Games like Mai: Child of Ages
If Mai: Child of Ages is your kind of game, the closest matches are Tempus Vitae, SOULBOUND and Hourglass: Prologue — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and dark. 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 Mai: Child of Ages: Travel through time and help Mai and her Grandfather uncover the mysteries of the world after the Last Great War. Explore the connections between ancient eras and dystopian futures in an adventure that blends thrilling combat with precision platforming.
Players who liked Mai: Child of Ages also play
Steam players who put hours into Mai: Child of Ages 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.
Tempus Vitae
WHY THIS
Top pick for Mai: Child of Ages fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Mai: Child of Ages.
You are Alex, a time-displaced astronaut unraveling the space station Theia doomed in both the war-torn 2185 and the post-apocalyptic 2385 to find your lost brother. Master an arsenal of time travel abilities and weapons in this sci-fi metroidvania FPS: Tempus Vitae.
SOULBOUND
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Mai: Child of Ages fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Mai: Child of Ages.
In a place of reality, a soul longs for an escape and is not alone; dark things are lurking but energy is your friend. Soulbound is an atmospheric metroidvania platformer packed with action where the past is your future.
Hourglass: Prologue
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Mai: Child of Ages fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Mai: Child of Ages.
Hourglass: Prologue is the first part of the puzzle-adventure „Hourglass“ where you can create a time-clone of yourself to solve challenging puzzles. Play as Aywa, a young adventurer traveling to Egypt to find her missing father - an archeologist, who never returned from his latest expedition.
AeternoBlade
WHY THIS
Shares time manipulation, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Mai: Child of Ages.
Ranked #4 for Mai: Child of Ages fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Mai: Child of Ages.
AeternoBlade is a Time-Manipulation Hack-and-Slash Action-Puzzle Game. Join Freyja to take revenge on Beladim, the Lord of the Mist who destroyed her hometown and unravel the mysteries of AeternoBlade.
DragonLoop
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Mai: Child of Ages.
Ranked #5 for Mai: Child of Ages fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Mai: Child of Ages.
Dragon Loop is a metroidvania combining time travel and branching map design. Explore the large open world in a five day loop, opening up new worldlines. Explore a 2D, hand-drawn world, engage in fast-paced battles, and retrieve memories to shape the future.
Lost in Tandem
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Mai: Child of Ages fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Mai: Child of Ages.
In a post-apocalyptic world, a young girl and a defective robot called "Mech-ute" band together in order for him to fulfill his mission. Lost in Tandem is a colorful, relaxed-paced, 2D adventure-puzzle game, which can be played by one to two players via couch co-op.
UNSIGHTED
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Mai: Child of Ages.
Ranked #7 for Mai: Child of Ages fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Mai: Child of Ages.
EXPLORE YOUR WAY. Awoken to a world ruined by war, Alma must traverse the vast city of Arcadia before the life force of her friends and herself withers away. Time is ticking, and every moment matters. Who will you save, and who will you leave to turn UNSIGHTED?
Timespinner
WHY THIS
Shares backtracking and an atmospheric mood with Mai: Child of Ages.
Ranked #8 for Mai: Child of Ages fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Mai: Child of Ages.
Travel back in time to change fate itself, in this beautifully crafted story-driven adventure, inspired by classic 90s action-platformers. Join timekeeper Lunais on her quest for revenge against the empire that killed her family, using time-bending powers to explore a vast, connected world.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Mai: Child of Ages at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Mai: Child of Ages on Steam right now. Shares Action with Mai: Child of Ages.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Mai: Child of Ages on Steam right now. Shares Action with Mai: Child of Ages.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Mai: Child of Ages on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Mai: Child of Ages.
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?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Mai: Child of Ages on Steam right now. Shares Action with Mai: Child of Ages.
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.
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Mai: Child of Ages on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Mai: Child of Ages.
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...
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Mai: Child of Ages on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Mai: Child of Ages.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~93% under Mai: Child of Ages on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Mai: Child of Ages.
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 ~80% under Mai: Child of Ages on Steam right now. Shares Action with Mai: Child of Ages.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
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.
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
Shares an atmospheric mood with Mai: Child of Ages.
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Mai: Child of Ages.
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 with Mai: Child of Ages.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Mai: Child of Ages.
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 Adventure with Mai: Child of Ages.
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.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Mai: Child of Ages.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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Frequently asked about Mai: Child of Ages
- Is Mai: Child of Ages verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Mai: Child of Ages is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Mai: Child of Ages cost?
- Mai: Child of Ages is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Mai: Child of Ages have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Mai: Child of Ages supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Mai: Child of Ages?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mai: Child of Ages are Tempus Vitae, SOULBOUND, Hourglass: Prologue.
- Who developed Mai: Child of Ages?
- Mai: Child of Ages was developed by Chubby Pixel.
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 Mai: Child of Ages.
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