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Games like Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library

If Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Pedestrian, REZ PLZ and Hue — 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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About Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library: Play as the talented but confused sorcerer, Dr Muddles, who wakes up in a strange library full of dangerous magic. Explore the library and try to unravel the mystery of how you got here, and more importantly, how to get out!

2024IndieAdventure1.99 USDWindowsby WallyDog Games
Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library — Steam game cover

Players who liked Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library also play

Steam players who put hours into Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library 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.

  1. The Pedestrian

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library.

    I can see the signs in my sleep now, always guiding me closer. Will this really work? Have we almost achieved the impossible?

    2020IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. REZ PLZ

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library.

    A puzzle platformer with a new twist on co-op and single player gameplay. Solve puzzles, platforming challenges, and encounter dangerous monsters and traps that require you to KILL and resurrect your brother to advance! Death is just part of the adventure.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Hue

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library.

    Hue is a vibrant, award-winning puzzle-adventure, where you alter the world by changing its background colour.

    2016IndieAdventure2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Alwa's Legacy

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library.

    Alwa’s Legacy is a modern retro game full of dangerous dungeons, mystic items and ancient secrets. Upgrade your magic and choose your own path in this non-linear adventure game brimming with exploration.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure17.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Monochroma

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library.

    Monochroma is a cinematic puzzle platformer. It’s a game about being a kid, growing up with a little brother that needs your help, facing obstacles and solving unique puzzles in a dystopian 1950's setting.

    2014ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Tandem: A Tale of Shadows

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library.

    Tandem : A Tale of Shadows redefines the puzzle platformer genre with a unique gameplay and exceptional aesthetics. Help Emma and the teddy bear Fenton solve the mystery of the disappearance of the famous magician Thomas Kane.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. ANIMAL WELL

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library.

    Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library.

    A sci-fi puzzle-platformer of cataclysmic proportions! Evolve from a tiny captive into a world-eating giant. Use your mutant blob powers to devour the pathetic humans and all of civilization!

    2012ActionIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library.

    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.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library.

    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!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library.

    "Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!

    2015ActionIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Montaro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library.

    Montaro is a DOGE.

    2016IndieCasual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Bit Blaster XL

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library.

    Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!

    2016ActionIndieCasual0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Dictators:No Peace Countryballs

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library.

    Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. TYRONE vs COPS

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library.

    Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.

    2022ActionIndie0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. 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 Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. 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 Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library.

    A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. The Pedestrian

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library.

    I can see the signs in my sleep now, always guiding me closer. Will this really work? Have we almost achieved the impossible?

    2020IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Alwa's Legacy

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library.

    Alwa’s Legacy is a modern retro game full of dangerous dungeons, mystic items and ancient secrets. Upgrade your magic and choose your own path in this non-linear adventure game brimming with exploration.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure17.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. ANIMAL WELL

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library.

    Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library

How much does Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library cost?
Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library are The Pedestrian, REZ PLZ, Hue.
Who developed Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library?
Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library was developed by WallyDog Games.

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 Dr Muddles and the Cursed Library.

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