Games like Sam & Max Save the World
If Sam & Max Save the World is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space, Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse and Sam & Max: This Time It's Virtual! — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its characters are uniquely memorable, satire avoids political preaching and comedic. 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 →Sam & Max Save the World is a remastered episodic adventure that continues the misadventures of a freelance police dog and his hyperactive rabbit companion. Released by Skunkape Games in 2020 at $19.99, the game offers point-and-click puzzle solving, character-driven humor, and satirical social commentary across multiple episodes. Players describe the experience as comedic, dark, and whimsical, with reviewers highlighting how the remastered visuals and audio enhance immersion while the duo's uniquely memorable personalities drive each case. Reviewers also note that the satire avoids political preaching and that unexpected twists keep players engaged throughout. The game is verified for Steam Deck play, carries a Metacritic score of 82, and holds a 94% positive rating from over 1,300 Steam reviews.
About Sam & Max Save the World: An open-and-shut case of petty vandalism balloons into a far-flung mind-control conspiracy involving former child stars, the media, the mafia, the government, the internet, and the bright side of the moon. Telltale's episodic classic, lovingly remastered by members of the original development team.
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Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space
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Shares a comedic mood with Sam & Max Save the World.
Top pick for Sam & Max Save the World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sam & Max Save the World.
The Freelance Police are back on the crime beat in a newly remastered version of their second episodic season. Zombies will dance. Mariachis will sing. A giant battle robot will trash the streets. And when their friends’ lives are at stake, Sam & Max will risk their very souls to set things right.
Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Sam & Max Save the World.
Second-strongest match for Sam & Max Save the World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sam & Max Save the World.
The last game in the episodic Sam & Max trilogy, beautifully remastered! As the intergalactic villains who seek the Devil’s Toybox close in and Max’s psychic abilities grow beyond his control, the Freelance Police will come up against their most frightening adversary yet: the power of Max’s mind.
Sam & Max: This Time It's Virtual!
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Sam & Max Save the World.
Third-strongest match for Sam & Max Save the World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sam & Max Save the World.
Sam is a dog in a suit. Max is his naked rabbity partner. Together, they’re the Freelance Police. Jump into the not-quite-right world of Sam & Max via the wonder science of virtual reality, and join the multimedia darlings in their never-ending quest to slap the stupid grin off the face of evil.
James Peris 2: The fountain of eternal drunkenness
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Ranked #4 for Sam & Max Save the World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sam & Max Save the World.
The long awaited new adventure by James Peris, after No License, No Control, Much more of everything! A point-and-click adventure with adult humor and a touch of hooliganism. Totally open gameplay and non-linear puzzles.
Rock 'n' Roll Will Never Die!
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Sam & Max Save the World.
Ranked #5 for Sam & Max Save the World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sam & Max Save the World.
Hair metal's not dead, it just smells funny! Get your denim vest, bandana and makeup, and dive into a point-and-click adventure as a middle-aged teddy bear planning a comeback with his old glam metal band – in a world where glam metal has been dead and buried for decades.
The Wolf Among Us
WHY THIS
Shares episodic narrative and a dark mood with Sam & Max Save the World.
Ranked #6 for Sam & Max Save the World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max Save the World.
From the makers of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead, comes a thriller based on the award-winning Fables comic books. As Bigby Wolf you will discover that a brutal, bloody murder is just a taste of things to come in a game series where your every decision can have enormous consequences.
Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Sam & Max Save the World.
Ranked #7 for Sam & Max Save the World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max Save the World.
In this latest chapter from the award-winning studio behind Batman - The Telltale Series, both Bruce Wayne and Batman will be forced into precarious new roles. The Riddler has returned to terrorize Gotham City, but his gruesome puzzles merely foreshadow an even greater crisis.
Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Sam & Max Save the World.
Ranked #8 for Sam & Max Save the World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max Save the World.
Wield psychic powers against fearsome foes in this epic comedy saga. In The Devil’s Playhouse, an otherworldly power for controlling matter and space calls to the strongest and strangest who might wield it -- intergalactic warlords and eldritch gods, under-dwellers and scholars of the arcane.
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The Walking Dead
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Reviewers of Sam & Max Save the World cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max Save the World.
A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
Poker Night 2
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Sam & Max Save the World.
Reviewers of Sam & Max Save the World cross-mention this title as a similar play.
The chips are down and the ante is up in this sentence already bursting with poker clichés! Take the fifth seat in Poker Night 2, at a table featuring Claptrap (Borderlands 2), Brock Samson (The Venture Bros.), Ash (Army of Darkness) and Sam (Sam and Max series).
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series
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Reviewers of Sam & Max Save the World cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Sam & Max Save the World.
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series contains all 4 Seasons, 400 Days, and The Walking Dead: Michonne, which includes over 50 hours of gameplay across 23 unique episodes.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Sam & Max Save the World at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
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Priced ~50% under Sam & Max Save the World on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sam & Max Save the World.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Sam & Max Save the World on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sam & Max Save the World.
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 ~50% under Sam & Max Save the World on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sam & Max Save the World.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
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Priced ~50% under Sam & Max Save the World on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sam & Max Save the World.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Sam & Max Save the World on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sam & Max Save the World.
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!
PEAK
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Priced ~60% under Sam & Max Save the World on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sam & Max Save the World.
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?
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 Sam & Max Save the World.
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 Adventure with Sam & Max Save the World.
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 Indie with Sam & Max Save the World.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sam & Max Save the World.
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 Sam & Max Save the World.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sam & Max Save the World.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Sam & Max Save the World.
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.
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Other recommendable Steam games by Skunkape Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Poker Night at the Inventory
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Sam & Max Save the World.
Another title from Skunkape Games, the studio behind Sam & Max Save the World.
Seven years after the Inventory closed its doors, this underground social club has reopened for business. Play No Limit Texas Hold’em with four video game icons in a high-stakes battle of cards, bets, and trash talk.
Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Sam & Max Save the World.
Another title from Skunkape Games, the studio behind Sam & Max Save the World. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sam & Max Save the World.
The Freelance Police are back on the crime beat in a newly remastered version of their second episodic season. Zombies will dance. Mariachis will sing. A giant battle robot will trash the streets. And when their friends’ lives are at stake, Sam & Max will risk their very souls to set things right.
Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Sam & Max Save the World.
Another title from Skunkape Games, the studio behind Sam & Max Save the World. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sam & Max Save the World.
The last game in the episodic Sam & Max trilogy, beautifully remastered! As the intergalactic villains who seek the Devil’s Toybox close in and Max’s psychic abilities grow beyond his control, the Freelance Police will come up against their most frightening adversary yet: the power of Max’s mind.
Frequently asked about Sam & Max Save the World
- Is Sam & Max Save the World verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Sam & Max Save the World is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Sam & Max Save the World cost?
- Sam & Max Save the World is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Sam & Max Save the World?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Sam & Max Save the World are Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space, Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse, Sam & Max: This Time It's Virtual!.
- Who developed Sam & Max Save the World?
- Sam & Max Save the World was developed by Skunkape Games.
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