Games like Glum Buster
If Glum Buster is your kind of game, the closest matches are Miko Adventures Puffball, Colored Shapes and Olija — 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 Glum Buster: 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.
Players who liked Glum Buster also play
Steam players who put hours into Glum Buster 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.
Miko Adventures Puffball
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Top pick for Glum Buster fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Glum Buster.
Miko is a raccoon who lost his way while wandering through the forest, he discovers a portal and upon touching it he finds himself in a world full of dangers. Miko is transported into another dimension and your goal is to help him find a way back home but it wont be an easy journey, are you ready?
Colored Shapes
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Second-strongest match for Glum Buster fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Glum Buster.
Use physics to solve puzzles. Control gravity to move the main character on a dangerous adventure.
Olija
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Glum Buster fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Glum Buster.
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.
Kill Fish
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Ranked #4 for Glum Buster fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Glum Buster.
Kill Fish is a surreal 2D side-scroll platformer blending action, puzzle challenges, and hand-drawn visuals in a mysterious, atmospheric world with a layered narrative.
La-Mulana 2
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Ranked #5 for Glum Buster fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Glum Buster.
The long-awaited sequel to La-Mulana, La-Mulana 2 follows Lumisa Kosugi as she explores the ancient ruins of La-Mulana. Desperate to find the cause of the recent slew of monsters appearing from the ruins, Lumisa discovers the "other" La-Mulana: the ruins known as Eg-Lana.
Mekabolt
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Ranked #6 for Glum Buster fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Glum Buster.
Use your trusty Mekabolt device to manipulate robots, solve a variety of puzzling levels and obtain batteries to fix the robots!
Below The Ocean
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Ranked #7 for Glum Buster fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Glum Buster.
Dive into the world 'Below the Ocean'! Master thrilling moves like tether-swinging, bubble-jumping, bungee-bouncing, and sling-shot in a mesmerizing underwater adventure. Solve intriguing puzzles and seek hidden treasures. Are you ready to embark on this unforgettable journey?
The Darkest Tales
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Ranked #8 for Glum Buster fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Glum Buster.
When a nightmare creeps into reality, the only ones that can help are those whose magical powers we’ve believed in since childhood. A brave teddy bear heads to the far side of “happily ever after” to rescue his owner, Alicia.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Glum Buster at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under Glum Buster on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Glum Buster.
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
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Priced ~50% under Glum Buster on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Glum Buster.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Glum Buster on Steam right now. Shares Action with Glum Buster.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Glum Buster on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Glum Buster.
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.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~50% under Glum Buster on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Glum Buster.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Glum Buster on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Glum Buster.
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 ~70% under Glum Buster on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Glum Buster.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Glum Buster on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Glum Buster.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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 and Adventure with Glum Buster.
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 Glum Buster.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Glum Buster.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Glum Buster.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Glum Buster.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Glum Buster.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Glum Buster.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Glum Buster.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Olija
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Glum Buster.
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.
La-Mulana 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Glum Buster.
The long-awaited sequel to La-Mulana, La-Mulana 2 follows Lumisa Kosugi as she explores the ancient ruins of La-Mulana. Desperate to find the cause of the recent slew of monsters appearing from the ruins, Lumisa discovers the "other" La-Mulana: the ruins known as Eg-Lana.
The Darkest Tales
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Glum Buster.
When a nightmare creeps into reality, the only ones that can help are those whose magical powers we’ve believed in since childhood. A brave teddy bear heads to the far side of “happily ever after” to rescue his owner, Alicia.
Frequently asked about Glum Buster
- How much does Glum Buster cost?
- Glum Buster is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Glum Buster?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Glum Buster are Miko Adventures Puffball, Colored Shapes, Olija.
- Who developed Glum Buster?
- Glum Buster was developed by Justin D Leingang and published by El Jay Play.
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 Glum Buster.
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