Games like Birth
If Birth is your kind of game, the closest matches are Landlord of the Woods, When The Past Was Around and Papetura — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its tactical positioning matters, writing quality is exceptional 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 →Birth is a short indie adventure game developed and published by Madison Karrh, released in 2023 at $10.99. The experience centers on artistic exploration through point-and-click mechanics and puzzle-solving gameplay. Reviewers on Steam have responded positively, with 97% of 2,389 reviews giving favorable marks. The game is verified for Steam Deck play and is designed as a chill, single-player experience. Players describe the atmosphere as atmospheric, cozy, and peaceful, and note that tactical positioning matters during gameplay. The gothic art style combines with a cozy-creepy atmosphere to create a distinctive mood throughout the brief adventure.
About Birth: You are alone. You will build a creature, a partner, a wet warm heart, a collection of bones.
Players who liked Birth also play
Steam players who put hours into Birth 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.
Landlord of the Woods
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Birth.
Top pick for Birth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Birth.
You're 25, you feel like all of your peers are ahead of you in life so you apply for a new job to try to find some sort of meaning. Your new career is filled with physics-based puzzles, hand drawn art & a cute little story.
When The Past Was Around
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Birth.
Second-strongest match for Birth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Birth.
When the Past was Around is an adventure point-and-click puzzle game about love, moving on, letting go, and the joy and pain of everything in between.
Papetura
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Birth.
Third-strongest match for Birth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Birth.
Papetura is a short atmospheric adventure game, with unique world handmade entirely out of paper, and beautiful fragile music. It tells the story of two little creatures whose house is in danger of being burned down.
Botanicula
WHY THIS
Shares point and click adventure, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Birth.
Ranked #4 for Birth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Birth.
Humor-filled indie adventure game created by the makers of Machinarium and Samorost.
The Star Named EOS
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Birth.
Ranked #5 for Birth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Birth.
The Star Named EOS is a story-rich puzzle adventure built around photography. Recreate compositions of past photos to uncover the truth of a family mystery. Experience a harmonious mixture of beautiful hand-drawn art and engaging puzzles on a journey of reminiscence.
Samorost 3
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Birth.
Ranked #6 for Birth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Birth.
Samorost 3 is an exploration adventure and puzzle game from the award-winning creators of Machinarium and Botanicula. Travel across space to nine unique worlds teeming with colorful challenges, creatures and surprises to discover, brought to life with beautiful artwork, sound and music.
The Tiny Bang Story
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Birth.
Ranked #7 for Birth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Birth.
Life on Tiny Planet was calm and carefree until a great disaster occurred - Tiny Planet was hit by a meteor! The world fell apart and now its future depends only on you! Use your imagination and creativity: in order to restore Tiny Planet and help its inhabitants you will have to fix a variety of machines and mechanisms as well as solve...
Follow the meaning
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Birth.
Ranked #8 for Birth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Birth.
Follow the meaning is a surreal point-and-click puzzle adventure. Join detective Paul Trilby as he works to unravel the mysteries of a peculiar town, seemingly ruled by the local Hospital. Over the wall and behind tightly shut gates, a dark secret lies in wait…
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Birth at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Birth on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Birth.
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 ~55% under Birth on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Birth.
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!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Birth on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Birth.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Birth on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Birth.
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 ~55% under Birth on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Birth.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~91% under Birth on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Birth.
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 ~73% under Birth on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Birth.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~45% under Birth on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Birth.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
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 Birth.
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 Adventure with Birth.
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 Indie with Birth.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Birth.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Birth.
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 Birth.
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 Birth.
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.
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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.
When The Past Was Around
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Birth.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Birth.
When the Past was Around is an adventure point-and-click puzzle game about love, moving on, letting go, and the joy and pain of everything in between.
Papetura
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Birth.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Birth.
Papetura is a short atmospheric adventure game, with unique world handmade entirely out of paper, and beautiful fragile music. It tells the story of two little creatures whose house is in danger of being burned down.
Botanicula
WHY THIS
Shares point and click adventure, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Birth.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Birth.
Humor-filled indie adventure game created by the makers of Machinarium and Samorost.
The Star Named EOS
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Birth.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Birth.
The Star Named EOS is a story-rich puzzle adventure built around photography. Recreate compositions of past photos to uncover the truth of a family mystery. Experience a harmonious mixture of beautiful hand-drawn art and engaging puzzles on a journey of reminiscence.
Samorost 3
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Birth.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Birth.
Samorost 3 is an exploration adventure and puzzle game from the award-winning creators of Machinarium and Botanicula. Travel across space to nine unique worlds teeming with colorful challenges, creatures and surprises to discover, brought to life with beautiful artwork, sound and music.
Follow the meaning
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Birth.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Birth.
Follow the meaning is a surreal point-and-click puzzle adventure. Join detective Paul Trilby as he works to unravel the mysteries of a peculiar town, seemingly ruled by the local Hospital. Over the wall and behind tightly shut gates, a dark secret lies in wait…
Frequently asked about Birth
- Is Birth verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Birth 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 Birth cost?
- Birth is listed on Steam at 10.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Birth?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Birth are Landlord of the Woods, When The Past Was Around, Papetura.
- Who developed Birth?
- Birth was developed by Madison Karrh.
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 Birth.
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