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Games like Handshakes: Hands On

If Handshakes: Hands On is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mina & Michi, Sokobear: Cave and Mistified — 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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About Handshakes: Hands On: Handshakes: Hands On is the follow-up to the classic shake-em-up, Handshakes. Take your brain for a stretch in this all new handventure and guide hands through tricksy puzzles designed to make you feel like the big smart shaker that you are.

CasualWindowsby Pet Pumpkin, Damaskino, Trumpetguy
Handshakes: Hands On — Steam game cover

Players who liked Handshakes: Hands On also play

Steam players who put hours into Handshakes: Hands On 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.

  1. Mina & Michi

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Handshakes: Hands On fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    A 2D top-down puzzle/adventure game about friendship featuring 2 players local co-op.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Sokobear: Cave

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Handshakes: Hands On fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Handshakes: Hands On.

    Bear has a shiny new job! There are lots of caves inside this mine full of glowing rocks, and he must collect the precious stones. Help Bear in these sokoban-like puzzles. Plan your moves, break the crystals blocking your way! Gathering gems can get quite tricky.

    2022IndieCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Mistified

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Handshakes: Hands On fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Handshakes: Hands On.

    Solve puzzles and save souls by traversing increasingly complex islands. All to secure your lost spices and get home for dinner.

    2025IndieAdventureCasual14.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. This Is Not Chess

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Handshakes: Hands On fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    A turn-based tactics game about goofy characters with wide and varied techniques duking it out across a bright and colourful battlefield.

    2020StrategyIndieEarly Access7.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Let's Cook Together 2

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Handshakes: Hands On fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Handshakes: Hands On.

    Let’s Cook Together 2 is a frantic, cooking game for 1-4 players. Learn over 65 dish recipes, master 250+ levels, upgrade your kitchen appliances and travel around the world to make cooking meaningful again. Communication is the key!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure23.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Rhythm Doctor

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Handshakes: Hands On fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    Save patients with your rhythm mastery! Rhythm Doctor is a rhythm game where you heal patients by defibrillating in time to their heartbeats. Learn each patient's unique heartbeat and defeat boss viruses trying to sabotage your rhythm, all set to heart-pumping, soul-soothing music.

    2025ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. BattleBlock Theater®

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Handshakes: Hands On fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Handshakes: Hands On.

    Welcome to BattleBlock Theater! You’ve got no where to go but up...on stage. Play single player or co-op to free your friends and save Hatty Hattington! Jump, solve and battle your way through a mysterious theater inhabited by highly technological felines.

    2014ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Paquerette Down the Bunburrows

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Handshakes: Hands On fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Handshakes: Hands On.

    The buns... you HAVE to capture them!! Think outside the bunburrow or get outsmarted by bunnies in this cute pathfinding-based puzzle game!

    2023IndieAdventureCasual11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Handshakes: Hands On.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Handshakes: Hands On.

    A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Handshakes: Hands On.

    A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  8. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Rhythm Doctor

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box.

    Save patients with your rhythm mastery! Rhythm Doctor is a rhythm game where you heal patients by defibrillating in time to their heartbeats. Learn each patient's unique heartbeat and defeat boss viruses trying to sabotage your rhythm, all set to heart-pumping, soul-soothing music.

    2025ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. BattleBlock Theater®

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Casual with Handshakes: Hands On.

    Welcome to BattleBlock Theater! You’ve got no where to go but up...on stage. Play single player or co-op to free your friends and save Hatty Hattington! Jump, solve and battle your way through a mysterious theater inhabited by highly technological felines.

    2014ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Paquerette Down the Bunburrows

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Casual with Handshakes: Hands On.

    The buns... you HAVE to capture them!! Think outside the bunburrow or get outsmarted by bunnies in this cute pathfinding-based puzzle game!

    2023IndieAdventureCasual11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Handshakes: Hands On

Does Handshakes: Hands On have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Handshakes: Hands On supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
What games are most similar to Handshakes: Hands On?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Handshakes: Hands On are Mina & Michi, Sokobear: Cave, Mistified.
Who developed Handshakes: Hands On?
Handshakes: Hands On was developed by Pet Pumpkin, Damaskino, Trumpetguy and published by Pet Pumpkin.

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 Handshakes: Hands On.

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