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Games like Heavy Knight

If Heavy Knight is your kind of game, the closest matches are Joe Adventure, Rovi's Diary and InOut — 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.

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About Heavy Knight: Heavy Knight is a 2D puzzle platformer where armor and weight are key to the game's puzzles. The player's character is somewhat fragile, and can die from modest falls, falling objects and careless missteps!

ActionIndieCasualWindowsby Boejunda
Heavy Knight — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Heavy Knight 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. Joe Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Heavy Knight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Knight.

    Save Joe Mama and don’t explode any of your Joes by keeping them on the move. You can only control one at a time but they are all exploding at the same time. Throw them around to traverse deadly terrain in this rage-inducing speedrun-friendly platformer!

    2026ActionIndieAdventure3.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Rovi's Diary

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Heavy Knight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Knight.

    Rovi's Diary – A 2D pixel-art adventure with anime storytelling. On planet Lumira, an ordinary girl Rovi is chosen by "Starlight." She grows from a passive observer into a protector, teaming up with Faye and Alice to uncover the mystery behind cosmic invaders.

    2027ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. InOut

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Heavy Knight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Knight.

    A minimalist puzzle platformer where each level is more than they seem. Change your perspective on levels to discover new areas. Explore the world to unearth its hidden secrets.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  4. Trapezoid

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Heavy Knight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Heavy Knight.

    Every transformation costs you. Swap shapes to smash, roll, and cling through a handmade miniature world where household items are ancient relics and the lighthearted façade starts to crack.

  5. Greetings from El Rey

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Heavy Knight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Knight.

    A noir 2.5D platformer in which Satrapo explores a sealed city through a rotating 2D perspective, engaged in an obsessive hunt for the mysterious R. A paranoid tale about desire, featuring eccentric characters and complex three-dimensional labyrinths.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  6. Deathplane

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Heavy Knight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Knight.

    Deathplane is a 2D puzzle-platformer game about moving the actual deathplane below the level up and down to kill enemies and find solutions and secrets.

    2026ActionIndieCasual1.72 USDSteam ↗
  7. Nijoaju

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Heavy Knight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Knight.

    Two characters. One goal. Think as one. In Nijoaju, control a powerful stone creature and an agile water creature, combining their unique abilities to solve challenging puzzles, overcome obstacles, and prove that only by working together can you move forward.

    2026ActionIndieCasualSteam ↗
  8. Clonefall

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Heavy Knight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Knight.

    A puzzle-platformer where every death matters. In Clonefall, your fallen clones remain in the world, becoming platforms, shields, and tools to solve challenges. Use failure as your greatest weapon and turn each attempt into progress.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Heavy Knight.

    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 ↗
  2. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Heavy Knight.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Knight.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Heavy Knight.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Heavy Knight.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 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 Heavy Knight.

    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 ↗
  7. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Heavy Knight.

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Heavy Knight.

    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.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Heavy Knight

What games are most similar to Heavy Knight?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Heavy Knight are Joe Adventure, Rovi's Diary, InOut.
Who developed Heavy Knight?
Heavy Knight was developed by Boejunda.

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 Heavy Knight.

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