Games like Obrum
If Obrum is your kind of game, the closest matches are CTR, Pawn.OS() and Axon Hero — 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 Obrum: OBRUM is a strategic logical puzzle roguelite where you manage an unstable system, trigger devastating chain reactions, and fight to keep the board from collapsing. OBRUM rewards pattern recognition & long-term planning. You are not solving a puzzle, you are engineering outcomes.
Players who liked Obrum also play
Steam players who put hours into Obrum 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.
Pawn.OS()
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Second-strongest match for Obrum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Obrum.
Pawn.OS() is a programming puzzle game where you use a custom scripting language to control a pawn on a grid. Solve 30 puzzles, learn logic step-by-step, and optimize your code to climb the leaderboard—even without any prior coding experience.
Axon Hero
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Obrum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Obrum.
Axon Hero is more than just a puzzle game - it's a creative playground where logic meets imagination. Build, code, and conquer your way through many hand-crafted challenges, each one more mind-bending than the last.
Regex Game
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Ranked #4 for Obrum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Obrum.
Regular Expressions (Regex) are a powerful text pattern-matching tool used for searching, replacing, and validating strings. The game wraps Regex into text-based puzzle, allowing players to gradually master regular expressions as they progress through levels.
Bloomtide
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Obrum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Obrum.
A 9×9 board × roguelike deckbuilder × explosive multipliers. Reshape your pool with daily 3-picks. Chain symbol combos through an event queue, and push your build until the numbers break. From the 12-rent campaign to endless score-attack — see how far one good build can go.
Not A Bot
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Ranked #6 for Obrum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Obrum.
Prove you are not a bot in a short, chaotic puzzle game packed with annoying CAPTCHA-inspired minigames, tricky inputs, and deliberately frustrating challenges.
DiegoTC Toolbox
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Ranked #7 for Obrum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Obrum.
A Puzzle-Platformer with tons of unique puzzles and mechanics.
PromptCrafter
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Ranked #8 for Obrum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Obrum.
Command line crafting game with procedurally generated crafting trees and programming-like automation.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Obrum.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Obrum.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Obrum.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Obrum.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Obrum.
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.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Obrum.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
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Frequently asked about Obrum
- What games are most similar to Obrum?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Obrum are CTR, Pawn.OS(), Axon Hero.
- Who developed Obrum?
- Obrum was developed by Lars-Peter Eriksson and published by Just me!.
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 Obrum.
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