Games like The Ball
If The Ball is your kind of game, the closest matches are Magnetism, The Janus Problem and Reality Rifts — 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 The Ball: As a swashbuckling archaeologist, unlock the mystery of the ancient ruins that have been hidden for centuries and discover a mysterious artifact, a gold and metal shelled Ball.
Players who liked The Ball also play
Steam players who put hours into The Ball 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.
Magnetism
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Ball fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Ball.
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The Janus Problem
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Ball fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Ball.
A first-person 3D puzzle game where the player can reverse time.
Reality Rifts
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Ball fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Ball.
3D platformer with a portal gun! Solve puzzles, exciting levels, become a master of portal travel.
Quantum Conundrum
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Ball.
Ranked #4 for The Ball fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Ball.
Find and rescue your uncle by using his newest invention to work your way through a crazy complex mansion as you switch between dimensions and solve puzzles!
TIME BREAKER
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Ball fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Ball.
TIME BREAKER is a first-person puzzle game with time control. Players tackle impossible puzzles by thinking how and when the time can be slow down to complete a room. This game features a strange brutalist world, an voice codec narrative, and things that are really weird.
ThinkExplosive
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Ball fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Ball.
ThinkExplosive is a small first-person puzzle-platformer about bombs! Throw bombs to overcome obstacles - or launch yourself to new heights. Explore the corridors of an abandoned facility and discover new game mechanics.
Pyramid Runner
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Ball fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Ball.
This arcade puzzle game challenges you to collect treasures from ancient pyramids, dark dungeons, and even Mars. You'll have to outsmart cruel mummies and dangerous gorillas, as well as solve many of clever puzzles.
Now you can't see me
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Ball fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Ball.
First person puzzle. Solve riddles by closing your eyes or blinking them. While your eyes are closed, time freezes and gravity has no power over you. There is a funny voice acting and non-trivial tasks included.
Reviewers mention these as similar to The Ball
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Portal
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with The Ball.
Reviewers of The Ball cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Ball.
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.
Portal 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Ball.
Reviewers of The Ball cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with The Ball.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
Unreal Tournament 3
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Ball.
Reviewers of The Ball cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Ball.
Now includes the free Titan Pack expansion! The Titan Pack gives players a substantial amount of enhanced features and new content, including many original environments, new gametypes, the namesake Titan mutator, powerful deployables and weapons, new characters, and the Stealthbender.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Ball.
Reviewers of The Ball cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with The Ball.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Magrunner: Dark Pulse
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Ball.
Reviewers of The Ball cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with The Ball.
Magrunner: Dark Pulse is an action-puzzle game in which technology confronts the Cthulhu Mythos, penned by H.P. Lovecraft. Equipped with your Magtech glove, you must harness the ability to magnetically polarize and manipulate objects in the environment to survive and surpass challenging puzzles.
Surgeon Simulator
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Ball cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with The Ball.
Surgeon Simulator is an over-the-top operation sim, stitching together pitch-black humour with life-saving surgery. Become Dr. Burke, a would-be surgeon with a less than conventional toolkit, as he performs procedures on patients including the Heavy from TF2! ...is that a hammer?
The Talos Principle
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Ball.
Reviewers of The Ball cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with The Ball.
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).
Half-Life
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Ball.
Reviewers of The Ball cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Ball.
Named Game of the Year by over 50 publications, Valve's debut title blends action and adventure with award-winning technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players must think to survive. Also includes an exciting multiplayer mode that allows you to play against friends and enemies around the world.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Ball at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Ball on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Ball.
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 The Ball on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Ball.
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 The Ball on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Ball.
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 The Ball on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Ball.
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 The Ball on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Ball.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under The Ball on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Ball.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Ball on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with The Ball.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under The Ball on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Ball.
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. Shares Indie with The Ball.
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
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Ball.
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 The Ball.
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 Indie and Adventure with The Ball.
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 The Ball.
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 The Ball.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about The Ball
- Does The Ball run on Steam Deck?
- The Ball is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does The Ball cost?
- The Ball is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Ball?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Ball are Magnetism, The Janus Problem, Reality Rifts.
- Who developed The Ball?
- The Ball was developed by Teotl Studios and published by Tripwire Interactive.
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 Ball.
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