Games like Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember
If Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember is your kind of game, the closest matches are In My Shadow, With My Past and The Pedestrian — 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 Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember: KOZOMO: The Smoldering Ember is a puzzle-platformer following a teen who feels a deep emptiness despite lacking nothing in life. Overcome intricate puzzles through logic and accompany Kozomo on this journey where he might uncover a reason to keep going.
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In My Shadow
WHY THIS
Top pick for Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember.
Play with shadows using your imagination to solve brain twisting platforming puzzles as you unfold a journey of loss, nostalgia and acceptance.
With My Past
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember.
"How should I face my past in my ever-changing life? "Collaborating with the shadow of the past to unravel allegorical puzzles, confront inner struggles, and explore the path of self-growth.
The Pedestrian
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember.
I can see the signs in my sleep now, always guiding me closer. Will this really work? Have we almost achieved the impossible?
TitTok
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember.
TitTok - Minimalistic adventure 2D puzzle platformer with cats, explosions and spinning saws! TikTok ≠ TitTok
Arise: A Simple Story
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember.
Embark on an emotional journey of losing the love of one's life. Manipulate time, solve puzzles, reshape surroundings as you push forward into the bittersweet recollections of a past life. This is a story about happiness and hardship, joy and sorrow. A story that all of us will one day experience.
My Memory of Us
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember.
My Memory of Us is a moving fairy tale about friendship and hope in the darkest moments of our times. Enter a hand-crafted, gorgeously animated 2D world full of adventure, exploration, stealth and puzzles. Meet the kids brought up in different worlds and help them survive during times of occupation.
Papo & Yo
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember.
Quico’s best friend, Monster, is a huge beast with razor-sharp teeth, but that doesn’t scare Quico away from playing with him. That said, Monster does have a very dangerous problem: an addiction to poisonous frogs.
The Bridge
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember.
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 ~67% under Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember.
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 ~67% under Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember.
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 ~67% under Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember.
"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 ~67% under Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember.
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 ~67% under Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember.
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.
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 Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember.
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 Adventure with Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember.
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 Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember.
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 and Adventure with Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember.
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 Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember.
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 and Adventure with Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember.
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 Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember.
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.
The Pedestrian
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember.
I can see the signs in my sleep now, always guiding me closer. Will this really work? Have we almost achieved the impossible?
Arise: A Simple Story
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember.
Embark on an emotional journey of losing the love of one's life. Manipulate time, solve puzzles, reshape surroundings as you push forward into the bittersweet recollections of a past life. This is a story about happiness and hardship, joy and sorrow. A story that all of us will one day experience.
My Memory of Us
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember.
My Memory of Us is a moving fairy tale about friendship and hope in the darkest moments of our times. Enter a hand-crafted, gorgeously animated 2D world full of adventure, exploration, stealth and puzzles. Meet the kids brought up in different worlds and help them survive during times of occupation.
The Bridge
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember.
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.
Frequently asked about Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember
- How much does Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember cost?
- Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember are In My Shadow, With My Past, The Pedestrian.
- Who developed Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember?
- Kozomo: The Smoldering Ember was developed by Kursat Kuyumcu.
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