Games like Obrum
If Obrum is your kind of game, the closest matches are CTR, ChickenScratch: Cluck & Code and Pawn.OS() — 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.
ChickenScratch: Cluck & Code
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Obrum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Obrum.
You don't steer the chicken. You program it. Write real scripts in a fake desktop OS and send your bird into fields that reseed every run, so hardcoded coordinates work exactly once. Upgrades aren't +1% damage: they're if statements, for loops, and the memory to hold a list.
Pawn.OS()
WHY THIS
Third-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.
Maybe... I'll go to the beach
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Ranked #4 for Obrum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Obrum.
It's a small spatial programming puzzle game.
Snap Chess
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Obrum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Obrum.
A small transparent chessboard that sits in the corner of your desktop. Solve a puzzle when you have a minute, or play a game against Stockfish. While you work, the board fades and stays out of the way. Difficulty adjusts on its own.
Orbital Upgrade
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Ranked #6 for Obrum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Obrum.
As the AI of a space station, you control programmable bots and solve automation puzzles. Plan precise processes, optimize your strategies, and watch your solutions execute autonomously.
Axon Hero
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 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.
Tick Walk
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Obrum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Obrum.
A turn-based puzzle game where you cross a grid of bombs, walls, and traps to reach the door. The board only moves when you move, so there's no rush — take your time and find the safe route. Easy to pick up, tough to solve.
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.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Obrum.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
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.
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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, ChickenScratch: Cluck & Code, Pawn.OS().
- 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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