Games like Once Upon A Puppet
If Once Upon A Puppet is your kind of game, the closest matches are Onirike, Catch the dustling and Cat Dog Go Adventure — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and melancholic. 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 Once Upon A Puppet: Control the strings of fate and embark on a grand adventure with Drev and Nieve. A magical, story-driven 2.5D puzzle-platformer where puppeteering mechanics and a whimsical, theater-inspired world intertwine.
Players who liked Once Upon A Puppet also play
Steam players who put hours into Once Upon A Puppet 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.
Onirike
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Once Upon A Puppet.
Top pick for Once Upon A Puppet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Once Upon A Puppet.
Onirike is an original 3D adventure, puzzle and platformer video game which takes place in an intricate open world, designed with a non-linear narrative and presented with a peculiar audio-visual aesthetic.
Catch the dustling
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Once Upon A Puppet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Once Upon A Puppet.
Due to an experiment gone wrong, dust creatures from a parallel world have appeared in the laboratory. They pose a threat because of their bad temper and their habit of ignoring certain laws of physics
Cat Dog Go Adventure
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Once Upon A Puppet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Once Upon A Puppet.
3D platform adventure. Challenging puzzle and obstades. 60+Levels. 2 Characters with different abilities.
One Last Breath
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Once Upon A Puppet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Once Upon A Puppet.
The Earth is sick and we are the disease. All hope rests on Gaia, a powerful being born from mother nature’s last breath. Use her abilities to alter the environment, escape from dangerous creatures, solve thoughtful puzzles and survive in this dying world.
Somber
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Once Upon A Puppet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Once Upon A Puppet.
Somber is an atmospheric action-platformer that takes place in the semi-open world of Gloom. A hand-painted game filled with stunning environments, Somber demands absolute precision from players who wish to unlock its many secrets.
WACKY WONDERLAND WOLLOP: A 3D PLATFORMER FOR THE AGES GAME OF THE YEAR GREATEST GAME OF ALL TIME : THE GAME
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Once Upon A Puppet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Once Upon A Puppet.
A 3D Platformer 3PShooter Dialogue Driven Soulslike with RPG elements and free Unity assets. What it doesn't have in Art Direction, it makes up in charm, mechanics, features, and very funny smart political commentary that says alot about are society.
Deception
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Once Upon A Puppet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Once Upon A Puppet.
Deception is a 3D puzzle adventure set in an underground mysterious place. No one knows how to enter, no one knows how to escape.
Hue
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Once Upon A Puppet.
Ranked #8 for Once Upon A Puppet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Once Upon A Puppet.
Hue is a vibrant, award-winning puzzle-adventure, where you alter the world by changing its background colour.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Once Upon A Puppet at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Once Upon A Puppet on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Once Upon A Puppet.
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 Once Upon A Puppet on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Once Upon A Puppet.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Once Upon A Puppet on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Once Upon A Puppet.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Once Upon A Puppet on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Once Upon A Puppet.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under Once Upon A Puppet on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Once Upon A Puppet.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
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 and Casual with Once Upon A Puppet.
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 Once Upon A Puppet.
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 Once Upon A Puppet.
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 Once Upon A Puppet.
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 Once Upon A Puppet.
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 and Casual with Once Upon A Puppet.
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 Once Upon A Puppet.
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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Frequently asked about Once Upon A Puppet
- Is Once Upon A Puppet verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Once Upon A Puppet 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 Once Upon A Puppet cost?
- Once Upon A Puppet is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Once Upon A Puppet?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Once Upon A Puppet are Onirike, Catch the dustling, Cat Dog Go Adventure.
- Who developed Once Upon A Puppet?
- Once Upon A Puppet was developed by Flatter Than Earth and published by Daedalic Entertainment.
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 Once Upon A Puppet.
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