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Games like The Pellar

If The Pellar is your kind of game, the closest matches are Vicarius, Survival Story and Unearther — 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 The Pellar: The Pellar is an action-adventure game in which you play the role of a lonely quack doctor. Your task is to prepare medicines, potions and bandages that will be used to help those in need. Struggle with healing various ailments in this magical world inspired by Slavic mythology.

2023ActionIndieAdventure3.99 USDWindowsby Mimoza Games
The Pellar — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into The Pellar 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. Vicarius

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for The Pellar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Pellar.

    A small handcrafted open world focused on exploration and combat. Leave your safe zone to gather the resources that will help you craft better gear. The further you go, the more dangerous it gets but the resources are also better. Dying means losing everything that you are carrying.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Survival Story

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for The Pellar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Pellar.

    Survival Story is a zombie-infested world where every step can be the last. Look for food and water, hunt and craft, and find out all the secrets that this world hides. Can you survive in a harsh world where everyone wants to kick your ass?

    2024IndieAdventure6.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Unearther

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Pellar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Pellar.

    Journey into different places and environments in search of resources and valuables. Make tools and equipments, survive the dangers and lurking monsters. Craft your way of living and discover the unknown world hidden in plain sight.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  4. Islets

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for The Pellar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Pellar.

    Take to the sky and reunite a fragmented world in this surprisingly wholesome metroidvania! Help Iko adventure across beautiful hand-painted islands, receive letters from a quirky cast of characters, and face powerful monstrous adversaries.

    2022ActionAdventure19.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. 25 Days in the DARK

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The Pellar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Pellar.

    The game puts you in the role of a lost child who must survive 25 days in a dangerous, pixelated world full of hostile creatures. Every day is a fight for survival—you must find food by hunting, fishing, or gathering berries. However, even the simplest tasks can be risky.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure5.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. YARETA

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for The Pellar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Pellar.

    Embark on an open-world adventure in YARETA. As a World Library surveyor, explore a mysterious world with your Skybound Rope and discover the hidden voices within everything you touch. Solve ancient puzzles, meet unique creatures, and uncover the secrets left behind by a lost civilization.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  7. Thousand Threads

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for The Pellar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Pellar.

    Explore a beautiful open world where you deliver mail, find artifacts, help people out, and fend off folks you’ve wronged.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Kynseed

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for The Pellar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Pellar.

    Embark on a lifetime of adventure in a beautiful world of creativity and intrigue. Raise a family, customise your farm, run a business, craft items, and battle some marvellously malevolent monsters.

    2022IndieAdventureSimulation24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Pellar at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under The Pellar on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Pellar.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under The Pellar on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Pellar.

    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?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under The Pellar on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Pellar.

    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.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under The Pellar on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with The Pellar.

    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.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under The Pellar on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Pellar.

    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!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Test: Hypothesis Rising

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under The Pellar on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Pellar.

    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?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. The NOexistenceN of you AND me

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under The Pellar on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Pellar.

    Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".

    2024IndieAdventureRPG1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under The Pellar on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Pellar.

    "Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!

    2015ActionIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. 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 The Pellar.

    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 ↗
  2. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. 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 The Pellar.

    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 ↗
  4. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. 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 The Pellar.

    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 ↗
  6. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  7. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Pellar.

    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 ↗
  8. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Pellar.

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

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Pellar

How much does The Pellar cost?
The Pellar is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to The Pellar?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Pellar are Vicarius, Survival Story, Unearther.
Who developed The Pellar?
The Pellar was developed by Mimoza 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 The Pellar.

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