Games like The Maw
If The Maw is your kind of game, the closest matches are Yooka-Laylee, Pikuniku and Tinykin — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its emotional bond between characters, retro art style and funny. 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 The Maw: The pinnacle of alien evolution, Maw is a cowardly fat blob concerned mostly with snacking and lounging. He can, however, absorb the traits of anything he eats, is virtually indestructible, and can grow to unlimited size. If he wasn't a danger to all life in the universe, he'd make the perfect pet.
Players who liked The Maw also play
Steam players who put hours into The Maw 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.
Yooka-Laylee
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with The Maw.
Top pick for The Maw fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Maw.
Yooka-Laylee is an all-new open-world platformer from genre veterans Playtonic! Explore huge, beautiful worlds, meet an unforgettable cast of characters and horde a vault-load of collectibles as buddy-duo Yooka and Laylee embark on an epic adventure to thwart corporate creep Capital B!
Pikuniku
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with The Maw.
Second-strongest match for The Maw fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Maw.
Pikuniku is an absurdly wonderful puzzle-exploration game that takes place in a strange but playful world where not everything is as happy as it seems. Help peculiar characters overcome struggles, uncover a deep state conspiracy, and start a little revolution in this delightful dystopian adventure!
Tinykin
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving with The Maw.
Third-strongest match for The Maw fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Maw.
Catch hundreds of tinykin and use their unique powers to bring Milo back to his home planet and back to normal size!
I Am Bread
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with The Maw.
Ranked #4 for The Maw fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Maw.
You are bread. Your mission, become toast! Take on all hazards to deliciousness as you head on an epic adventure in one of the the toughest games ever baked. All of the game modes (including Bagel Race) are now unlocked so there's sure to be something to suit everyone's taste!
TY the Tasmanian Tiger
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and a nostalgic mood with The Maw.
Ranked #5 for The Maw fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Maw.
G'day, Mate. Explore the wilds of Australia with TY the Tasmanian Tiger, the charming Aussie platformer.
Fall Guys
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with The Maw.
Ranked #6 for The Maw fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Maw.
Fall Guys is a free, cross-platform massively multiplayer party royale game. Clumsily compete in absurd obstacle courses with friends or build your very own chaotic course to share with the community.
Unbox: Newbie's Adventure
WHY THIS
Shares a lighthearted mood with The Maw.
Ranked #7 for The Maw fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Maw.
Unbox: Newbie's Adventure is a 90s style 3D platformer about the ultimate postal service, self-delivering cardboard boxes! Unbox: Newbie's Adventure has giant worlds full of challenges, collectibles and boxy boss battles!
Octodad: Dadliest Catch
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with The Maw.
Ranked #8 for The Maw fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Maw.
Octodad: Dadliest Catch is a game about destruction, deception, and fatherhood. The player controls Octodad, a dapper octopus masquerading as a human, as he goes about his life. Octodad's existence is a constant struggle, as he must master mundane tasks with his unwieldy boneless tentacles while simultaneously keeping his cephalopodan...
Reviewers mention these as similar to The Maw
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Portal
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Maw cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Maw.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
Super Meat Boy
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Maw cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with The Maw.
The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!
Tasty Planet
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with The Maw.
Reviewers of The Maw cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with The Maw.
Control a tiny ball of grey goo with the ability to eat anything smaller than itself. The more it eats, the bigger it gets! Soon you'll be able to eat the entire planet!
The Outlast Trials
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Maw cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with The Maw.
Red Barrels invites you to experience mind-numbing terror, this time with friends. Whether you go through the trials alone or in teams, if you survive long enough and complete the therapy, Murkoff will happily let you leave… but will you be the same?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Maw at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Maw on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Maw.
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 ~50% under The Maw on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Maw.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under The Maw on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Maw.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Maw on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Maw.
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 ~50% under The Maw on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Maw.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under The Maw on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Maw.
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 ~70% under The Maw on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Maw.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Maw on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Maw.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Maw.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Maw.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Maw.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Maw.
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 with The Maw.
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 The Maw.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 The Maw.
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.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Yooka-Laylee
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with The Maw.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Maw.
Yooka-Laylee is an all-new open-world platformer from genre veterans Playtonic! Explore huge, beautiful worlds, meet an unforgettable cast of characters and horde a vault-load of collectibles as buddy-duo Yooka and Laylee embark on an epic adventure to thwart corporate creep Capital B!
Pikuniku
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with The Maw.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Maw.
Pikuniku is an absurdly wonderful puzzle-exploration game that takes place in a strange but playful world where not everything is as happy as it seems. Help peculiar characters overcome struggles, uncover a deep state conspiracy, and start a little revolution in this delightful dystopian adventure!
Tinykin
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving with The Maw.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Maw.
Catch hundreds of tinykin and use their unique powers to bring Milo back to his home planet and back to normal size!
I Am Bread
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with The Maw.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Maw.
You are bread. Your mission, become toast! Take on all hazards to deliciousness as you head on an epic adventure in one of the the toughest games ever baked. All of the game modes (including Bagel Race) are now unlocked so there's sure to be something to suit everyone's taste!
TY the Tasmanian Tiger
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and a nostalgic mood with The Maw.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Maw.
G'day, Mate. Explore the wilds of Australia with TY the Tasmanian Tiger, the charming Aussie platformer.
Octodad: Dadliest Catch
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with The Maw.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Maw.
Octodad: Dadliest Catch is a game about destruction, deception, and fatherhood. The player controls Octodad, a dapper octopus masquerading as a human, as he goes about his life. Octodad's existence is a constant struggle, as he must master mundane tasks with his unwieldy boneless tentacles while simultaneously keeping his cephalopodan...
Frequently asked about The Maw
- Does The Maw work on Steam Deck?
- The Maw is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does The Maw cost?
- The Maw is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Maw?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Maw are Yooka-Laylee, Pikuniku, Tinykin.
- Who developed The Maw?
- The Maw was developed by Twisted Pixel Games and published by Twisted Pixel Games, Xbox Game 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 The Maw.
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