤣🎈🐈 Explore the charming hand-drawn artwork of the Circus and Cats hidden throughout the game. 🕵️♂️❌ Can you find them all? 🕵️♂️🐈✅
Wires And Whiskers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pendelum.
Wires and Whiskers is a local co-op action-puzzle game where two players control a lab-engineered gerbil and its magnetic exosuit. Work together to fight mutated enemies, solve magnetic puzzles, and survive in a ruined, post-apocalyptic trench world.
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Frequently asked about Pendelum
- How much does Pendelum cost?
- Pendelum is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Pendelum have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Pendelum supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Pendelum?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Pendelum are First Up, Traceur's Dreamlab VR, 87 Aftermath: A Rolling Ball Game.
- Who developed Pendelum?
- Pendelum was developed by thelaumix productions, Lukas A. Schopf and published by thelaumix productions.
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