Games like October Panic
If October Panic is your kind of game, the closest matches are Super TECHPACK, Super Retro World and Blasten!! — 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 October Panic: An arcade-style platformer with five levels and no saving/loading. A small trick-or-treat bag packed to the brim with both treats and tricks.
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Steam players who put hours into October Panic 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.
Super TECHPACK
WHY THIS
Top pick for October Panic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with October Panic.
A charming platformer ripped straight from the arcades. Run, shoot, climb and chomp your way to victory.
Super Retro World
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for October Panic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with October Panic.
Super Retro World is a 2D platformer which is based on the idea of classic platform handheld console games like Super Mario Land.
Blasten!!
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for October Panic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with October Panic.
Blasten!! is a retro side-scrolling shooter of robot-busting action! Can you master all the robot power-ups and keep forever peace?
Frogatto & Friends
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for October Panic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with October Panic.
Frogatto & Friends is an action-adventure platformer game, starring a certain quixotic frog. A quiet errand run turns into a battle to fend off an invading army, and only Frogatto is foolhardy enough to sleuth out why. Can you survive the journey long enough to solve the mystery?
Sigi - A Fart for Melusina
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for October Panic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with October Panic.
Join Knight Sigi as he runs, jumps, and battles in a flatulent quest to save Melusina, the love of his life, in this light-hearted homage to the golden days of simple but fun classic action platformers.
Viola: The Heroine's Melody
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for October Panic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with October Panic.
Viola: The Heroine's Melody is the musical Platformer/RPG! After failing at violin practice for the hundredth time, Viola becomes trapped inside her instrument's fantastical world. Join her adventure to find her way back home, aided by the diverse ensemble of friends she meets along the way.
Dadish
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for October Panic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with October Panic.
Explore an exciting world, face off with fast-food themed foes, and reunite Dadish with his missing children in this challenging platforming adventure.
8BitBoy™
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for October Panic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with October Panic.
Huge classic platformer with several power-ups and 8-12 hours of main story & 300+ hidden locations just begging for exploration · 56 big Levels · 5 huge worlds
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below October Panic at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under October Panic on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with October Panic.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under October Panic on Steam right now. Shares Indie with October Panic.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~63% under October Panic on Steam right now. Shares Indie with October Panic.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under October Panic on Steam right now. Shares Action with October Panic.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under October Panic on Steam right now. Shares Indie with October Panic.
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!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under October Panic on Steam right now. Shares Indie with October Panic.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under October Panic on Steam right now. Shares Indie with October Panic.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under October Panic on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with October Panic.
"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!
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 October Panic.
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. Shares Action with October Panic.
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 Action and Indie with October Panic.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with October Panic.
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 with October Panic.
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 October Panic.
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 October Panic.
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.
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Other recommendable Steam games by Neckbolt, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Belladonna
WHY THIS
Another title from Neckbolt, the studio behind October Panic. Shares Indie with October Panic.
Belladonna is a gothic adventure game, twisted and dark. Take the role of a corpse girl rising from the dead in an abandoned laboratory, and unravel the mysteries concerning your own death and reanimation.
Yono and the Celestial Elephants
WHY THIS
Another title from Neckbolt, the studio behind October Panic. Shares Indie with October Panic.
Yono and the Celestial Elephant is a grand adventure, featuring carefully designed puzzles, treasure hunts, a sprinkling combat and a world full of people.
Molly Medusa: Queen of Spit
WHY THIS
Another title from Neckbolt, the studio behind October Panic.
A gravity-bending 3D adventure where everyone turns to stone!
Alruna and the Necro-Industrialists
WHY THIS
Another title from Neckbolt, the studio behind October Panic. Shares Indie with October Panic.
Alruna is a compact and high-density Metroidvania, with a focus on sequence-breaking and playing things out of order.
Alruna: End of History
WHY THIS
Another title from Neckbolt, the studio behind October Panic. Shares Action and Indie with October Panic.
Alruna; now in wide-screen! A different kind of Metroidvania, a tour-de-force of game design, with world-class temples and dungeons. Dead men yearn for Heaven, but Elysium remains out of their grasp.
Let's Freeze Some Penguins
WHY THIS
Another title from Neckbolt, the studio behind October Panic. Shares Indie with October Panic.
Walnut the Walrus sets out to save his friends, and all of Northern Bear, from the dreaded Emperor Penguin. Luckily, his chilly Walrus Wind is ice cold. Now let’s freeze some penguins!
Frequently asked about October Panic
- How much does October Panic cost?
- October Panic is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to October Panic?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside October Panic are Super TECHPACK, Super Retro World, Blasten!!.
- Who developed October Panic?
- October Panic was developed by Neckbolt and published by Burning Planet Digital.
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 October Panic.
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