Games like The Great Escape
If The Great Escape is your kind of game, the closest matches are Forest of Strays, American Christmas and Pay Me In Colors — 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 Great Escape: "The Great Escape" is a 2D platformer game where you explore each stage, collect keys, and find the exit. Dangerous obstacles and challenging terrain may block your path, but if you keep going, you can reach the portal to escape. Help them make their escape!
Players who liked The Great Escape also play
Steam players who put hours into The Great Escape 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.
Forest of Strays
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Top pick for The Great Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Great Escape.
Forest of Strays is a hardcore platformer with many dangers scattered across the stages. Try to complete every level while collecting every leaf along the way, fighting enemies, evading traps and getting through precise jumps! Can the lost girl find her cat and return home?
American Christmas
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Second-strongest match for The Great Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Great Escape.
American Christmas is a Mario-Megaman-Sonic inspired 2D platformer. This game aims to recapture that magic feeling you’d get when gaming during a time in the 90's when 2D platformers reigned king in the gaming industry.
Pay Me In Colors
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Third-strongest match for The Great Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Great Escape.
Pay Me In Colors is a 2D platformer game with multiple mechanics, six different worlds and over 40 challenging levels. Face meteors, gravity changing, spikes falling and missiles coming in your direction while you try to recover the colors back to your world. A game inspired by the classics of the past.
Keo and the Cosmic Crystals
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Ranked #4 for The Great Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Great Escape.
Keo and the Cosmic Crystals is a 2D platform game with colorful and cute graphics, featuring high difficulty and precision challenges.
TurtleQuest
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Ranked #5 for The Great Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Great Escape.
TurtleQuest is a 2D-Platformer where you are sent on a quest to save your little turtle village from an unknown disease. You have to follow an ancient path through the old mountains, riddled with bewitched traps, to find the sacred plant Zingiber, which might help to cure all turtles.
Jumper Jon
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Ranked #6 for The Great Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Great Escape.
Jumper Jon is a 30-second metroidvania-style platforming adventure!
Legends Of The Eternal Flame
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Ranked #7 for The Great Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Great Escape.
Embark on a thrilling adventure in this 2D platformer and see if you can brave numerous obstacles in a quest to save the world from eternal darkness.
Arthur Loves Watermelon
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Ranked #8 for The Great Escape fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Great Escape.
Arthur Loves Watermelon is a unique 2D platformer in which you don’t control when you jump. In it, you’ll help a small squirrel named Arthur recover the Sacred Watermelon Tree from the hands of an evil witch.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Great Escape at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~67% under The Great Escape on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Great Escape.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~50% under The Great Escape on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Great Escape.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~67% under The Great Escape on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Great Escape.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
shapez
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Priced ~67% under The Great Escape on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Great Escape.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~67% under The Great Escape on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Great Escape.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
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Priced ~67% under The Great Escape on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Great Escape.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
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Priced ~67% under The Great Escape on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Great Escape.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Great Escape.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Great Escape.
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 The Great Escape.
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.
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Great Escape.
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!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Great Escape.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Great Escape.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
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Frequently asked about The Great Escape
- How much does The Great Escape cost?
- The Great Escape is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Great Escape?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Great Escape are Forest of Strays, American Christmas, Pay Me In Colors.
- Who developed The Great Escape?
- The Great Escape was developed by Valdehir.
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 Great Escape.
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