Games like BASED
If BASED is your kind of game, the closest matches are Forgotten Fragments, Grot and Critter Highlanders — 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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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.
Forgotten Fragments
WHY THIS
Top pick for BASED fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with BASED.
Test your skills in this puzzle-platformer game: Help Enid, Ryder, and Dayen recover the Forgotten Fragments in this beautiful pixel art adventure. More than a hundred of hand-crafted levels split between the single-player and co-op campaigns!
Grot
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for BASED fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with BASED.
Leap in and out of your mine cart hat to survive deadly, ever-changing caves in this precision platformer. Steal powerful gems and push deeper into a mysterious loop.
Critter Highlanders
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for BASED fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with BASED.
Play with up to 4 "friends" in this fast paced online co-op (friend-slop) platformer. Create devilish levels to annoy and stump your friends or download levels from the steam workshop to keep the game spicy after completing the built in levels.
ActionSteam ↗Marshmallow Marvin: Timberfall
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for BASED fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with BASED.
Marshmallow Marvin: Timberfall is a 2D pixel art platformer where Marvin explores the moonlit Timberfall Woods, dodging bears, owls, traps, and wild dangers while mastering precision platforming to survive the night and uncover hidden forest secrets.
Marshmallow Marvin: Grimvault
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for BASED fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with BASED.
Marshmallow Marvin: Grimvault is a challenging 2D pixel art platformer where you guide Marvin through cursed vaults and haunted tombs, avoiding deadly traps, dodging automated turrets, collecting coins, and mastering precision platforming to uncover ancient secrets and survive the Grimvault.
The Pale Piper
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for BASED fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with BASED.
Uncover the truth behind your death and your sibling’s in a story-driven precision platformer inspired by the Pied Piper myth. Navigate a decaying, interconnected world where movement is your only defense. No combat, only precision, consequence, and secrets hidden in the dark.
Deep Sea Sweep
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for BASED fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with BASED.
Switch between free movement and platforming while carrying heavy treasures to navigate each level. Swim, jump and bonk meanies on their head in many short but challenging levels with tight controls. Clean up the sea of all these filthy treasures chests plaguing the various biomes!
Moventure
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for BASED fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with BASED.
100 moves, 2 buttons, 0 tutorials. Master a massive moveset hidden within a D-Pad and 2 buttons. Conquer +100 levels in the ultimate movelike precision platformer.
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.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with BASED.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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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 Forgotten Fragments, Grot, Critter Highlanders.
- 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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