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Games like Pneuma: Breath of Life

If Pneuma: Breath of Life is your kind of game, the closest matches are FotoMuseo 3D, The Stanley Parable and MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its beautiful and varied environments, creative environmental puzzles and atmospheric. 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.

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About Pneuma: Breath of Life: Pneuma: Breath of Life forces you to think outside the box through a narrated story of self-discovery, whilst exploring the ontological mystery of the breath of life. Features award winning voice actor 'Jay Britton' as Pneuma.

2015IndieAdventure19.99 USDMetacritic 63Windowsby BULKHEAD
Pneuma: Breath of Life — Steam game cover
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Beautiful and varied environmentsCreative environmental puzzlesPhilosophical narration adds thematic depthAtmosphericContemplativeMysterious

Players who liked Pneuma: Breath of Life also play

Steam players who put hours into Pneuma: Breath of Life 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.

  1. FotoMuseo 3D

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Pneuma: Breath of Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    A single-developer personal project. Discover all the hidden secrets in this little 3D Interactive Exploration Adventure. Your task is simple, cross the Earthgate Portal and visit a Photographic EXPO in the FotoMuseo. Collect clues and unlock new areas with your investigations.

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation7.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. The Stanley Parable

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    Second-strongest match for Pneuma: Breath of Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.

    2013IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    Third-strongest match for Pneuma: Breath of Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    MIND: Path to Thalamus is a First Person Puzzler that throws you into a fantastic and surreal environment. You will bend the natural elements to your will in order to progress in this emotive, mindbending tale. Now also in Virtual Reality!

    2014StrategyIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    Ranked #4 for Pneuma: Breath of Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.

    2013ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Home is Where One Starts...

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    Ranked #5 for Pneuma: Breath of Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    Home is Where One Starts... is a short, first-person exploration game in the same vein as Dear Esther or Gone Home. It’s a story about childhood, hope, and the miracle of memory. You play as a little girl from a broken home somewhere in the American South.

    2015IndieAdventure2.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. 'n Verlore Verstand

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    Ranked #6 for Pneuma: Breath of Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    Be prepared to be transported to a reality of dreams and nightmares. What will you discover about yourself in this journey through the subconscious?

    2016IndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Narcosis

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    Ranked #7 for Pneuma: Breath of Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    Survival, horror at the sunless depths of the Pacific Ocean: Stranded on the seafloor with low light and few tools, an industrial diver takes desperate steps to surface before his oxygen — and sanity — give out.

    2017IndieAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. The Witness

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    Ranked #8 for Pneuma: Breath of Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.

    2016IndieAdventure39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Pneuma: Breath of Life

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Portal

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    Reviewers of Pneuma: Breath of Life cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.

    2007Action9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Thomas Was Alone

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    Reviewers of Pneuma: Breath of Life cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    Guide a group of rectangles through 120 levels, using their different skills together to overcome a series of obstacles in each environment. Discover the human-made story of the first sentient artificial intelligences with Danny Wallace’s BAFTA-winning narration.

    2012Indie4.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. The Stanley Parable

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    Reviewers of Pneuma: Breath of Life cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.

    2013IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. The Talos Principle

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    Reviewers of Pneuma: Breath of Life cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).

    2014ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Turing Test

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    Reviewers of Pneuma: Breath of Life cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    The Turing Test is a challenging first-person puzzle game set on Jupiter’s moon, Europa. You are Ava Turing, an engineer for the International Space Agency (ISA) sent to discover the cause behind the disappearance of the ground crew stationed there.

    2016Adventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Pneuma: Breath of Life at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Pneuma: Breath of Life on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Pneuma: Breath of Life on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Pneuma: Breath of Life on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Pneuma: Breath of Life on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Portal 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Pneuma: Breath of Life on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

    2011ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Undertale

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Pneuma: Breath of Life on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

    2015IndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Pneuma: Breath of Life on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Pneuma: Breath of Life on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 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 Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.

    2021IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Control, I'm Not Coming Back

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.

    2026IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗

More from BULKHEAD

Other recommendable Steam games by BULKHEAD, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. BATTALION: Legacy

    WHY THIS

    Another title from BULKHEAD, the studio behind Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    BATTALION: Legacy recaptures the core of classic shooters in the final iteration of Battalion 1944. Return to the simple days of playing first person shooters with your friends. Grab your bolt action rifle in 'rifles only' mode or compete in 5v5 Search and Destroy.

    2019ActionFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. The Turing Test

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    Another title from BULKHEAD, the studio behind Pneuma: Breath of Life. Shares Adventure with Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    The Turing Test is a challenging first-person puzzle game set on Jupiter’s moon, Europa. You are Ava Turing, an engineer for the International Space Agency (ISA) sent to discover the cause behind the disappearance of the ground crew stationed there.

    2016Adventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. KILLRUN

    WHY THIS

    Another title from BULKHEAD, the studio behind Pneuma: Breath of Life.

    Run n' gun parkour speedrunner. Race to set the best times and create the fastest routes. Smash the pro times on every level and unlock new weapon packs as you progress through a prototype playground of replayable FPS mechanics. From the creators of BATTALION.

    2022ActionRacing4.99 USDSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Pneuma: Breath of Life

How much does Pneuma: Breath of Life cost?
Pneuma: Breath of Life is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Pneuma: Breath of Life?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Pneuma: Breath of Life are FotoMuseo 3D, The Stanley Parable, MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition.
Who developed Pneuma: Breath of Life?
Pneuma: Breath of Life was developed by BULKHEAD and published by Deco Digital, Bevel 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 Pneuma: Breath of Life.

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