Games like Exographer
If Exographer is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bionic Bay, La-Mulana 2 and Leap Year — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its combat free metroidvania experience, atmospheric and chill. 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 Exographer: Exographer is an exploration game based on science. Become an explorer, stranded in an alien planet, and discover the secrets of an extinct civilization. Gain new powers to avoid dangers and obstacles in your journey, and use your camera to reveal particles and hidden clues.
Players who liked Exographer also play
Steam players who put hours into Exographer 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.
Bionic Bay
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Exographer.
Top pick for Exographer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Exographer.
A scientist uses a unique teleportation instrument to escape an ancient biomechanical world filled with imaginative technology, deadly traps, and hidden secrets.
La-Mulana 2
WHY THIS
Shares metroidvania exploration and an atmospheric mood with Exographer.
Second-strongest match for Exographer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Exographer.
The long-awaited sequel to La-Mulana, La-Mulana 2 follows Lumisa Kosugi as she explores the ancient ruins of La-Mulana. Desperate to find the cause of the recent slew of monsters appearing from the ruins, Lumisa discovers the "other" La-Mulana: the ruins known as Eg-Lana.
Leap Year
WHY THIS
Shares metroidvania exploration, backtracking and atmospheric with Exographer.
Third-strongest match for Exographer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Exographer.
Leap Year is a clumsy platformer about knowledge and discovery. Explore a compact, hand drawn world filled with hidden paths. Understand the game’s secrets to reach new areas and collect all the pages of your calendar.
Portal
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Exographer.
Ranked #4 for Exographer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Exographer.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
The Multi-Medium
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Exographer.
Ranked #5 for Exographer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Exographer.
The Multi-Medium is a visually unique 2D puzzle platform adventure in which you play as an interdimensional explorer lost in the multiverse. Travel to diverse worlds, each drawn or painted by hand in a different medium and style, in search of your place in the cosmos.
Pinball Spire
WHY THIS
Shares ability gated progression, backtracking, pixel art and an atmospheric mood with Exographer.
Ranked #6 for Exographer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Exographer.
Action adventure meets pinball in this one-of-a-kind pinballvania adventure. When a mysterious spire appears from thin air, it's up to an intrepid pinball to bump, spin, shoot, and flip its way to the top and solve the tower’s mysteries!
Alwa's Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Exographer.
Ranked #7 for Exographer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Exographer.
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.
Super Magbot
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Exographer.
Ranked #8 for Exographer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Exographer.
A precise 2D platformer with a twist. NO JUMPING. Master your magnetic powers to beat each level with speed and skill. Enjoy classic 16-bit gaming vibes, tackle challenging achievements and compete for global leaderboard supremacy along the way.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Exographer
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Yoku's Island Express
WHY THIS
Shares fast travel system and a chill mood with Exographer.
Reviewers of Exographer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Exographer.
Meet Yoku, the pint-sized postman protagonist of Yoku's Island Express! Use a unique blend of pinball mechanics, platforming and open world exploration to unlock the secrets of Mokumana Island, help the locals, awaken ancient deities and much more in this amazing new tropical adventure!
Outer Wilds
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Exographer.
Reviewers of Exographer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Exographer.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
Unbound: Worlds Apart
WHY THIS
Shares checkpoint based progression and an atmospheric mood with Exographer.
Reviewers of Exographer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Exographer.
Summon portals to overcome vicious beasts, devious puzzles and fiendish platforming challenges. Master the unique powers of each portal to stop the collapse of reality, while exploring lush, hand-drawn worlds and unraveling a deep narrative full of mysteries.
SHEEPO
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Exographer.
Reviewers of Exographer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Exographer.
Explore a strange planet, collect the creatures you find, and then shape-shift into them to expand your world. Build your own path, chat with the locals, and discover the planets sprawling secrets in this quirky metroidvania platformer.
ANIMAL WELL
WHY THIS
Shares hidden collectibles and an atmospheric mood with Exographer.
Reviewers of Exographer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Exographer.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Exographer at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Exographer on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Exographer.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Exographer on Steam right now. Shares Action with Exographer.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Exographer on Steam right now. Shares Action with Exographer.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Portal 2
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Exographer.
Priced ~50% under Exographer on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Exographer.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Exographer on Steam right now. Shares Action with Exographer.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Exographer on Steam right now. Shares Action with Exographer.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Exographer on Steam right now. Shares Action with Exographer.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Exographer.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Exographer.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Exographer.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Exographer.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Exographer.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Exographer.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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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.
Bionic Bay
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Exographer.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Exographer.
A scientist uses a unique teleportation instrument to escape an ancient biomechanical world filled with imaginative technology, deadly traps, and hidden secrets.
La-Mulana 2
WHY THIS
Shares metroidvania exploration and an atmospheric mood with Exographer.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Exographer.
The long-awaited sequel to La-Mulana, La-Mulana 2 follows Lumisa Kosugi as she explores the ancient ruins of La-Mulana. Desperate to find the cause of the recent slew of monsters appearing from the ruins, Lumisa discovers the "other" La-Mulana: the ruins known as Eg-Lana.
Leap Year
WHY THIS
Shares metroidvania exploration, backtracking and atmospheric with Exographer.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Exographer.
Leap Year is a clumsy platformer about knowledge and discovery. Explore a compact, hand drawn world filled with hidden paths. Understand the game’s secrets to reach new areas and collect all the pages of your calendar.
Portal
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Exographer.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Exographer.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
Pinball Spire
WHY THIS
Shares ability gated progression, backtracking, pixel art and an atmospheric mood with Exographer.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Exographer.
Action adventure meets pinball in this one-of-a-kind pinballvania adventure. When a mysterious spire appears from thin air, it's up to an intrepid pinball to bump, spin, shoot, and flip its way to the top and solve the tower’s mysteries!
Alwa's Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Exographer.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Exographer.
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.
Super Magbot
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Exographer.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Exographer.
A precise 2D platformer with a twist. NO JUMPING. Master your magnetic powers to beat each level with speed and skill. Enjoy classic 16-bit gaming vibes, tackle challenging achievements and compete for global leaderboard supremacy along the way.
Frequently asked about Exographer
- Is Exographer verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Exographer 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 Exographer cost?
- Exographer is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Exographer?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Exographer are Bionic Bay, La-Mulana 2, Leap Year.
- Who developed Exographer?
- Exographer was developed by SciFunGames and published by Abylight Studios.
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 Exographer.
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