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Games like excellent

If excellent is your kind of game, the closest matches are ToneTrek, UwUbUwU and Block Buster Billy — 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 excellent: excellent is a puzzle game based on data analysis, where data is stored into blocks. Arrange the data, create new blocks and ranges, and discover how the function blocks work and interact with the data in order to solve the puzzles.

2025Indie4.99 USDWindowsby cip
excellent — Steam game cover

Players who liked excellent also play

Steam players who put hours into excellent 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. ToneTrek

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for excellent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with excellent.

    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.

    2025IndieCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. UwUbUwU

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for excellent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with excellent.

    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.

    2026StrategyIndieCasualSteam ↗
  3. Block Buster Billy

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for excellent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with excellent.

    An alien family had a picnic on Billy's island. They had to leave in a hurry, causing Junior to forget his cubes. Can you help Billy figure out the mind-boggling alien puzzles?

    2023StrategyIndieCasual9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Moonlit Dreams

    WHY THIS

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

    A sokoban game with overlapping levels, inside a dreamscape you'll never want to leave. Push blocks, open doors, traverse mazes, and then do it again across and between three layers of psyche.

    IndieCasualSteam ↗
  5. Hanox

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for excellent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with excellent.

    Slide every block at once, stack them in the right weight order, and master elegant grid-based puzzles built around momentum, planning, and chain merges. Avoid invalid stacks, think several moves ahead, and turn each level into a perfectly crafted solution.

    2026StrategyIndieCasual1.79 USDSteam ↗
  6. Thothic

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for excellent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with excellent.

    Thothic is a logic puzzle game where you land stones on their glowing targets. But all stones move together, in the same direction — so you'll need to find the one path that brings every stone home at once.

    2027IndieCasualSteam ↗
  7. Snakeloop

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for excellent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with excellent.

    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.

    2025StrategyIndieCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Steps To The Stars

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for excellent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with excellent.

    A single player puzzle game following the journey of two stars as they climb to return to the constellation from which they have fallen.

    2026IndieAdventureCasualSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below excellent at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under excellent on Steam right now. Shares Indie with excellent.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under excellent on Steam right now. Shares Indie with excellent.

    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?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under excellent on Steam right now. Shares Indie with excellent.

    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.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under excellent on Steam right now. Shares Indie with excellent.

    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!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Test: Hypothesis Rising

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under excellent on Steam right now. Shares Indie with excellent.

    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?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. The NOexistenceN of you AND me

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under excellent on Steam right now. Shares Indie with excellent.

    Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".

    2024IndieAdventureRPG1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under excellent on Steam right now. Shares Indie with excellent.

    "Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!

    2015ActionIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Montaro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under excellent on Steam right now. Shares Indie with excellent.

    Montaro is a DOGE.

    2016IndieCasual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

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

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  4. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  6. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  7. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  8. Awaria

    WHY THIS

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

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from cip

Other recommendable Steam games by cip, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Typing Bullets

    WHY THIS

    Another title from cip, the studio behind excellent. Shares Indie with excellent.

    Typing Bullets is an arcade typing roguelite game, where you learn new words, you practice your typing skills, all while fighting against enemies based off of keyboard keys. Upgrade and customize your character, and if you get overwhelmed by your foes, respawn instantly through the quiz mechanic.

    2023IndieCasual1.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Your Shots Count

    WHY THIS

    Another title from cip, the studio behind excellent. Shares Indie with excellent.

    Defeat monsters, protect your village and practice your math skills in Your Shots Count. There's strength in numbers, and you defeat the three different types of enemies by shooting at the correct answer to the math expression above them.

    2024IndieCasual0.69 USDSteam ↗
  3. Combo Vectors

    WHY THIS

    Another title from cip, the studio behind excellent. Shares Indie with excellent.

    Evade enemies and their attacks and fight back using the Braille alphabet in Combo Vectors, a short and minimalist action roguelike.

    2026ActionIndieSteam ↗
  4. A Rounding of Cats

    WHY THIS

    Another title from cip, the studio behind excellent.

    Arrange cute cats on a grid in A Rounding of Cats, a cozy puzzle game based on the strategy board game of Go. The classic stone pieces are replaced with adorable cats in boxes, but the rules remain the same, and you have to place a black cat near each white cat.

    CasualSteam ↗

Frequently asked about excellent

How much does excellent cost?
excellent is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to excellent?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside excellent are ToneTrek, UwUbUwU, Block Buster Billy.
Who developed excellent?
excellent was developed by cip.

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 excellent.

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