Games like The Howler
If The Howler is your kind of game, the closest matches are Float Your Goat, SpaceKraft! and Chocolate makes you happy: Halloween — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and retro. 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 Howler: Use gravity, tension, and wind currents to get your hot air balloon to its destination, dropping off cargo on your way, in this ultra-challenging physics-based game. All art used in the Howler was meticulously created by classically-trained experienced painters.
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Steam players who put hours into The Howler 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.
Float Your Goat
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Top pick for The Howler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Howler.
A wacky physics puzzler where you (sometimes haphazardly) engineer rafts that float a goat and his "friends" across the seas. Use various materials to keep them dry and sane.
SpaceKraft!
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Shares a whimsical mood with The Howler.
Second-strongest match for The Howler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Howler.
Gather crystals, repair/run crafting facilities, upgrade your spaceship, build machines, explore the open world, find your way back to mother earth.
Chocolate makes you happy: Halloween
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Third-strongest match for The Howler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Howler.
Casual colorful physical puzzle with sweets, jumpers, teleports, accelerators, reverse gravity, traps, treadmills, fires, ghosts, Jack-O'-Lantern's and explosions.
The Bridge
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Shares a contemplative mood with The Howler.
Ranked #4 for The Howler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Howler.
The Bridge is a logic puzzle game that forces you to reevaluate your preconceptions of physics and perspective. It is Isaac Newton meets M. C. Escher. Manipulate gravity to redefine the ceiling as the floor while venturing through impossible architectures.
aMAZE ABC
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Ranked #5 for The Howler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Howler.
aMAZE ABC is a straightforward and surprisingly - difficult celebration of the simple beauty of the maze with abstraction art and calm soundtrack.
Puzzlement
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Ranked #6 for The Howler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Howler.
a game about walking/jumping between plane surfaces to collect all red squares
Ducky Bouncy
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Ranked #7 for The Howler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Howler.
Cotton was swimming in the river one day when a lone duckling swam past. It got lost. Set yourself up for a beautiful journey to help Cotton return its friend to its family.
Trials Of Randoom
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Ranked #8 for The Howler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Howler.
Trials Of Randoom is a unique puzzle game with immense challenges and great mysteries. Each level is unique and your experience will be unforgettable as you solve the puzzles to advance through the different levels.
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Frequently asked about The Howler
- Is The Howler free to play?
- Yes — The Howler is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to The Howler?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Howler are Float Your Goat, SpaceKraft!, Chocolate makes you happy: Halloween.
- Who developed The Howler?
- The Howler was developed by Antanas Marcelionis, Renė Petrulienė and published by Antanas Marcelionis.
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 Howler.
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