Games like The Perfect Pencil
If The Perfect Pencil is your kind of game, the closest matches are Shellbound, Phaze Shift and Teios Journey — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, dark and emotional. 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 Perfect Pencil: The Perfect Pencil is a surreal action platformer where exploration and choice shape everything. Discover hidden paths, meet bizarre characters, and unravel a psychological story filled with bizzare humor.
Players who liked The Perfect Pencil also play
Steam players who put hours into The Perfect Pencil 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.
Shellbound
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Perfect Pencil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Perfect Pencil.
Shellbound is a 2D metroidvania set on a gigantic snail. You’re a parasite exploring a living world, battling and controlling enemies that will cause the ecosystem to evolve around you. Platform through diverse biomes, solve puzzles, and unravel your role in the giant creature’s life cycle.
Phaze Shift
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Perfect Pencil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Perfect Pencil.
Switch, adapt, and evolve in Phaze Shift! A tag-team, action Metroidvania. Swap between two characters, fuse upgrades to forge new abilities, battle mechanized bosses, and explore a sleeping digital world in a hand-drawn diorama-style 2D adventure.
Teios Journey
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Perfect Pencil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Perfect Pencil.
Embark on a thrilling adventure through a vibrant world teeming with challenges and mysteries. Traverse diverse landscapes, solve intricate puzzles, and engage in epic battles as you unravel the secrets hidden within the land.
Voice of Flowers
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Perfect Pencil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Perfect Pencil.
Embark on an epic adventure full of perils and secrets. Explore distinct forsaken lands of Devetlam and fight your way by jumping on your enemies or showering them with a plethora of magic spells. An open-world platforming action inspired by the classics.
Plus Ultra: Legado
WHY THIS
Shares metroidvania exploration, backtracking and atmospheric with The Perfect Pencil.
Ranked #5 for The Perfect Pencil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Perfect Pencil.
Explore a vast, colorful world in this 2D hand-drawn Metroidvania set during the Age of Discoveries. Grab your halberd and become a hero amid the storm!
Cliff Kingdom
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Perfect Pencil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Perfect Pencil.
Deranged trolls. Old thinking machines. Nordic inspired animals with dark backstories. Meet them all in this hand drawn adventure where you play as a moth, born without wings, exploring a dark world in search of the kingdoms lost light.
Layers Deep
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Ranked #7 for The Perfect Pencil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Perfect Pencil.
Explore a non-linear Southern Gothic-inspired world. Find upgrades and use them to expand your combat and exploration capabilities. Get lost in a dense atmospheric and dangerous map full of enemies and interesting characters.
Well Dweller
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Perfect Pencil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Perfect Pencil.
Well Dweller is a dark fairy-tale metroidvania, full of charming characters living in a wretched kingdom. Play as Glimmer - a tiny bird armed with a matchstick - who must burn the wicked queen to save his family.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Perfect Pencil at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Perfect Pencil on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Perfect Pencil.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Perfect Pencil on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Perfect Pencil.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Perfect Pencil on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Perfect Pencil.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Perfect Pencil on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Perfect Pencil.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Perfect Pencil on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Perfect Pencil.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
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 The Perfect Pencil.
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 The Perfect Pencil.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Perfect Pencil.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Perfect Pencil.
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 The Perfect Pencil.
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 The Perfect Pencil.
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 The Perfect Pencil.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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 The Perfect Pencil.
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.
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Frequently asked about The Perfect Pencil
- Is The Perfect Pencil verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The Perfect Pencil is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does The Perfect Pencil cost?
- The Perfect Pencil is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Perfect Pencil?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Perfect Pencil are Shellbound, Phaze Shift, Teios Journey.
- Who developed The Perfect Pencil?
- The Perfect Pencil was developed by Studio Cima and published by Studio Cima, Doyoyo 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 The Perfect Pencil.
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