Games like Ryder
If Ryder is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dreaming Worlds, Chicks In Trouble and The Islet & Leviathan — 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 Ryder: A vibrant creature-collecting puzzle adventure. Play as over 60 creatures, each with unique traits, to solve more than 100 puzzles across four colorful regions. Explore a lively, low-poly world, complete your bestiary, and ascend the Sanguine Mountain to fulfill your destiny as a Ryder.
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Steam players who put hours into Ryder 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.
Dreaming Worlds
WHY THIS
Top pick for Ryder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ryder.
Dive into the dreaming worlds of the four dream keepers and find out why they don't answer anymore. Rescue the trapped inhabitants of the dream worlds, change the dreams back to good and discover mysterious places and puzzles. But something dark will stand in your way.
Chicks In Trouble
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Ryder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ryder.
A peaceful farm is thrown into chaos when a mother hen's chicks mysteriously vanish! Team up with the brave father rooster and embark on a quirky, obstacle-filled adventure to bring them home. Grab your mouse or gamepad—it's time to save the flock!
The Islet & Leviathan
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Ryder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ryder.
A healing and wonderful ecological exploration survival game that includes elements of collection and construction.
Hubert
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Ryder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ryder.
Play as a working shepherd dog protecting his flock and the only human who trusts him. As wolves draw closer, you must face the growing divide between the world you serve and the wild that calls to you. Herd sheep, track scents, and guard the farm across rugged northern lands.
Nomori
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Ryder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ryder.
Nomori is a mind-bending adventure game where you control time and space to journey through a whimsical spirit world. Take shortcuts through portals, rotate your perspective, and control the flow of time to solve puzzles that are out of this world.
Adapta Solva
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Ryder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ryder.
Embark on a journey through a mysterious dying forest. Absorb magical powers, punch, climb, freeze, and dash your way through elemental obstacles, rescue lost creatures, and restore life to a forgotten world while uncovering the secrets of its past.
Dream Of Forgotten Songs
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Ranked #7 for Ryder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ryder.
Fox collects gems and songs in dream world adventure. Explore dream world. Solve puzzles. Collect fragments of songs. Find the way to home! Indie game by solo developer. With love from Ukraine!
Flutter Away
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Ranked #8 for Ryder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ryder.
Enjoy the serenity of the Amazon rainforest in this cozy short nature exploration game. As a butterfly researcher on a five-day camping trip, explore nearby tracks, take photos, meet animal friends, and journal the discoveries found along the way!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Ryder at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Ryder on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Ryder.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under Ryder on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ryder.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
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Priced ~50% under Ryder on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Ryder.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Ryder on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Ryder.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Ryder on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ryder.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
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 and Casual with Ryder.
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 Ryder.
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 Ryder.
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 Ryder.
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 Indie and Adventure with Ryder.
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 Ryder.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about Ryder
- How much does Ryder cost?
- Ryder is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Ryder?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ryder are Dreaming Worlds, Chicks In Trouble, The Islet & Leviathan.
- Who developed Ryder?
- Ryder was developed by Yellow Tree Games.
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 Ryder.
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