Games like Heavy Burden
If Heavy Burden is your kind of game, the closest matches are Time's Prison, Reality Rifts and Explore Dreams: Dreamcore — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its addictive despite simplicity, atmospheric and contemplative. 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 Heavy Burden: How does Sisyphus feel as he climbs to the top of the mountain? Tired from the weight of the stone, the scorching sun, and the steep climbs, he nevertheless continues on his way up. What awaits him there?
Players who liked Heavy Burden also play
Steam players who put hours into Heavy Burden 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.
Time's Prison
WHY THIS
Top pick for Heavy Burden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heavy Burden.
A pirate who is burning with love for treasure finally finds the treasure island on the map. However, the pirate has puzzles to solve and adventures to go through. The story of the game starts right here.
Reality Rifts
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Heavy Burden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Heavy Burden.
3D platformer with a portal gun! Solve puzzles, exciting levels, become a master of portal travel.
Explore Dreams: Dreamcore
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Heavy Burden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heavy Burden.
Now you can explore your dreams while solving puzzles...
Robocoder - Dwarf Mountain
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Heavy Burden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heavy Burden.
Free Demo Available!. Fresh new unique gameplay, Like nothing you have played before! Take the role of Niko, programming Mar10 in this entirely new genre of Logic puzzle adventure! Early Access! Get involved now! Discord/Steam Community!
Joy-N Help Me
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Heavy Burden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heavy Burden.
JOY-N Help ME
Balls and Dungeons
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Heavy Burden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Heavy Burden.
Challenging spatial puzzle platformer. Open walls and put the balls in the holes. Requires logic and tactics to complete. Lots of levels with increasing complexity. Relaxing and ambient gameplay. How deep can you get?
Seasons of the Samurai
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Heavy Burden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Heavy Burden.
Lead a samurai through a series of puzzles set in the eight provinces of Japan. Solve increasingly challenging puzzles by controlling the season and the time of day in each level.
Super Marble Brothers
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Heavy Burden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heavy Burden.
Precision 3D platform game with cooperative or single player challenges above the clouds.
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Portal
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Heavy Burden.
Reviewers of Heavy Burden cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
The Talos Principle
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Heavy Burden.
Reviewers of Heavy Burden cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heavy Burden.
The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).
Only Up !
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Heavy Burden cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heavy Burden.
⭐⭐⭐ Embark on an exciting journey in Only UP ! Play as Jacky, a teenager from the ghetto who wants to get out of poverty and join the wealth of the Space ! As you explore a huge world full of secrets and mysteries, you will have to climb as high as possible ! ⭐⭐⭐
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Heavy Burden at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under Heavy Burden on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heavy Burden.
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 ~64% under Heavy Burden on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heavy Burden.
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 ~43% under Heavy Burden on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heavy Burden.
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 ~55% under Heavy Burden on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heavy Burden.
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 ~43% under Heavy Burden on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heavy Burden.
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 ~64% under Heavy Burden on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heavy Burden.
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 ~64% under Heavy Burden on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heavy Burden.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Heavy Burden on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heavy Burden.
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.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Heavy Burden.
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 Heavy Burden.
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 Heavy Burden.
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 Heavy Burden.
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 Heavy Burden.
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 Heavy Burden.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heavy Burden.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heavy Burden.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
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More from Whale Rock Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Whale Rock Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
We Are The Dwarves
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Heavy Burden.
Another title from Whale Rock Games, the studio behind Heavy Burden. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heavy Burden.
We Are The Dwarves is a real-time tactical adventure where you take control of three Dwarven astronauts and lead them through the hordes of enemies in the depths of their Universe. Tactical Adventure Sci-Fi Space Dwarves
DEPLOYMENT
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Heavy Burden.
Another title from Whale Rock Games, the studio behind Heavy Burden. Shares Indie with Heavy Burden.
An intense competitive top-down shooter: choose your class, capture turrets, progress, and dominate in the arena. top-down shooter, multiplayer shooter, arena shooter, class-based shooter, sci-fi shooter
Synthwave Burnout
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Heavy Burden.
Another title from Whale Rock Games, the studio behind Heavy Burden. Shares Indie with Heavy Burden.
The lost highway awaits you to take you beyond the horizon. Relax and let the sounds of synthwave open the way into the realm of neon - a world of revived imagination and fantasy, more real than reality itself.
The Divine Invasion
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Heavy Burden.
Another title from Whale Rock Games, the studio behind Heavy Burden. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heavy Burden.
Strange events occur in the cyberpunk age: a mysterious criminal steals museum pieces, historical documents in order to make certain corrections and then puts everything back. Someone is trying to prove that Good and Evil have swapped places in the past… But why?
Cybernetic Fault
WHY THIS
Another title from Whale Rock Games, the studio behind Heavy Burden. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heavy Burden.
Prove your ability to read names next to the big red buttons! Show your ability to fight for life in a science center that is falling apart from the consequences of an insane scientific experiment!
NeverSynth
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Heavy Burden.
Another title from Whale Rock Games, the studio behind Heavy Burden. Shares Indie with Heavy Burden.
NeverSynth is a 3rd person game that is a rhythm driving simulator.This game is a dynamic action game in which you have to drive a car to rhythmic music and collect beats. The more beats you collect, the more game points you earn.
Inquisitor’s Heart and Soul
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Heavy Burden.
Another title from Whale Rock Games, the studio behind Heavy Burden. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heavy Burden.
Summon demonic invasions, punish heretical enclaves, punish traitors and renegades. Do not deny yourself anything - after all, you are the hand and anger of the highest good. Give the apostates darkness, so that they learn to appreciate the light!
Dofamine
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Heavy Burden.
Another title from Whale Rock Games, the studio behind Heavy Burden. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heavy Burden.
You must explore the labyrinth of riddles and investigate the apocalyptic event at the research facility following the experiments with the Higgs boson, or “the God particle”.
Frequently asked about Heavy Burden
- Does Heavy Burden run on Steam Deck?
- Heavy Burden is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Heavy Burden cost?
- Heavy Burden is listed on Steam at 13.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Heavy Burden?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Heavy Burden are Time's Prison, Reality Rifts, Explore Dreams: Dreamcore.
- Who developed Heavy Burden?
- Heavy Burden was developed by Whale Rock 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 Heavy Burden.
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