Games like Spear
If Spear is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bluebie VS The Army of Cyborgs, Trifox and Second Stone: The Legend of the Hidden World — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 Spear: A fast-paced action-platformer where an NPC wields a makeshift spear to fight glitches, solve puzzles, and save his own game.
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Steam players who put hours into Spear 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.
Bluebie VS The Army of Cyborgs
WHY THIS
Top pick for Spear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Spear.
A fun 3D Platformer where you will fight Cyborgs using different weapons and skills you will acquire. The game will take you to different places where you will have to find and release hidden prisoners and defeat Cybex. Will you save them all ?
Trifox
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Spear.
Second-strongest match for Spear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Spear.
Trifox is a colourful and cartoonish twin stick action-adventure featuring a phenomenal fox with a multitude of talents! Choose from a trio of classes – Warrior, Mage, Engineer – or mix-and-match abilities to create a tailor-made hero! Inspired by the golden age of 3D platformers.
Second Stone: The Legend of the Hidden World
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Spear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Spear.
A story-driven adventure game fusing platforming with fast-paced RPG combat. Jump between two worlds as Shiren, a young treasure hunter from Arimaya Village in search of the secret behind the dark hidden world. Experience an epic hero's journey with a slice of nostalgia and truly fun gameplay!
Recompile
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Spear.
Ranked #4 for Spear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Spear.
This atmospheric, Metroidvania hacking adventure lets you take control of a semi-sapient program struggling against deletion. In the sprawling 3D world of a Mainframe, Recompile features intense combat, tight 3D platforming, super-powered abilities and an environmental logic-based hacking mechanic.
Hogwarts Legacy
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Spear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Spear.
Hogwarts Legacy is an immersive, open-world action RPG. Now you can take control of the action and be at the center of your own adventure in the wizarding world.
Angeline Era
WHY THIS
Shares precision platforming, checkpoint based progression and atmospheric with Spear.
Ranked #6 for Spear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Spear.
Explore a secret-filled land in this 3D Action-Adventure, where every level is hidden in plain sight! Travel and fight through a vast, unmarked overworld. The next surprise is only a single search away!
Ruffy and the Riverside
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Spear.
Ranked #7 for Spear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Spear.
In Ruffy and the Riverside, you wield the magic SWAP to Copy & Paste textures - turn ice into lava or waterfalls into vines! Explore, fight, skate on straw bales, and unleash your imagination in this quirky open-world action game. Dive into an adventure that lets you literally change the world!
Skylar & Plux: Adventure On Clover Island
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Spear.
Ranked #8 for Spear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Spear.
Skylar & Plux: Adventure on Clover Island is a passionate homage to the 3D platformers of our youth. Go on an action packed adventure, collect gadgets helping you explore a beautiful paradise and save it from evil.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Spear
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Ori and the Blind Forest
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Spear.
Reviewers of Spear cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Spear.
“Ori and the Blind Forest” tells the tale of a young orphan destined for heroics, through a visually stunning action-platformer crafted by Moon Studios for PC.
DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Spear.
Reviewers of Spear cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Spear.
Then, there was fire. Re-experience the critically acclaimed, genre-defining game that started it all. Beautifully remastered, return to Lordran in stunning high-definition detail running at 60fps.
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Spear.
Reviewers of Spear cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Spear.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Spear at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Spear on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Spear.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Spear on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Spear.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Spear on Steam right now. Shares Action with Spear.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Spear on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Spear.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Spear on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Spear.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Spear on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Spear.
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 ~70% under Spear on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Spear.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Spear on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Spear.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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 Spear.
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 Spear.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Spear.
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 Spear.
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 Spear.
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 Spear.
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 Adventure with Spear.
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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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Trifox
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Spear.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Spear.
Trifox is a colourful and cartoonish twin stick action-adventure featuring a phenomenal fox with a multitude of talents! Choose from a trio of classes – Warrior, Mage, Engineer – or mix-and-match abilities to create a tailor-made hero! Inspired by the golden age of 3D platformers.
Recompile
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Spear.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Spear.
This atmospheric, Metroidvania hacking adventure lets you take control of a semi-sapient program struggling against deletion. In the sprawling 3D world of a Mainframe, Recompile features intense combat, tight 3D platforming, super-powered abilities and an environmental logic-based hacking mechanic.
Hogwarts Legacy
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Spear.
Hogwarts Legacy is an immersive, open-world action RPG. Now you can take control of the action and be at the center of your own adventure in the wizarding world.
Angeline Era
WHY THIS
Shares precision platforming, checkpoint based progression and atmospheric with Spear.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Spear.
Explore a secret-filled land in this 3D Action-Adventure, where every level is hidden in plain sight! Travel and fight through a vast, unmarked overworld. The next surprise is only a single search away!
Ruffy and the Riverside
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Spear.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Spear.
In Ruffy and the Riverside, you wield the magic SWAP to Copy & Paste textures - turn ice into lava or waterfalls into vines! Explore, fight, skate on straw bales, and unleash your imagination in this quirky open-world action game. Dive into an adventure that lets you literally change the world!
Frequently asked about Spear
- How much does Spear cost?
- Spear is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Spear?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Spear are Bluebie VS The Army of Cyborgs, Trifox, Second Stone: The Legend of the Hidden World.
- Who developed Spear?
- Spear was developed by Andrea Cavuoto and published by Polyhedric Studio.
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