Games like Hoa
If Hoa is your kind of game, the closest matches are White Flame Inna: Daughter of the Void, Botanica and Clarity: The Seven Demons of Vanguardia — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its cozy, peaceful and relaxing. 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 →Hoa is a 2D puzzle-platforming adventure released in 2021, developed by Skrollcat Studio and published by PM Studios, inc. and CE-Asia, available for $14.99. The game emphasizes ability-gating and light puzzle-solving, with each new level introducing fresh movement options that build on the player's skill-progression. Players describe the experience as cozy, peaceful, and whimsical, with a hand-painted art style that reviewers highlight as feeling like a living painting. The game features no combat, instead focusing entirely on precision-platforming and exploration as players restore the world around them. The dreamlike atmosphere is further enhanced by music that players note complements the experience. Verified for Steam Deck play, the title holds a 92% positive rating from 1164 Steam reviews, with reviewers noting its short length and chill difficulty as well-suited for relaxed, sit-down sessions.
About Hoa: Hoa is a beautiful puzzle-platforming game that features breathtaking hand-painted art, lovely music, and a peaceful, relaxing atmosphere.
Players who liked Hoa also play
Steam players who put hours into Hoa 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.
White Flame Inna: Daughter of the Void
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Top pick for Hoa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Hoa.
2d hand drawn female protagonist action-adventure/soulslike.
Botanica
WHY THIS
Shares precision platforming and a cozy mood with Hoa.
Second-strongest match for Hoa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Hoa.
Botanica is a hand drawn 2D side scrolling platform-adventure in a world of sentient plants. By learning and borrowing abilities from the enemies and bosses of this world you might just be able to defeat the scourge that threatens all of plant life.
Clarity: The Seven Demons of Vanguardia
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Hoa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Hoa.
Clarity is a 2D side scrolling platforming adventure. Choose to face seven demons and acquire their demon sword and demon magic. Each sword and spell, has an elemental strength against a corresponding demon.
Goo Keeper
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Ranked #4 for Hoa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Hoa.
Lead Rolly in his adventure within the wonderful world of Shroomast, and explore its deep semi open-world underground. Goo Keeper is a pure metroidvania with tons of unique bosses, hand-crafted worlds and creatures, and tons of awesome abilities.
Princess of the Water Lilies
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Shares precision platforming and a cozy mood with Hoa.
Ranked #5 for Hoa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Hoa.
A 2D hand-painted cat platformer blending gentle puzzles with heartfelt boss encounters. Play as Princess, a flat-faced cat. Use purr — her softest gift, to heal a world caught between nature and machine.
Super Kenney
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Ranked #6 for Hoa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Hoa.
A relaxed and enjoyable platform jumping puzzle adventure game, come and complete the adventure with Kenney! ! !
Caesura
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Ranked #7 for Hoa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Hoa.
Explore caves, forest, and clouds to discover new secrets in the mysterious world of Caesura. A rhythm driven, hand drawn world. Match your jumps and dashes to the beat to solve challenging puzzles that ask you to dance along with the world as it also dances to the beat.
Thank Goodness You're Here!
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Hoa.
Ranked #8 for Hoa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Hoa.
Thank Goodness You're Here! is an absurd comedy slapformer set in the bizarre Northern English town of Barnsworth. As a traveling salesman, take the time to see the sights and meet the locals, who are very eager to give you a series of increasingly odd jobs…
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Hoa at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~67% under Hoa on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Hoa.
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
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Priced ~67% under Hoa on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Hoa.
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!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~53% under Hoa on Steam right now. Shares Action with Hoa.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
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Priced ~47% under Hoa on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Hoa.
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?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Hoa on Steam right now. Shares Action with Hoa.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Inscryption
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Priced ~47% under Hoa on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Hoa.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~67% under Hoa on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Hoa.
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
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Priced ~67% under Hoa on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Hoa.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Hoa.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Hoa.
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 with Hoa.
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.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Hoa.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Hoa.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Hoa.
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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Frequently asked about Hoa
- Is Hoa verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Hoa 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 Hoa cost?
- Hoa is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Hoa?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hoa are White Flame Inna: Daughter of the Void, Botanica, Clarity: The Seven Demons of Vanguardia.
- Who developed Hoa?
- Hoa was developed by Skrollcat Studio and published by PM Studios, inc., CE-Asia.
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 Hoa.
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