Games like SCHiM
If SCHiM is your kind of game, the closest matches are Pine Hearts, Clawsome and Dodo Duckie — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its exploration of dutch environments, atmospheric and chill. 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 SCHiM: SCHiM is a game about jumping from shadow to shadow in a relaxing and lively environment. This 3D platformer takes elements of light, shadow & animation and adds them directly to the gameplay, delivering an experience that you will only find in SCHiM.
Players who liked SCHiM also play
Steam players who put hours into SCHiM 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.
Pine Hearts
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with SCHiM.
Top pick for SCHiM fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SCHiM.
Pine Hearts is a wholesome and tender adventure about nostalgic journeys, overcoming loss, and helping others. Embark on a cozy hiking expedition to the sprawling Pine Hearts nature reserve and scale the mountain your father never managed to climb.
Clawsome
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for SCHiM fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with SCHiM.
Help Clawby find unique friends in this wholesome adventure! Collect cute figurines with the help of Clawby to create colorful dioramas in this cozy claw machine game.
Dodo Duckie
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for SCHiM fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SCHiM.
Waddle into a reality-bending odyssey where simply being a duck is your greatest superpower. With the help of your magical cap, switch instantly between 2D and 3D to uncover hidden paths, outsmart aliens, and rescue your kidnapped chicken friends in this wholesome puzzle platformer adventure.
Monch!
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for SCHiM fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SCHiM.
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?
Otterly Lost
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for SCHiM fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SCHiM.
Swim, dive, and explore as a curious sea otter far from home. Meet charming animals, discover hidden places, use tools, and solve light challenges as you make your way back with your favorite rock by your side.
Cellar Creek
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for SCHiM fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with SCHiM.
A curious little dog in a world carved from wood and wonder. Earn Scout Badges as you dig trails, herd woolly creatures, sniff out secrets, and discover that even the smallest world can hold something worth remembering.
Elli
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SCHiM.
Ranked #7 for SCHiM fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SCHiM.
A whimsical hand-crafted single-player adventure. Discover a delightful world, inhabited by the playful and usually helpful Mandragora. Collect gems and and hidden coins and exchange them for a variety of robes, staffs and hats. Simple pick up and play controls, suitable for kids and big kids!
Pizzapocalypse 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for SCHiM fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SCHiM.
Use your pizza to bounce, swing and dash in this 3D platformer! Explore different countries, and put a stop to the greedy corporation selling Pizza-in-a-can!
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Taiji
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SCHiM.
Reviewers of SCHiM cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with SCHiM.
Solve puzzle panels and uncover the meaning of the symbols within. Explore a dense world where secrets are hidden in plain sight.
Untitled Goose Game
WHY THIS
Reviewers of SCHiM cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with SCHiM.
It's a lovely morning in the village and you are a horrible goose.
Ynglet
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SCHiM.
Reviewers of SCHiM cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with SCHiM.
In Ynglet, you jump, dash, slide, bounce and float your way through an abstract, effervescent sky. Melt into the reactive, dynamic soundtrack, while beautiful colors make every moment a visual treat.
Unwording
WHY THIS
Reviewers of SCHiM cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with SCHiM.
Unwording is a short but powerful exploration of overcoming negative self-talk. Solve word puzzles, explore the neighborhood through multiple perspectives, and help Tom have a better day through a challenging yet cathartic experience.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below SCHiM at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under SCHiM on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with SCHiM.
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 ~70% under SCHiM on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with SCHiM.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under SCHiM on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with SCHiM.
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?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under SCHiM on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SCHiM.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under SCHiM on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with SCHiM.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under SCHiM on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with SCHiM.
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 ~70% under SCHiM on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with SCHiM.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under SCHiM on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with SCHiM.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
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 and Casual with SCHiM.
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 SCHiM.
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 SCHiM.
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 SCHiM.
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 and Casual with SCHiM.
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 SCHiM.
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 SCHiM.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about SCHiM
- Is SCHiM verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — SCHiM 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 SCHiM cost?
- SCHiM is listed on Steam at 16.45 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to SCHiM?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside SCHiM are Pine Hearts, Clawsome, Dodo Duckie.
- Who developed SCHiM?
- SCHiM was developed by Ewoud van der Werf, Nils Slijkerman and published by Extra Nice, PLAYISM.
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 SCHiM.
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