Games like The Big Below
If The Big Below is your kind of game, the closest matches are OtterQuest, Grendel's Cave and Ethral — 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 The Big Below: Take on the role of a little gnome exploring twisting, secret-filled dungeons in this retro, top-down adventure game.
Players who liked The Big Below also play
Steam players who put hours into The Big Below 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.
OtterQuest
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Big Below fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Big Below.
You’ve been given an odd request, and without protest, you get dressed and grab your sword from your weapons chest, and with much zest, you head west to complete your Otter Quest.
Grendel's Cave
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Big Below fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Big Below.
Grendel’s Cave; a top-down 2D pixel-art adventure game set in the Old English text Beowulf, Norse mythology, and the historical early 6th century Scandinavian warrior culture. Create a Thane, kill monsters, increase value, stats and magic, collect items and become powerful enough to kill Grendel!
Ethral
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Big Below fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Big Below.
Play as a young hero in a retro pixel top-down adventure: explore the land of Ethral, find secrets, conquer dark dungeons, and collect shards to restore the Ethral Pendant to defeat the Pirate King!
UnMetal
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Big Below fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Big Below.
UnMetal is a 2D stealth action-adventure that pays homage to the classics with a healthy dose of humor and satire. You play as Jesse Fox, who is definitely NOT an elite commando, under arrest for a crime he didn't commit, and must escape a covert military base using his wits and fists.
Hammerwatch
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Big Below fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Big Below.
A hack and slash action adventure, set in a fantasy pixel art environment. Play solo or co-op in this adventure from bottom to top of Castle Hammerwatch. Kill hordes of enemies with varied looks and features through four unique environments with traps, hidden secrets and puzzles.
Tiny Rogues
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Big Below fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Big Below.
Tiny Rogues is a challenging fantasy rogue-lite bullet-hell dungeon crawler with rpg elements. Build a new unique character each run and fight one monster-infested room after another! Discover unique weapons, collect magical items and level up to become more and more powerful!
#BLUD
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Big Below fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Big Below.
Save your friends, fight off the vampire apocalypse, and survive the horrors of freshman field hockey practice in #BLUD, a delightfully zany animated dungeon crawler that blurs the line between action RPGs and hyperkinetic 90s cartoons.
The Slormancer
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Big Below fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Big Below.
Fight hordes of enemies led by The Slormancer, an evil warlock from the past, in an absurd yet epic Action RPG! Experience fast-paced gameplay, loads of shiny loot, tons of collectibles, countless hours of content, and carefully crafted pixel art.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Big Below at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under The Big Below on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Big Below.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Big Below on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Big Below.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Big Below on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Big Below.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Big Below on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Big Below.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under The Big Below on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Big Below.
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.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Big Below on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Big Below.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Super Hexagon
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Big Below on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Big Below.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Nodebuster
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Big Below on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Big Below.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
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 Adventure with The Big Below.
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 Indie and Adventure with The Big Below.
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 Indie and Adventure with The Big Below.
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. Shares Indie with The Big Below.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Big Below.
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 Indie and Adventure with The Big Below.
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.
UnMetal
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Big Below.
UnMetal is a 2D stealth action-adventure that pays homage to the classics with a healthy dose of humor and satire. You play as Jesse Fox, who is definitely NOT an elite commando, under arrest for a crime he didn't commit, and must escape a covert military base using his wits and fists.
Tiny Rogues
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Big Below.
Tiny Rogues is a challenging fantasy rogue-lite bullet-hell dungeon crawler with rpg elements. Build a new unique character each run and fight one monster-infested room after another! Discover unique weapons, collect magical items and level up to become more and more powerful!
#BLUD
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Big Below.
Save your friends, fight off the vampire apocalypse, and survive the horrors of freshman field hockey practice in #BLUD, a delightfully zany animated dungeon crawler that blurs the line between action RPGs and hyperkinetic 90s cartoons.
Frequently asked about The Big Below
- How much does The Big Below cost?
- The Big Below is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Big Below?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Big Below are OtterQuest, Grendel's Cave, Ethral.
- Who developed The Big Below?
- The Big Below was developed by Steve Aucott.
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 The Big Below.
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