Games like VERY IMPORTANT NEEDS
If VERY IMPORTANT NEEDS is your kind of game, the closest matches are HERD, ToyBox Security and SHEEP HAPPENS — 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 VERY IMPORTANT NEEDS: A chaotic heist game about characters with needs that are a little too “important,” repeatedly breaking into the same neighbors’ buildings and grabbing anything valuable. One goal: leave only walls and doors behind. (Walls optional.)
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HERD
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Top pick for VERY IMPORTANT NEEDS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with VERY IMPORTANT NEEDS.
HERD is a co-op adventure game about shepherding sheep. 1–4 friends play as young shepherds, disguised with wool mustaches, tasked with delivering sheep to distant villages. Survive the environment while working together to protect your flock (and screaming because a sheep is literally on fire).
ToyBox Security
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Second-strongest match for VERY IMPORTANT NEEDS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with VERY IMPORTANT NEEDS.
Ever wanted to booby-trap a house like a kid left home alone? An asymmetric multiplayer comedy game for 1–4 players. Rig the place with everything from toy cars to blowtorches, and make it hurt. Or play as the robbers: grab the loot, catch the kid, hang them on a coat rack before the cops show.
SHEEP HAPPENS
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Third-strongest match for VERY IMPORTANT NEEDS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with VERY IMPORTANT NEEDS.
This is coop multiplayer for 2 to 4 players, and every match the game decides who's who — one of you holds the ranch together, the rest exist purely to take it apart.
Write Warz
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Ranked #4 for VERY IMPORTANT NEEDS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with VERY IMPORTANT NEEDS.
Write Warz is the award-winning storytelling party game where you and your friends build a completely unhinged story together across 8 wild themes. Write → Vote → Laugh till you pass out. Only the host needs to own the game!
Party Club: Hangry Animals
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Ranked #5 for VERY IMPORTANT NEEDS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with VERY IMPORTANT NEEDS.
A chaotic party game for up to 4 players — online, on the couch, and across platforms. Jump into ridiculous mini-games, betray your friends equally on every device, and embrace the madness.
Pizza Oof!
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Ranked #6 for VERY IMPORTANT NEEDS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with VERY IMPORTANT NEEDS.
Grab 3 friends and deliver a pizza worth a million-dollar tip. Keep it hot, keep it safe, and blame your crew when everything goes wrong.
DuckTape Inc.
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Ranked #7 for VERY IMPORTANT NEEDS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with VERY IMPORTANT NEEDS.
Work for the notoriously stingy DuckTape Inc. Secure runaway anomalies as quickly and cheaply as possible in 1–5 player co-op. Stabilize systems, recover data, haul entities to the helicopter and try not to become “too expensive.”
Come Out Guys
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Ranked #8 for VERY IMPORTANT NEEDS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with VERY IMPORTANT NEEDS.
Get ready for a chaotic chase for 2-8 players! Experience high tension FPS Parkour Hide and Seek with tiny characters in a giant environment. Climb, jump, hide, and shoot to surprise your friends. Escaping and chasing have never been this exciting!
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with VERY IMPORTANT NEEDS.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with VERY IMPORTANT NEEDS.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with VERY IMPORTANT NEEDS.
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 VERY IMPORTANT NEEDS.
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 and Casual with VERY IMPORTANT NEEDS.
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 VERY IMPORTANT NEEDS.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with VERY IMPORTANT NEEDS.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
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Frequently asked about VERY IMPORTANT NEEDS
- Does VERY IMPORTANT NEEDS have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — VERY IMPORTANT NEEDS supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to VERY IMPORTANT NEEDS?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside VERY IMPORTANT NEEDS are HERD, ToyBox Security, SHEEP HAPPENS.
- Who developed VERY IMPORTANT NEEDS?
- VERY IMPORTANT NEEDS was developed by 2MAD Games.
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