Games like Yerba Buena
If Yerba Buena is your kind of game, the closest matches are Playful Pursuit, Onirike and Riftshot — 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 Yerba Buena: Dive into a surreal 1970s gameworld and save San Francisco from a sinister threat. Play as Barb, and use the Oscillator to capture and reapply the physical traits of objects to solve mind-bending environmental platforming puzzles.
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Steam players who put hours into Yerba Buena 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.
Playful Pursuit
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Top pick for Yerba Buena fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Yerba Buena.
Playful Pursuit is a colorful 3D adventure platformer where you jump, climb, solve puzzles, battle goofy enemies, collect VHS tapes, and build friendships with allies in a silly High Desert quest to rescue Eddy’s stolen teddy bear.
Onirike
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Second-strongest match for Yerba Buena fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Yerba Buena.
Onirike is an original 3D adventure, puzzle and platformer video game which takes place in an intricate open world, designed with a non-linear narrative and presented with a peculiar audio-visual aesthetic.
Riftshot
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Yerba Buena fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Yerba Buena.
Riftshot is a 3D Platformer without the need for platforms. Utilize your trusty grappling hook to shoot through the air blisteringly fast!
Stealth Employee
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Ranked #4 for Yerba Buena fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Yerba Buena.
Stealth Employee is an action-adventure game. Sadık, an employee at an international logistics company, approaches a box on a shelf to fulfill a task. But this simple task leads to a major conflict with the company! Join him on this perilous journey!
little boy
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Ranked #5 for Yerba Buena fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Yerba Buena.
To survive, should you fight or flee? Fighting or fleeing won't always be the answer. You must conserve resources and increase them through exploration. Be careful when crossing platforms; even the slightest mistake can have serious consequences. Don't forget to collect the keys to open the gates.
Solis
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Ranked #6 for Yerba Buena fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Yerba Buena.
Join Nina and RAM with a friend to explore the puzzles and challenges of Solis. Discover the mysteries and the natural and technological wonders of Tortuga Island as you embark on a journey toward the abandoned factory. Play in local split-screen co-op or online using the Friend Pass.
An Eternity Gone By
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Ranked #7 for Yerba Buena fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Yerba Buena.
Use your telekinetic powers to hurl watermelons, lamp posts, toilets and more at the monsters roaming this strange yet familiar world. You’ll take the role of Mirai: a young sorceress trying to save her friend from the monsters who’ve abducted her.
No One Left To Die
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Yerba Buena fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Yerba Buena.
A generation ship with an unclear objective, housing an expendable crew tasked with waking up passengers to complete the mission... No One Left To Die is a short, sci-fi, action-puzzle-platformer that can be completed solo or with friends in a nuanced cooperative and competitive environment.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Yerba Buena at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Yerba Buena on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Yerba Buena.
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.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~60% under Yerba Buena on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Yerba Buena.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~60% under Yerba Buena on Steam right now. Shares Action with Yerba Buena.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Yerba Buena on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Yerba Buena.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Yerba Buena on Steam right now. Shares Action with Yerba Buena.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
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 Yerba Buena.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Yerba Buena.
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 Yerba Buena.
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 Yerba Buena.
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 Yerba Buena.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Yerba Buena.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Yerba Buena.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Yerba Buena.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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Frequently asked about Yerba Buena
- Is Yerba Buena verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Yerba Buena is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Yerba Buena cost?
- Yerba Buena is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Yerba Buena?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Yerba Buena are Playful Pursuit, Onirike, Riftshot.
- Who developed Yerba Buena?
- Yerba Buena was developed by Mad About Pandas and published by Focus Entertainment.
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 Yerba Buena.
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