Games like Shallow Pond
If Shallow Pond is your kind of game, the closest matches are Monkey Do!, Hymble Ventures and Pizzapocalypse — 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.
Monkey Do!
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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.
Escape a crumbling zoo as Mak, a stealth-savvy monkey who dismantles robot Keepers, springs traps on them, and recruits fellow animals to stage his ultimate breakout. Will the malicious owner be able to stop him or will Mak be the monkey wrench in his operation?
Hymble Ventures
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Second-strongest match for Shallow Pond fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shallow Pond.
A quirky, nonsensical adventure where you relive the classic era of collectathon platformers with a modern polish and heartfelt narrative. Explore whimsical worlds and unlock wacky abilities as you progress through a diverse set of puzzles, obstacles and denizens.
Pizzapocalypse
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Third-strongest match for Shallow Pond fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shallow Pond.
A game made by students in twelve weeks. As a chef, master your pizza moveset to traverse a corporation-ridden town in this cartoony 3D platformer!
Spiny & Chilly
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Ranked #4 for Shallow Pond fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Shallow Pond.
Hop, slide and surf through colorful handcrafted worlds in a quirky 3D platformer starring Chilly the penguin and Spiny the hedgehog. Recover stolen ice blocks, master fluid movement and outsmart an adorably clueless penguin cult!
IndieSteam ↗Portabellows
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Ranked #5 for Shallow Pond fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shallow Pond.
Explore a whimsical island to find… pie recipes?! Bake them by gathering or growing ingredients, which may be the key to helping out your new found quirky friends leave the island! In this wholesome 3D platformer collectathon, you can enjoy discovering the world freely at your own pace.
Cellar Creek
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Ranked #6 for Shallow Pond fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Shallow Pond.
A curious little dog in a world carved from wood and wonder. Earn Scout Badges as you dig trails, herd woolly creatures, sniff out secrets, and discover that even the smallest world can hold something worth remembering.
Robo Rolo
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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.
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.
Fill The Void
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Ranked #8 for Shallow Pond fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Casual with Shallow Pond.
A satisfying game about consuming entire worlds to grow a black hole. Traverse small diaorama worlds as a black hole or as a sphere who can jump around and knock things over. Gain upgrades, new skins, abilities, stages, and collect everything in the world to view in your gallery.
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
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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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shallow Pond.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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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 Monkey Do!, Hymble Ventures, Pizzapocalypse.
- 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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