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Games like Ginger: Beyond the Crystal

If Ginger: Beyond the Crystal is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cubic Crush Streamer Showdown, Jack Saves Easter and Elli — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its nostalgic 3d platformer feel, atmospheric and challenging. 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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About Ginger: Beyond the Crystal: Ginger: Beyond the Crystal is an adventure platformer in which you have to rebuild and restore balance to a world devastated by the explosion of a mystical crystal. Face quests and challenges set over 3 worlds and gain powerful new skills, costumes and powers that will help you to defeat the fiercest enemies. Explore, rescue and rebuild.

2016IndieAdventure3.99 USDDeck PlayableWindows · macOSby Drakhar Studio
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Steam players who put hours into Ginger: Beyond the Crystal 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.

  1. Cubic Crush Streamer Showdown

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Ginger: Beyond the Crystal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Ginger: Beyond the Crystal.

    Show off your skills in the Cubic Crush Streamer Showdown! Play in the rooms of your favorite YouTubers, use power-ups, complete missions and let your viewers help or punish you in Twitch mode. Unlock more rooms as you progress and become the king of Cubic Crush!

    2023IndieCasual2.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Jack Saves Easter

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Ginger: Beyond the Crystal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ginger: Beyond the Crystal.

    Jack Saves Easter is a family friendly game where you play as Jack the Rabbit. Use your skills and wits to help Jack recover various Essence Shards that will restore The Ancient Tree Eggdrasyl. Solve puzzles and clues that will help you save Easter for All !

    2022ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Elli

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Ginger: Beyond the Crystal.

    Third-strongest match for Ginger: Beyond the Crystal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ginger: Beyond the Crystal.

    A whimsical hand-crafted single-player adventure. Discover a delightful world, inhabited by the playful and usually helpful Mandragora. Collect gems and and hidden coins and exchange them for a variety of robes, staffs and hats. Simple pick up and play controls, suitable for kids and big kids!

    2020IndieAdventureCasual2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Goblin Hotdogs

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Ginger: Beyond the Crystal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ginger: Beyond the Crystal.

    Goblin Hotdogs is a cute and casual 3D Puzzle/Platformer. Explore, solve the mysteries of the universe, and collect the ultimate prize (hotdogs).

    2024IndieAdventureCasual3.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Corbid! A Colorful Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Ginger: Beyond the Crystal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ginger: Beyond the Crystal.

    Have fun helping Corbid to overcome the mazes to be crowned champion. Eat, mix and shoot colors to solve the puzzles of Corbid! A Colorful Adventure, a cute 3D platformer for all audiences.

    2024IndieAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Effie

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Ginger: Beyond the Crystal.

    Ranked #6 for Ginger: Beyond the Crystal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ginger: Beyond the Crystal.

    Effie is a 3D action-adventure game that combines classic elements from the genre, such as combat, platforming, and puzzles, with the exploration of an expanded world. Live a unique fantasy adventure and relive the look and feel of old-school video-games!

    2020ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Perplexing Orb 2

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Ginger: Beyond the Crystal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ginger: Beyond the Crystal.

    Experience an all new puzzle platforming adventure like none other! Roll, shrink, grow, zip, and jump your way through over 70 all new stages. Experience the classic Perplexing Orb game play with all new twists involving The Perplexing Orb's new character abilities.

    2020IndieAdventureCasual2.49 USDSteam ↗
  8. Totally Ratical Adventures

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Ginger: Beyond the Crystal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Ginger: Beyond the Crystal.

    A 3d Platformer where you play as a CUTE RAT on a quest to save your friends! Bounce your way through 8 Colorful Worlds! Uncover a Dark Mystery...

    2022Adventure2.99 USDSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Ginger: Beyond the Crystal

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Sonic Generations Collection

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Ginger: Beyond the Crystal cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    Celebrate 20 years of Sonic in an all new adventure that delivers a definitive experience to Sonic fans new and old!

    2011ActionDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Sonic CD

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Ginger: Beyond the Crystal.

