Games like Poi
If Poi is your kind of game, the closest matches are TY the Tasmanian Tiger, Spanky "Bat-a-Swing" and Pru the Pigeon — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its replayable challenges and leaderboards, chill and nostalgic. 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 Poi: Poi is a 3D platformer featuring two kids on a grand adventure to unravel the mysteries of the Milky Way Globe. Explore uncharted lands, compete in challenge levels, meet quirky characters and defeat comical creatures on a journey to become a Master Explorer.
Players who liked Poi also play
Steam players who put hours into Poi 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.
TY the Tasmanian Tiger
WHY THIS
Shares collectathon exploration and a nostalgic mood with Poi.
Top pick for Poi fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Poi.
G'day, Mate. Explore the wilds of Australia with TY the Tasmanian Tiger, the charming Aussie platformer.
Spanky "Bat-a-Swing"
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Poi fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Poi.
Spanky "Bat-a-Swing" is a 3D rhythm based platformer, inspired by 1930s cartoons and electro swing music! Enter and explore Metronopolis, where everything and everyone moves and dances on the beat of music. Help Spanky the Bat teach Mayor Metrognome a lesson!
Pru the Pigeon
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Poi fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Poi.
Pru the Pigeon is a bite-sized 3D platformer with precise and expressive controls. Join Pru on his quest to save his land Asasco. Explore and collect everything in sight!
Pizzapocalypse 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Poi fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Poi.
Use your pizza to bounce, swing and dash in this 3D platformer! Explore different countries, and put a stop to the greedy corporation selling Pizza-in-a-can!
Run Red Run
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Poi fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Poi.
Move fast. Chain fluid, expressive parkour through vibrant playgrounds, weave through hazards, unlock secrets, and style every second to perfect your run and climb the leaderboards.
Gwen The Hen 64
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Poi fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Poi.
Gwen the Hen 64 is a tiny 3D platformer collectathon, with precise controls and many different movement options.
Yooka-Laylee
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Poi.
Ranked #7 for Poi fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Poi.
Yooka-Laylee is an all-new open-world platformer from genre veterans Playtonic! Explore huge, beautiful worlds, meet an unforgettable cast of characters and horde a vault-load of collectibles as buddy-duo Yooka and Laylee embark on an epic adventure to thwart corporate creep Capital B!
Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Poi.
Ranked #8 for Poi fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Poi.
Make full use of your advanced move-set to navigate hand-crafted retro worlds without a jump button in this vibrant love letter to the N64 era of collectathons!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Poi at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Poi on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Poi.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Poi on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Poi.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Poi on Steam right now. Shares Action with Poi.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Poi on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Poi.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Poi on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Poi.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Poi on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Poi.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Poi on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Poi.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Poi on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Poi.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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 and Casual with Poi.
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 Action and Adventure with Poi.
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 Poi.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Poi.
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 and Casual with Poi.
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 Poi.
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.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
TY the Tasmanian Tiger
WHY THIS
Shares collectathon exploration and a nostalgic mood with Poi.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Poi.
G'day, Mate. Explore the wilds of Australia with TY the Tasmanian Tiger, the charming Aussie platformer.
Gwen The Hen 64
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Poi.
Gwen the Hen 64 is a tiny 3D platformer collectathon, with precise controls and many different movement options.
Yooka-Laylee
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Poi.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Poi.
Yooka-Laylee is an all-new open-world platformer from genre veterans Playtonic! Explore huge, beautiful worlds, meet an unforgettable cast of characters and horde a vault-load of collectibles as buddy-duo Yooka and Laylee embark on an epic adventure to thwart corporate creep Capital B!
Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Poi.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Poi.
Make full use of your advanced move-set to navigate hand-crafted retro worlds without a jump button in this vibrant love letter to the N64 era of collectathons!
Frequently asked about Poi
- Is Poi verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Poi is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Poi cost?
- Poi is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Poi?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Poi are TY the Tasmanian Tiger, Spanky "Bat-a-Swing", Pru the Pigeon.
- Who developed Poi?
- Poi was developed by PolyKid.
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 Poi.
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