Games like POLE
If POLE is your kind of game, the closest matches are Kinduo 2 - Frostbite, Antonball Deluxe and Moonleap — 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 POLE: POLE is a challenging NES/Retro style precision platformer. You have a POLE (like a stick), and you use it to jump off surfaces, like walls, ceilings or floors. POLE has tough to beat levels and a rewarding story. Left Shift or Right Trigger to Sprint, trust me, you need to.
Players who liked POLE also play
Steam players who put hours into POLE 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.
Kinduo 2 - Frostbite
WHY THIS
Top pick for POLE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with POLE.
Kinduo 2 is a local co-op game where two elemental friends with unique abilities need to help each other to overcome obstacles! Create blocks of ice, burn or melt things, and combine your skills to create plants!
Antonball Deluxe
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for POLE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with POLE.
The breakout title from Summitsphere, Antonball Deluxe is a retro, high-octane smorgasbord of ballbusting arcade action! Antonball Deluxe quite literally turns the breakout genre on its head, blending traditional brick-breaking gameplay with tight, intense platforming.
Moonleap
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for POLE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with POLE.
Explore a world full of mysteries that transform with each jump! Moonleap is a game about a moon boy on his journey to recover shooting stars. Change day to night with your jump and catch all the stars in this challenging puzzle-platformer!
Two Cubes
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for POLE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with POLE.
Two Cubes is an Online Co-Op platformer where players can only touch their colour! The game requires 2 players who own the game to play!
PP
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for POLE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with POLE.
This is a "butt" as the protagonist of the breakthrough game Players will take the role of a pink ass in a hurry to go to the toilet. Dodge all kinds of fast food attacks on the way, break through the obstacles and finally reach the toilet!
Road to Ballhalla
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for POLE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with POLE.
Roll and be trolled on your journey to the legendary place called Ballhalla. Follow the beat to overcome deadly hazards in sync with the music. Style your balls and marble at awful puns in the roll playing game of the year!
Pets at Work
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for POLE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with POLE.
Some pets got lost from their owners in an office and now need to work together, using boxes, mats, buttons, climb on shelves and tables or just make a mess trying to find them in this colorful local co-op game!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below POLE at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under POLE on Steam right now. Shares Indie with POLE.
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 ~67% under POLE on Steam right now. Shares Indie with POLE.
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 ~47% under POLE on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with POLE.
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?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under POLE on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with POLE.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under POLE on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with POLE.
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 ~47% under POLE on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with POLE.
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 ~67% under POLE on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with POLE.
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 ~67% under POLE on Steam right now. Shares Indie with POLE.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with POLE.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with POLE.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 POLE.
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 POLE.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with POLE.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with POLE.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Moonleap
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with POLE.
Explore a world full of mysteries that transform with each jump! Moonleap is a game about a moon boy on his journey to recover shooting stars. Change day to night with your jump and catch all the stars in this challenging puzzle-platformer!
Road to Ballhalla
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with POLE.
Roll and be trolled on your journey to the legendary place called Ballhalla. Follow the beat to overcome deadly hazards in sync with the music. Style your balls and marble at awful puns in the roll playing game of the year!
Pets at Work
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with POLE.
Some pets got lost from their owners in an office and now need to work together, using boxes, mats, buttons, climb on shelves and tables or just make a mess trying to find them in this colorful local co-op game!
Frequently asked about POLE
- Does POLE run on Steam Deck?
- POLE is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does POLE cost?
- POLE is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to POLE?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside POLE are Kinduo 2 - Frostbite, Antonball Deluxe, Moonleap.
- Who developed POLE?
- POLE was developed by Iuvenis Studios, Mobul Tek LLC and published by Iuvenis Studios, Mobul Tek LLC.
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 POLE.
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