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Games like Squid Grid

If Squid Grid is your kind of game, the closest matches are UwUbUwU, Slide Soldiers 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 Squid Grid: A squid-squirting, tentacle-bending puzzle game in a steampunk ocean

2027IndieAdventureCasualWindows · macOS · Linuxby Michael Pohling, Osama Yahya
Squid Grid — Steam game cover

Players who liked Squid Grid also play

Steam players who put hours into Squid Grid 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. UwUbUwU

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Squid Grid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Squid Grid.

    UwUbUwU is a small cozy puzzle game based on a simple idea: What if you took classic Snake but inverted the goal and made it so you have to form a loop by eating your own tail.

    2026StrategyIndieCasualSteam ↗
  2. Slide Soldiers

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Squid Grid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Squid Grid.

    Slide Soldiers is a cozy sliding puzzle game where you aim for the enemies instead of reaching the exit. Play at your own pace and discover the perfect path in 4,000 levels. Pick your targets and plan your moves, cause once you start sliding, there’s no stopping!

    2026IndieCasualSteam ↗
  3. Mistified

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Squid Grid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Squid Grid.

    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. Hanox

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Squid Grid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Squid Grid.

    Slide every block at once, stack them in the right weight order, and master elegant grid-based puzzles built around momentum, planning, and chain merges. Avoid invalid stacks, think several moves ahead, and turn each level into a perfectly crafted solution.

    2026StrategyIndieCasual1.79 USDSteam ↗
  5. Firewall Maze

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Squid Grid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Squid Grid.

    Firewall Maze is a tactical cyber-puzzle where logic is your sharpest weapon. Navigate deadly firewall grids, outsmart Entropy viruses, and reach the exit node. Design your own subnets with the built-in level editor and breach the Steam Workshop!

    StrategyIndieCasualSteam ↗
  6. Steps To The Stars

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Squid Grid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Squid Grid.

    A single player puzzle game following the journey of two stars as they climb to return to the constellation from which they have fallen.

    2027IndieAdventureCasualSteam ↗
  7. Syncline

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Squid Grid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Squid Grid.

    A rolling-block puzzle where your piece is a whole line of cubes. Roll it flat, stand it on end, break it or rejoin it, and turn the camera to find the way — then land the chain along the goal line to cover it.

    IndieCasualSteam ↗
  8. Gem Setter

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Squid Grid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Squid Grid.

    i'm gem setter, a block sliding puzzle game about moving ice in an abstract world. solve clever puzzles using ice blocks to change your shape and open new paths, then build your own levels using the built-in level editor.

    2022StrategyIndieCasual3.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Squid Grid.

    The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Squid Grid.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Squid Grid.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Squid Grid.

    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 ↗
  5. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Squid Grid.

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

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

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Squid Grid.

    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 ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Squid Grid.

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Squid Grid.

    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 ↗

Frequently asked about Squid Grid

What games are most similar to Squid Grid?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Squid Grid are UwUbUwU, Slide Soldiers, Mistified.
Who developed Squid Grid?
Squid Grid was developed by Michael Pohling, Osama Yahya and published by Head Scratch Games.

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 Squid Grid.

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