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Games like Jude

If Jude is your kind of game, the closest matches are Seafrog, The Dark Heart of Balor and Silver Pines — 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.

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About Jude: Explore the deep metroidvania world of Jude as you jump, collect, run for survival, and mentally build strategies to uncover the mysteries behind creation and purpose. Explore through the forests to the the dark side of the bayou and more as you are challenged to open the doors and find answers.

2021ActionStrategyIndieAdventure11.99 USDWindowsby Trois7ème
Jude — Steam game cover

Players who liked Jude also play

Steam players who put hours into Jude 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.

  1. Seafrog

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Jude fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Jude.

    Hop aboard Seafrog’s rocket-powered wrench and slide, grind, and trick your way through a one-of-a-kind 2.5D action-puzzle-platformer!

    2025ActionSportsIndie14.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. The Dark Heart of Balor

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Jude fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Jude.

    Archdemon Balor has opened the Gate of Hell into the human realm and hordes of demons and monsters have flooded into your world destroying everything in their path. You must protect those who are still alive and ultimately destroy Balor to close the Gate.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Silver Pines

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Jude fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Jude.

    Silver Pines is a survival horror metroidvania set in small town America. Fight nightmarish terrors and solve puzzles, while carefully managing your scarce resources as you uncover the mysteries that could hold the key to redemption.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  4. GRIME

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Jude fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Jude.

    Destroy... Absorb... Grow... GRIME is a fast and unforgiving Action-Adventure RPG in which you crush your foes with living weapons that mutate form and function, and then consume their remains with a black hole to strengthen your vessel as you break apart a world of anatomical horror and intrigue.

    2021ActionIndieRPG24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. HunterX

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Jude fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Jude.

    HunterX is an action-adventure game full of spirited battles. Use various styles of weapons and magic to experience your own fighting style and explore a great world.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure7.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Jude fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Jude.

    Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is an exploration-focused, side-scroller action RPG by Koji Igarashi. Play as Miriam, an orphan scarred by an alchemist's curse that slowly crystallizes her body. Battle through a demon-infested castle and defeat its master to save yourself, and all of humanity!

    2019ActionAdventureRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. HunterX: code name T

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Jude fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Jude.

    HunterX: code name T is an action adventure with fast and stylish combat. Perfect your own fighting style using various weapon actions and magic, and explore an ever-greater world.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure8.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. 3000th Duel

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Jude fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Jude.

    3000th Duel is action-adventure game that has speedy, exciting battles as its charm. Fight against monsters with your own style of battle to travel an unidentified world and discover a secret hidden.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Jude at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Jude on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Jude.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Jude on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Jude.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~42% under Jude on Steam right now. Shares Action with Jude.

    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.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Jude on Steam right now. Shares Action with Jude.

    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.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~48% under Jude on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Jude.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Jude on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Jude.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Jude on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Jude.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~92% under Jude on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Jude.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Jude.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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 Jude.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Jude.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Jude.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Jude.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Jude.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Jude.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Jude.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. GRIME

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Jude.

    Destroy... Absorb... Grow... GRIME is a fast and unforgiving Action-Adventure RPG in which you crush your foes with living weapons that mutate form and function, and then consume their remains with a black hole to strengthen your vessel as you break apart a world of anatomical horror and intrigue.

    2021ActionIndieRPG24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. HunterX

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Jude.

    HunterX is an action-adventure game full of spirited battles. Use various styles of weapons and magic to experience your own fighting style and explore a great world.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure7.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. HunterX: code name T

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Jude.

    HunterX: code name T is an action adventure with fast and stylish combat. Perfect your own fighting style using various weapon actions and magic, and explore an ever-greater world.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure8.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. 3000th Duel

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Jude.

    3000th Duel is action-adventure game that has speedy, exciting battles as its charm. Fight against monsters with your own style of battle to travel an unidentified world and discover a secret hidden.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Jude

How much does Jude cost?
Jude is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Jude?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Jude are Seafrog, The Dark Heart of Balor, Silver Pines.
Who developed Jude?
Jude was developed by Trois7ème.

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 Jude.

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