Games like The Mysterious Cities of Gold
If The Mysterious Cities of Gold is your kind of game, the closest matches are Puddle, Puzzle Dimension and Hamilton's Great Adventure — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its colorful and immersive environments, atmospheric and challenging. 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 Mysterious Cities of Gold: Play Esteban, Zia and Tao through numerous tricky levels full of puzzles, traps and infiltration phases in a wide variety of diverse gorgeous settings. Explore every nook and cranny of China, and escape Zarès’ hostile men, searching for the local City of Gold.
Players who liked The Mysterious Cities of Gold also play
Steam players who put hours into The Mysterious Cities of Gold 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.
Puddle
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with The Mysterious Cities of Gold.
Top pick for The Mysterious Cities of Gold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Mysterious Cities of Gold.
Guide your puddle of fluid through a vast range of environments and puzzles!
Puzzle Dimension
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with The Mysterious Cities of Gold.
Second-strongest match for The Mysterious Cities of Gold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Mysterious Cities of Gold.
Find solutions to 100 unique puzzles and experience the satisfaction of "Aha" moments!
Hamilton's Great Adventure
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Mysterious Cities of Gold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mysterious Cities of Gold.
All new DLC, Retro Fever, Now Available!
WHAT THE GOLF?
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with The Mysterious Cities of Gold.
Ranked #4 for The Mysterious Cities of Gold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mysterious Cities of Gold.
A silly physics-based golf parody where every golf course is a new surprising type of golf, some brilliant or hilarious, others so absurd you will ask yourself: WHAT THE GOLF?
The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Mysterious Cities of Gold.
Ranked #5 for The Mysterious Cities of Gold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mysterious Cities of Gold.
Enter a macabre and comical silent world filled with mischief, time travel and delicious pie. Includes Steam Achievements, Cloud, and Leaderboards!
Doodle God
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and a nostalgic mood with The Mysterious Cities of Gold.
Ranked #6 for The Mysterious Cities of Gold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Mysterious Cities of Gold.
Doodle God is an addicting puzzle & world building game where players use logic and ingenuity to create the entire universe. Starting with the basic elements of earth, wind, fire and air players can build a world filled with locomotives, Dragons, skyscrapers, Aliens and more.
The Way
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Mysterious Cities of Gold.
Ranked #7 for The Mysterious Cities of Gold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mysterious Cities of Gold.
Journey to another planet and discover its secrets in order to bring your loved one back to life. Experience an adventure, inspired by old school classics like Another World, Heart of Darkness and Flashback.
gravilon
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Mysterious Cities of Gold.
Ranked #8 for The Mysterious Cities of Gold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mysterious Cities of Gold.
An inventive, thought-provoking puzzle platformer. Use powerups in each environment, and your own inherent gravity-bending powers, to complete each level. The more you play, the more story details you'll uncover.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Mysterious Cities of Gold at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under The Mysterious Cities of Gold on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Mysterious Cities of Gold.
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 ~58% under The Mysterious Cities of Gold on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Mysterious Cities of Gold.
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!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under The Mysterious Cities of Gold on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Mysterious Cities of Gold.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under The Mysterious Cities of Gold on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Mysterious Cities of Gold.
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 ~58% under The Mysterious Cities of Gold on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Mysterious Cities of Gold.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under The Mysterious Cities of Gold on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mysterious Cities of Gold.
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 ~75% under The Mysterious Cities of Gold on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Mysterious Cities of Gold.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Mysterious Cities of Gold on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mysterious Cities of Gold.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mysterious Cities of Gold.
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.
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mysterious Cities of Gold.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
The Supper
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mysterious Cities of Gold.
The Supper is a short adventure game about the darkest side of the human soul. Ms. Appleton was always a wellspring of kindness, until The Voice started talking to her.
Tukoni: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mysterious Cities of Gold.
Tukoni: Prologue is a point-and-click puzzle adventure, based on a series of award-winning books by the Ukrainian artist Oksana Bula. Play as Tukoni, the forest spirits, as you meet unique characters, solve captivating puzzles, craft new items, and explore a magical world filled with kindness.
Samorost 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mysterious Cities of Gold.
Explore the beginnings of the Samorost series in the space gnome’s original bite-sized adventure, formerly released in 2003. Now with remastered sounds, enhanced graphics, and new music by Floex.
Trick & Treat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mysterious Cities of Gold.
Trick or treating in a vampire's house.Trick & Treat is a light-hearted Halloween adventure. It's about exploring and solving puzzles in a spooky atmosphere. There will be some horror elements, romance, many bad ends and a happy ending of true love.
Sprout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mysterious Cities of Gold.
Embark on a casual, botanical-puzzle-adventure. Make friends, learn new skills, solve puzzles, and become the mighty oak that you were always meant to be.
We Were Here
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Mysterious Cities of Gold.
Lost in a frozen wasteland and split up from your partner inside an abandoned castle, the only possession you have left is a walkie-talkie with a familiar voice on the other end. Can the two of you find your way out in time?
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Frequently asked about The Mysterious Cities of Gold
- Does The Mysterious Cities of Gold run on Steam Deck?
- The Mysterious Cities of Gold 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 The Mysterious Cities of Gold cost?
- The Mysterious Cities of Gold is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Mysterious Cities of Gold?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Mysterious Cities of Gold are Puddle, Puzzle Dimension, Hamilton's Great Adventure.
- Who developed The Mysterious Cities of Gold?
- The Mysterious Cities of Gold was developed by Neko Entertainment.
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 Mysterious Cities of Gold.
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