Games like TV Kid
If TV Kid is your kind of game, the closest matches are Super Kanko Town, RETRIS and Tapeworm Disco Puzzle — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its addictive highs and lows, punishing difficulty feels rewarding and challenging. 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 TV Kid: TV Kid is an addicting roguelike clicker game with endless possibilities for item combinations! Click through channel after channel and try to defeat television itself!
Players who liked TV Kid also play
Steam players who put hours into TV Kid 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.
Super Kanko Town
WHY THIS
Top pick for TV Kid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with TV Kid.
Super Kanko Town is one part incremental game, one part city-building simulator, and one part reflection on the perversities of mass tourism. Raze gardens, rice fields, and village homes. Build capsule hotels, convenience stores, and gourmet sushi bars. Fight monsters, silence protesters, have fun.
RETRIS
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for TV Kid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with TV Kid.
A fresh take on the the falling block puzzle genre. Embrace imperfection with glitches and broken pieces to overcome this new challenge. Chase high scores or learn new techniques in a puzzle mode with over 50 handcrafted puzzles.
Tapeworm Disco Puzzle
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for TV Kid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with TV Kid.
A grid based puzzle game where you play as a tapeworm and help some fleas have a good time.
Minefield Fractalis
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for TV Kid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with TV Kid.
A Minesweeper-inspired puzzle game with a recursive twist. Each "mine" is a gateway to a new battlefield, each with its own cryptic logic to decipher. Navigate these nested systems and overcome quiz-like logic puzzles to unravel the chaos from the inside out.
Bogdanoff vs. Wojak Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for TV Kid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with TV Kid.
Ever wanted to manipulate the world financial markets? Well now you can! Fight against the Wojaks of the world as you manipulate the world markets and destroy their savings. Carefully pick the correct stock and then choose whether to "Bompeet" or "Dompeet"
Sengoku Logic - Kumamoto Castle
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for TV Kid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with TV Kid.
Welcome to Sengoku Logic! Sengoku Logic is a drawing puzzle game where players build famous castles from the Sengoku Period in Japan.
Wild Park Manager
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for TV Kid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with TV Kid.
Create a park full of animals and flowers, with sports fields and playgrounds!
Board Game Society
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for TV Kid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with TV Kid.
Board Game Society is a turn-based RPG soaked in 80s VHS horror vibes. Play as a misfit crew of teen archetypes such as the goth, the jock, the nerd, and more as you explore the cursed forest of Timber Falls. Roll the dice to fight monsters, collect loot, and race to defeat the Boss.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below TV Kid at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under TV Kid on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with TV Kid.
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 ~50% under TV Kid on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with TV Kid.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under TV Kid on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with TV Kid.
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 ~50% under TV Kid on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with TV Kid.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under TV Kid on Steam right now. Shares Indie with TV Kid.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under TV Kid on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with TV Kid.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under TV Kid on Steam right now. Shares Indie with TV Kid.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under TV Kid on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with TV Kid.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with TV Kid.
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?
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with TV Kid.
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.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with TV Kid.
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 TV Kid.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with TV Kid.
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!
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with TV Kid.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with TV Kid.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with TV Kid.
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.
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Frequently asked about TV Kid
- How much does TV Kid cost?
- TV Kid is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to TV Kid?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside TV Kid are Super Kanko Town, RETRIS, Tapeworm Disco Puzzle.
- Who developed TV Kid?
- TV Kid was developed by Astrid Ztar and published by insect.christmas.
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 TV Kid.
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