Games like Ghostboy
If Ghostboy is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Riftbreaker, Mars or Die! and Internet Cafe Evolution — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Ghostboy: Would you return from death to help your loved ones through grief? Make fate turning decisions, micromanage the family’s relationships and defeat the negative thoughts on tower defense levels. Watch out, your job will be harder the more severe their mental disorder is.
Players who liked Ghostboy also play
Steam players who put hours into Ghostboy 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.
The Riftbreaker
WHY THIS
Top pick for Ghostboy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ghostboy.
The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.
Mars or Die!
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Ghostboy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ghostboy.
Control two characters simultaneously! Survive, gather, collect upgrades, fight all sizes of one-eyed Martians, build defensible outposts and conquer Mars, in this glorious mix between roguelite and tower defense.
Internet Cafe Evolution
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Ghostboy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ghostboy.
This is a business simulation + construction game. It tells the evolution history of Internet cafes that began in the 1990s, and imagines the future of internet cafes. There are also some small emotional stories.
Final Outpost: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Ghostboy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ghostboy.
Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?
This War of Mine
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Ghostboy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Ghostboy.
In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.
MarZ: Tactical Base Defense
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Ghostboy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ghostboy.
Build your defense base to fight back the undead hordes of Mars and secure the future of the red planet. MarZ is a game of strategy and tactical defense where you must carefully manage your crew and resources as you try to uncover the terrible secrets of the undead.
Cliff Empire
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Ghostboy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ghostboy.
After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!
Until We Die
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Ghostboy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ghostboy.
Until We Die is a side-scrolling strategy game about defending your base where you have to run around as Ivan, assign tasks to people, and fight mutants in the post-apocalyptic subway!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Ghostboy at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ghostboy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ghostboy.
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 ~50% under Ghostboy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ghostboy.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ghostboy on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ghostboy.
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 ~50% under Ghostboy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ghostboy.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Ghostboy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ghostboy.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ghostboy on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ghostboy.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Ghostboy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ghostboy.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ghostboy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ghostboy.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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 Ghostboy.
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.
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 Ghostboy.
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 Ghostboy.
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 with Ghostboy.
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 Ghostboy.
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 with Ghostboy.
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 Ghostboy
- How much does Ghostboy cost?
- Ghostboy is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Ghostboy?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ghostboy are The Riftbreaker, Mars or Die!, Internet Cafe Evolution.
- Who developed Ghostboy?
- Ghostboy was developed by Two Blackbirds.
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 Ghostboy.
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