Games like You Have To Climb Out
If You Have To Climb Out is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bionic Bay, ElecHead and Super Magbot — 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 You Have To Climb Out: A short narrative puzzle experience about a lost frog who has dug too far into the sand during a beach day. Use your trusty shovel to move blocks and create paths for you to continue upward.
Players who liked You Have To Climb Out also play
Steam players who put hours into You Have To Climb Out 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.
Bionic Bay
WHY THIS
Top pick for You Have To Climb Out fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with You Have To Climb Out.
A scientist uses a unique teleportation instrument to escape an ancient biomechanical world filled with imaginative technology, deadly traps, and hidden secrets.
Super Magbot
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for You Have To Climb Out fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with You Have To Climb Out.
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.
Golf Club Nostalgia
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for You Have To Climb Out fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with You Have To Climb Out.
Human life is wiped out. Earth is now a golf course for the ultra-rich. In this dystopian sports puzzler, play through destroyed brutalist monuments, crumbling shopping malls, and abandoned museums as you piece together the full story of how humanity fell.
Trine 2: Complete Story
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for You Have To Climb Out fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with You Have To Climb Out.
Three Heroes make their way through dangers untold in a fairytale world, featuring physics-based puzzles, beautiful sights and online co-op.
Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for You Have To Climb Out fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with You Have To Climb Out.
A sci-fi puzzle-platformer of cataclysmic proportions! Evolve from a tiny captive into a world-eating giant. Use your mutant blob powers to devour the pathetic humans and all of civilization!
Shady Part of Me
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for You Have To Climb Out fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with You Have To Climb Out.
Overcome emotional struggles across a touching narrative filled with twists and surprises. Embark on a dream-like journey, with breathtaking artistic direction and the enthralling voice of Hannah Murray (Game of Thrones, Skins).
Celeste
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for You Have To Climb Out fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with You Have To Climb Out.
Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below You Have To Climb Out at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under You Have To Climb Out on Steam right now. Shares Indie with You Have To Climb Out.
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?
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under You Have To Climb Out on Steam right now. Shares Indie with You Have To Climb Out.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under You Have To Climb Out on Steam right now. Shares Indie with You Have To Climb Out.
"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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under You Have To Climb Out on Steam right now. Shares Indie with You Have To Climb Out.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under You Have To Climb Out on Steam right now. Shares Indie with You Have To Climb Out.
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.
TYRONE vs COPS
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under You Have To Climb Out on Steam right now. Shares Indie with You Have To Climb Out.
Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.
Orbt XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under You Have To Climb Out on Steam right now. Shares Indie with You Have To Climb Out.
Defy gravity in Orbt XL! A fast-paced, addictive, 'just-one-more-round' arcade score chaser. Stay in orbit, dodge obstacles, and rack up points, the closer you are to the black hole, the higher your score! Easy to learn, tough to master, and perfect for quick play sessions while waiting in queue.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with You Have To Climb Out.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with You Have To Climb Out.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with You Have To Climb Out.
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 with You Have To Climb Out.
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 with You Have To Climb Out.
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 You Have To Climb Out.
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.
Bionic Bay
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with You Have To Climb Out.
A scientist uses a unique teleportation instrument to escape an ancient biomechanical world filled with imaginative technology, deadly traps, and hidden secrets.
Super Magbot
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with You Have To Climb Out.
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.
Golf Club Nostalgia
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with You Have To Climb Out.
Human life is wiped out. Earth is now a golf course for the ultra-rich. In this dystopian sports puzzler, play through destroyed brutalist monuments, crumbling shopping malls, and abandoned museums as you piece together the full story of how humanity fell.
Shady Part of Me
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with You Have To Climb Out.
Overcome emotional struggles across a touching narrative filled with twists and surprises. Embark on a dream-like journey, with breathtaking artistic direction and the enthralling voice of Hannah Murray (Game of Thrones, Skins).
Celeste
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with You Have To Climb Out.
Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.
Frequently asked about You Have To Climb Out
- How much does You Have To Climb Out cost?
- You Have To Climb Out is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to You Have To Climb Out?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside You Have To Climb Out are Bionic Bay, ElecHead, Super Magbot.
- Who developed You Have To Climb Out?
- You Have To Climb Out was developed by Matt Goode.
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