    Reviewers of Ginger: Beyond the Crystal cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    It’s time to usher the past into the future in this enhanced recreation of Sonic CD! Sonic travels to the distant shores of Never Lake for the once-a-year appearance of Little Planet - a mysterious world where past, present, and future collide through the power of the Time Stones that lie hidden within it.

    2012Deck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Spyro™ Reignited Trilogy

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Ginger: Beyond the Crystal.

    Reviewers of Ginger: Beyond the Crystal cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Ginger: Beyond the Crystal.

    Same sick burns, same smoldering attitude, now all scaled up in stunning HD, Spyro is back in the Spyro™ Reignited Trilogy! Rekindle the fire with remastered versions of the original three games, Spyro™ the Dragon, Spyro™ 2: Ripto's Rage! and Spyro™: Year of the Dragon.

    2019ActionAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Ginger: Beyond the Crystal at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Ginger: Beyond the Crystal on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ginger: Beyond the Crystal.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Ginger: Beyond the Crystal on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ginger: Beyond the Crystal.

    You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Ginger: Beyond the Crystal on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ginger: Beyond the Crystal.

    A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Ginger: Beyond the Crystal on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Ginger: Beyond the Crystal.

    This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Ginger: Beyond the Crystal on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ginger: Beyond the Crystal.

    shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Test: Hypothesis Rising

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Ginger: Beyond the Crystal on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ginger: Beyond the Crystal.

    The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. The NOexistenceN of you AND me

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Ginger: Beyond the Crystal on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ginger: Beyond the Crystal.

    Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".

    2024IndieAdventureRPG1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Ginger: Beyond the Crystal on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ginger: Beyond the Crystal.

    "Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!

    2015ActionIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ginger: Beyond the Crystal.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Ginger: Beyond the Crystal.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ginger: Beyond the Crystal.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ginger: Beyond the Crystal.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ginger: Beyond the Crystal.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ginger: Beyond the Crystal.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. 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 Ginger: Beyond the Crystal.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ginger: Beyond the Crystal.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Drakhar Studio

Other recommendable Steam games by Drakhar Studio, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. PAW Patrol Mighty Pups Save Adventure Bay

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Ginger: Beyond the Crystal.

    Another title from Drakhar Studio, the studio behind Ginger: Beyond the Crystal.

    Join the Mighty Pups on a super-heroic mission to Save Adventure Bay. Have fun together in 2-player co-op mode, unlock fun mini-games, rescue familiar friends and use each pup’s mighty powers to make the town PAWsome again!

    2020Action29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. PAW Patrol The Movie: Adventure City Calls

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Drakhar Studio, the studio behind Ginger: Beyond the Crystal. Shares Adventure with Ginger: Beyond the Crystal.

    Big city, bigger adventure! The PAW Patrol must save Adventure City from Mayor Humdinger’s selfish scheming – and they need YOU on Team PAWsome! 

    2021ActionAdventure11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Cry Babies Magic Tears: The Big Game

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Drakhar Studio, the studio behind Ginger: Beyond the Crystal. Shares Adventure with Ginger: Beyond the Crystal.

    Your favourite Cry Babies characters are ready to play! The Big Game is a friendly and fun adventure perfect for young players. Join Lady, Coney, Dreamy and friends in an all-new adventure as they take part in an exciting multi-stage tournament to win the fabled Golden Pacifier!

    2023AdventureCasual29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Ginger: Beyond the Crystal

Does Ginger: Beyond the Crystal run on Steam Deck?
Ginger: Beyond the Crystal is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Ginger: Beyond the Crystal cost?
Ginger: Beyond the Crystal is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Ginger: Beyond the Crystal?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ginger: Beyond the Crystal are Cubic Crush Streamer Showdown, Jack Saves Easter, Elli.
Who developed Ginger: Beyond the Crystal?
Ginger: Beyond the Crystal was developed by Drakhar Studio and published by BadLand Publishing.

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 Ginger: Beyond the Crystal.

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