Games like Cave Hikers
If Cave Hikers is your kind of game, the closest matches are Aster Pebble and the Case of Bad Bureaucracy, Escape the Baby Alarm and When The Past Was Around — 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 Cave Hikers: Cave Hikers is a relaxing and humorous 2D interactive cartoon mockumentary that follows three characters through a cavernous world, on a quest to find the mystical “cave with an infinite ceiling”. Flip the HOPA, reach the topa!
Players who liked Cave Hikers also play
Steam players who put hours into Cave Hikers 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.
Aster Pebble and the Case of Bad Bureaucracy
WHY THIS
Top pick for Cave Hikers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Cave Hikers.
A short and cozy point and click time loop mystery. Join Aster Pebble as she solves mysteries and helps those in need as she takes on her first adventure in a modern fantasy world. Overcome bureaucracy via direct action in this funny little adventure filled with intriguing oddball characters.
Escape the Baby Alarm
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Cave Hikers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Cave Hikers.
Escape the Baby Alarm is a cozy puzzle adventure about the chaos and love of early parenthood. Solve hand-drawn, escape room-inspired puzzles inside the baby alarm. Find your way out through mashed peas, pacifiers and sleepless nights. Funny, heartfelt, and beautifully illustrated
When The Past Was Around
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Cave Hikers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Cave Hikers.
When the Past was Around is an adventure point-and-click puzzle game about love, moving on, letting go, and the joy and pain of everything in between.
Botanicula
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Cave Hikers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Cave Hikers.
Humor-filled indie adventure game created by the makers of Machinarium and Samorost.
TOHU
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Cave Hikers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Cave Hikers.
Experience a brand new adventure game set amongst a world of weird and wonderful fish planets. Explore beautiful environments, solve intricate puzzles and discover the truth about a mysterious little girl and her mechanical alter-ego, Cubus.
Papetura
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Cave Hikers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Cave Hikers.
Papetura is a short atmospheric adventure game, with unique world handmade entirely out of paper, and beautiful fragile music. It tells the story of two little creatures whose house is in danger of being burned down.
Samorost 3
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Cave Hikers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Cave Hikers.
Samorost 3 is an exploration adventure and puzzle game from the award-winning creators of Machinarium and Botanicula. Travel across space to nine unique worlds teeming with colorful challenges, creatures and surprises to discover, brought to life with beautiful artwork, sound and music.
ISOLAND3: Dust of the Universe
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Cave Hikers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Cave Hikers.
A sequel to the ISOLAND series, where you continue your journey to explore the story of the universe on this island.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cave Hikers at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Cave Hikers on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Cave Hikers.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Cave Hikers on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Cave Hikers.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Cave Hikers on Steam right now. Shares Action with Cave Hikers.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Cave Hikers on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Cave Hikers.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Cave Hikers on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Cave Hikers.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Cave Hikers on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Cave Hikers.
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 ~70% under Cave Hikers on Steam right now. Shares Action and Simulation with Cave Hikers.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Cave Hikers on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Cave Hikers.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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 Casual with Cave Hikers.
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 Action and Adventure with Cave Hikers.
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 Simulation with Cave Hikers.
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 Adventure with Cave Hikers.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Cave Hikers.
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 Action and Adventure with Cave Hikers.
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.
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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.
When The Past Was Around
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and Casual with Cave Hikers.
When the Past was Around is an adventure point-and-click puzzle game about love, moving on, letting go, and the joy and pain of everything in between.
Botanicula
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and Casual with Cave Hikers.
Humor-filled indie adventure game created by the makers of Machinarium and Samorost.
TOHU
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Cave Hikers.
Experience a brand new adventure game set amongst a world of weird and wonderful fish planets. Explore beautiful environments, solve intricate puzzles and discover the truth about a mysterious little girl and her mechanical alter-ego, Cubus.
Papetura
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and Casual with Cave Hikers.
Papetura is a short atmospheric adventure game, with unique world handmade entirely out of paper, and beautiful fragile music. It tells the story of two little creatures whose house is in danger of being burned down.
Samorost 3
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and Casual with Cave Hikers.
Samorost 3 is an exploration adventure and puzzle game from the award-winning creators of Machinarium and Botanicula. Travel across space to nine unique worlds teeming with colorful challenges, creatures and surprises to discover, brought to life with beautiful artwork, sound and music.
Frequently asked about Cave Hikers
- How much does Cave Hikers cost?
- Cave Hikers is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Cave Hikers?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cave Hikers are Aster Pebble and the Case of Bad Bureaucracy, Escape the Baby Alarm, When The Past Was Around.
- Who developed Cave Hikers?
- Cave Hikers was developed by Studio Spektar, Porcupine Parkour and published by Studio Spektar, Porcupine Parkour.
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