Games like Appa
If Appa is your kind of game, the closest matches are BubbleJack, Vermilion Dance and Mikane's Hand — 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 Appa: Appa is a surreal narrative-driven card battler about two siblings dealing with the death of their father. Predict, counter, and outmaneuver manifestations of grief while uncovering a heartfelt story somewhere between dreams and reality.
Players who liked Appa also play
Steam players who put hours into Appa 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.
BubbleJack
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Top pick for Appa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Appa.
A game of blackjack like no other. Use an extra bubble suit to prevent going bust, complete challenges, face off against bosses and endure the constant bickering of a nonconforming Jack. No, it's not a roguelike and it's not a deckbuilder, but you're still gonna love it (or hate it)!
Vermilion Dance
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Second-strongest match for Appa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Appa.
《Vermilion Dance》is a pixel-styled card game that combines traditional poker gameplay with new rules. Players take on the role of the Hoster and use various abilities and cards to form cards with higher values to win.
Mikane's Hand
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Third-strongest match for Appa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
A girl's card battle world — where you witness the turmoil of youth. What is this place?
Deal of the Dead Final Cut
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Ranked #4 for Appa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Appa.
Deal of the Dead: Final Cut is a Solitaire-style, survival horror, card game rendered in a unique, hand-drawn, art style. Fight your way through randomly shuffled decks of cards and escape from a zombie-infested city set in a post-apocalyptic world.
Ace Expedition 王牌远征
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Ranked #5 for Appa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Appa.
Ace Expedition is a poker-hand deckbuilding roguelike. Play pairs, straights and flushes to trigger hero abilities, racing to score targets in limited turns. Collect 200+ cards, face 50+ enemies, and adapt to an unpredictable journey. Strategy meets chance — crack every puzzle your way.
Battle Hanafuda
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Ranked #6 for Appa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Appa.
A strategic two-player card battle based on the traditional Japanese game Hanafuda. Learn as you play and enjoy thrilling “Koi-Koi” duels filled with risk and reward.
Decked Out
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Ranked #7 for Appa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Appa.
It is a 2D Rouge Like Deck Builder, where you need to open packs to gain more cards to use in your own run! Be aware as difficult enemies are there. Do not worry or give up, you will start winning slowly, and maybe not in your first turn!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Appa.
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
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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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Appa.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Appa.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Appa.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Appa.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Appa.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Appa.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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Frequently asked about Appa
- What games are most similar to Appa?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Appa are BubbleJack, Vermilion Dance, Mikane's Hand.
- Who developed Appa?
- Appa was developed by HeatDeathStudio.
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 Appa.
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