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Games like Paper Bum

If Paper Bum is your kind of game, the closest matches are Too Small To Matter, Simulation world and The Multi-Medium — 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 Paper Bum: A stray dog survives in a cruel world of humans and animals. There are two ways: to become a wolf or to give humanity a chance. Paper Bum is a dark adventure that looks like the drawings of a sad child.

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Paper Bum — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Paper Bum 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. Too Small To Matter

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Paper Bum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paper Bum.

    Journey of animals trying to survive a War. An emotional tale where you'll decide the fate of all who embark on this journey.

    2025IndieAdventureCasual3.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Simulation world

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Paper Bum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paper Bum.

    Simulation World - This is a puzzle, story and open world. Feel the vanilla atmosphere as you progress through the puzzles. Rescue the simulation from a virus that wants to destroy the computer world

    2021IndieAdventureCasual5.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. The Multi-Medium

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Paper Bum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paper Bum.

    The Multi-Medium is a visually unique 2D puzzle platform adventure in which you play as an interdimensional explorer lost in the multiverse. Travel to diverse worlds, each drawn or painted by hand in a different medium and style, in search of your place in the cosmos.

    2023IndieAdventureCasual6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. A Highland Song

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Paper Bum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paper Bum.

    Moira McKinnon is running away. A wild adventure through the Scottish Highlands, with open platforming and dynamic storytelling, maps and music. From the creators of Heaven's Vault and 80 Days.

    2023IndieAdventure17.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Blue Wednesday

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Paper Bum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paper Bum.

    Blue Wednesday is a relaxing and lovely adventure game focused on story, music, and characters. Explore the city, meet various characters, and have conversations. Listen to their stories, play mini-games, collect music albums, and play music.

    2023IndieAdventureSimulation14.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Volkolak: The Will of Gods

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Paper Bum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paper Bum.

    Volkolak: The Will of Gods is an epic 2D soulsvania in a dark Slavic fantasy setting, with hand-drawn animation. Explore an enchanted world full of secrets and enemies. Your choices will lead to several endings: become a warrior, a werewolf, or join the darkness.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure11.19 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Tron: Identity

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Paper Bum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paper Bum.

    Something has been taken. Enter a new Grid and forge alliances via visual novel gameplay, uncovering truths through Identity Disc puzzles. Make critical decisions and plot your own course in a world without a creator.

    2023IndieAdventureCasual5.09 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Pronty

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Paper Bum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paper Bum.

    Guide Pronty and its Javelin partner Bront as it defends the once great city of Royla. Explore the deep sea, fight mutant sea creatures, and discover the secrets behind this new Atlantis in this beautiful action-packed adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure17.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Paper Bum.

    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 ↗
  2. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

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

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. 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 Paper Bum.

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

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. 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 Paper Bum.

    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 ↗
  6. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. 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 Paper Bum.

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

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

    A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Paper Bum

What games are most similar to Paper Bum?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Paper Bum are Too Small To Matter, Simulation world, The Multi-Medium.
Who developed Paper Bum?
Paper Bum was developed by Zen Games.

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 Paper Bum.

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