Games like Yury
If Yury is your kind of game, the closest matches are Downwell, Space Monkeys and Freedom Planet — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its every death feels earned, atmospheric and challenging. 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.
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Steam players who put hours into Yury 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.
Downwell
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Yury.
Top pick for Yury fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Yury.
Downwell is a curious game about a young person venturing down a well in search of untold treasures with only his Gunboots to protect him.
Space Monkeys
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Yury fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Yury.
Space Monkeys is a solo-developed, fast-paced action game where you must unleash your inner ape to face 12 unique levels in space. Use skill and strategy to dodge lasers, evade enemies, and collect bananas in zero-gravity on your journey to escape a retro-styled evil space station.
Freedom Planet
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Yury fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Yury.
Fight your way across the celestial world of Avalice where cats are green, motorcycles drive up walls and monster girls do most of the buttkicking! Freedom Planet is a cartoony, combat-based platform adventure that pits a spunky dragonoid and her friends against an alien attack force.
Windswept
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Yury.
Ranked #4 for Yury fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Yury.
🦆 Marbles and 🐢 Checkers need your help finding their way home after being swept away in a storm. In this 90s buddy-platformer there's a ton of stuff to do and even more to collect!
Cave Story+
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Yury.
Ranked #5 for Yury fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Yury.
Run, jump, shoot, fly and explore your way through a massive action-adventure reminiscent of classic 8- and 16-bit games.
Kaze and the Wild Masks
WHY THIS
Shares precision platforming and an atmospheric mood with Yury.
Ranked #6 for Yury fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Yury.
Go on a journey as Kaze in this 90’s classics inspired platformer. When the Crystal Islands get cursed, Kaze needs to save her friend Hogo while facing enraged living vegetables. Find the Wild Masks to unleash the powers of the legendary guardians and master land, sky and sea.
Blood Harvest 3
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Yury.
Ranked #7 for Yury fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Yury.
Dynamic, hardcore and explosive action on the passage with a bunch of weapons, enemies and bosses.
Castle In The Darkness
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Yury.
Ranked #8 for Yury fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Yury.
Castle In The Darkness is a fun and challenging shout out to the early days of video games! It's an action exploration platformer with some RPG elements, much like games from the Castlevania or Metroid series. It's super fast-paced, challenging, and full of secrets!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Yury at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Yury on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Yury.
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?
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Yury on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Yury.
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 ~50% under Yury on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Yury.
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 Yury on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Yury.
"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 Yury on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Yury.
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 Yury on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Yury.
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 Yury on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Yury.
Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Yury.
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 Yury.
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 and Adventure with Yury.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Yury.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Yury.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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Frequently asked about Yury
- How much does Yury cost?
- Yury is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Yury?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Yury are Downwell, Space Monkeys, Freedom Planet.
- Who developed Yury?
- Yury was developed by Cubic Pie.
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 Yury.
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