Games like The Games: Winter Edition
If The Games: Winter Edition is your kind of game, the closest matches are Skiing VR, Checkered Flag and Bunny Hill — 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 The Games: Winter Edition: Compete in seven Winter Games events in this DOS classic from 1988, created by masters of sports simulation Epyx. Hurtle down the slopes, over jumps, or across the ice, all in search of that elusive Gold medal.
Players who liked The Games: Winter Edition also play
Steam players who put hours into The Games: Winter Edition 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.
Skiing VR
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Games: Winter Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Simulation with The Games: Winter Edition.
Ski anytime you want on perfectly designed slopes in VR. Find your way to the finish line in this arcade ski simulator and prove that you're the best skier! Enjoy different game modes alone or with your friends
Checkered Flag
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Games: Winter Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Simulation with The Games: Winter Edition.
In this high-speed racing game, originally released in 1991 for the Atari Lynx handheld console, experience the excitement of formula-style open-wheel racing across 18 unique tracks.
Bunny Hill
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Games: Winter Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports with The Games: Winter Edition.
Carve the slopes of the Bunny Hill on your skis in this fast paced physics racing game. With up to 8 player Online Multiplayer, dodge bushes and tag flags on randomly generated maps to reach infinite scaling speed with your friends.
Snow Moto Racing Freedom
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Games: Winter Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Simulation with The Games: Winter Edition.
Snow Moto Racing Freedom lets you take your rightful place on a high-speed snowmobile on Snocross tracks or through vast beautiful winter landscapes. Experience the thrill of racing so close to your opponents that you can feel the spray of the snow and hear the roar of their engines.
Circuit Superstars
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Games: Winter Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Simulation with The Games: Winter Edition.
Circuit Superstars is a top down racing game with a tactile arcade physics model, pitstops, and a pure motorsport approach. It includes 16 categories that span different styles and eras of motorsport.
Ultimate Racing 2D 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Games: Winter Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Simulation with The Games: Winter Edition.
The ultimate top-down racing game is back! Ultimate Racing 2D 2 includes new cars, new tracks, car/track editor, time-trial mode, improved online multiplayer and career mode, new settings and more.
Ultimate Racing 2D
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Games: Winter Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Simulation with The Games: Winter Edition.
The ultimate top-down racing game, with 35 racing classes, over 45 visual stunning tracks, extensive career mode, championship mode and online/offline multiplayer modes.
Need for Speed™ Payback
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Ranked #8 for The Games: Winter Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports with The Games: Winter Edition.
Set in the underworld of Fortune Valley, you and your crew were divided by betrayal and reunited by revenge to take down The House, a nefarious cartel that rules the city’s casinos, criminals and cops. In this corrupt gambler’s paradise, the stakes are high and The House always wins.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Games: Winter Edition at current Steam store prices.
The Test
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Priced ~50% under The Games: Winter Edition on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with The Games: Winter Edition.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
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Priced ~50% under The Games: Winter Edition on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with The Games: Winter Edition.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
shapez
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Priced ~75% under The Games: Winter Edition on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with The Games: Winter Edition.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~50% under The Games: Winter Edition on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with The Games: Winter Edition.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The Test: Final Revelation
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Priced ~50% under The Games: Winter Edition on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with The Games: Winter Edition.
The third chapter in The Test Trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover who you really are as a person. The Final Revelation is upon us... but are you sure you TRULY want the answers you seek?
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~75% under The Games: Winter Edition on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with The Games: Winter Edition.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
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Priced ~75% under The Games: Winter Edition on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with The Games: Winter Edition.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Rock Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Games: Winter Edition on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with The Games: Winter Edition.
Become what you have always imagined, a rock with no responsibilities, no debt, and no worries. The only thing on your checklist is to exist and watch as time fades away...also to become the golden rock.
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.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with The Games: Winter Edition.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with The Games: Winter Edition.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
The Children of Clay
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with The Games: Winter Edition.
The Children of Clay is a short stop motion archeology horror game, where you have to study an ancient artefact and discover its dark secret.
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
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More from Epyx, Inc.
Other recommendable Steam games by Epyx, Inc., ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Rogue
WHY THIS
Another title from Epyx, Inc., the studio behind The Games: Winter Edition.
