Games like Monkey Wave
If Monkey Wave is your kind of game, the closest matches are Temtem, Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders and SHED — 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 Monkey Wave: Monkey Wave is a fast-paced action clicker where you defend your banana stash against waves of hostile apes. Click rapidly to defeat primates and epic bosses in solo, co-op, and PvP modes. Deploy strategic abilities and survive the chaos of the jungle.
Players who liked Monkey Wave also play
Steam players who put hours into Monkey Wave 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.
Temtem
WHY THIS
Top pick for Monkey Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Monkey Wave.
Temtem is an online creature-collection adventure. Tame 165 unique creatures across 7 vibrant islands, battle other tamers, tackle mythical Lairs, chase Luma & Umbra variants, and breed your favorite Tems - with friends by your side! Dive into a colorful monster catching adventure, so Temtem up!
Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Monkey Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Monkey Wave.
Crash over and over until you master the mountain in the snowy followup to Lonely Mountains: Downhill. Now also including 2-8 person crossplatform multiplayer - work your way down the slopes together as a group, or risk it all in a breakneck race to the base!
SHED
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Monkey Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Monkey Wave.
Flush your friends. Burn the deck. SHED everything. SHED is a competitive card-shedding game where your goal is simple: get rid of everything before your opponents do.
Draw & Guess
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Monkey Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Monkey Wave.
An online party game of drawing and guessing for up to 16 players with a variety of modes. Bring out the best (or worst) of your drawing and guessing skills!
Tagtopia
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Monkey Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Casual with Monkey Wave.
Dive into the animal kingdom for a multiplayer game of tag with your friends! Navigate your surroundings for cunning escapes or work together to corner your prey!
Sumo Fumble: Physics Party
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Monkey Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Monkey Wave.
Sumo Fumble is a silly physics-based couch party game with procedurally self-balancing characters. Grab, heave, and throw your rivals into wild hazards, or pull their pants off for a laugh. Fumble, flail, and fall your way to victory in ever-changing arenas!
Lumberhill
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Monkey Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Monkey Wave.
A crazy multiplayer party game in which lumberjacks try to complete tasks with nature fighting them every step of the way. Race against the clock, fight wildfires, pirates, and extremely annoying monkeys as you travel around the world and through time. Play online/local co-op and pvp or play solo.
Bunny Hill
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Monkey Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Monkey Wave.
Carve the slopes of the Bunny Hill on your skis in this fast paced physics racing game. With up to 8 player Online Multiplayer, dodge bushes and tag flags on randomly generated maps to reach infinite scaling speed with your friends.
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 Action with Monkey Wave.
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 Monkey Wave.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Monkey Wave.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Monkey Wave.
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 and Casual with Monkey Wave.
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 Action and Indie with Monkey Wave.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Monkey Wave.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
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Temtem
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Monkey Wave.
Temtem is an online creature-collection adventure. Tame 165 unique creatures across 7 vibrant islands, battle other tamers, tackle mythical Lairs, chase Luma & Umbra variants, and breed your favorite Tems - with friends by your side! Dive into a colorful monster catching adventure, so Temtem up!
Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Monkey Wave.
Crash over and over until you master the mountain in the snowy followup to Lonely Mountains: Downhill. Now also including 2-8 person crossplatform multiplayer - work your way down the slopes together as a group, or risk it all in a breakneck race to the base!
Bunny Hill
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Monkey Wave.
Carve the slopes of the Bunny Hill on your skis in this fast paced physics racing game. With up to 8 player Online Multiplayer, dodge bushes and tag flags on randomly generated maps to reach infinite scaling speed with your friends.
Frequently asked about Monkey Wave
- Does Monkey Wave have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Monkey Wave supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Monkey Wave?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Monkey Wave are Temtem, Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders, SHED.
- Who developed Monkey Wave?
- Monkey Wave was developed by SnowSeal.
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 Monkey Wave.
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