Games like Wax Heads
If Wax Heads is your kind of game, the closest matches are Upheaval, Alcyone: The Last City and DREAMIO: AI-Powered Adventures — 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 Wax Heads: Wax Heads is a cozy-punk narrative sim about working in a struggling record store. Chat to quirky customers with unique tastes, explore a handcrafted record collection, fall in love with bands (and their drama!), or just slack off with your colleagues - whatever gets everyone’s groove back!
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Upheaval
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Top pick for Wax Heads fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wax Heads.
Spend your time well: in 30 days a powerful Magician arrives, and everything changes! Explore the wilds around your remote village, learn from mistakes, recover magical artifacts, and turn setbacks into advantages in this text-based open world roguelike adventure. Time's up: Upheaval is here again!
Alcyone: The Last City
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Wax Heads fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wax Heads.
Alcyone: The Last City is an interactive sci-fi novel where your choices can lead to the salvation or destruction of the last refuge of civilisation in the universe. Immerse yourself in a branching narrative of diverse characters, intrigue, and world-altering decisions.
DREAMIO: AI-Powered Adventures
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Wax Heads fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wax Heads.
DREAMIO is a 'choose-your-own-adventure' game where stories and visuals are dynamically created through the power of generative AI in response to your decisions. Explore endless worlds with limitless possibilities; go anywhere, do anything.
Neo Cab
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Ranked #5 for Wax Heads fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wax Heads.
A visual novel about emotional survival in an automated world. Play as Lina, the last human cab driver. It’s your first night driving the lonely streets of Los Ojos, and your best friend has just disappeared. Stay on the road. Stay on the search. Stay human.
Chicken Police - Paint it RED!
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Wax Heads fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wax Heads.
A wild tale of love, death, chickens, and redemption! Chicken Police is a buddy-cop noir adventure with a carefully crafted world, a gritty story, and absurd humor. The game mixes classic adventure games with visual novel-style storytelling, presented in a beak-droppingly unique art style.
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
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Ranked #7 for Wax Heads fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wax Heads.
Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, it’s time to re-enter Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 9 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.
Her Story
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Ranked #8 for Wax Heads fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wax Heads.
A woman is interviewed seven times by the police. Search the video database and explore hundreds of authentic clips to discover her story in this groundbreaking and award winning narrative game.
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 with Wax Heads.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Wax Heads.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Wax Heads.
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 and Simulation with Wax Heads.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wax Heads.
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 Simulation with Wax Heads.
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 Indie and Adventure with Wax Heads.
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.
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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.
DREAMIO: AI-Powered Adventures
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wax Heads.
DREAMIO is a 'choose-your-own-adventure' game where stories and visuals are dynamically created through the power of generative AI in response to your decisions. Explore endless worlds with limitless possibilities; go anywhere, do anything.
Chicken Police - Paint it RED!
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wax Heads.
A wild tale of love, death, chickens, and redemption! Chicken Police is a buddy-cop noir adventure with a carefully crafted world, a gritty story, and absurd humor. The game mixes classic adventure games with visual novel-style storytelling, presented in a beak-droppingly unique art style.
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wax Heads.
Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, it’s time to re-enter Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 9 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.
Frequently asked about Wax Heads
- Is Wax Heads verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Wax Heads is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- What games are most similar to Wax Heads?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Wax Heads are Upheaval, Alcyone: The Last City, DREAMIO: AI-Powered Adventures.
- Who developed Wax Heads?
- Wax Heads was developed by Patattie Games and published by Curve Games.
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