Games like Up to the Unknown
If Up to the Unknown is your kind of game, the closest matches are Let's Boogie, Saving Yellow Ox and The True Slime King — 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 Up to the Unknown: Step into a delightful 2D pixel platformer adventure! Explore a mysterious world with a dark world, an invisible cave zone, and so much more. Use simple controls to get past those scary traps. Enjoy charming pixel art and an enchanting soundtrack. Get ready for an unforgettable journey!
Players who liked Up to the Unknown also play
Steam players who put hours into Up to the Unknown 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.
Let's Boogie
WHY THIS
Top pick for Up to the Unknown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Up to the Unknown.
Use your power to swap places to complete stages as fast as you can in this speedrun platformer!
Saving Yellow Ox
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Up to the Unknown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Up to the Unknown.
A chaotic co-op climbing race for 2–4 players! Scramble through a floating countryside full of traps, moving platforms, and wild obstacles. A UFO stole your yellow ox — climb higher, shove your rivals, rewind and fast-forward time to carve new paths, and survive to save it.
The True Slime King
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Up to the Unknown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Up to the Unknown.
An evil presence has emerged in the kingdom… but is it you or is it them? Play as a fallen king and somewhat immortal slime to conquer an onslaught of obstacles and puzzles in a quest to reclaim your fallen kingdoms. Smooth and simple controls for the ultimate experience in 2D precision platforming!
Jusant
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Up to the Unknown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Up to the Unknown.
Enjoy meditative vibes in Jusant, an action-puzzle climbing game. Scale an immeasurably tall tower and ascend to new heights alongside your watery companion. Master your climbing tools, find your way up through diverse biomes, and piece together the tower’s past.
避雨2🌧
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Up to the Unknown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Up to the Unknown.
This is an agile parkour game. You can dodge quickly to avoid raindrops falling from the sky and go to the designated place.
Kinetic: Break All Limits
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Up to the Unknown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Up to the Unknown.
Fast, fluid, and exhilarating. Jump, dash, bounce, and swing through a world of freedom. There is nothing holding you back. Destroy enemies with your energy blasts as you race to the finish, fight friends online, or free your home planet from an invasive menace in adventure mode!
Tung Tung Together: Online Deathrun Party
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Up to the Unknown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Up to the Unknown.
A multiplayer deathrun party game where you activate traps as Tung Tung, and if someone clears the course, the role switches. Cute characters, online competition, chaos, and fun-filled maps—collect the highest score and dominate the mayhem!
Squirrel Jump
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Up to the Unknown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Up to the Unknown.
"Squirrel Jump" is a charming platformer game where you guide an agile squirrel through enchanting levels, mastering precise jumps and navigating clever obstacles. Experience vibrant visuals, intuitive controls, and delightful challenges in this immersive platforming adventure.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Up to the Unknown at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Up to the Unknown on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Up to the Unknown.
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 ~44% under Up to the Unknown on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Up to the Unknown.
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!
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~45% under Up to the Unknown on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Up to the Unknown.
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 ~44% under Up to the Unknown on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Up to the Unknown.
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 ~44% under Up to the Unknown on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Up to the Unknown.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under Up to the Unknown on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Up to the Unknown.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Up to the Unknown on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Up to the Unknown.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Up to the Unknown on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Up to the Unknown.
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 Adventure with Up to the Unknown.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Up to the Unknown.
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 and Adventure with Up to the Unknown.
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 Up to the Unknown.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Up to the Unknown.
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 and Adventure with Up to the Unknown.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Up to the Unknown.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Up to the Unknown.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Frequently asked about Up to the Unknown
- How much does Up to the Unknown cost?
- Up to the Unknown is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Up to the Unknown?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Up to the Unknown are Let's Boogie, Saving Yellow Ox, The True Slime King.
- Who developed Up to the Unknown?
- Up to the Unknown was developed by Averous Arex and published by Arxia Studio.
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 Up to the Unknown.
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