Games like This Side Up
If This Side Up is your kind of game, the closest matches are Beam, The Bridge and Road to Ballhalla — 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.
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Players who liked This Side Up also play
Steam players who put hours into This Side Up 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.
Beam
WHY THIS
Top pick for This Side Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with This Side Up.
BEAM is a challenging precision platformer with puzzle elements in which you need to manipulate various light beams and tightly maneuver MARBLE in order to save both your lives.
The Bridge
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for This Side Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with This Side Up.
The Bridge is a logic puzzle game that forces you to reevaluate your preconceptions of physics and perspective. It is Isaac Newton meets M. C. Escher. Manipulate gravity to redefine the ceiling as the floor while venturing through impossible architectures.
Road to Ballhalla
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for This Side Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with This Side Up.
Roll and be trolled on your journey to the legendary place called Ballhalla. Follow the beat to overcome deadly hazards in sync with the music. Style your balls and marble at awful puns in the roll playing game of the year!
Oddworld: Soulstorm Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for This Side Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with This Side Up.
Oddworld: Soulstorm is the explosive second game in a brand new Oddworld Quintology that tells the continuing story of Abe and his comrades as they discover further crimes against Mudokonkind and look for the spark that will ignite a revolution.
Munin
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for This Side Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with This Side Up.
Imagine you could move mountains - literally! With realistic physics, Norse runes, rotating platforms and a lot of gray cells you'll help Munin, Odin's messenger in her very own 2D-adventure, to reclaim her power on a journey through Yggdrasil.
Bionic Bay
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for This Side Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with This Side Up.
A scientist uses a unique teleportation instrument to escape an ancient biomechanical world filled with imaginative technology, deadly traps, and hidden secrets.
The Pedestrian
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for This Side Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with This Side Up.
I can see the signs in my sleep now, always guiding me closer. Will this really work? Have we almost achieved the impossible?
OlliOlli World
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for This Side Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with This Side Up.
OlliOlli World is a bold new skateboarding action-platformer that’s bursting with personality. Flip and flow through the vivid and vibrant world of Radlandia, meeting colorful characters as you grind, trick, and air your way to discover the mystical skate gods on your quest for Gnarvana.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below This Side Up at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under This Side Up on Steam right now. Shares Indie with This Side Up.
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 This Side Up on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with This Side Up.
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 This Side Up on Steam right now. Shares Action with This Side Up.
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 This Side Up on Steam right now. Shares Indie with This Side Up.
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 This Side Up on Steam right now. Shares Indie with This Side Up.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under This Side Up on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with This Side Up.
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 This Side Up on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with This Side Up.
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 This Side Up on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with This Side Up.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with This Side Up.
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 This Side Up.
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 This Side Up.
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 This Side Up.
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 This Side Up.
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 This Side Up.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
The Bridge
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with This Side Up.
The Bridge is a logic puzzle game that forces you to reevaluate your preconceptions of physics and perspective. It is Isaac Newton meets M. C. Escher. Manipulate gravity to redefine the ceiling as the floor while venturing through impossible architectures.
Road to Ballhalla
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with This Side Up.
Roll and be trolled on your journey to the legendary place called Ballhalla. Follow the beat to overcome deadly hazards in sync with the music. Style your balls and marble at awful puns in the roll playing game of the year!
Munin
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with This Side Up.
Imagine you could move mountains - literally! With realistic physics, Norse runes, rotating platforms and a lot of gray cells you'll help Munin, Odin's messenger in her very own 2D-adventure, to reclaim her power on a journey through Yggdrasil.
Bionic Bay
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with This Side Up.
A scientist uses a unique teleportation instrument to escape an ancient biomechanical world filled with imaginative technology, deadly traps, and hidden secrets.
The Pedestrian
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with This Side Up.
I can see the signs in my sleep now, always guiding me closer. Will this really work? Have we almost achieved the impossible?
OlliOlli World
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with This Side Up.
OlliOlli World is a bold new skateboarding action-platformer that’s bursting with personality. Flip and flow through the vivid and vibrant world of Radlandia, meeting colorful characters as you grind, trick, and air your way to discover the mystical skate gods on your quest for Gnarvana.
Frequently asked about This Side Up
- Does This Side Up run on Steam Deck?
- This Side Up is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does This Side Up cost?
- This Side Up is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to This Side Up?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside This Side Up are Beam, The Bridge, Road to Ballhalla.
- Who developed This Side Up?
- This Side Up was developed by Szunami.
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