Games like BASED
If BASED is your kind of game, the closest matches are Tic Tac, Water Maid and Leapbound — 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 BASED: BASED is a co-op platform fighter for 1-4 Players where you combo the Moon with your friends. Master movement and weapons to ascend the Moon in one piece. Who knows what secrets you'll find on your way up. Join B.A.S.E.D. tonight!
Players who liked BASED also play
Steam players who put hours into BASED 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.
Tic Tac
WHY THIS
Top pick for BASED fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with BASED.
Cooperate in this two-player action-platformer and pass the bomb to each other to reach the goal before it explodes. Activate mechanisms, avoid traps, and complete dynamic challenges together across cartoony levels.
Water Maid
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for BASED fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with BASED.
Water Maid is all about fetching water. Run, jump and dash to avoid enemies and find the elusive fresh water springs scattered around the island. Fill up your pot and make it back to the village, safe and sound.
Leapbound
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for BASED fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with BASED.
A precision platformer where every jump matters. Master a fixed-height jump, avoid deadly falls, and descend through five floors filled with dangerous challenges.
Joe Adventure
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for BASED fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with BASED.
Save Joe Mama and don’t explode any of your Joes by keeping them on the move. You can only control one at a time but they are all exploding at the same time. Throw them around to traverse deadly terrain in this rage-inducing speedrun-friendly platformer!
Dimenshaper
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for BASED fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with BASED.
Dimenshaper is a handcrafted precision platformer about momentum, timing, and mastery. Switch dimensions to change what the world allows, and push for cleaner, faster runs through tightly designed levels.
One Neck Ahead
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for BASED fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with BASED.
In One Neck Ahead, you play as Kid Giraffe on a journey towards the heart of the forest, where dreams come true. Carry your own ground, create your own platforms, and meet a cast of memorable characters, each introducing a new twist to the adventure.
GODSCALE
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for BASED fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with BASED.
GODSCALE is a 2D pixel art action roguelike set in an ancient Egyptian tomb. Face monsters, deadly traps, and powerful curses while managing blades, spells, and artifacts. Upgrade abilities in the Book of the Dead, collect Ankh tokens, and master the crypt to claim the gods' power.
Wings of Vi 2: Guardian's Heart
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Ranked #8 for BASED fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with BASED.
Myougi survived. She shattered the sin statues. Now the Seven Deadly Sins walk the shattered realms, and Vi returns, wings reforged, to hunt them down. The vision is a mix of what I've learned: a precision platformer with fast, fluid combat and more player agency.
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 BASED.
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 BASED.
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?
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 BASED.
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 BASED.
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 with BASED.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with BASED.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with BASED.
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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More from Thomas Moon Kang
Other recommendable Steam games by Thomas Moon Kang, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
One Step From Eden
WHY THIS
Another title from Thomas Moon Kang, the studio behind BASED. Shares Action and Indie with BASED.
Build a powerful deck, cast spells on the fly, battle evolving enemies, find game-changing artifacts, make friends or make enemies, just make it to Eden.
Duelists of Eden
WHY THIS
Another title from Thomas Moon Kang, the studio behind BASED. Shares Action and Indie with BASED.
Build a deck and battle online in real-time action with rollback netcode!
Astral Gun
WHY THIS
Another title from Thomas Moon Kang, the studio behind BASED. Shares Action and Indie with BASED.
Astral gun is the hyper-competitive 2-4 player party game focused on exciting, intense, and hardcore matches. Create your own play style with 14 unique weapons and thousands of combinations!
Frequently asked about BASED
- Does BASED have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — BASED supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to BASED?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside BASED are Tic Tac, Water Maid, Leapbound.
- Who developed BASED?
- BASED was developed by Thomas Moon Kang.
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 BASED.
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