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Games like Orbyss

If Orbyss is your kind of game, the closest matches are What Surrounds Us, Perplexicube and Glitchphobia — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, chill and contemplative. 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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About Orbyss: In this logic based puzzle game, switch between Orbs to solve puzzles and light up your world. Play co-op with yourself, freeze time, fly drones, play with sound… and overcome the evil shadow interfering with your quest.

2025Indie14.99 USDWindowsby Misty Whale
Orbyss — Steam game cover
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Achievement system that adds replayability with challenging optional goalsChill meditative atmosphere with excellent ambient soundtrackElegant puzzle design that introduces new mechanics progressively across chaptersAtmosphericChillContemplative

Players who liked Orbyss also play

Steam players who put hours into Orbyss 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.

  1. What Surrounds Us

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Orbyss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Orbyss.

    Explore an abstract ecosystem in What Surrounds Us, a cozy indie puzzling adventure. Encounter unique species and solve environmental challenges to protect their colourful habitat. Find your way through curious biomes and overcome the threat looming over this peaceful little world.

    2026IndieAdventureCasual10.39 USDSteam ↗
  2. Perplexicube

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Orbyss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Orbyss.

    Perplexicube is a challenging isometric puzzler where you must work together with your past and future selves. You'll have to think ahead as you create loops backwards in time to set your futures selves up for success.

    IndieCasualSteam ↗
  3. Glitchphobia

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Orbyss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Orbyss.

    Immerse yourself into unstable reality. In order to get out you must exploit glitch in a world around you. You can be sure of one thing, any rules you known no longer exist!! Do you have a courage to dip in it?

    2026IndieAdventureSteam ↗
  4. Whitematter

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Orbyss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Orbyss.

    Down becomes up - shift your direction of gravity to the walls and ceiling in this first-person puzzler. Solve challenging room-based puzzles that flex your spatial reasoning skills, rather than precise timing. Compete with others on the leaderboard, or take it slow and steady - the choice is yours.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure12.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Chamberbound

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Orbyss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Orbyss.

    Chamberbound is an atmospheric 3D ball roller puzzle game where you maneuver your way through chambers while solving puzzles with a brilliantly engineered ball which functions in unknown ways.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  6. Beta MAX

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Orbyss.

    Ranked #6 for Orbyss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Orbyss.

    Use four-dimensional thinking to manipulate time and navigate through this mind bending retro inspired realm. Solve puzzles to help Max find his way home in this atmospheric first-person puzzle platformer.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Chromatic Conundrum

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Orbyss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Orbyss.

    Chromatic Conundrum is a first person puzzle game where you manipulate light. Combine different colors and form shadows to illuminate your way through an enigmatic world.

    2026IndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. The Entropy Centre

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Orbyss.

    Ranked #8 for Orbyss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    Think in reverse. Outsmart the impossible. A mind-bending first-person adventure where you solve ingenious and complex puzzles by rewinding objects through time.

    2022Adventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Orbyss at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Orbyss on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Orbyss.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Orbyss on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Orbyss.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Orbyss on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Orbyss.

    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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Orbyss on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Orbyss.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Orbyss on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Orbyss.

    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...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. How to Fish

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Orbyss on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Orbyss.

    A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.

    2026ActionIndieSimulation4.95 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Orbyss on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Orbyss.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Orbyss on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Orbyss.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Orbyss.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Orbyss.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Orbyss.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Orbyss.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Orbyss.

    A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Orbyss.

    Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Virtual Cottage

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Orbyss.

    Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.

    2020IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Orbyss

Does Orbyss work on Steam Deck?
Orbyss is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
How much does Orbyss cost?
Orbyss is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Orbyss?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Orbyss are What Surrounds Us, Perplexicube, Glitchphobia.
Who developed Orbyss?
Orbyss was developed by Misty Whale.

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 Orbyss.

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