Games like What Lies in the Multiverse
If What Lies in the Multiverse is your kind of game, the closest matches are What Lies in the Multiverse - Prologue, Fail to Win and Kraken Academy!! — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its characters feel well written, humor balances dark themes and atmospheric. 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 What Lies in the Multiverse: A bombastic puzzle platformer about worlds turned inside out. Shift dimensions at the push of a button, solve brain-twisting logistical riddles, and race through the wilds of the multiverse in a bleakly hilarious (and hilariously bleak) story where everything you know can turn on a dime.
Players who liked What Lies in the Multiverse also play
Steam players who put hours into What Lies in the Multiverse 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.
What Lies in the Multiverse - Prologue
WHY THIS
Top pick for What Lies in the Multiverse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Lies in the Multiverse.
Experience the first hour What Lies in The Multiverse. A bombastic puzzle platformer about worlds turned inside out. Shift dimensions at the push of a button, solve brain-twisting logistical riddles, and race through the wilds of the multiverse in a bleakly & hilarious story.
Fail to Win
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for What Lies in the Multiverse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with What Lies in the Multiverse.
Abuse the game's quirks to progress through slapstick deathtrap puzzles, uncovering the secrets of a world going through an identity crisis.
Kraken Academy!!
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with What Lies in the Multiverse.
Third-strongest match for What Lies in the Multiverse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Lies in the Multiverse.
Make friends, free spirits and make sure that the world doesn’t end! Welcome to Kraken Academy, a technicolor fever dream that for legal reasons can only be described as "technically a school." Join forces with a magical kraken to save the world!
Transpose
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with What Lies in the Multiverse.
Ranked #4 for What Lies in the Multiverse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with What Lies in the Multiverse.
Transpose is a dreamlike and gravity-defying time manipulation puzzle game in VR. It challenges players to solve increasingly complex physics puzzles as they explore an extraordinarily surreal world.
Afterparty
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with What Lies in the Multiverse.
Ranked #5 for What Lies in the Multiverse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Lies in the Multiverse.
In Afterparty, you are Milo and Lola, recently deceased best buds who suddenly find themselves staring down an eternity in Hell. But there's a loophole: outdrink Satan and he'll grant you re-entry to Earth.
Total Party Kill
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with What Lies in the Multiverse.
Ranked #6 for What Lies in the Multiverse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Lies in the Multiverse.
Your party enters a deep and dark dungeon… but sacrifices must be made! Control 3 different heroes and use their special abilities to solve tricky puzzles by sacrificing your teammates!
Starstruck: Hands of Time
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with What Lies in the Multiverse.
Ranked #7 for What Lies in the Multiverse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Lies in the Multiverse.
Starstruck: Hands of Time is a story-rich rhythm adventure game where you play guitar and abuse time travel! Control a giant hand destroying a miniature town, or play as the two guitarist kids living in it. For extra fun, optionally plug in a Guitar Hero controller!
Braid
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle platforming and an atmospheric mood with What Lies in the Multiverse.
Ranked #8 for What Lies in the Multiverse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with What Lies in the Multiverse.
This is the original version of Braid from 2009, which may not work well on newer systems. For an updated version of the game with nicer graphics, more levels and a large amount of developer commentary, see Braid, Anniversary Edition.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below What Lies in the Multiverse at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under What Lies in the Multiverse on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with What Lies in the Multiverse.
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 What Lies in the Multiverse on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with What Lies in the Multiverse.
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 What Lies in the Multiverse on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Lies in the Multiverse.
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 ~58% under What Lies in the Multiverse on Steam right now. Shares Indie with What Lies in the Multiverse.
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 What Lies in the Multiverse on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Lies in the Multiverse.
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 What Lies in the Multiverse on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with What Lies in the Multiverse.
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 What Lies in the Multiverse on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with What Lies in the Multiverse.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under What Lies in the Multiverse on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Lies in the Multiverse.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with What Lies in the Multiverse.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Lies in the Multiverse.
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 What Lies in the Multiverse.
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 What Lies in the Multiverse.
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 What Lies in the Multiverse.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Lies in the Multiverse.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Lies in the Multiverse.
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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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.
Kraken Academy!!
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with What Lies in the Multiverse.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Lies in the Multiverse.
Make friends, free spirits and make sure that the world doesn’t end! Welcome to Kraken Academy, a technicolor fever dream that for legal reasons can only be described as "technically a school." Join forces with a magical kraken to save the world!
Afterparty
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with What Lies in the Multiverse.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Lies in the Multiverse.
In Afterparty, you are Milo and Lola, recently deceased best buds who suddenly find themselves staring down an eternity in Hell. But there's a loophole: outdrink Satan and he'll grant you re-entry to Earth.
Starstruck: Hands of Time
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with What Lies in the Multiverse.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Lies in the Multiverse.
Starstruck: Hands of Time is a story-rich rhythm adventure game where you play guitar and abuse time travel! Control a giant hand destroying a miniature town, or play as the two guitarist kids living in it. For extra fun, optionally plug in a Guitar Hero controller!
Braid
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle platforming and an atmospheric mood with What Lies in the Multiverse.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Casual with What Lies in the Multiverse.
This is the original version of Braid from 2009, which may not work well on newer systems. For an updated version of the game with nicer graphics, more levels and a large amount of developer commentary, see Braid, Anniversary Edition.
Frequently asked about What Lies in the Multiverse
- Does What Lies in the Multiverse work on Steam Deck?
- What Lies in the Multiverse is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does What Lies in the Multiverse cost?
- What Lies in the Multiverse is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to What Lies in the Multiverse?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside What Lies in the Multiverse are What Lies in the Multiverse - Prologue, Fail to Win, Kraken Academy!!.
- Who developed What Lies in the Multiverse?
- What Lies in the Multiverse was developed by Studio Voyager, IguanaBee and published by Untold Tales, Doyoyo Games.
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