Games like The Games You Make
If The Games You Make is your kind of game, the closest matches are Traveler Stories: Journeys of Real People, Crapht Box and Pact Between Us — 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 Games You Make: “Quit your job, take out a loan and make a top seller game” sounded like a great idea two months ago. Now, you’re chasing bizarre bugs, combining features that should never go together, and striving to capture that mysterious thing called “fun”. Every decision is yours—and so are the consequences.
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Traveler Stories: Journeys of Real People
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Top pick for The Games You Make fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Games You Make.
"Is this really the life you want?" A visual novel with simple life-sim elements, based on 80% true stories from world travelers. Step behind the bar in Tokyo, encounter extraordinary lives, and challenge your values. A simulation to rediscover yourself and open the door to a "new you."
Crapht Box
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Second-strongest match for The Games You Make fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Games You Make.
Crapht Box is a Fantasy Physics Sandbox, inspired by the Fantasy Console genre. It brings a simulated world with a number of disks and tools, and leaves you to play, program, create and share disks.
Pact Between Us
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Third-strongest match for The Games You Make fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Games You Make.
"Pact between us" is a FMV. After the loss parents, you and your younger sister become siblings who only have each other. You must tenderly care for her daily life.What kind of woman will your sister grow into? Every arrangement you implement during her upbringing carries profound weight.
Life of a Lonely Indie Game Developer
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Ranked #4 for The Games You Make fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Games You Make.
"Create the games you want, at the time you want, and live doing only what you love." In this realistic life simulation game, an independent game developer dreams of such a life, struggling with money and time while paying taxes until death. Whether this life is happy or truly lonely, you decide.
Psycasso
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Ranked #5 for The Games You Make fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Games You Make.
Take on the role of a serial killer who creates paintings with their victims blood! Sell your creations to earn money while trying to avoid capture by the police and other civilians.
A guard walks into a tavern
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Ranked #6 for The Games You Make fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Games You Make.
You are a guard whose job is to post bounties. Try your best to deal with various matters and make money to raise your family. But remember, when various factions come to you, you will have to make choices!
Corner Shop: NightShift
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Ranked #7 for The Games You Make fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Games You Make.
Take a night shift job in a place that runs on habit, not purpose. Restock shelves, take deliveries, clean the mess, and try to make it till morning. Not everything feels right and you’re never quite alone. Something waits in the dark.
Legend of Homebody
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Ranked #8 for The Games You Make fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Games You Make.
The simple game of a shut-in learning from home and earn money. (The game is purely fictional, do not try this out in reality. This is a somewhat serious and heavy game, so don't be fooled by appearances.)
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 and Casual with The Games You Make.
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.
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 The Games You Make.
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 The Games You Make.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Games You Make.
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 The Games You Make.
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 with The Games You Make.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Games You Make.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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- What games are most similar to The Games You Make?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Games You Make are Traveler Stories: Journeys of Real People, Crapht Box, Pact Between Us.
- Who developed The Games You Make?
- The Games You Make was developed by Jumpy Bit.
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 Games You Make.
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