Games like Alan and the kid
If Alan and the kid is your kind of game, the closest matches are Chicks and Tricks VR, Late For Work and Escape From Mandrillia: Local Asymmetric VR+PC — 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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Steam players who put hours into Alan and the 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.
Chicks and Tricks VR
WHY THIS
Top pick for Alan and the kid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Alan and the kid.
Chicks and Tricks VR is a 2 player local-multiplayer party game for VR. The farmer and the fox battle together in catching as many chickens as they can! Earn a point for every chicken the farmer has saved or the fox has eaten. The player with the most points wins the round.
Late For Work
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Alan and the kid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Alan and the kid.
Play as a giant gorilla in VR and face off against your puny human friends in the ultimate couch party game.
Escape From Mandrillia: Local Asymmetric VR+PC
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Alan and the kid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Alan and the kid.
Local VR+PC horror: as a VR player, escape an underground facility full of giant alien monkeys. Up to 2 PC players can help you out controlling friendly drones... or crush you by playing as the enemy Mandrillians.
The Sandwich Making Experience
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Alan and the kid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Welcome to The Sandwich Making Experience! The game that will have you and your friends competing for sandwich supremacy!
Mass Exodus Redux
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Alan and the kid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Alan and the kid.
Whether you’re playing the seeker (VR) or rogue android (PC), Mass Exodus is a tense and absorbing local multiplayer game. With 4 extensive maps each with unique kill methods and some creative power-ups, you need to try outsmart your friends anyway you can. Oculus Touch and HTC Vive compatible.
Wild Gun
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Alan and the kid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Alan and the kid.
You are the sheriff. Robbers roam the village and pillage. Your mission is to catch robbers and bounties. Fight them to protect your town.
Traffic Jams
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Ranked #7 for Alan and the kid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Alan and the kid.
In this wacky VR game, control traffic your way in the face of outrageous events and flagrant road rage. Easy? Think again! Traffic Jams throws in monsters, (un)natural disasters, and up to 4 non-VR friends in party mode!
Panoptic
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Alan and the kid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Alan and the kid.
Panoptic is a local multiplayer VR game that pits you against a friend, where you play as either the giant Overseer or tiny Challenger in a stealthy game of cat and mouse. Will the Challenger slip away undetected through the crowds, or will the Overseer track them down with their powerful laser eye?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Alan and the kid at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Alan and the kid on Steam right now. Shares Action with Alan and the 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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Alan and the kid on Steam right now. Shares Action with Alan and the kid.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Alan and the kid on Steam right now. Shares Action with Alan and the kid.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Alan and the kid on Steam right now. Shares Action with Alan and the kid.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Super Hexagon
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Priced ~57% under Alan and the kid on Steam right now. Shares Action with Alan and the kid.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under Alan and the kid on Steam right now. Shares Action with Alan and the kid.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
Streets of Rogue
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Alan and the kid on Steam right now. Shares Action with Alan and the kid.
Fight, sneak, and hack your way through randomly generated cities. It's like Nuclear Throne meets Deus Ex, mixed with the anarchy of GTA. Rogue-lite meets immersive sim, and goes completely insane.
Superflight
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Alan and the kid on Steam right now. Shares Action with Alan and the kid.
Superflight is an intense, easy to learn wingsuit game with an infinite number of beautiful procedurally generated maps. A great game to relax for half an hour and chase your latest highscore!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Alan and the kid.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Alan and the kid.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Alan and the kid.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Alan and the kid.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Alan and the 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!
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
An Arcade Full of Cats
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Alan and the kid.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
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Frequently asked about Alan and the kid
- How much does Alan and the kid cost?
- Alan and the kid is listed on Steam at 6.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Alan and the kid have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Alan and the kid supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Alan and the kid?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Alan and the kid are Chicks and Tricks VR, Late For Work, Escape From Mandrillia: Local Asymmetric VR+PC.
- Who developed Alan and the kid?
- Alan and the kid was developed by Barksquare ehf.
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