Games like Pompom
If Pompom is your kind of game, the closest matches are Super Neat Cat, Bubble Frog DX and Super Good Boy Adventure — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its creative boss fights, atmospheric 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 Pompom: You don't control Pompom the hamster’s movements, you control everything else. Lay down blocks, springs, cannons, umbrellas, use whips and alter the world, creating a safe path for Pompom to defeat the evil Captain Cat.
Players who liked Pompom also play
Steam players who put hours into Pompom 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 Neat Cat
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Pompom.
Top pick for Pompom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pompom.
A retro style simple platforming adventure! A small cute cat must save their world from an ancient Nanobot Virus. Explore a beautiful pixel art land as you try and find the source of this destruction.
Bubble Frog DX
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Pompom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pompom.
Bubble Frog DX is a fun and challenging short Action Puzzle game where you take on the role of a Frog in a Bubble who's been tasked to save 160 Onigiri from all kinds of hazards across 50 levels and 4 colorful zones in this retro throwback title!
Super Good Boy Adventure
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Pompom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pompom.
In Super Good Boy Adventure, you play as Igor trying to rescue his human, who was captured by the cats Eric and Kenny. Igor goes in a journey through fields and mountains, lakes and cities, to find the cats and bring back his loved one.
Super Puzzled Cat
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Pompom.
Ranked #4 for Pompom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pompom.
Help Puzzled Cat use jetpacks, portals, bombs, gum, and more to conquer treacherous platforming stages. Play your own way using save states to explore a world full of challenges and secrets - but can you find the way through? Travel through time and space and reach enlightenment.
MagiCat
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Pompom.
Ranked #5 for Pompom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pompom.
MagiCat is a side-scrolling platformer inspired by the retro games from 16-bit era. The game features a cute magical cat adventuring 63 levels, each with their own unique boss battle spread across 7 worlds.
Frincess&Cnight
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Pompom.
Ranked #6 for Pompom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pompom.
Frincess&Cnight is a single-screen puzzle-platformer game about struggle and love between Frog princess and Cat knight.
Tanglewood
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Pompom.
Ranked #7 for Pompom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pompom.
Experience puzzle-platforming the way it’s meant to be. Designed and built on 90’s hardware, Tanglewood is a 16-bit love letter to the golden age of gaming. Guide Nymn home through a forest filled with danger, in classic 2D pixel-art style.
Gato Roboto
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Pompom.
Ranked #8 for Pompom fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pompom.
Pounce inside of your cozy armored mech and set off on a dangerous trek through an alien underworld full of irritable creatures and treacherous obstacles in a valiant effort to save your stranded captain and his crashed spaceship.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Pompom at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Pompom on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pompom.
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 Pompom on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Pompom.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Pompom on Steam right now. Shares Action with Pompom.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Pompom on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pompom.
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 Pompom on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pompom.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Pompom on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Pompom.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Pompom on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Pompom.
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 Pompom on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Pompom.
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.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pompom.
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 Action and Adventure with Pompom.
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 Pompom.
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 Pompom.
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 with Pompom.
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 Action and Indie with Pompom.
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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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Bubble Frog DX
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Pompom.
Bubble Frog DX is a fun and challenging short Action Puzzle game where you take on the role of a Frog in a Bubble who's been tasked to save 160 Onigiri from all kinds of hazards across 50 levels and 4 colorful zones in this retro throwback title!
Super Puzzled Cat
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Pompom.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Pompom.
Help Puzzled Cat use jetpacks, portals, bombs, gum, and more to conquer treacherous platforming stages. Play your own way using save states to explore a world full of challenges and secrets - but can you find the way through? Travel through time and space and reach enlightenment.
MagiCat
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Pompom.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Pompom.
MagiCat is a side-scrolling platformer inspired by the retro games from 16-bit era. The game features a cute magical cat adventuring 63 levels, each with their own unique boss battle spread across 7 worlds.
Frincess&Cnight
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Pompom.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Pompom.
Frincess&Cnight is a single-screen puzzle-platformer game about struggle and love between Frog princess and Cat knight.
Gato Roboto
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Pompom.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Pompom.
Pounce inside of your cozy armored mech and set off on a dangerous trek through an alien underworld full of irritable creatures and treacherous obstacles in a valiant effort to save your stranded captain and his crashed spaceship.
Frequently asked about Pompom
- Does Pompom run on Steam Deck?
- Pompom 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 Pompom cost?
- Pompom is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Pompom?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Pompom are Super Neat Cat, Bubble Frog DX, Super Good Boy Adventure.
- Who developed Pompom?
- Pompom was developed by TOMO CAMP and published by PID Games, Dear Villagers.
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 Pompom.
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