Games like Polly's Puzzle Box
If Polly's Puzzle Box is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hap Hazard, Sting & Swing and EMUUROM — 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 Polly's Puzzle Box: As a small flea, explore a mysterious puzzle box filled with shapes and secrets. Gather strange items with hidden abilities, and unravel a trail of clues as you attempt to escape.
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Steam players who put hours into Polly's Puzzle Box 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.
Hap Hazard
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Top pick for Polly's Puzzle Box fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Polly's Puzzle Box.
In this "Arcade Metroidbrainia", the only thing that stops you from progressing are holes in your understanding. Use mechanics in clever unique ways to uncover secrets, or dodge randomly generated hazards to get highscores.
Sting & Swing
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Polly's Puzzle Box fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Polly's Puzzle Box.
Explore a strange overgrown world as a bee with a golf ball. Master the skills of bee-golf to uncover the mysteries hidden in its furthest reaches and hiding in front of you. Discover uses for abilities you didn't know you had. There are always more secrets for those who seek them beneath the green.
EMUUROM
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Polly's Puzzle Box fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Polly's Puzzle Box.
A creature-scanning metroidvania. Explore an ancient paradise before it's lost forever. Study the EMUUROM creatures, document your findings in the EMUUDEX, and use what you learn to unlock new paths.
InOut
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Ranked #4 for Polly's Puzzle Box fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Polly's Puzzle Box.
A minimalist puzzle platformer where each level is more than they seem. Change your perspective on levels to discover new areas. Explore the world to unearth its hidden secrets.
Lyden Lys
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Ranked #5 for Polly's Puzzle Box fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Polly's Puzzle Box.
Lyden Lys is a knowledge-based metroidvania about an existential journey through a lost homeland. Control the surroundings through music, explore a smoldering world, discover what happened to your people, decide the fate of your successors, and find yourself.
Dungeon Gals
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Ranked #6 for Polly's Puzzle Box fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Polly's Puzzle Box.
A small crisis control team has been summoned to help a civilization in the sky escape impending doom! Explore dungeons, solve puzzles, and find lots of treasure to help prepare yourself for incredible challenges!
ANIMAL WELL
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Polly's Puzzle Box fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Polly's Puzzle Box.
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
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 Polly's Puzzle Box.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Polly's Puzzle Box.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Polly's Puzzle Box.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Polly's Puzzle Box.
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 Polly's Puzzle Box.
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 Polly's Puzzle Box.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Polly's Puzzle Box.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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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.
EMUUROM
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Polly's Puzzle Box.
A creature-scanning metroidvania. Explore an ancient paradise before it's lost forever. Study the EMUUROM creatures, document your findings in the EMUUDEX, and use what you learn to unlock new paths.
Dungeon Gals
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Polly's Puzzle Box.
A small crisis control team has been summoned to help a civilization in the sky escape impending doom! Explore dungeons, solve puzzles, and find lots of treasure to help prepare yourself for incredible challenges!
ANIMAL WELL
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Polly's Puzzle Box.
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
Frequently asked about Polly's Puzzle Box
- What games are most similar to Polly's Puzzle Box?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Polly's Puzzle Box are Hap Hazard, Sting & Swing, EMUUROM.
- Who developed Polly's Puzzle Box?
- Polly's Puzzle Box was developed by Box Penguin Games.
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 Polly's Puzzle Box.
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