Games like The Companion
If The Companion is your kind of game, the closest matches are Go North, Portabellows and Cloudy Valley — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its beacons guide exploration, beautifully detailed environments and runic stones unlock abilities. 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 The Companion: A cinematic gaming experience. Play as an animal in the spiritual realm. Explore a magical world. Collect Essence and find Artifacts. Journey across seven majestic landscapes and witness the emotional story of a family as they tackle the challenges ahead of them.
Players who liked The Companion also play
Steam players who put hours into The Companion 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.
Go North
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Companion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Companion.
Wander a world filled with cleverly-crafted mazes. Whoever can solve them all gets their wish granted by the Maze God. Explore beautiful mazes, discover unique items and help other maze explorers complete unusual side quests in this cozy and immersive maze adventure!
Portabellows
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Companion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Companion.
Explore a whimsical island to find… pie recipes?! Bake them by gathering or growing ingredients, which may be the key to helping out your new found quirky friends leave the island! In this wholesome 3D platformer collectathon, you can enjoy discovering the world freely at your own pace.
Cloudy Valley
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Companion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Companion.
Go on a summer vacation to the Cloudy Valley archipelago! Swim, climb, and explore the different islands at your own pace. Discover treasures or enjoy a cozy and relaxing atmosphere by the waves...
The Majestic
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Companion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Companion.
An intimate tale of two sisters & their tenuous bond. Soar above the clouds and rally against Darkness. Experience beauty, mystery and triumph in this cozy narrative woven with love, friendship, and family.
Nothing Strange Here
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Companion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Companion.
Explore Larcenest Gap as an investigative journalist. Take photos, publish articles, and watch the town change with your choices. Complete cozy, funny, and mysterious quests, uncover strange secrets, and spot gnomes hiding around every corner.
Monch!
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Companion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Companion.
Absorb creatures to gain and upgrade abilities, relax as you explore a handcrafted world and help out it's inhabitants. Keep an eye out for trinkets and secrets as you investigate the strange power afflicting this place and it's denizens... What does it all mean?
LOST EMBER
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Companion.
Ranked #7 for The Companion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Companion.
Explore the remains of a fallen world from fascinating perspectives! Slip into the role of different animals to uncover the fate of an ancient world. Dive into deep waters, fly at lofty heights, dig underground as a mole or even climb steep cliffs with a mountain goat, there are lots of ways of getting around.
Lake
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Companion.
Ranked #8 for The Companion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Companion.
It's 1986 - Meredith Weiss takes a break from her career in the big city to deliver mail in her hometown. How will she experience two weeks in beautiful Providence Oaks, with its iconic lake and quirky community? And what will she do next? It's up to you.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Companion at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Companion on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Companion.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Companion on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Companion.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Companion on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Companion.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Companion on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Companion.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under The Companion on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Companion.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under The Companion on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Companion.
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 The Companion on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Companion.
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.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Companion on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Companion.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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 Adventure with The Companion.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Companion.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Companion.
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 Indie and Adventure with The Companion.
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 The Companion.
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 and Casual with The Companion.
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.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Companion.
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!
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
Frequently asked about The Companion
- How much does The Companion cost?
- The Companion is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Companion?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Companion are Go North, Portabellows, Cloudy Valley.
- Who developed The Companion?
- The Companion was developed by David Fazzio, Studio 46 and published by Studio 46.
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 The Companion.
For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.