Games like Quetzal
If Quetzal is your kind of game, the closest matches are A Tale of Sand and Bone, Unstable Cylinder and Count Pumpcula — 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 Quetzal: Control a Mesoamerican god who must escape the underworld in this challenging 2D pixel art platformer, dodging dangers to recover the sacred bones of humanity.
Players who liked Quetzal also play
Steam players who put hours into Quetzal 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.
A Tale of Sand and Bone
WHY THIS
Top pick for Quetzal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Quetzal.
A Tale of sand and Bone is a story-rich action-roguelike adventure. You play as Shai, a fallen warrior bound to a vengeful spirit as you climb and fight your way to claiming vengeance against the gods.
Unstable Cylinder
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Quetzal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Quetzal.
This is a platformer action adventure in which the main character, trapped inside a long cylinder prison, attempts to escape. Escape by climbing over steep walls, a turbulent world, moving scaffolding, and other obstacles! Of course, it would be infinitely close to impossible.
Count Pumpcula
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Quetzal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Quetzal.
One misty moonlit night, Count Dracula is attacked by an orange object from the sky. He finds himself awaking on a mysterious island with a pumpkin stuck to his head. With the new power of the pumpkin that protects Dracula from sunlight, he must find his way off the island and back to his Castle.
Axe And Claw
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Ranked #4 for Quetzal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Quetzal.
Grab your axe and embark on a relentless climb to Claw's peak! Rescue your kidnapped son and prove your mastery in fast-paced pixel-art combat. Overcome challenging platforming, obliterate brutal enemies, and join a father's emotional journey for vengeance. The summit awaits.
Angry Giant
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Ranked #5 for Quetzal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Quetzal.
Abducted from his tribe, humiliated and tortured by despicable beings, finally free, he is ready for his revenge. He was just a giant, now he is an ANGRY GIANT! Fight going from age to age. Kill enemies. Upgrade your weapons. Use your anger to save the world.
Decline's Drops
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Ranked #6 for Quetzal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Quetzal.
Grab your punching gloves, put your clogs on and smash your way in the world of Decline's Drops, a fully hand-drawn platform-brawler full of weird frogs, bizarre chickens and odd hydras! Avenge your destroyed garden and defeat the 6 heads of the Eternal Corp.! If you can, that is.
Sword of Destiny
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Ranked #7 for Quetzal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Quetzal.
Fight to restore the peace and justice in the world by thwarting the treacherous plans of the King, who turns the innocent into mindless skeletons to conquer the world.
LUCID
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Quetzal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Quetzal.
Discover your own legend in LUCID. Platform through a crystalline world torn apart by calamity, absorb powerful abilities that expand movement and enhance combat against a diverse cast of enemies and bosses, all in gorgeous pixel art inspired by the golden age of 2D sidescrollers.
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 Quetzal.
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. Shares Action and Adventure with Quetzal.
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 Action and Indie with Quetzal.
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 and Adventure with Quetzal.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Quetzal.
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 Quetzal.
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 Adventure with Quetzal.
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.
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More from Yanfer
Other recommendable Steam games by Yanfer, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Vaca Bullet
WHY THIS
Another title from Yanfer, the studio behind Quetzal. Shares Action and Indie with Quetzal.
In "Vaca Bullet," you play as a cowboy in the Wild West defending your cows from bandits' bullets. The game is a tribute to classic Western movies, filled with shootouts and chases, brought to life through beautiful pixel art, giving it a raw and unique essence like a true western.
PYRO
WHY THIS
Another title from Yanfer, the studio behind Quetzal. Shares Indie and Adventure with Quetzal.
An exciting 2D action platformer where you control crazy pyrotechnics, face frantic challenges, and create epic explosions while testing your skills and reflexes at every level.
Cursed Frontier
WHY THIS
Another title from Yanfer, the studio behind Quetzal. Shares Action and Indie with Quetzal.
A 2D platformer shooter with a somber linoleum-inspired art style, where you’ll face funeral creatures in a haunting Wild West setting.
The Bandits of Sierra Fria
WHY THIS
Another title from Yanfer, the studio behind Quetzal. Shares Action and Indie with Quetzal.
A pixel art top-down shooter with frantic gunfights, multiple weapons, and intense action in a land ruled by bandits.
Frequently asked about Quetzal
- What games are most similar to Quetzal?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Quetzal are A Tale of Sand and Bone, Unstable Cylinder, Count Pumpcula.
- Who developed Quetzal?
- Quetzal was developed by Yanfer.
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 Quetzal.
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