Games like Aaru's Awakening
If Aaru's Awakening is your kind of game, the closest matches are INK, ibb & obb and MagiCat — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 Aaru's Awakening: Aaru's Awakening is a hand drawn 2D action platformer set in the mythical world of Lumenox. Travel through the mysterious world while the story of the four gods unravels.
Players who liked Aaru's Awakening also play
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INK
WHY THIS
Shares precision platforming and an atmospheric mood with Aaru's Awakening.
Top pick for Aaru's Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Aaru's Awakening.
INK is a fast-paced platformer about using colorful paint to uncover your surroundings. Defeat all enemies in the room and reach the goal! However, the terrain is invisible, so you need to discover the terrain by physically bumping into it, by performing a double jump or by, well, dying.
ibb & obb
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Aaru's Awakening.
Second-strongest match for Aaru's Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Aaru's Awakening.
ibb & obb is a two player cooperative game set in a puzzle filled world where gravity goes both up and down. You can only succeed by working closely together. Find a friend for some true local co-op couch fun or match up online.
MagiCat
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Aaru's Awakening.
Third-strongest match for Aaru's Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Aaru's Awakening.
MagiCat is a side-scrolling platformer inspired by the retro games from 16-bit era. The game features a cute magical cat adventuring 63 levels, each with their own unique boss battle spread across 7 worlds.
BADLAND: Game of the Year Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Aaru's Awakening.
Ranked #4 for Aaru's Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Aaru's Awakening.
With BADLAND: Game of the Year Edition, experience the multi-award-winning action adventure like never before - redesigned for Steam.
Super Magbot
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Aaru's Awakening.
Ranked #5 for Aaru's Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Aaru's Awakening.
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.
Bionic Bay
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Aaru's Awakening.
Ranked #6 for Aaru's Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Aaru's Awakening.
A scientist uses a unique teleportation instrument to escape an ancient biomechanical world filled with imaginative technology, deadly traps, and hidden secrets.
Out There Somewhere
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Aaru's Awakening.
Ranked #7 for Aaru's Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Aaru's Awakening.
You play an explorer stranded on a dangerous alien planet. Low on fuel, your only hope for escape is to find the planet’s core in this incredibly clever action-puzzle-platformer.
Slime-san: Superslime Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Aaru's Awakening.
Ranked #8 for Aaru's Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Aaru's Awakening.
Slime-san was minding his own business when suddenly… A giant worm appeared and gobbled him up! Deep within the worm’s belly, Slime-san has to face a decision: Be digested by the incoming wall of stomach acid... Or jump, slide and slime his way through the worm and back out its mouth!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Aaru's Awakening at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Aaru's Awakening on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Aaru's Awakening.
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 Aaru's Awakening on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Aaru's Awakening.
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 Aaru's Awakening on Steam right now. Shares Action with Aaru's Awakening.
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 Aaru's Awakening on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Aaru's Awakening.
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 Aaru's Awakening on Steam right now. Shares Action with Aaru's Awakening.
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 Aaru's Awakening on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Aaru's Awakening.
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 Aaru's Awakening on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aaru's Awakening.
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 Aaru's Awakening on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Aaru's Awakening.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Aaru's Awakening.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Tukoni: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Aaru's Awakening.
Tukoni: Prologue is a point-and-click puzzle adventure, based on a series of award-winning books by the Ukrainian artist Oksana Bula. Play as Tukoni, the forest spirits, as you meet unique characters, solve captivating puzzles, craft new items, and explore a magical world filled with kindness.
Khimera: Destroy All Monster Girls
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Aaru's Awakening.
Play as Chelshia the chimera in this platforming beat-em-up adventure into the wonderful world of monster girls!
SCP: Secret Laboratory
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Aaru's Awakening.
Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.
Aimlabs
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Aaru's Awakening.
Aimlabs is the aim trainer of choice for over 45 Million players, from beginners to esports pros. Our unique aim analysis optimizes your gameplay, targets your weaknesses & builds key skills for any FPS game! Time to warm up with our unlimited scenarios & rank up in-game!
Realm of the Mad God Exalt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Aaru's Awakening.
Embark on an exhilarating journey into the pixelated Realm of the Mad God! Join, an action-packed, free-to-play MMO bullet hell game. Discover a world with danger, challenges, and hidden treasures as you battle through waves of enemies. Team up with players and conquer dungeons to become a legend!
Bloons TD Battles
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Aaru's Awakening.
Go head to head with other players in a Bloon-popping battle for victory. From the creators of best-selling Bloons TD 5, this all new Battles game is specially designed for multiplayer combat, featuring the ability to control bloons directly and send them charging past your opponent's defenses.
TrackMania Nations Forever
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A free game in the truest sense of the word, TrackMania Nations Forever lets you drive at mind-blowing speeds on fun and spectacular tracks in solo and multiplayer modes.TrackMania Nations Forever offers a new "Forever" version of the Stadium environment, a solid solo mode and 65 brand new, progressively challenging tracks.
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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.
INK
WHY THIS
Shares precision platforming and an atmospheric mood with Aaru's Awakening.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Aaru's Awakening.
INK is a fast-paced platformer about using colorful paint to uncover your surroundings. Defeat all enemies in the room and reach the goal! However, the terrain is invisible, so you need to discover the terrain by physically bumping into it, by performing a double jump or by, well, dying.
ibb & obb
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Aaru's Awakening.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Aaru's Awakening.
ibb & obb is a two player cooperative game set in a puzzle filled world where gravity goes both up and down. You can only succeed by working closely together. Find a friend for some true local co-op couch fun or match up online.
MagiCat
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Aaru's Awakening.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Aaru's Awakening.
MagiCat is a side-scrolling platformer inspired by the retro games from 16-bit era. The game features a cute magical cat adventuring 63 levels, each with their own unique boss battle spread across 7 worlds.
BADLAND: Game of the Year Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Aaru's Awakening.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Aaru's Awakening.
With BADLAND: Game of the Year Edition, experience the multi-award-winning action adventure like never before - redesigned for Steam.
Super Magbot
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Aaru's Awakening.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Aaru's Awakening.
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.
Bionic Bay
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Aaru's Awakening.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Aaru's Awakening.
A scientist uses a unique teleportation instrument to escape an ancient biomechanical world filled with imaginative technology, deadly traps, and hidden secrets.
Out There Somewhere
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Aaru's Awakening.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Aaru's Awakening.
You play an explorer stranded on a dangerous alien planet. Low on fuel, your only hope for escape is to find the planet’s core in this incredibly clever action-puzzle-platformer.
Frequently asked about Aaru's Awakening
- How much does Aaru's Awakening cost?
- Aaru's Awakening is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Aaru's Awakening?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Aaru's Awakening are INK, ibb & obb, MagiCat.
- Who developed Aaru's Awakening?
- Aaru's Awakening was developed by Lumenox ehf.
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 Aaru's Awakening.
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