Games like despelote
If despelote is your kind of game, the closest matches are 1997 RELOADED, Night of her vanishing in fireworks and Goodbye Volcano High — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and emotional. 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 despelote: A slice-of-life adventure about childhood and the magical grip soccer held over the people of Quito, Ecuador in 2001.
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Steam players who put hours into despelote 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.
1997 RELOADED
WHY THIS
Top pick for despelote fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with despelote.
Three teenagers find a mysterious audio tape recording which turns out to be evidence of a murder. It’s the end of the world as they know it. Immerse yourself in a kinetic novel that encapsulates the essence of the 1990s by completely reinventing its music scene.
Night of her vanishing in fireworks
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for despelote fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with despelote.
The Night She Disappeared in the Fireworks is a short visual novel set in a small Chinese city and centered on esports. You play as Liu Lan, a high school esports player, as he faces three life-changing matches and, together with two heroines, witnesses a fate rewritten by fireworks.
Goodbye Volcano High
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with despelote.
Third-strongest match for despelote fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with despelote.
Goodbye Volcano High is a cinematic narrative adventure about love, change, and the end of the world. Guide Fang through their final year of high school as they try to make things right before time is up.
Falling Down
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for despelote fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with despelote.
"Falling Down" tells the story of a young hero destined for heroics through a visually stunning action-platformer game.
Open Roads
WHY THIS
Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with despelote.
Ranked #5 for despelote fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with despelote.
Long-lost family secrets. Hints of a hidden fortune. And miles to go before they sleep. Tess Devine’s relationship with her mom has never been easy, but they’re about to set out together on a journey into the past that they’ll never forget.
Goodnight Universe
WHY THIS
Shares environmental interaction, character interaction, slice of life and a melancholic mood with despelote.
Ranked #6 for despelote fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with despelote.
From the creators of Before Your Eyes — You are Isaac, a 6-month-old baby, developing mysterious psychic powers. What you want most is to be loved and accepted by your family, but a secretive tech corporation wants you for their own.
Forgotlings
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with despelote.
Ranked #7 for despelote fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with despelote.
Award-winning cinematic narrative adventure set in a hand-drawn world of living forgotten objects. Lead Fig and the crew of the Volare through a story of identity, unity, and survival—where diplomacy, difficult choices, and moments of action shape the fate of five divided tribes.
The Heroes Around Me
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with despelote.
Ranked #8 for despelote fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with despelote.
The Heroes Around Me tells a story of a family of 3: the hard-working and quiet father – Nan, his daughter Lili, and their pet dog Sesame. Players will experience the harshness and warmth in the simpler time of the 1990s, where lots of stories are untold.
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Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with despelote.
Reviewers of despelote cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with despelote.
On the corner of July Avenue and Yam Street, all is not what it seems. What role will you play in a city's fate?
The Beginner's Guide
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with despelote.
Reviewers of despelote cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with despelote.
The Beginner's Guide is a narrative video game from Davey Wreden, the creator of The Stanley Parable. It lasts about an hour and a half and has no traditional mechanics, no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand.
Thirty Flights of Loving
WHY THIS
Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with despelote.
Reviewers of despelote cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with despelote.
This surprising first-person story tells the tale of a heist gone wrong. Encounter high-flying schemers, lovelorn criminals, and more stray kittens than you can shake a stick at.
Wanderstop
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with despelote.
Reviewers of despelote cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with despelote.
From the creator of The Stanley Parable and The Beginner’s Guide comes Wanderstop, a narrative-centric cozy game about change and tea.
Venba
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with despelote.
Reviewers of despelote cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Venba is a short narrative cooking game, where you play as an Indian mom who immigrates to Canada with her family in the 1980s. Cook various dishes and restore lost recipes, hold branching conversations, and explore South Indian food in this story about family, love, and loss.
Untitled Goose Game
WHY THIS
Shares a lighthearted mood with despelote.
Reviewers of despelote cross-mention this title as a similar play.
It's a lovely morning in the village and you are a horrible goose.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below despelote at current Steam store prices.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under despelote on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with despelote.
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?
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under despelote on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with despelote.
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...
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under despelote on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with despelote.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~93% under despelote on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with despelote.
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?
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under despelote on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with despelote.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Human Fall Flat
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under despelote on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with despelote.
Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under despelote on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with despelote.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~87% under despelote on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with despelote.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with despelote.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Adventure with despelote.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with despelote.
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.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with despelote.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Frequently asked about despelote
- Is despelote verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — despelote 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 despelote cost?
- despelote is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to despelote?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside despelote are 1997 RELOADED, Night of her vanishing in fireworks, Goodbye Volcano High.
- Who developed despelote?
- despelote was developed by Julián Cordero, Sebastian Valbuena and published by Panic.
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