Games like The Cub
If The Cub is your kind of game, the closest matches are Golf Club Nostalgia, Pale Night and Somber — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, dark 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 The Cub: From the creators of Golf Club Nostalgia and Highwater. Return to their whimsical, neon-lit apocalypse in a Jungle Book meets The Armageddon fusion. Parkour through the remains of humanity as a child being hunted, while catchy end-of-days tunes and curious survivor stories play on the radio.
Players who liked The Cub also play
Steam players who put hours into The Cub 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.
Golf Club Nostalgia
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Cub.
Top pick for The Cub fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Cub.
Human life is wiped out. Earth is now a golf course for the ultra-rich. In this dystopian sports puzzler, play through destroyed brutalist monuments, crumbling shopping malls, and abandoned museums as you piece together the full story of how humanity fell.
Pale Night
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Cub fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Cub.
Help Pal overcome the curse forcing him to hide from light. Explore the world of Vector and join an epic adventure through a beautiful world of shapes and colors in this tight platformer.
Somber
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Cub fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cub.
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.
Bambas!
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Cub fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cub.
Relive your childhood and turn every crosswalk, curb, and puddle into an epic adventure with this urban walking simulator.
HAAK
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Cub.
Ranked #5 for The Cub fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cub.
HAAK is a Metroidvania-Platformer. As the mysterious wanderer Haak, you embarked on an epic expedition across the vast cyber-wasteland to find your lost brother. Explore deserted cities and metro, refine your weapons and hack skills, and uncover the secrets behind metal and dust.
On Rusty Trails
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Cub.
Ranked #6 for The Cub fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Cub.
Conformity is everything in this lightning-fast platformer - get ready to shift your friendships each and every second!
Minute of Islands
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Cub.
Ranked #7 for The Cub fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cub.
Explore strange and wonderful islands and dark labyrinths below in this narrative puzzle platformer. Guide young mechanic Mo on her quest to repair a world on the brink of collapse. The powerful Omni Switch at your disposal may not be enough to fix the damage that hides beneath the surface...
Return
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Cub.
Ranked #8 for The Cub fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cub.
Return to your home planet after 200 years of space travel in this atmospheric, art-driven adventure. Shoot, slash, and roll your way through dangerous enemies and ancient bosses, purchase items and unlock powerful weapons, and explore your unfamiliar home for parts to repair your ship.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Cub at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Cub on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Cub.
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 ~67% under The Cub on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Cub.
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 ~47% under The Cub on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cub.
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?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under The Cub on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Cub.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Cub on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cub.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Cub on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Cub.
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 ~67% under The Cub on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Cub.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Cub on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cub.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Cub.
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.
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 Cub.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 The Cub.
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 Cub.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Cub.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cub.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cub.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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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.
Golf Club Nostalgia
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Cub.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Casual with The Cub.
Human life is wiped out. Earth is now a golf course for the ultra-rich. In this dystopian sports puzzler, play through destroyed brutalist monuments, crumbling shopping malls, and abandoned museums as you piece together the full story of how humanity fell.
HAAK
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Cub.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cub.
HAAK is a Metroidvania-Platformer. As the mysterious wanderer Haak, you embarked on an epic expedition across the vast cyber-wasteland to find your lost brother. Explore deserted cities and metro, refine your weapons and hack skills, and uncover the secrets behind metal and dust.
On Rusty Trails
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Cub.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with The Cub.
Conformity is everything in this lightning-fast platformer - get ready to shift your friendships each and every second!
Frequently asked about The Cub
- Is The Cub verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The Cub 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 Cub cost?
- The Cub is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Cub?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Cub are Golf Club Nostalgia, Pale Night, Somber.
- Who developed The Cub?
- The Cub was developed by Demagog Studio and published by Untold Tales, Gamersky 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 Cub.
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