Games like A Beginning
If A Beginning is your kind of game, the closest matches are hook-kick, Santa's Slippery Slope (Ski Stunts) and Goose On The Loose — 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 A Beginning: 2D sidescrolling platformer about rescuing Toys from a doomed space colony while fighting an evolving monster. Customize your character, dive into deep lore, and master new abilities and systems to survive the end of the world.
Players who liked A Beginning also play
Steam players who put hours into A Beginning 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.
hook-kick
WHY THIS
Top pick for A Beginning fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with A Beginning.
She ate me! The indignity of this has seemingly left you immortal. Stored for safekeeping (head being so pretty and all) you team up with a couple of bones from a slain wizard and a stretchy pirate-snake named hook in this kicking platformer filled with circles all the way up and down.
Santa's Slippery Slope (Ski Stunts)
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for A Beginning fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with A Beginning.
A skiing experience like no other with a unique control system and purely physics driven gameplay. Join Santa in this exciting physics-based journey on the slopes to get back all of the lost presents and save Christmas before its too late!
Goose On The Loose
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for A Beginning fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with A Beginning.
Your golden egg has been stolen! This will not stand. Waddle your way through endless swarms of enemies, spend big on hats, powerful drinks, upgrades, and push through bosses, events, and chaos. A 2.5D action endless runner, That egg isn't going to save itself.
Seafrog
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for A Beginning fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with A Beginning.
Hop aboard Seafrog’s rocket-powered wrench and slide, grind, and trick your way through a one-of-a-kind 2.5D action-puzzle-platformer!
Cloudy & Stormy: Pawtastic Adventure!
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for A Beginning fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with A Beginning.
Embark on an exciting adventure! Fly high as Cloudy and lightning dash as Stormy! Jump through colorful regions, help new friends, find treasures, and overcome challenges on your quest for a lost blanket!
Flip Master
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for A Beginning fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with A Beginning.
Physics-based trampoline game featuring dynamic ragdoll athletes, deep trick combos, full mid-air control, and 35+ unique arenas with distinct physics rules and environmental variations.
FoxVoltex
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for A Beginning fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with A Beginning.
The stage is a robot town where everything is mechanically driven A sudden lightning strike in this peaceful town! The function of the town is down, and the security robot loses control and runs away In an instant I was caught in a vortex of confusion.
Cube Crusaders
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for A Beginning fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with A Beginning.
Adoros is dying. A catastrophic Void Anomaly has torn open the planet’s surface, warping reality and unleashing forces no one fully understands. You are a Cube Crusader sent to crush the Anomaly, at any cost.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below A Beginning at current Steam store prices.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under A Beginning on Steam right now. Shares Action with A Beginning.
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.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under A Beginning on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with A Beginning.
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 ~63% under A Beginning on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with A Beginning.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under A Beginning on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Beginning.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under A Beginning on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Beginning.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~81% under A Beginning on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Beginning.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under A Beginning on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with A Beginning.
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.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under A Beginning on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with A Beginning.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with A Beginning.
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 A Beginning.
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 A Beginning.
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.
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 A Beginning.
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.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with A Beginning.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with A Beginning.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with A Beginning.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with A Beginning.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Frequently asked about A Beginning
- How much does A Beginning cost?
- A Beginning is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to A Beginning?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside A Beginning are hook-kick, Santa's Slippery Slope (Ski Stunts), Goose On The Loose.
- Who developed A Beginning?
- A Beginning was developed by Starlight Studios 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 A Beginning.
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