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Games like You are Peter Shorts

If You are Peter Shorts is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sylvio And The Mountain Giants, Breaking Box and NBB.EXE — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its bosses unlock new movesets, hard mode demands mastery 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.

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About You are Peter Shorts: You are PETER SHORTS! You have been captured and taken to a secret cloning facility. Can you escape with your newly-cloned brethren?

2024ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby ondydev
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Players who liked You are Peter Shorts also play

Steam players who put hours into You are Peter Shorts 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. Sylvio And The Mountain Giants

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for You are Peter Shorts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with You are Peter Shorts.

    An unknow evil has come to disturb the fragile balance of the land of Yahouna. Only a clever and pure being can save them all...

    2023IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Breaking Box

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for You are Peter Shorts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with You are Peter Shorts.

    Breaking Box is a 3D multiplayer game with a level editor in-game. You can create your own levels, challenge levels, and enjoy the competition with friends!

    2023ActionIndieCasual9.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. NBB.EXE

    WHY THIS

    Shares precision platforming, combo based combat, retro and a nostalgic mood with You are Peter Shorts.

    Third-strongest match for You are Peter Shorts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with You are Peter Shorts.

    NBB.EXE is a challenging fast paced puzzle platformer. Bomb your way to victory through devious gauntlets to reveal the secrets of the mysterious NEON Corp. in a modern reimagining of Bomberman with a metroidvania twist.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Okinawa Rush

    WHY THIS

    Shares a retro mood with You are Peter Shorts.

    Ranked #4 for You are Peter Shorts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with You are Peter Shorts.

    Take on the role of the martial arts master Hiro, Meilin, or Shin as they face off in a desperate fight for their lives against the Black Mantis clan. DOUBLE THE MAYHEM: Bring a friend and battle against ninjas, demons, and more in the 2-player local co-op mode of this action-adventure platformer.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure5.39 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Leif's Adventure: Netherworld Hero

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for You are Peter Shorts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with You are Peter Shorts.

    Join Leif and his loyal sidekick Ghost as they combine their strengths to overcome the sinister forces of the Netherworld. In this story-driven, co-op action-adventure inspired by Nordic folklore, friendship proves to be the greatest power of all.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Abyss Odyssey

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with You are Peter Shorts.

    Ranked #6 for You are Peter Shorts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with You are Peter Shorts.

    From indie Chilean developer ACE Team comes a new side-scrolling action adventure game featuring a complex fighting engine in procedurally generated levels that destines its three warriors to battle a different abyss each time! Choose your hero and also learn to possess your enemies in the abyss…

    2014ActionIndieAdventure4.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. River City: Rival Showdown

    WHY THIS

    Shares a retro mood with You are Peter Shorts.

    Ranked #7 for You are Peter Shorts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with You are Peter Shorts.

    River City Ransom is back, rebuilt from the ground up! Rekindle old rivalries and relive past rumbles through a completely revamped story!

    2023ActionAdventureRPG12.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Armed with Wings: Rearmed

    WHY THIS

    Shares a retro mood with You are Peter Shorts.

    Ranked #8 for You are Peter Shorts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with You are Peter Shorts.

    You are the sword; cut down your foes with steel and thunder. You are the wings; explore the skies and uncover unreachable mysteries. Embark on a journey through a vicious world ruled by darkness and imperial tyranny - the lands of Blackmist.

    2017ActionIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to You are Peter Shorts

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Metroidvania Maker

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of You are Peter Shorts cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with You are Peter Shorts.

    Create, play, and share custom Metroidvania worlds with a built-in world editor, co-op play, and player-made adventures.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. HAUNTED: Halloween '85 (Original NES Game)

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of You are Peter Shorts cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with You are Peter Shorts.

    A brand new NES homebrew game independently developed by Retrotainment Games and released on an NES cartridge. This game adheres to all NES hardware restrictions... all graphics, color palettes, data processing and audio fully comply regardless of how maddening it was to achieve :) HH85 is a classic, 8-bit beat' em up / platformer that...

    2016ActionIndie7.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Mega Man X Legacy Collection

    WHY THIS

    Shares a retro mood with You are Peter Shorts.

    Reviewers of You are Peter Shorts cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with You are Peter Shorts.

    Mega Man X Legacy Collection includes the legendary 16-bit titles and the series’ exciting foray into the 32-bit era: Mega Man X, Mega Man X2, Mega Man X3, and Mega Man X4. Test your skills in the new X Challenge mode, which pits players against two deadly bosses at once.

    2018Action19.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below You are Peter Shorts at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under You are Peter Shorts on Steam right now. Shares Indie with You are Peter Shorts.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under You are Peter Shorts on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with You are Peter Shorts.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under You are Peter Shorts on Steam right now. Shares Action with You are Peter Shorts.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under You are Peter Shorts on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with You are Peter Shorts.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under You are Peter Shorts on Steam right now. Shares Action with You are Peter Shorts.

    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.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under You are Peter Shorts on Steam right now. Shares Indie with You are Peter Shorts.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under You are Peter Shorts on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with You are Peter Shorts.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under You are Peter Shorts on Steam right now. Shares Indie with You are Peter Shorts.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with You are Peter Shorts.

    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 ↗
  2. 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 You are Peter Shorts.

    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 ↗
  3. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with You are Peter Shorts.

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

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with You are Peter Shorts.

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with You are Peter Shorts.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with You are Peter Shorts.

    Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.

    2016ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with You are Peter Shorts.

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with You are Peter Shorts.

    The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from ondydev

Other recommendable Steam games by ondydev, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Tres-Bashers

    WHY THIS

    Shares a retro mood with You are Peter Shorts.

    Another title from ondydev, the studio behind You are Peter Shorts. Shares Action and Indie with You are Peter Shorts.

    Tres-Bashers is a 2D monster-bashing adventure featuring a big interconnected map full of cryptids, secrets, and more! Find 40 different monster types and whack 'em with your baseball bat!

    2021ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Space Cat

    WHY THIS

    Another title from ondydev, the studio behind You are Peter Shorts. Shares Action and Indie with You are Peter Shorts.

    Space Cat is a 2D arcade-style platformer where the player(s) must collect as much loot as possible while surviving the asteroid terrain, which is constantly being destroyed and regenerated by hazards. There is also a side-scrolling Adventure Mode, and a VS Battle Mode.

    2016ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Pyro Fighters

    WHY THIS

    Another title from ondydev, the studio behind You are Peter Shorts. Shares Action and Indie with You are Peter Shorts.

    Pyro Fighters is a scrolling space shooter with platforming physics. Use your flame gun to propel yourself in the air and fight through an alien army with up to four players.

    2020ActionIndie2.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Binky's Trash Service

    WHY THIS

    Another title from ondydev, the studio behind You are Peter Shorts. Shares Action and Indie with You are Peter Shorts.

    Storm evil lairs... and take out the trash! Play as BINKY in a perilous, precision platformer where you run a garbage collection service for EVIL LAIRS! Optimize your speedrun strats and empty all the trash in 15 unique and colorful mini-Metroidvania maps!

    2021ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDSteam ↗

Frequently asked about You are Peter Shorts

Does You are Peter Shorts run on Steam Deck?
You are Peter Shorts 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 You are Peter Shorts cost?
You are Peter Shorts is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does You are Peter Shorts have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — You are Peter Shorts supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
What games are most similar to You are Peter Shorts?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside You are Peter Shorts are Sylvio And The Mountain Giants, Breaking Box, NBB.EXE.
Who developed You are Peter Shorts?
You are Peter Shorts was developed by ondydev.

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 You are Peter Shorts.

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