Games like Mystery Boxes
If Mystery Boxes is your kind of game, the closest matches are ABI-DOS, Bulbo's Belief System and WET VR — 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 Mystery Boxes: Mystery Boxes is a codebreaking puzzle game. Send 4-digit signals to a mysterious artifact, which will respond with another sequence. Look for patterns in the responses to identify the rules, then use this information to produce the target response.
Players who liked Mystery Boxes also play
Steam players who put hours into Mystery Boxes 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.
ABI-DOS
WHY THIS
Top pick for Mystery Boxes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mystery Boxes.
Build the most advanced operating system ever created! Can you master the fictional simulation language of this mind-bending machine? Design circuits, automate UBITS (coloured mobile data blocks), and optimize your system. The Admin is always watching, and he’s not what he seems.
Bulbo's Belief System
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Mystery Boxes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Mystery Boxes.
Bulbo's Belief System is a puzzle-platformer where knowledge is both a tool and an obstacle. Bulbo believes everything he's told, letting him see, move, and interact, but he can forget! Erase walls from existence, ignore gravity and manage conflicting beliefs to solve cute mind-bending challenges.
WET VR
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Mystery Boxes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mystery Boxes.
Play Wet VR, a calm puzzle game. Move land to guide water through 32 fun puzzles. Think smart and solve each task in a world of peace and ease. Simple to play, hard to master, and made to soothe your mind.
WET
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Mystery Boxes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mystery Boxes.
Play Wet, a calm puzzle game. Move land to guide water through 32 fun puzzles. Think smart and solve each task in a world of peace and ease. Simple to play, hard to master, and made to soothe your mind.
HackMeNow
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Mystery Boxes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mystery Boxes.
A terminal-style hacking puzzle game where every command matters. Investigate logs, decode secrets, avoid traps, and uncover the rogue system watching from behind the screen.
Sudocats
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Mystery Boxes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Mystery Boxes.
Sudoku for cat people. Cats are wonderful creatures but you better not put them together without proper introduction. So, plan ahead to display them in the right order so they get along!
JOY OF PROGRAMMING Prologue - Hello World
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Mystery Boxes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mystery Boxes.
Use real Python code to automate machines, robots, drones and more and solve existing bite-sized programming challenges. Play this free prologue for the upcoming full game JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator.
TOK 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Mystery Boxes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Mystery Boxes.
Tok is a game where you will have to solve a puzzle by connecting all dots with lines. Note: the number of turns is limited!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Mystery Boxes at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Mystery Boxes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mystery Boxes.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Mystery Boxes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mystery Boxes.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Mystery Boxes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mystery Boxes.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Mystery Boxes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mystery Boxes.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~81% under Mystery Boxes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mystery Boxes.
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 ~88% under Mystery Boxes on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Mystery Boxes.
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.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Mystery Boxes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mystery Boxes.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Mystery Boxes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mystery Boxes.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
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.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mystery Boxes.
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?
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 Mystery Boxes.
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 Mystery Boxes.
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 Mystery Boxes.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Mystery Boxes.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Mystery Boxes.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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 Mystery Boxes.
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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Frequently asked about Mystery Boxes
- How much does Mystery Boxes cost?
- Mystery Boxes is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Mystery Boxes?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mystery Boxes are ABI-DOS, Bulbo's Belief System, WET VR.
- Who developed Mystery Boxes?
- Mystery Boxes was developed by Rogue Robin Studios.
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 Mystery Boxes.
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