Games like Beta MAX
If Beta MAX is your kind of game, the closest matches are Timeworks, Time Storm and Timeshift — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its replayable secrets and shortcuts, atmospheric and challenging. 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 Beta MAX: Use four-dimensional thinking to manipulate time and navigate through this mind bending retro inspired realm. Solve puzzles to help Max find his way home in this atmospheric first-person puzzle platformer.
Players who liked Beta MAX also play
Steam players who put hours into Beta MAX 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.
Timeworks
WHY THIS
Top pick for Beta MAX fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beta MAX.
Timeworks is a time-traveling 3D puzzle platformer with a bouncy cartoon style. Work along past versions of yourself to solve puzzles, create unique Items, and fill out your quotas for your mysterious employers.
Time Storm
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Beta MAX fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beta MAX.
Use your ability to go back in time to overcome obstacles and reach your goal. Are you ready to help your future self?
Portal 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Beta MAX.
Ranked #4 for Beta MAX fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Beta MAX.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
DESORDRE : A Puzzle Game Adventure
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Beta MAX fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beta MAX.
Immerse yourself in the multidimensional universe of Desordre. Solve intricate puzzles, push the boundaries of 4-dimensional thinking. Get ready for a unique experience where reflection takes on a whole new dimension. Created by one-man development studio SHK Interactive using Unreal Engine.
Quantum Conundrum
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Beta MAX.
Ranked #6 for Beta MAX fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Find and rescue your uncle by using his newest invention to work your way through a crazy complex mansion as you switch between dimensions and solve puzzles!
Portal
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Beta MAX.
Ranked #7 for Beta MAX fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Beta MAX.
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.
Viewfinder
WHY THIS
Shares time rewind with Beta MAX.
Ranked #8 for Beta MAX fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beta MAX.
Challenge perception, redefine reality, and reshape the world around you with an instant camera. Viewfinder is a new single player game offering gamers hours of interesting and fun experiences while uncovering the mysteries left behind.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Beta MAX at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Beta MAX on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Beta MAX.
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 Beta MAX on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Beta MAX.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Beta MAX on Steam right now. Shares Action with Beta MAX.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Beta MAX on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Beta MAX.
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 Beta MAX on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Beta MAX.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Beta MAX on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Beta MAX.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Beta MAX on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Beta MAX.
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 Beta MAX on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Beta MAX.
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.
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 Beta MAX.
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 Action and Indie with Beta MAX.
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 Beta MAX.
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 Action and Indie with Beta MAX.
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 Beta MAX.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Beta MAX.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Beta MAX.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Beta MAX.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Portal 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Beta MAX.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Beta MAX.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
Portal
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Beta MAX.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Beta MAX.
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.
Viewfinder
WHY THIS
Shares time rewind with Beta MAX.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beta MAX.
Challenge perception, redefine reality, and reshape the world around you with an instant camera. Viewfinder is a new single player game offering gamers hours of interesting and fun experiences while uncovering the mysteries left behind.
Frequently asked about Beta MAX
- How much does Beta MAX cost?
- Beta MAX is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Beta MAX?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Beta MAX are Timeworks, Time Storm, Timeshift.
- Who developed Beta MAX?
- Beta MAX was developed by Nexcide.
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 Beta MAX.
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