Games like Inside The Gear
If Inside The Gear is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mirrors of Epiphany, The Squirrel & Sea and Tidy Tidy — 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 Inside The Gear: A physics puzzle game like no other! You are inside the big old machine. There are rusty gears and shafts all around you, along with interactive objects such as planks and cubes. Use each object and place the wheel on the platform – easy!
Players who liked Inside The Gear also play
Steam players who put hours into Inside The Gear 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.
Mirrors of Epiphany
WHY THIS
Top pick for Inside The Gear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Inside The Gear.
Use mirrors to guide light beams. Enjoy 100 brainteasing puzzles incorporating perfectly normal behaviour from two-sided mirrors. Just pure, classic reflection. No portals! And that's a promise!
The Squirrel & Sea
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Inside The Gear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Inside The Gear.
An underwater journey to the squirrel's past memories
Tidy Tidy
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Inside The Gear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Inside The Gear.
A casual healing organizing game. No complex controls—just click and drag to logically sort and arrange items across scenes, turning clutter into order. With no time limits, savor the relaxation and healing of tidying up.
Paper 2 - Origami Refolded
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Inside The Gear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Inside The Gear.
Fold your way through over 100 levels and become an origami master in this casual puzzle game suitable for all ages.
ChaosTower
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Inside The Gear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Inside The Gear.
Chaostower - Build and defend, a physics-based action puzzler. Build a tower from a whole bunch of different parts and prove it against several natural forces like earthquakes, wind and meteors. Defend your tower against artificial enemies, like robots, tanks, bomb-birds and many more.
Bridge Constructor Portal
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Inside The Gear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Enter the Aperture Science Enrichment Center and experience Bridge Constructor Portal – the unique merging of the classic Portal™ and Bridge Constructor™ games.
Score a goal (Physical football)
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Inside The Gear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Inside The Gear.
It's a physical game, whose main task is to score the ball into the goal. On your side and against you, only the laws of physics. All the controls in the game by using the computer mouse. Depending on the level will be various conditions of interaction of the player with the surrounding world.
Time in Time
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Inside The Gear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Inside The Gear.
Time in Time is a side scroller puzzle-platformer game where you control everything with timers..
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Inside The Gear at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Inside The Gear on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Inside The Gear.
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 Inside The Gear on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Inside The Gear.
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.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Inside The Gear on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Inside The Gear.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Inside The Gear on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Inside The Gear.
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 Inside The Gear on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Inside The Gear.
"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!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Inside The Gear on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Inside The Gear.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
Bejeweled® 3
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Inside The Gear on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Inside The Gear.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Inside The Gear.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Inside The Gear.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Inside The Gear.
‘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 Inside The Gear.
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!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Inside The Gear.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
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More from Mykhail Konokh
Other recommendable Steam games by Mykhail Konokh, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Fly in the House
WHY THIS
Another title from Mykhail Konokh, the studio behind Inside The Gear. Shares Indie with Inside The Gear.
There’s a fly in your apartment! Hunt it down and squish it! Damn, that fly is fast! If a fly swat won’t get it, use furniture. If that doesn’t work, use anything you can find… just squish it! The more you smash, the more points you earn.
Somewhere on Zibylon
WHY THIS
Another title from Mykhail Konokh, the studio behind Inside The Gear. Shares Indie with Inside The Gear.
The game is filled to the brim with the atmosphere of cold space and zero gravity, features unusual game mechanics with a lot of puzzles, exploration, stealth, resource extraction, crafting, fights with alien forces and seizing space stations!
Bars and Balance
WHY THIS
Another title from Mykhail Konokh, the studio behind Inside The Gear. Shares Indie and Casual with Inside The Gear.
Relaxing physics puzzle game with minimalist design.
Balls and Magnets
WHY THIS
Another title from Mykhail Konokh, the studio behind Inside The Gear. Shares Indie and Casual with Inside The Gear.
Relaxing physics puzzle game with minimalist design.
Pixelpunk XL
WHY THIS
Another title from Mykhail Konokh, the studio behind Inside The Gear. Shares Indie with Inside The Gear.
Pixelpunk XL is a pixelated old school first person shooter with rogue-like game mechanics set in sci-fi environment.
Smile'N'Slide
WHY THIS
Another title from Mykhail Konokh, the studio behind Inside The Gear. Shares Indie with Inside The Gear.
A fun and colorful game about a little dude who loves to play the ape in his day-to-day life by sliding on inclined surfaces.
Zibbs - Alien Survival
WHY THIS
Another title from Mykhail Konokh, the studio behind Inside The Gear. Shares Indie with Inside The Gear.
Zibbs - Alien Survival is an open world game where you play as an alien trying to survive on the unknown planet - Earth.
Frequently asked about Inside The Gear
- How much does Inside The Gear cost?
- Inside The Gear is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Inside The Gear?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Inside The Gear are Mirrors of Epiphany, The Squirrel & Sea, Tidy Tidy.
- Who developed Inside The Gear?
- Inside The Gear was developed by Mykhail Konokh.
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