Games like The Boy and the Cathedral
If The Boy and the Cathedral is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cloudy Valley, LSD Dream Emulator: Liminal Spaces and Aery - Flow of Time — 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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Cloudy Valley
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Top pick for The Boy and the Cathedral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Boy and the Cathedral.
Go on a summer vacation to the Cloudy Valley archipelago! Swim, climb, and explore the different islands at your own pace. Discover treasures or enjoy a cozy and relaxing atmosphere by the waves...
LSD Dream Emulator: Liminal Spaces
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Second-strongest match for The Boy and the Cathedral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Boy and the Cathedral.
Have you ever wondered what Liminal Spaces are outside the Backrooms? Explore them in this surrealist short game based on lucid dreaming and liminal spaces in the nature, inspired by the original LSD Dream Emulator.
Aery - Flow of Time
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Third-strongest match for The Boy and the Cathedral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Boy and the Cathedral.
Enjoy a combat-free journey through colorful worlds! Lean back and enjoy the scenery as a little bird in search for a cure in different eras of timw! A great game for relaxing and calming down after an exhausting day.
Lushfoil Photography Sim
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Ranked #4 for The Boy and the Cathedral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Boy and the Cathedral.
A tranquil exploration and photography experience set across a vast selection of faithfully detailed landscapes.
Eastshade
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Ranked #5 for The Boy and the Cathedral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Boy and the Cathedral.
You are a traveling painter, exploring the island of Eastshade. Capture the world on canvas using your artist’s easel. Talk to the inhabitants to learn about their lives. Make friends and help those in need. Visit cities, scale summits, unearth mysteries, and discover forgotten places!
Into A Dream
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Ranked #6 for The Boy and the Cathedral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Boy and the Cathedral.
You are his last hope. The only one who can rescue him. Delve deep into the dreams of Luke Williams, a man diagnosed with depression, unfold the heartbreaking story of his life and prevent him from... fading away.
The First Tree
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Ranked #7 for The Boy and the Cathedral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Boy and the Cathedral.
A beautiful, 3rd-person exploration game centered around two parallel stories: a fox trying to find her missing family, and a son reconnecting with his estranged father in Alaska. Uncover artifacts from the son's life as he becomes intertwined in the fox’s journey towards The First Tree.
Rainswept
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Ranked #8 for The Boy and the Cathedral fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Boy and the Cathedral.
Rainswept takes you on an emotional adventure in a small town shaken by a double shooting. Join Detective Stone and unravel a tangled web of love, relationships, and unresolved trauma in this character-driven murder mystery game.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Boy and the Cathedral at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~50% under The Boy and the Cathedral on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Boy and the Cathedral.
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?
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~50% under The Boy and the Cathedral on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Boy and the Cathedral.
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.
Peggle Deluxe
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Priced ~50% under The Boy and the Cathedral on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Boy and the Cathedral.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
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Priced ~50% under The Boy and the Cathedral on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Boy and the Cathedral.
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!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~50% under The Boy and the Cathedral on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Boy and the Cathedral.
"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!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
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Priced ~50% under The Boy and the Cathedral on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Boy and the Cathedral.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
Bejeweled® 3
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Priced ~50% under The Boy and the Cathedral on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Boy and the Cathedral.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Boy and the Cathedral.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Boy and the Cathedral.
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.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Boy and the Cathedral.
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 The Boy and the Cathedral.
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 and Casual with The Boy and the Cathedral.
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 The Boy and the Cathedral.
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 The Boy and the Cathedral.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about The Boy and the Cathedral
- How much does The Boy and the Cathedral cost?
- The Boy and the Cathedral is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Boy and the Cathedral?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Boy and the Cathedral are Cloudy Valley, LSD Dream Emulator: Liminal Spaces, Aery - Flow of Time.
- Who developed The Boy and the Cathedral?
- The Boy and the Cathedral was developed by Komodor 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 Boy and the Cathedral.
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