Games like Upward
If Upward is your kind of game, the closest matches are Looking For Waifu, The Home Way and Only Up 3 — 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 Upward: Upward is a platform game where we progress upwards, overcoming obstacles on an island where we crashed with a plane accident. On 10 different levels, each featuring distinct colors, various platforms, and challenges await you.
Players who liked Upward also play
Steam players who put hours into Upward 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.
Looking For Waifu
WHY THIS
Top pick for Upward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Upward.
A physics-based meme platformer where a lonely cat risks it all… for love. Are you ready to climb, fall, rage, and laugh your way through the most cursed journey ever? In LOOKING FOR WAIFU, you play as a determined cat with one goal: find his waifu. No map. No checkpoints. No mercy.
The Home Way
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Upward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Upward.
A long journey across the waves and obstacles, testing your patience and skill. Can you reach home?
Only Up 3
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Upward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Upward.
⭐⭐⭐ After reaching the heights of the favelas, Jacky embarks on a spaceship that takes him straight to Grekko Island; but as soon as he arrives on this new planet he will have to start an ascent to the skies in this new ONLY UP .⭐⭐⭐
GUN MONKEY!
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Upward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Upward.
Help your fellow monkeys escape back to the jungle by gunning your way through obstacles and challenges. Test your skill in a open environment and find your way home! Choose how you want to play, save companions (or don't) and unlock guns that help you traverse the world!
Reverse Fishing
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Upward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Upward.
Congratulations! You are now a fish! However you have been caught and taken from the ocean. Your goal is to flip flop and flail across 5 levels on your journey back to the ocean.
Firefighters Together
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Upward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Upward.
Firefighters Together is a chaotic co-op action platformer where 1-4 players work together to rescue kittens from dangerous, fire-filled maps. Overcome challenging obstacles, extinguish flames, and save those kittens!
Grow Home
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Upward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Upward.
Experience the freedom of unbounded climbing as you take control of BUD, a procedurally animated robot on a quest to save his planet. Create your own path through an alien world as you control and ride a giant plant on a vertical journey to the stars.
Carry The Glass
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Ranked #8 for Upward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Upward.
Team up as two quirky construction workers in this fun 2-player co-op platformer! Carry a fragile glass window through colorful levels filled with challenges. Communicate and coordinate to dodge obstacles and solve puzzles. Can you finish the job without breaking the glass?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Upward at current Steam store prices.
Miss Neko
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Upward on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Upward.
Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)
QUICKERFLAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Upward on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Upward.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Upward on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Upward.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Gachi Heroes
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Upward on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Upward.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Upward on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Upward.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Upward.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Upward.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Upward.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Upward.
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 Indie and Adventure with Upward.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Upward.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Upward.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Frequently asked about Upward
- How much does Upward cost?
- Upward is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Upward?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Upward are Looking For Waifu, The Home Way, Only Up 3.
- Who developed Upward?
- Upward was developed by Loren.
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 Upward.
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