Games like The Pest
If The Pest is your kind of game, the closest matches are Gabriel's Worlds The Adventure, Miko Adventures Puffball and Rugösi — 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.
Get personalized picks →About The Pest: Solve challenging puzzles and avoid dangerous traps of the computer defence system in this puzzle-platformer game about a tiny optimistic computer pest heading to the System's Core. Will he plunge our world into chaos, or will he have mercy? It's up to you.
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Steam players who put hours into The Pest 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.
Gabriel's Worlds The Adventure
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Top pick for The Pest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Pest.
Help Gabriel find out what happened to his friends, explore levels with a high degree of difficulty, puzzles, collectibles and a beautiful story, in a precision platform game focused on exploration.
Miko Adventures Puffball
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Second-strongest match for The Pest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Pest.
Miko is a raccoon who lost his way while wandering through the forest, he discovers a portal and upon touching it he finds himself in a world full of dangers. Miko is transported into another dimension and your goal is to help him find a way back home but it wont be an easy journey, are you ready?
Rugösi
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Third-strongest match for The Pest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Pest.
Rugösi is a very short game - just like our lives. Professor Alveus and Professor Vox invite you to play through the test chambers and compete against others in the Steam leaderboards.
Septurian Might
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Ranked #4 for The Pest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Pest.
Everyone in Septura is smarter than you. In this hand-drawn science-fantasy adventure, steal their intellect to gain powerful abilities and master brutal combat to save a dying world.
Soulless: Ray Of Hope
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Ranked #5 for The Pest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Pest.
Soulless: Ray of Hope is a 2D story-driven platformer focused on atmosphere, exploration, and emotional storytelling in a dark, minimalist world.
Embers of Mirrim
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Ranked #6 for The Pest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Pest.
To save their world from an alien threat, two proud races must set aside their differences and come together... literally. Embers of Mirrim is an adventure-platformer featuring a mystical creature with the ability to split into light and dark embers, each independently controlled by the analog sticks.
Lost Words: Beyond the Page
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Ranked #7 for The Pest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Pest.
A short, fully voiced, story-first adventure across two worlds. Rearrange words into platforms in Izzy’s diary, then wield word magic to shape your path in the fantasy she writes. Gentle puzzles, watercolour wonder, and a bittersweet story of family, loss, and healing.
Will You Snail?
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Ranked #8 for The Pest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Pest.
A unique platformer where an evil AI predicts your movement. Dodge AI-spawned traps, solve optional puzzles and uncover the dark secrets of the simulation. Now with a level editor and infinite community-made content!
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Frequently asked about The Pest
- Does The Pest run on Steam Deck?
- The Pest is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- Is The Pest free to play?
- Yes — The Pest is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to The Pest?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Pest are Gabriel's Worlds The Adventure, Miko Adventures Puffball, Rugösi.
- Who developed The Pest?
- The Pest was developed by Ostap Trush and published by Ostap Trush, Multiverse Experience.
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 The Pest.
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