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Games like Good Things Vol 1

If Good Things Vol 1 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Holua's Arcades, Deep Sea Fish: Hidden World and What the Buck?! — 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 Good Things Vol 1: Good Things Vol 1 is a collection of 15 wildly imaginative, weird little games ranging from evolving platformers to genre-bending adventure... but the Blue Elephant ate all the games, and if you do not help him he will DIE :(

ActionSportsStrategyIndieAdventureSimulationWindows · macOSby Wonderful Elephant LLC
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Steam players who put hours into Good Things Vol 1 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. Holua's Arcades

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Good Things Vol 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Sports with Good Things Vol 1.

    Master the golden age of the arcade! Holua’s Arcades packs four pixel-perfect challenges into one digital cabinet. Dominate a brutal 90s beat 'em up, survive a cosmic bullet hell, execute a stealthy ninja heist, and conquer a co-op precision platformer. Climb the global leaderboards today!

    2023ActionSportsIndie4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Deep Sea Fish: Hidden World

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Good Things Vol 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Good Things Vol 1.

    A short incremental fishing game where you catch fish, earn gold, and unlock powerful upgrades to explore the deep sea.

    2026StrategyIndieCasual3.19 USDSteam ↗
  3. What the Buck?!

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Good Things Vol 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Good Things Vol 1.

    What the Buck?! is an incremental game about destroying money. Smash stacks of cash, upgrade your destructive power, discover game-changing skill tree upgrades, prestige and experience the dopamine of numbers exploding.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  4. Potato

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Good Things Vol 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Good Things Vol 1.

    Potato is a clicker game. There are dozens of different kinds of potatoes that you will get every time you click on the potato! You can expand your collection by collecting these potatoes. You can also trade them with your friends or other players in the community.

    2024StrategyIndieAdventureDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. AutoShowRoom

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Good Things Vol 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Good Things Vol 1.

    AutoShowRoom is a small relaxing incremental game about managing your own car showroom! Collect +100 unique cars from 10 different countries! Tune them to perfection and showcase them in thrilling events! Unlock new models and expand your collection! Build the ulitimate car showroom!

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  6. Dubu Rush

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Good Things Vol 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Sports with Good Things Vol 1.

    Warriors fight the king to save this world. However, the king is too high because it is very high. So you need to help you reach the king to this hero.

    2022ActionSportsIndie3.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Working Class Monsters

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Good Things Vol 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Good Things Vol 1.

    Open packs. Collect monsters. Watch the gold pile up. A cozy incremental about a monster workforce - place goblins, undead, and abyssal horrors across tiles where the right neighbors mean bigger payouts. Grow your sleepy island into a gold printing empire and unlock hidden islands to settle on.

    2026StrategySimulationCasualSteam ↗
  8. 鱼肠剑与绣春刀

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Good Things Vol 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Good Things Vol 1.

    In the 26th year of the Jiajing era, Lang Xian (the male lead) ran an inn in the capital. One day, a Taoist priest and an apothecary came to the inn one after another. After a few small incidents, the three of them, as if meeting old friends, enjoyed a lively and heartfelt conversation.

    StrategyAdventureSimulationSteam ↗

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 and Casual with Good Things Vol 1.

    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. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Good Things Vol 1.

    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 ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Good Things Vol 1.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Good Things Vol 1.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Good Things Vol 1.

    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 ↗
  6. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Good Things Vol 1.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. 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 Simulation with Good Things Vol 1.

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

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. 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 Good Things Vol 1.

    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 ↗

Frequently asked about Good Things Vol 1

What games are most similar to Good Things Vol 1?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Good Things Vol 1 are Holua's Arcades, Deep Sea Fish: Hidden World, What the Buck?!.
Who developed Good Things Vol 1?
Good Things Vol 1 was developed by Wonderful Elephant LLC.

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 Good Things Vol 1.

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