Games like The Place
If The Place is your kind of game, the closest matches are BUDUKUTUA, PostBear Tales and Beholgar — 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 Place: The Place is an atmospheric science fiction quest inspired by classic works like Aliens, Predator and The X-Files. Immerse yourself in the retro-futuristic aesthetic of the 90s as you travel to Venus to find a weapon against Earth's alien invaders.
Players who liked The Place also play
Steam players who put hours into The Place 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.
BUDUKUTUA
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Place fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Place.
A colorful world full of secrets and challenges. Explore, help others, unlock new masks, and reactivate the three Light Crystals before darkness takes over.
PostBear Tales
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Place fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Place.
You are a bear, a PostBear, the best one! And you have an important mission, deliver a King's letter to the neighbor kingdom!
Beholgar
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Place fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Place.
Beholgar is a classically styled metroidvania action adventure. Explore caverns, ancient woods, and deadly castles; battle creatures and solve ancient mysteries at the kingdom.
Chronicles of the Wolf
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Place fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Place.
Hunt the legendary Beast of Gévaudan in Chronicles of the Wolf! Step into the boots of Mateo Lombardo in this epic adventure featuring brutal bosses, vast castles, and secrets to uncover. Narration by the legendary Robert Belgrade and other special appearances!
Froggo's Adventure: Verdant Venture
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Place fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Place.
A Simple and Bite-sized retro 2D Platformer about a frog on another side-scrolling adventure
Outer Terror
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Place fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Place.
DON’T DIE as you assemble a ridiculous arsenal of weapons and desperately hold out against massive hordes of creatures pulled from a variety of classic horror genres reminiscent of 80s and 90s Golden Age comics and B-movies in this stylish action-packed arcade roguelite.
Narita Boy
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Place fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Place.
Become symphonic in Narita Boy! A radical action-adventure as a legendary pixel hero trapped as a mere echo within the Digital Kingdom. Discover the mysteries behind the Techno-sword, lock swords with the corrupt and tainted Stallions. Save the world!
Viola: The Heroine's Melody
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Place fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Place.
Viola: The Heroine's Melody is the musical Platformer/RPG! After failing at violin practice for the hundredth time, Viola becomes trapped inside her instrument's fantastical world. Join her adventure to find her way back home, aided by the diverse ensemble of friends she meets along the way.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Place.
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 Indie with The Place.
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 Place.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 The Place.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Place.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Place.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Place.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Beholgar
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Place.
Beholgar is a classically styled metroidvania action adventure. Explore caverns, ancient woods, and deadly castles; battle creatures and solve ancient mysteries at the kingdom.
Froggo's Adventure: Verdant Venture
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Place.
A Simple and Bite-sized retro 2D Platformer about a frog on another side-scrolling adventure
Narita Boy
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Place.
Become symphonic in Narita Boy! A radical action-adventure as a legendary pixel hero trapped as a mere echo within the Digital Kingdom. Discover the mysteries behind the Techno-sword, lock swords with the corrupt and tainted Stallions. Save the world!
Frequently asked about The Place
- What games are most similar to The Place?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Place are BUDUKUTUA, PostBear Tales, Beholgar.
- Who developed The Place?
- The Place was developed by dapohGames.
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 Place.
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