Games like Herdles
If Herdles is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Light that Binds Us, Doggy Don't Care and Hamsteria — 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 Herdles: An adorable open world platformer where you play as a magical dog. Zoom around a vibrant landscape, using an evolving arsenal of abilities to explore, solve challenges and discover secrets – one bark at a time!
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The Light that Binds Us
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Top pick for Herdles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Herdles.
Dive into The Light That Binds Us, a puzzle-adventure game where light shapes reality. Play as Yuè, a tormented soul, accompanied by her faithful protector, Yún. Cast shadows into paths, reshape the world to solve puzzles, explore breathtaking environments, and uncover the past that binds you!
Doggy Don't Care
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Second-strongest match for Herdles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Herdles.
Unleash adorable chaos, solve puzzles, and leave your mark (literally!) as a mischievous dog on the loose.
FLING UP TOGETHER
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Ranked #4 for Herdles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Herdles.
FLING UP TOGETHER is a 2-player co-op physics platformer where you and a friend are tied by one rope. Climb floating islands, fling each other across gaps, save every fall, and try not to ruin the entire run.
Shadowbound
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Ranked #5 for Herdles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Herdles.
Shadowbound is a minimalist 3D platforming and puzzle journey where light is your enemy and shadow your only ally. Overcome short challenges, manipulate light, and recover lost colors to rebuild the memories of a lifetime.
Gyro
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Ranked #6 for Herdles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Herdles.
Abandoned deep in space, Gyro is a small utility bot tasked to clean up what once was. Along your journey, discover an arsenal of increasing tools and challenges. Featuring the music of A Life Elided, Gyro offers up whimsical, mysterious, sci-fi-based puzzles that will keep you wanting more.
Soft(A)ware
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Ranked #7 for Herdles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Herdles.
A surreal puzzle-platformer where you bend gravity, rewind time, and disrupt a virtual prison built to contain you.
All Hands on Deck
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Ranked #8 for Herdles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Herdles.
All Hands on Deck is a co-op puzzle platformer game. Use Rock, Paper, Scissors and various items together to solve puzzles, traverse through playful worlds and save plushies. Everyone can share the same experience! Just swap items and you're good to go. How handy is that!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Herdles.
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 and Adventure with Herdles.
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 Herdles.
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 Indie and Adventure with Herdles.
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 Herdles.
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 and Adventure with Herdles.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Herdles.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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Frequently asked about Herdles
- What games are most similar to Herdles?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Herdles are The Light that Binds Us, Doggy Don't Care, Hamsteria.
- Who developed Herdles?
- Herdles was developed by Fire Sword Studios, One More Journey and published by One More Journey, Fire Sword Studios.
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 Herdles.
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