Games like Wake
If Wake is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bookbound Brigade, Super Dangerous Dungeons and Cave Story+ — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, bleak and contemplative. 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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Players who liked Wake also play
Steam players who put hours into Wake 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.
Bookbound Brigade
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Wake.
Top pick for Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Wake.
Bookbound Brigade is about beating the hell out of historical and literary characters you studied in school by leading a dream team of real and fictional heroes through a 2D side-scrolling platform-adventure.
Super Dangerous Dungeons
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Wake.
Second-strongest match for Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Wake.
Guide Timmy the treasure hunter through dangerous dungeons in search of the legendary treasure!
Cave Story+
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Wake.
Third-strongest match for Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Wake.
Run, jump, shoot, fly and explore your way through a massive action-adventure reminiscent of classic 8- and 16-bit games.
Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Wake.
A legendary series returns with a grand new adventure! Enjoy a colorful action-adventure game made alongside Ryuichi Nishizawa, creator of the original Wonder Boy in Monster World series.
Valdis Story: Abyssal City
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Wake.
Ranked #5 for Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Wake.
Assume the role of Wyatt in this Action/Exploration Platformer as you explore the ruins of a holy city that was lost many years ago. Battle various types of demons, angels, and a new threat known only as the “Ferals”, using swordsmanship, martial arts, and sorcery.
Castle In The Darkness
WHY THIS
Shares a bleak mood with Wake.
Ranked #6 for Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Wake.
Castle In The Darkness is a fun and challenging shout out to the early days of video games! It's an action exploration platformer with some RPG elements, much like games from the Castlevania or Metroid series. It's super fast-paced, challenging, and full of secrets!
Odallus: The Dark Call
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Wake.
Ranked #7 for Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Wake.
The old gods have forgotten this land. No one could save our people when darkness started spreading and collecting human souls for its army. Odallus is a classic exploration/action game, inspired by Ghosts’n Goblins, Demon’s Crest and Castlevania.
UnEpic
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Wake.
Daniel was just an average guy. He was a great videogame player, a big fan of sci-fi movies, and a novice RPG player. In the midst of an RPG, he was teleported to a castle. At first, Daniel believed that he was having a massive hallucination.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Wake at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Wake on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Wake.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Wake on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Wake.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Wake on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Wake.
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 ~80% under Wake on Steam right now. Shares Action with Wake.
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.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Wake on Steam right now. Shares Action with Wake.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Wake on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Wake.
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!
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Wake on Steam right now. Shares Action with Wake.
Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Wake on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Wake.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
You Have to Win the Game
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Wake.
You Have to Win the Game is a free exploration platformer with a retro 1980s PC aesthetic.
The Desolate Hope
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Wake.
On a distant edge of an unknown planet, an abandoned structure sits in silence. Constructed by an unmanned research vessel sent from Earth, the Lun Infinus station was designed to run simulations for a five year period, exploring possibilities of human colonization in the case that Earth became uninhabitable.
Raji: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Wake.
Raji: An Ancient Epic is an action-adventure game set in ancient India. A young girl named Raji has been chosen by the gods to stand against the demonic invasion. She must use the powers granted to her by the gods to rescue her brother as she battles to face the demon lord Mahabalasura.
Janosik
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Wake.
Challenging retro pixel graphics action-platformer. Become a legendary rogue Janosik and explore the big mountain castle level full of secrets. Available for FREE!
Berry
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Wake.
Berry is a short orthogonal 3D platformer about a tiny, blue spider. Gain new abilities, weave through projectiles, collect and purchase a variety of items, and combat various bosses in this tiny metroidvania adventure.
GunGirl 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Wake.
GunGirl2 is an action platformer in the style of games like Metroid, Castlevania or Cave Story. But with blood… LOTS of blood! Go on an epic adventure and explore a huge world with the heroic blonde chick GunGirl or her best friend GunDude.
Clockwork Calamity in Mushroom World: What would you do if the time stopped ticking?
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Wake.
A gentle exploration platformer in a vast yet small world where time has stopped, what will happen?
Lorera
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Wake.
Hook your way through the colorful world of Lorera and solve its biggest mystery. From a little flower to a vicious warrior, Lorera is all about growth and persevering your way through obstacles.
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Frequently asked about Wake
- Does Wake run on Steam Deck?
- Wake is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Wake cost?
- Wake is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Wake?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Wake are Bookbound Brigade, Super Dangerous Dungeons, Cave Story+.
- Who developed Wake?
- Wake was developed by Boss Baddie.
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 Wake.
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