Games like Old School
If Old School is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hard Time III, School Days and Jonesville — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its bleak, comedic and dark. 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 Old School: Relive your school days in 3D, where old school graphics bring back timeless fun! Create your own star student and attend a schedule full of classes in time to gather the knowledge you need to thrive, while an equally important popularity contest challenges you survive...
Players who liked Old School also play
Steam players who put hours into Old School 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.
Hard Time III
WHY THIS
Shares combat, character progression, simulation and a bleak mood with Old School.
Top pick for Old School fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Old School.
The toughest prison sim in the yard is back to serve its 3rd consecutive sentence - combining classic moments from the OG with the best aspects of 2D, while putting out a few hits of its own! Tackle crime from either side of the prison fence, while a larger world beyond it makes life worth living.
School Days
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Old School fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Old School.
Go back to school and attend a schedule full of classes in time to pick up the knowledge you need to pass each test! But with hundreds of fellow students walking the halls, an equally important popularity contest decides whether your days are filled with fun or fear...
Jonesville
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Old School fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Old School.
Live, learn, and compete in this classic educational life simulator! Play solo against computer, team up with friends in multiplayer (up to 4 players), or take turns in hot seat mode (up to 4 players+computer).
Extra Lives
WHY THIS
Shares sandbox mode, open world exploration, action adventure and a bleak mood with Old School.
Ranked #4 for Old School fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Old School.
See how long you can survive in a world full of brainless zombies and heartless humans! Find your place among hundreds of other characters spread across several warring factions, and battle to reclaim every corner of a sprawling city in real-time.
Timeflow – Life Sim
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Old School fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Old School.
This game will make you rich! Learn the basics of investment and life management. Your goal is to make your dream come true. You can make a career, buy real estate, run business, trade stocks, become a blogger, or make a fortune on an art market. Study, network, and plan your time for all of it.
Cinnabunny
WHY THIS
Shares character customization, character progression and whimsical with Old School.
Ranked #6 for Old School fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Old School.
Cinnabunny is a cozy life simulator game where you play as a bunny who runs a bakery. Unlock new recipes, go birdwatching, collect mushrooms, and charm your community. Save up enough carrots to help your family move.
This Grand Life
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Old School fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Old School.
A life simulator that leans heavily into the personal finance aspect. Pay taxes, take out mortgages, trade stocks, buy real estate, start businesses, or grind your way to victory as an employee.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Old School
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Wrestling Empire
WHY THIS
Shares character customization with Old School.
Reviewers of Old School cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Old School.
The lightweight champion of wrestling comes full circle with higher resolution visuals and a smoother frame rate - whilst still retaining the retro style that puts the fun first! Now featuring whole other booking & roaming modes at no extra cost for the biggest Triple Threat in wrestling.
Bully: Scholarship Edition
WHY THIS
Shares open world exploration with Old School.
Reviewers of Old School cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Old School.
Bully tells the story of mischievous 15-year-old Jimmy Hopkins as he goes through the hilarity and awkwardness of adolescence. Beat the jocks at dodge ball, play pranks on the preppies, save the nerds, kiss the girl and navigate the social hierarchy in the worst school around.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
WHY THIS
Shares open world exploration with Old School.
Reviewers of Old School cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Old School.
EPIC FANTASY REBORN The next chapter in the highly anticipated Elder Scrolls saga arrives from the makers of the 2006 and 2008 Games of the Year, Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim reimagines and revolutionizes the open-world fantasy epic, bringing to life a complete virtual world open for you to explore any way you choose.
Wrestling Revolution 3D
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Old School.
Reviewers of Old School cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Old School.
The original 3D wrestling sim takes you either side of the curtain in one epic shared universe - where you can either take shots in the ring as a wrestler or call the shots backstage as a booker!
Hard Time III
WHY THIS
Shares combat, character progression, simulation and a bleak mood with Old School.
Reviewers of Old School cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Old School.
