Games like Fool's End
If Fool's End is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fool's Metal, ANTONBLAST and Slime-san: Superslime Edition — 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 Fool's End: Fool's End is a fast-paced single-player mining game. Dig and destroy everything in your path, outsmart monsters and mine your path to complete each level. There's always another way to escape...
Players who liked Fool's End also play
Steam players who put hours into Fool's End 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.
Fool's Metal
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Top pick for Fool's End fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Fool's End.
Every jump has consequences. When you land you damage the ground below. Grapple anything that remains. Destroy, explode, hook, and slam your way through a volatile world of pixel-perfect platforming. Handcrafted levels built to fall apart. Destroy, get destroyed, destroy some more.
ANTONBLAST
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Fool's End fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Fool's End.
ANTONBLAST is a fast-paced explosive action platformer that's all about destruction. Play as the enraged Dynamite Anton (or his cranked-out coworker Annie) and use your Mighty F’n Hammer to demolish bizarre worlds, tussle with screen-filling bosses, and steal your Spirits back from Satan!
Slime-san: Superslime Edition
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Fool's End fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Fool's End.
Slime-san was minding his own business when suddenly… A giant worm appeared and gobbled him up! Deep within the worm’s belly, Slime-san has to face a decision: Be digested by the incoming wall of stomach acid... Or jump, slide and slime his way through the worm and back out its mouth!
Blind Drive
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Fool's End fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Fool's End.
An audio-based black comedy action arcade game - Blind Drive is a video game you can play with your eyes closed! 1st person hyper-realistic audio adventure meets fast paced arcade gameplay, driven by an insane B-movie plot.
BZZZT
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Fool's End fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Fool's End.
Become a tiny ZX8000 robot and begin your journey through a beautiful, pixel-art world inspired by games iconic to the platformer genre. Follow a cute story, upgrade your skills, beat challenging levels, and compete with other players for the fastest speedrun!
Clustertruck
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Ranked #6 for Fool's End fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Fool's End.
Clustertruck is a chaotic physics based truckformer. Jump your way through insane levels in a game of "the floor is lava" on top of speeding trucks driven by terrible drivers.
Super Meat Boy
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Fool's End fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Fool's End.
The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!
Downwell
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Ranked #8 for Fool's End fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Fool's End.
Downwell is a curious game about a young person venturing down a well in search of untold treasures with only his Gunboots to protect him.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Fool's End at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Fool's End on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Fool's End.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Fool's End on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Fool's End.
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
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Priced ~70% under Fool's End on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Fool's End.
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 ~80% under Fool's End on Steam right now. Shares Action with Fool's End.
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.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Fool's End on Steam right now. Shares Action with Fool's End.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Fool's End on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Fool's End.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Fool's End on Steam right now. Shares Action with Fool's End.
Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Fool's End on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Fool's End.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Fool's End.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Fool's End.
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.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Fool's End.
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 Fool's End.
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]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Fool's End.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Fool's End.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Fool's End.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Fool's End.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
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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.
ANTONBLAST
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Fool's End.
ANTONBLAST is a fast-paced explosive action platformer that's all about destruction. Play as the enraged Dynamite Anton (or his cranked-out coworker Annie) and use your Mighty F’n Hammer to demolish bizarre worlds, tussle with screen-filling bosses, and steal your Spirits back from Satan!
Blind Drive
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Fool's End.
An audio-based black comedy action arcade game - Blind Drive is a video game you can play with your eyes closed! 1st person hyper-realistic audio adventure meets fast paced arcade gameplay, driven by an insane B-movie plot.
BZZZT
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Fool's End.
Become a tiny ZX8000 robot and begin your journey through a beautiful, pixel-art world inspired by games iconic to the platformer genre. Follow a cute story, upgrade your skills, beat challenging levels, and compete with other players for the fastest speedrun!
Super Meat Boy
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Fool's End.
The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!
Frequently asked about Fool's End
- Is Fool's End verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Fool's End is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Fool's End cost?
- Fool's End is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Fool's End?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Fool's End are Fool's Metal, ANTONBLAST, Slime-san: Superslime Edition.
- Who developed Fool's End?
- Fool's End was developed by Alan Higgs and published by Pickled Cactus Games.
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