Games like Yarn Guardians
If Yarn Guardians is your kind of game, the closest matches are Joey and Penguin's 2 Player Adventure, Vikings On Trampolines and Bloody Trapland 2: Curiosity — 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 Yarn Guardians: Yarn Guardians is a 2D Action-Adventure in which you play as cute flying cats that fight enemies with powerful Yarn Balls! Play the story campaign alone or with a friend. You can also challenge up to three friends in the versus mode.
Players who liked Yarn Guardians also play
Steam players who put hours into Yarn Guardians 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.
Joey and Penguin's 2 Player Adventure
WHY THIS
Top pick for Yarn Guardians fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Yarn Guardians.
The ultimate cooperative adventure! Pass a water balloon between you and your friend to thwack bad guys. You can only get through by working together!
Vikings On Trampolines
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Yarn Guardians fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Yarn Guardians.
It's all about trampolines! Stay on the trampolines and push your opponents off to win. Brawl against your friends or work together to save the kingdom. Big bosses, big minigames and evil balloons..? Play solo or local multiplayer for up to 4 players! Accessible controls: Only one hand needed.
Bloody Trapland 2: Curiosity
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Yarn Guardians fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Yarn Guardians.
Take on the hard yet fair world of Bloody Trapland. Jump, slide, dash and dodge your way through the many deadly levels. Find secrets, solve puzzles, unlock mysteries and unravel the story. Go at it alone or bring your friends along for a co-op experience like no other. 1-4 players online and/or splitscreen.
Clowntown
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Yarn Guardians fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Yarn Guardians.
An off-beat co-op party campaign for 2-8 clowns. Collaborate or sabotage your way through hand-crafted action puzzles and evolving minigames that will have you laughing, screaming, and honking with your friends.
Levelhead
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Yarn Guardians fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Yarn Guardians.
Deliver those goods, real good - or get turned into scrap trying! Chaotic co-op platforming, genre-bending power-ups, a challenging campaign, and endless community-built levels await, so grab a friend and GO!
Heave Ho 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Yarn Guardians fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Yarn Guardians.
Get a grip, it’s Heave Ho 2! The insane 2-4 player party game sequel takes the couch co-op mayhem online for the first time. Grab what you can and swing to win!
BattleBlock Theater®
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Yarn Guardians fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Yarn Guardians.
Welcome to BattleBlock Theater! You’ve got no where to go but up...on stage. Play single player or co-op to free your friends and save Hatty Hattington! Jump, solve and battle your way through a mysterious theater inhabited by highly technological felines.
Unruly Heroes
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Yarn Guardians fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Yarn Guardians.
LET'S KUNG FU THEM ALL! Play solo or co-op and take control of four unlikely heroes that battle a diverse lineup of enemies, show off your Kung-Fu skills and journey west across stunning different environments in order to hunt for the scattered remnants of the Sacred Scroll.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Yarn Guardians at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Yarn Guardians on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Yarn Guardians.
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 ~67% under Yarn Guardians on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Yarn Guardians.
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 ~53% under Yarn Guardians on Steam right now. Shares Action with Yarn Guardians.
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.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Yarn Guardians on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Yarn Guardians.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Yarn Guardians on Steam right now. Shares Action with Yarn Guardians.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Yarn Guardians on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Yarn Guardians.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Yarn Guardians on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Yarn Guardians.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Yarn Guardians on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Yarn Guardians.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Yarn Guardians.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Yarn Guardians.
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 Indie with Yarn Guardians.
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 Yarn Guardians.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Yarn Guardians.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Yarn Guardians.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Levelhead
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Yarn Guardians.
Deliver those goods, real good - or get turned into scrap trying! Chaotic co-op platforming, genre-bending power-ups, a challenging campaign, and endless community-built levels await, so grab a friend and GO!
BattleBlock Theater®
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Yarn Guardians.
Welcome to BattleBlock Theater! You’ve got no where to go but up...on stage. Play single player or co-op to free your friends and save Hatty Hattington! Jump, solve and battle your way through a mysterious theater inhabited by highly technological felines.
Unruly Heroes
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Yarn Guardians.
LET'S KUNG FU THEM ALL! Play solo or co-op and take control of four unlikely heroes that battle a diverse lineup of enemies, show off your Kung-Fu skills and journey west across stunning different environments in order to hunt for the scattered remnants of the Sacred Scroll.
Frequently asked about Yarn Guardians
- How much does Yarn Guardians cost?
- Yarn Guardians is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Yarn Guardians have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Yarn Guardians supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, Shared/Split Screen Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Yarn Guardians?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Yarn Guardians are Joey and Penguin's 2 Player Adventure, Vikings On Trampolines, Bloody Trapland 2: Curiosity.
- Who developed Yarn Guardians?
- Yarn Guardians was developed by pentapaw studios and published by Bold Head Interactive.
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 Yarn Guardians.
For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.