The toughest prison sim in the yard is back to serve its 3rd consecutive sentence - combining classic moments from the OG with the best aspects of 2D, while putting out a few hits of its own! Tackle crime from either side of the prison fence, while a larger world beyond it makes life worth living.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Old School at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Old School on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Old School.
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 ~67% under Old School on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Old School.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Old School on Steam right now. Shares Action with Old School.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Old School on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Old School.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Old School on Steam right now. Shares Action with Old School.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Old School on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Old School.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Old School on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Old School.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Old School on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Old School.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Old School.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Old School.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Old School.
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 Old School.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Old School.
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.
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Old School.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Old School.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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More from MDickie
Other recommendable Steam games by MDickie, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Wrestling Empire
WHY THIS
Shares character customization with Old School.
Another title from MDickie, the studio behind Old School. Shares Action and Indie with Old School.
The lightweight champion of wrestling comes full circle with higher resolution visuals and a smoother frame rate - whilst still retaining the retro style that puts the fun first! Now featuring whole other booking & roaming modes at no extra cost for the biggest Triple Threat in wrestling.
Hard Time III
WHY THIS
Shares combat, character progression, simulation and a bleak mood with Old School.
Another title from MDickie, the studio behind Old School. Shares Action and Indie with Old School.
The toughest prison sim in the yard is back to serve its 3rd consecutive sentence - combining classic moments from the OG with the best aspects of 2D, while putting out a few hits of its own! Tackle crime from either side of the prison fence, while a larger world beyond it makes life worth living.
Wrestling Revolution 3D
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Old School.
Another title from MDickie, the studio behind Old School. Shares Action and Indie with Old School.
The original 3D wrestling sim takes you either side of the curtain in one epic shared universe - where you can either take shots in the ring as a wrestler or call the shots backstage as a booker!
Hard Time
WHY THIS
Shares character customization and a comedic mood with Old School.
Another title from MDickie, the studio behind Old School. Shares Action and Indie with Old School.
The toughest prison sim in the yard has been locked back up to serve another sentence in 2D!
Infinite Lives
WHY THIS
Shares character customization, procedural generation, arcade style and a comedic mood with Old School.
Another title from MDickie, the studio behind Old School. Shares Action and Indie with Old School.
Explore infinite possibilities with INFINITE LIVES - where superhumans and subhumans fight for control of the ultimate shared universe! Bursting into the 3rd dimension brings new powers with unprecedented freedom, in a vicious cycle that never ends...
Wrestling Revolution 2D
WHY THIS
Another title from MDickie, the studio behind Old School. Shares Indie and Simulation with Old School.
The original 2D wrestling sim brings the revolution to your desktop - where it now includes BOTH sides of the business in one epic universe!
The You Testament: The 2D Coming
WHY THIS
Shares sandbox mode, character customization, whimsical and a funny mood with Old School.
Another title from MDickie, the studio behind Old School. Shares Action and Indie with Old School.
This 2D remake of the biblical epic puts YOU on the scene of each story, where you can either repeat history or rewrite it! Follow in the footsteps of a prophet as he seeks to enlighten the masses, and find your place among them as the struggle to survive tests your faith...
Weekend Warriors MMA
WHY THIS
Shares mission based progression, character progression, arcade style and a funny mood with Old School.
Another title from MDickie, the studio behind Old School. Shares Action and Simulation with Old School.
The engine behind 3D wrestling brings the revolution to MMA, where real resistance challenges you to survive each round! Embark on a career to climb the ranks at 5 unique promotions with their own weight classes, or become the boss in the sport's 1st fully playable "Promoter" mode.
Frequently asked about Old School
- Is Old School verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Old School is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Old School cost?
- Old School is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Old School have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Old School supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, Shared/Split Screen Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Old School?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Old School are Hard Time III, School Days, Jonesville.
- Who developed Old School?
- Old School was developed by MDickie.
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 Old School.
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