Games like Parallel
If Parallel is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Adventures of Bluke Bifton: Chapter 1, Hardland and Karaski: What Goes Up... — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its curiosity drives exploration, free form level design and minor choices ripple unpredictably. 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 Parallel: Parallel is a first-person (third-person optional) RPG adventure game, you will explore a parallel world with a new civilization. Each player will go through different environments, from mysticism, paradise to claustrophobic and destruction scenes. Your choices can change the course of story.
Players who liked Parallel also play
Steam players who put hours into Parallel 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.
The Adventures of Bluke Bifton: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Top pick for Parallel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Parallel.
The Adventures of Bluke Bifton is a hand-drawn, episodic adventure game set in a world of absolute absurdity. Ally (or make enemies) with a cast of strange characters, and make choices that determine your fate.
Hardland
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Parallel.
Second-strongest match for Parallel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Parallel.
In the year 1018, an adventurer from Samarkand drifts to Hardland. Solve a mystery by delving into the different sides of this fantasy world. Hardland is a bustling kingdom filled with secrets. A kingdom that wants you to listen.
Karaski: What Goes Up...
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Parallel.
Third-strongest match for Parallel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Parallel.
An immersive sim-lite in a fictional historical setting. You are on the world's first airship about to crash down and have to find the culprit. Sneak around, break into cabins, interrogate passengers, find evidence - but be careful not to incriminate yourself!
Road 96: Mile 0
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Parallel.
Ranked #4 for Parallel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Parallel.
The prequel to Road 96. Play Zoe and Kaito where it all started. Change their destinies!
AI Dungeon
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Parallel.
Ranked #5 for Parallel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Parallel.
An AI-powered text-based RPG like you've never played before. Write stories, interact with realistic characters, and experience virtually infinite worlds and genres. Escape to alternate universes where you direct the action and anything is possible!
Road 96 🛣️
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Parallel.
Ranked #6 for Parallel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Parallel.
Hitchhike your way to freedom in this crazy procedurally generated road trip. No one's road is the same!
Love Is All Around
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Parallel.
Ranked #7 for Parallel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Parallel.
The player becomes Gu Yi, uses the first-person perspective to immerse himself in meeting six beauties, and embarks on a joyful and sweet love journey with them. Six girls that are charming, innocent, intelligent, wild, sexy, glamorous, who will go to the end with you is up to you to decide.
Depanneur Nocturne
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Parallel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Parallel.
A short exploration game about poking around a convenience store and finding a gift with the help of its owner. But sometimes the perfect gift finds you.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Parallel at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Parallel on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Parallel.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Parallel on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Parallel.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Parallel on Steam right now. Shares Action with Parallel.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Parallel on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Parallel.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Parallel on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Parallel.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Parallel.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
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 Parallel.
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 Parallel.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Parallel.
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 Parallel.
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 Parallel.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Parallel.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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More from Rodrigo Banzato
Other recommendable Steam games by Rodrigo Banzato, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Clown2Beat
WHY THIS
Another title from Rodrigo Banzato, the studio behind Parallel. Shares Action and Indie with Parallel.
You are selected to be part of a circus, open the doors and beat the Clowns, solving the challenges before the clock ends.
Cyborg3003
WHY THIS
Another title from Rodrigo Banzato, the studio behind Parallel. Shares Action and Indie with Parallel.
6-player co-op survival horror at its finest! Cyborg, monsters and aliens. Free updates
Max Madness
WHY THIS
Another title from Rodrigo Banzato, the studio behind Parallel. Shares Action and Adventure with Parallel.
Enter the world of Max Madness, a post-apocalyptic survival game with RPG and action elements. Navigate a treacherous open world, ravaged by nuclear devastation, where tension and terror lurk around every corner. Forge alliances, confront chaos, and make choices that shape your destiny.
Frequently asked about Parallel
- How much does Parallel cost?
- Parallel is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Parallel?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Parallel are The Adventures of Bluke Bifton: Chapter 1, Hardland, Karaski: What Goes Up....
- Who developed Parallel?
- Parallel was developed by Rodrigo Banzato.
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