Games like Parallel Shift
If Parallel Shift is your kind of game, the closest matches are Pixi Poxi Autorunner Lab, Colored Shapes and GRAVV: Between Two Worlds — 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 Parallel Shift: How far would you go to learn the truth? What is the limit of our existence? Switch between dimensions, close the matching breaches and rewind time to escape the unknown in this beautiful Pixel Art Platformer Runner.
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Pixi Poxi Autorunner Lab
WHY THIS
Top pick for Parallel Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Parallel Shift.
Pixi Poxi is a challenging autorunner rage puzzle platform game that will test the limits of your gaming skills. You will accompany a test subject on their quest to escape to freedom fighting through several levels with a variety of difficulties, traps and barriers!
Colored Shapes
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Parallel Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Parallel Shift.
Use physics to solve puzzles. Control gravity to move the main character on a dangerous adventure.
GRAVV: Between Two Worlds
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Parallel Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Parallel Shift.
Control gravity, switch between two opposing worlds and overcome obstacles for as long as you can manage in this retro 2D platform game. Do you accept the challenge?
JAILBREAKER
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Parallel Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Parallel Shift.
A punishing, one-button platformer about escaping prison. Test your skills and intellect as you ascend a tower of hand-crafted challenges. Jump, fly, slide up walls, float in bubbles and perform somersaults; all with the press of a single button. Reach the paramount. Reach.
Gravity_Kid
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Parallel Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Parallel Shift.
A rabbit on a rocket that can change gravity!
Finity
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Parallel Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Parallel Shift.
We are a small indie team who founded Denpixel - with a dream of making great games with soul and integrity. Finity is an action-adventure-puzzle Sidescroller with a unique 3D-depth aspect.
Slime Jumper Adventure
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Parallel Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Parallel Shift.
In this classic 2D platformer, make your way through countless traps and obstacles like spikes, lasers, projectiles and even aliens as Mr. Slime, across 5 unique worlds with numerous levels. Reaching the goal at the end of each level is key to progressing to the next stage.
Plop Saga
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Parallel Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Parallel Shift.
Plop Saga is a indie Pixel art game with beautiful music. In this game, you guide Plop to run and jump to finish the journey with courage and strength.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Parallel Shift at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Parallel Shift on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Parallel Shift.
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?
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Parallel Shift on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Parallel Shift.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Parallel Shift on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Parallel Shift.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Parallel Shift on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Parallel Shift.
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!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Parallel Shift on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Parallel Shift.
"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!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Parallel Shift on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Parallel Shift.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
Bejeweled® 3
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Parallel Shift on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Parallel Shift.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
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 Action and Adventure with Parallel Shift.
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.
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 Shift.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Parallel Shift.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Parallel Shift.
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.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Parallel Shift.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Parallel Shift.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Parallel Shift.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Parallel Shift.
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!
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Frequently asked about Parallel Shift
- How much does Parallel Shift cost?
- Parallel Shift is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Parallel Shift?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Parallel Shift are Pixi Poxi Autorunner Lab, Colored Shapes, GRAVV: Between Two Worlds.
- Who developed Parallel Shift?
- Parallel Shift was developed by Insightful Games.
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 Parallel Shift.
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