Experience the commercial port of the game that spawned a thousand 'Rogue-likes'. Venture into the Dungeons of Doom in search of the legendary Amulet of Yendor, and hopefully escape with your life! Randomly generated dungeons await you, full of nasty monsters, insidious traps, and glittering loot.
California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis)
WHY THIS
Another title from Epyx, Inc., the studio behind The Games: Winter Edition. Shares Sports with The Games: Winter Edition.
Ask anyone who considered themselves a true gamer in 1987 and the chances are they will fondly remember California Games. Now on Steam for the very first time, you too can enjoy six radical and awesome events: the half-pipe, roller skating, surfing, BMX, footbag and the flying disc.
Impossible Mission II
WHY THIS
Another title from Epyx, Inc., the studio behind The Games: Winter Edition.
Sequel to the equally-popular Impossible Mission, this classic 1980s action platformer sees you tasked with infiltrating a futuristic fortress, built to keep safe malicious mastermind Elvin Atombender. Now available on Steam for the first time, responsibility for saving the world rests with YOU!
California Games II
WHY THIS
Another title from Epyx, Inc., the studio behind The Games: Winter Edition. Shares Sports with The Games: Winter Edition.
Originally launched in 1990 on the boundary-pushing 16-bit computers and consoles of the day, this bodacious sequel to the immensely popular California Games sees you competing in five awesome events: hang-gliding, jet-skiing, snowboarding, body-boarding and skateboarding!
Temple of Apshai Trilogy
WHY THIS
Another title from Epyx, Inc., the studio behind The Games: Winter Edition.
In this classic dungeon crawler, hack and slash your way through over 500 rooms with dozens of terrifying monsters. A true 1980s fantasy game, experience the frustrations and triumphs of the tabletop gaming inspired combat. Temple of Apshai is waiting. Silently lurking. Patiently waiting. For you.
Battle Bugs
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Another title from Epyx, Inc., the studio behind The Games: Winter Edition. Shares Simulation with The Games: Winter Edition.
In this unconventional real-time strategy game, control a fearsome army of stink bugs, cockroaches, lightning bugs, ants and more in a miniature, pun-filled warzone! 56 battles with 22 types of Battle Bug await you!
Jumpman (C64/MSDOS)
WHY THIS
Another title from Epyx, Inc., the studio behind The Games: Winter Edition. Shares Simulation with The Games: Winter Edition.
Run, climb and jump from platform to platform to collect and disarm deadly bombs, but watch out! One single misstep will send you tumbling to the ground! With 30 different challenging levels to beat, experience the thrills and spills of one of the earliest platformers.
Snow Strike
WHY THIS
Another title from Epyx, Inc., the studio behind The Games: Winter Edition. Shares Simulation with The Games: Winter Edition.
Fly your F14-LBC "Rapier" on a series of air bound missions. Your task – to destroy the labs, bomb refineries, and stop the enemy convoys. But watch out for those enemies who are armed with heat and radar guided missiles!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Bunny Hill
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Sports with The Games: Winter Edition.
Carve the slopes of the Bunny Hill on your skis in this fast paced physics racing game. With up to 8 player Online Multiplayer, dodge bushes and tag flags on randomly generated maps to reach infinite scaling speed with your friends.
Circuit Superstars
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Sports and Simulation with The Games: Winter Edition.
Circuit Superstars is a top down racing game with a tactile arcade physics model, pitstops, and a pure motorsport approach. It includes 16 categories that span different styles and eras of motorsport.
Ultimate Racing 2D
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Sports and Simulation with The Games: Winter Edition.
The ultimate top-down racing game, with 35 racing classes, over 45 visual stunning tracks, extensive career mode, championship mode and online/offline multiplayer modes.
Frequently asked about The Games: Winter Edition
- How much does The Games: Winter Edition cost?
- The Games: Winter Edition is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Games: Winter Edition?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Games: Winter Edition are Skiing VR, Checkered Flag, Bunny Hill.
- Who developed The Games: Winter Edition?
- The Games: Winter Edition was developed by Epyx, Inc. and published by Pixel Games UK.
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 Games: Winter Edition.
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