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
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
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.
PlatAttack
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Academy: Become a Hero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Racing with Academy: Become a Hero.
PlatAttack is a precision 3D platformer: clay worlds, tight jumps, medals, and a clock that never lies. Race your ghost, climb the boards, and build your own maps.
TANGENT
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Academy: Become a Hero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Academy: Become a Hero.
TANGENT is a physics-driven climbing game where you’re a small marble grappling and swinging through a vertical world. Build speed, recover from bad falls, unlock new movement abilities, and reach the top faster as you master the movement.
DeTails
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Academy: Become a Hero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Racing with Academy: Become a Hero.
DeTails is a narrative adventure starring Cami, a bass player and color slinging chameleon as she travels with her band The Hexes. Explore a vibrant world bursting with a colorful cast of characters. Master mini-games, fight the man, and learn what it means to grow up without losing your edge!
Blind Route
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Academy: Become a Hero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Academy: Become a Hero.
Blind cannot see the route; their teammates must describe it by voice. Communicate as Blind and Guide, survive dangerous 3D obstacle courses, and reach the finish before the rival team in solo, co-op, and competitive online modes.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Academy: Become a Hero at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Academy: Become a Hero on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Academy: Become a Hero.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Academy: Become a Hero on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Academy: Become a Hero.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Academy: Become a Hero on Steam right now. Shares Action with Academy: Become a Hero.
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.
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Academy: Become a Hero on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Academy: Become a Hero.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Academy: Become a Hero on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Academy: Become a Hero.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Academy: Become a Hero on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Academy: Become a Hero.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Academy: Become a Hero on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Academy: Become a Hero.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Academy: Become a Hero on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Academy: Become a Hero.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
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
- How much does Academy: Become a Hero cost?
- Academy: Become a Hero is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- 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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