Games like The Hard Game
If The Hard Game is your kind of game, the closest matches are Copy Cats, Cyber Girl 1.1: REBOOT and Tightrope Theatre — picked from the ranked list below. 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.
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Copy Cats
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Hard Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Hard Game.
Utilize the power of the mysterious cloning machine and use your handy copy cats to solve puzzles and help a little kitty escape from a strange virtual dimension!
Cyber Girl 1.1: REBOOT
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Hard Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Hard Game.
In this action-platformer game, help Talia achieve her goal of defeating Psychotal!
Tightrope Theatre
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Hard Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Hard Game.
Tightrope Theatre is now hiring daredevils! Hop on a shaky unicycle and complete increasingly dangerous tightrope acts! Do you have what it takes to become a superstar?
Eternal Lust: Zenyh City
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Hard Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Hard Game.
《Eternal Lust: Zenyh City》is a match-3 puzzle game with dating elements. Your job is to complete all the missions and adventures around you to help all the girls on your journey.
Super Monsters
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Hard Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Hard Game.
Are you ready to join the monsters gang and take on the ultimate challenge in Super Monsters Gang Double jump? Join Bob and others and start jumping, dashing, and dodging your way through a monster invasion like never before!
Taffy Tales Redux : The Morning After
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Hard Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Hard Game.
An adult visual novel where your choices decide everything. Team up with your darker self and seize power, or turn onto a separate, optional path of betrayal and heartbreak. Taffy Town is your sandbox. Intended for adults only.
UnderParty
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Hard Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Hard Game.
UnderParty is an Action Platformer game. This game is made up of a very high level of difficulty. It's very violent, so be careful.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Hard Game at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Hard Game on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Hard Game.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Hard Game on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Hard Game.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Hard Game on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with The Hard Game.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Hard Game on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Hard Game.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Hard Game on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Hard Game.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Hard Game on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Hard Game.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Hard Game on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Hard Game.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
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 The Hard Game.
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 Hard Game.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Hard Game.
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 The Hard Game.
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 The Hard Game.
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 Hard Game.
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 Hard Game.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about The Hard Game
- How much does The Hard Game cost?
- The Hard Game is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Hard Game?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Hard Game are Copy Cats, Cyber Girl 1.1: REBOOT, Tightrope Theatre.
- Who developed The Hard Game?
- The Hard Game was developed by Ghostves.
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 Hard Game.
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