Games like The Hamster's Journey
If The Hamster's Journey is your kind of game, the closest matches are Princess Ruby, RunBean Galactic and Drop Dimensions — 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 The Hamster's Journey: The Hamster's Journey is a roguelite platformer in which you guide Hammy Jo through the exciting cage escape of his dreams. Don hats and pants to imbue Hammy Jo with unique types of movement, and combine these powers in clever ways to overcome the obstacles strewn in your way.
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Princess Ruby
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Top pick for The Hamster's Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Hamster's Journey.
Princess Ruby is a 2D Platformer aimed at young children. Play as a princess and run, jump and sometimes ride a unicorn through each level. Dress up how you want, change your hairstyle and the colors of your costume.
RunBean Galactic
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Second-strongest match for The Hamster's Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Hamster's Journey.
Run, jump and roll on your way to the new high score! Sounds easy, right? Not when you try to keep up with the hazards and bonuses that are constantly appearing all around the planet!
Drop Dimensions
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Third-strongest match for The Hamster's Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Hamster's Journey.
Drop is an endless runner with short enough sessions for quick casual plays and enough features and unlockables to fill more hardcore sessions. Smash your way through walls and dodge traps to survive! RPG-Lite features (leveling), quests, collectibles, achievements, leaderboards and more!
Tibor: Tale of a Kind Vampire
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Ranked #4 for The Hamster's Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Hamster's Journey.
This warm and cute jump n' run platformer game will provide hours and hours of fun to both grownups and kids. A classic platformer game with huge levels, secrets to discover and treasures to collects.
Bad Run - Turbo Edition
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Ranked #5 for The Hamster's Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Hamster's Journey.
Bad Run is a spin-off of Bad Pad, featuring a casual action packed, runner metroidvania platformer.
Angvik 2
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Ranked #6 for The Hamster's Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Hamster's Journey.
Angvik 2 is an action roguelike platformer with a unique style. Explore a variety of character builds as you navigate randomized levels, offering new challenges and surprises with each adventure.
Dwarf Journey
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Ranked #7 for The Hamster's Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Hamster's Journey.
Dwarf Journey is an action roguelite platformer with randomly generated levels. Defeat enemies, level up, assemble your rune build and collect minerals to forge better equipment on an epic journey in search of immortality.
Phantom Abyss
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Ranked #8 for The Hamster's Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Hamster's Journey.
Phantom Abyss is a massive asynchronous multiplayer game that casts players into procedurally-generated temples and tasks them with retrieving the sacred relics hidden within deadly chambers.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Hamster's Journey at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~44% under The Hamster's Journey on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Hamster's Journey.
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
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Priced ~44% under The Hamster's Journey on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Hamster's Journey.
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
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Priced ~50% under The Hamster's Journey on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Hamster's Journey.
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
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Priced ~44% under The Hamster's Journey on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Hamster's Journey.
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
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Priced ~44% under The Hamster's Journey on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Hamster's Journey.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~89% under The Hamster's Journey on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Hamster's Journey.
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
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Priced ~67% under The Hamster's Journey on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Hamster's Journey.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~44% under The Hamster's Journey on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Hamster's Journey.
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!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Hamster's Journey.
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 Action and Adventure with The Hamster's Journey.
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 Hamster's Journey.
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 Hamster's Journey.
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 with The Hamster's Journey.
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 Action and Indie with The Hamster's Journey.
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 Hamster's Journey.
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 Hamster's Journey
- How much does The Hamster's Journey cost?
- The Hamster's Journey is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Hamster's Journey?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Hamster's Journey are Princess Ruby, RunBean Galactic, Drop Dimensions.
- Who developed The Hamster's Journey?
- The Hamster's Journey was developed by Rain Jam Games and published by Various Tuesdays.
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 Hamster's Journey.
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