Games like The Map Is The Thing
If The Map Is The Thing is your kind of game, the closest matches are UwUbUwU, Snakeloop and Trails — 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 The Map Is The Thing: The Map Is the Thing is a casual, mind-bending puzzle game. Explore a dungeon where you solve puzzles by folding your map to open new paths. Find keys to defeat barriers and find the fabled GaMuffin.
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UwUbUwU
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Top pick for The Map Is The Thing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Map Is The Thing.
UwUbUwU is a small cozy puzzle game based on a simple idea: What if you took classic Snake but inverted the goal and made it so you have to form a loop by eating your own tail.
Snakeloop
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Second-strongest match for The Map Is The Thing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Map Is The Thing.
Snakeloop is a challenging puzzle game based on a simple idea: What if you took classic Snake but inverted the goal and made it so you have to form a loop by eating your own tail.
Trails
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Map Is The Thing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Map Is The Thing.
TRAILS is a cozy puzzle game in which you plot routes for floating sand ships. Deliver vital cargo to remote outposts - without collisions, dead ends, or backtracking. Every move counts in the wasteland.
ToneTrek
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Ranked #4 for The Map Is The Thing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Map Is The Thing.
A colorful logic puzzle game where each step changes tile colors in a looping sequence. Plan your moves, recreate target patterns, and solve handcrafted levels across multiple game modes with minimalist style and relaxing flow.
WyrmWorm
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Ranked #5 for The Map Is The Thing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Map Is The Thing.
WyrmWorm is a head-scratching, line-drawing puzzler where branching serpents wind their way across the grid, restoring life to a faded world. Wiggle through challenging puzzles and clever mechanics, from the bottom of the sea to the depths of space.
Runi's Math Castle
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Ranked #6 for The Map Is The Thing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Map Is The Thing.
Navigate the Math Castle and Maze solving addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and number matching to earn Stars unlocking Characters and Mini-Games: 3 in a row Tic-tac-toe, Memory card match, timed jumping in Spire Run, and Dance Party patterns. Come play again to beat your high score!
Underkeep
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Ranked #7 for The Map Is The Thing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Map Is The Thing.
Explore a dangerous fantasy world in this role-playing dungeon crawler with tactical, turn-based combat. Assemble a party of adventurers, upgrade your gear and descend into the depths of the Underkeep to uncover what lies hidden below.
King for a Knight
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Ranked #8 for The Map Is The Thing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Map Is The Thing.
Be the unsung hero of chess board -BE THE KNIGHT! A fun -fast paced chess knight puzzle adventure with over 100 levels to stomp your way through!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Map Is The Thing at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Map Is The Thing on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Map Is The Thing.
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?
The Test
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Priced ~60% under The Map Is The Thing on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Map Is The Thing.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~70% under The Map Is The Thing on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Map Is The Thing.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~80% under The Map Is The Thing on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Map Is The Thing.
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.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
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Priced ~60% under The Map Is The Thing on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Map Is The Thing.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
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Priced ~80% under The Map Is The Thing on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Map Is The Thing.
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
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Priced ~80% under The Map Is The Thing on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Map Is The Thing.
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!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~60% under The Map Is The Thing on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Map Is The Thing.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Map Is The Thing.
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?
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 The Map Is The Thing.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Map Is The Thing.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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 The Map Is The Thing.
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 The Map Is The Thing.
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.
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 The Map Is The Thing.
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!
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Frequently asked about The Map Is The Thing
- How much does The Map Is The Thing cost?
- The Map Is The Thing is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Map Is The Thing?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Map Is The Thing are UwUbUwU, Snakeloop, Trails.
- Who developed The Map Is The Thing?
- The Map Is The Thing was developed by Muffin Man Games.
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 The Map Is The Thing.
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