Games like The Shepherd: Black Sheep
If The Shepherd: Black Sheep is your kind of game, the closest matches are Luminons: Seeds of Starlight, The Spirit Apprentice and Isolation Story — 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 Shepherd: Black Sheep: Delve into The Shepherd: Black sheep for a cozy, alpine Adventure. Play as Matthias and his fluffy friend Rocky and meet the citizens of Hochboden. Train your animals, keep them safe from danger, become a master shepherd and explore the alps! Will you be able to fulfill your family's destiny?
Players who liked The Shepherd: Black Sheep also play
Steam players who put hours into The Shepherd: Black Sheep 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.
Luminons: Seeds of Starlight
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Shepherd: Black Sheep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shepherd: Black Sheep.
A cozy HD-2D monster-taming RPG where farming your crops powers up creatures for arena battles and beauty contests.
The Spirit Apprentice
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Shepherd: Black Sheep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shepherd: Black Sheep.
Restore a forgotten village, befriend magical spirits, and uncover the mysteries of a world slowly being overrun by dark magic. As a Spirit Apprentice nearing the end of your studies, you’ll restore a mystical village, form friendships, and perhaps even find romance in this cozy fantasy RPG.
Isolation Story
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Shepherd: Black Sheep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Shepherd: Black Sheep.
VIRUS-19 has ravaged the world! Take control of a mindless citizen and live through a 7-day quarantine inside of Lockdown City.
Fishing Up
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Shepherd: Black Sheep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shepherd: Black Sheep.
Catch 48 unique fish and complete collections in a relaxing fishing game. Explore different locations, use various baits and rods, and enjoy a peaceful angling experience.
Paleo Pines
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Shepherd: Black Sheep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shepherd: Black Sheep.
Welcome to Paleo Pines, a charming island known for its friendly dinosaurs, quirky townsfolk, and mysterious past. Befriend dinos and enlist their help to fix up your ranch and farm crops to create your cozy dino sanctuary! Then set out with your companion, Lucky, to uncover the island’s secrets.
Orbital Checkpoint
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Shepherd: Black Sheep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shepherd: Black Sheep.
Orbital Checkpoint is a sci-fi border control simulator. Check alien documents, scan suspicious luggage, detect contraband, and manage your tight budget on station GSA-42. Regulations change daily, but bills for oxygen and coffee always arrive on time. Will you risk letting the Acid Lemons pass?
Slime Vendor
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Shepherd: Black Sheep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shepherd: Black Sheep.
Feed them, clean them, pet them, learn which one hates the cold. Raise every slime to its best condition — then crate it up on delivery day. You're the city's slime vendor. That's the job.
Gin's Gunstore
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Shepherd: Black Sheep fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Shepherd: Black Sheep.
Run Gin's Gunstore as Kara, an unexpected new owner in a stylized future city. Craft custom guns, negotiate with quirky customers, and build your humble shop into a legendary weapons workshop.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Shepherd: Black Sheep at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Shepherd: Black Sheep on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shepherd: Black Sheep.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Shepherd: Black Sheep on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Shepherd: Black Sheep.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Shepherd: Black Sheep on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shepherd: Black Sheep.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Shepherd: Black Sheep on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Shepherd: Black Sheep.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Shepherd: Black Sheep on Steam right now. Shares RPG with The Shepherd: Black Sheep.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Shepherd: Black Sheep on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with The Shepherd: Black Sheep.
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!
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 The Shepherd: Black Sheep.
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 The Shepherd: Black Sheep.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Shepherd: Black Sheep.
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 Indie and Adventure with The Shepherd: Black Sheep.
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 The Shepherd: Black Sheep.
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 and Casual with The Shepherd: Black Sheep.
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 and Casual with The Shepherd: Black Sheep.
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!
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More from Bandaloop Games GmbH
Other recommendable Steam games by Bandaloop Games GmbH, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Plaything
WHY THIS
Another title from Bandaloop Games GmbH, the studio behind The Shepherd: Black Sheep. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shepherd: Black Sheep.
You wake up in a deranged captor's dungeon, treated as a prized plaything. He subjects you to deadly games testing your worthiness—failure means death, success could add you permanently to his collection. Your only chance is to escape, but beware: getting caught trying means certain doom.
A Night at Ashmere Manor
WHY THIS
Another title from Bandaloop Games GmbH, the studio behind The Shepherd: Black Sheep. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shepherd: Black Sheep.
When your father goes missing with little more than a letter to clue you in, it's up to you to find him. His last known whereabouts? Ashmere Manor. Will you succeed in solving the mystery at the heart of the house and find your father, or will you succumb to its phantom call?
Canvas of Thoughts
WHY THIS
Another title from Bandaloop Games GmbH, the studio behind The Shepherd: Black Sheep. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Shepherd: Black Sheep.
Canvas of Thoughts is an emotional point-and-click puzzle adventure which invites you into Evi's vibrant but loud inner world. Experience everyday situations through shifting colours, sounds and emotions. Solve reflective puzzles and navigate the world not through words, but through feelings.
Frequently asked about The Shepherd: Black Sheep
- How much does The Shepherd: Black Sheep cost?
- The Shepherd: Black Sheep is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Shepherd: Black Sheep?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Shepherd: Black Sheep are Luminons: Seeds of Starlight, The Spirit Apprentice, Isolation Story.
- Who developed The Shepherd: Black Sheep?
- The Shepherd: Black Sheep was developed by Bandaloop Games GmbH.
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