Games like Shallow Pond
If Shallow Pond is your kind of game, the closest matches are Robo Rolo, Pru the Pigeon and Ice Age Scrat's Nutty Adventure — 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 Shallow Pond: A cozy 3d platformer full of secrets where you explore vibrant worlds across land and water. Developed by solo developer Nimso.
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Steam players who put hours into Shallow Pond 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.
Robo Rolo
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Top pick for Shallow Pond fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shallow Pond.
Play as R0-L0 (a spherical robot from outer space) to roll, jump, and bounce through 6 colorful worlds to collect energy shards, so they can return home! Robo Rolo is a physics-based 3D collectathon platformer with fine-tuned, skill based movement that's fun to play, and even more fun to master.
Pru the Pigeon
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Shallow Pond fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shallow Pond.
Pru the Pigeon is a bite-sized 3D platformer with precise and expressive controls. Join Pru on his quest to save his land Asasco. Explore and collect everything in sight!
Ice Age Scrat's Nutty Adventure
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Shallow Pond fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Shallow Pond.
Scrat’s on a brand new quest! Sabre-tooth squirrel Scrat is on a nutty quest! His prized possession is locked inside an ancient Scratazon Temple – and the only way to get it back is to retrieve four legendary Crystal Nuts, scattered across the land.
Gwen The Hen 64
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Ranked #4 for Shallow Pond fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shallow Pond.
Gwen the Hen 64 is a tiny 3D platformer collectathon, with precise controls and many different movement options.
Effie
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Ranked #5 for Shallow Pond fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shallow Pond.
Effie is a 3D action-adventure game that combines classic elements from the genre, such as combat, platforming, and puzzles, with the exploration of an expanded world. Live a unique fantasy adventure and relive the look and feel of old-school video-games!
Misc. A Tiny Tale
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Ranked #6 for Shallow Pond fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shallow Pond.
Meet Buddy and Bag Boy – two tiny robots with big hearts and an even bigger mission: spreading joy! After a mysterious explosion rains golden cogs and trash from the sky, it’s their job to collect, clean, and help each village while uncovering the secret behind the blast.
Pumpkin Jack
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Ranked #7 for Shallow Pond fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shallow Pond.
Pumpkin Jack is a Spooky Scary 3D platformer in which you embody Jack, the Mythical Pumpkin Lord! Dive into an Epic Adventure through otherworldly landscapes and help the Evil annihilate the Good!
New Super Lucky's Tale
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Shallow Pond fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Shallow Pond.
Jump, burrow, and tail swipe your way to victory in this love letter to classic 3D platformers!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Shallow Pond.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shallow Pond.
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 Indie and Adventure with Shallow Pond.
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 Casual with Shallow Pond.
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 Action and Indie with Shallow Pond.
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 Shallow Pond.
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.
Gwen The Hen 64
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Shallow Pond.
Gwen the Hen 64 is a tiny 3D platformer collectathon, with precise controls and many different movement options.
Pumpkin Jack
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Shallow Pond.
Pumpkin Jack is a Spooky Scary 3D platformer in which you embody Jack, the Mythical Pumpkin Lord! Dive into an Epic Adventure through otherworldly landscapes and help the Evil annihilate the Good!
New Super Lucky's Tale
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Shallow Pond.
Jump, burrow, and tail swipe your way to victory in this love letter to classic 3D platformers!
Frequently asked about Shallow Pond
- What games are most similar to Shallow Pond?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shallow Pond are Robo Rolo, Pru the Pigeon, Ice Age Scrat's Nutty Adventure.
- Who developed Shallow Pond?
- Shallow Pond was developed by Nimso.
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 Shallow Pond.
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