Games like Academy: Become a Hero
If Academy: Become a Hero is your kind of game, the closest matches are Wheel Balance, Overheat and UFO Taxi — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Academy: Become a Hero: A high-speed precision platformer and time attack challenge where every second counts: clear intense short levels without stopping, collect key items under pressure, and compete for global leaderboard rankings.
Players who liked Academy: Become a Hero also play
Steam players who put hours into Academy: Become a Hero 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.
Wheel Balance
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Top pick for Academy: Become a Hero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Racing with Academy: Become a Hero.
Wheel Balance is a hard and fun physics-based game about balancing on two wheels. Master controls and beat all locations, compete with your friends. Try not to fall far away down!
Overheat
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Second-strongest match for Academy: Become a Hero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Academy: Become a Hero.
Overheat is a hard sidescrolling platformer in which a robot only needs to climb up one level to return to its home planet. How hard can that be?
UFO Taxi
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Third-strongest match for Academy: Become a Hero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Academy: Become a Hero.
Stranded on a futuristic Earth, you and your alien pals need cash to get home! Explore a vibrant 2.5D world, go on taxi missions or assist humans and UFOs alike in this casual platformer. Can you hustle your way to a stellar escape?
Raccoon Roller
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Ranked #4 for Academy: Become a Hero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Academy: Become a Hero.
Armed with your grapple cannon, race your way through the city's raccoon built obstacle courses and climb your way to top spot on the leaderboards.
Transporter
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Ranked #5 for Academy: Become a Hero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Racing with Academy: Become a Hero.
Transporter is a platformer racing game. Your goal is to preserve your goods, maintain balance, and overcome obstacles with at least one item left at the finish line. Powered by Unreal Engine 5.
Triple Run
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Ranked #6 for Academy: Become a Hero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Racing with Academy: Become a Hero.
A time-attack platformer where you race through each course with three unique runners. Your final score is the combined time of all three runs. Recruit runners with unique strengths, explore dystopian sci-fi tournament worlds, uncover hidden routes and assemble the perfect crew for every challenge.
FutureGrind
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Ranked #7 for Academy: Become a Hero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Academy: Become a Hero.
Nail the perfect line in the future's most challenging stunt sport! Grab your bike and hit the rails in this stylish stunt-racer all about tricks, skill, and speed. Chain together huge combos on tracks made of floating rails, but watch out: touch the rail of the wrong color and you'll explode!
Chameleon Run Deluxe Edition
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Ranked #8 for Academy: Become a Hero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Academy: Become a Hero.
Chameleon Run is a unique, fast and challenging autorunner with a colorful twist. Jump, switch and run through expertly crafted levels that will have you running back for more.
Free alternatives
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Academy: Become a Hero.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Academy: Become a Hero.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Academy: Become a Hero.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Academy: Become a Hero.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Academy: Become a Hero.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Academy: Become a Hero.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Academy: Become a Hero.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Academy: Become a Hero.
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.
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Frequently asked about Academy: Become a Hero
- What games are most similar to Academy: Become a Hero?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Academy: Become a Hero are Wheel Balance, Overheat, UFO Taxi.
- Who developed Academy: Become a Hero?
- Academy: Become a Hero was developed by More Dev 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 Academy: Become a Hero.
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