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Games like Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen

If Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen is your kind of game, the closest matches are Effie, Shovel Knight Dig and Apopia: Sugar Coated Tale — 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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About Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen: Join Bluey on a fun-filled quest for the Gold Pen in an original story by Bluey creator, Joe Brumm. A joyful experience for the whole family.

2026Adventure35.99 USDWindowsby Halfbrick Studios Pty Ltd
Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen — Steam game cover

Players who liked Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen also play

Steam players who put hours into Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen 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. Effie

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen.

    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 ↗
  2. Shovel Knight Dig

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen.

    Meet new friends and foes, visit strange lands, and outfit yourself in your quest to keep the entire land from collapsing underfoot! Jump, slash, and dig your way down an ever-changing chasm of mystery in Shovel Knight Dig, an all-new Shovel Knight adventure!

    2022ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Apopia: Sugar Coated Tale

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen.

    Apopia: Sugar Coated Tale is a comedic adventure with dark mysteries. Help young girl Mai to find her way home. Progress by solving puzzles and outsmarting enemies in minigames. Make friends and foes with talking animals. Unravel the mystery of Mai’s identity from her dark and blurry memories.

    2026IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Bluey: The Videogame

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen.

    Play a brand-new story set across 4 interactive adventures, explore iconic locations, play your favourite games from the TV show and also play with your friends and family in local multiplayer.

    2023ActionAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. CHUCHEL

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen.

    CHUCHEL is a comedy adventure game from the creators of Machinarium, Botanicula and Samorost. Join the hairy hero Chuchel and his rival Kekel as they will be facing numerous puzzles and challenges in their quest to retrieve the precious cherry!

    2018IndieAdventureCasual14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Once Upon a Jester

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen.

    Travel the kingdom as Jester with his best friend Sok to improvise theatre shows and perform on stages far and wide. Sing your hearts out, crack jokes and impress audiences to become the stars of the famous Royal Theatrical Spectacle!

    2022ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Grapple Dog

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen.

    Jump, Swing and Zip your way through colourful worlds and exciting challenges in this unique 2D action-platformer! Master the power of the Grapple on your adventure to save the world!

    2022ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. The Holy Gosh Darn

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen.

    Play as Cassiel, a foul-mouthed angel trapped in a time loop with a mission to save Heaven. Use the magical clock bestowed upon you from Death (yes, that Death, from Manual Samuel, stop asking) to jump between timelines across Heaven, Hell, Earth and Helheim to stop Heaven from going boom. Again.

    2024IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~72% under Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~72% under Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Hollow Knight

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen.

    Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. The Forest

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen.

    As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Portal 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~72% under Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen.

    The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

    2011ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~78% under Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Don't Starve Together

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen.

    Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

    2016ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~78% under Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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.

    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. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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 ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen.

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

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

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

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen.

    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 ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen.

    NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Halfbrick Studios Pty Ltd

Other recommendable Steam games by Halfbrick Studios Pty Ltd, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. The Thrill of the Fight - VR Boxing

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Halfbrick Studios Pty Ltd, the studio behind Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen.

    The Thrill of the Fight is a room-scale only VR boxing game focused on authenticity. Face off in the virtual ring where you'll jab, dodge, and sweat your way to the top of the boxing world. Grab your gloves, step through the ropes, and become a champion.

    2019ActionSports9.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Fruit Ninja VR

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Halfbrick Studios Pty Ltd, the studio behind Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen.

    Step inside the Fruit Ninja universe and experience a slice of virtual reality like never before. Play Fruit Ninja VR now!

    2016ActionSportsSimulation14.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Fruit Ninja VR 2

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Halfbrick Studios Pty Ltd, the studio behind Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen.

    The sequel to the juiciest VR game of all time! Build your collection of blades and bows. Slice your way through unique levels and minigames. Explore the vibrant world of Fruitasia and become a true Fruit Ninja master!

    2023ActionSimulationCasual24.99 USDSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Shovel Knight Dig

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen.

    Meet new friends and foes, visit strange lands, and outfit yourself in your quest to keep the entire land from collapsing underfoot! Jump, slash, and dig your way down an ever-changing chasm of mystery in Shovel Knight Dig, an all-new Shovel Knight adventure!

    2022ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Apopia: Sugar Coated Tale

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen.

    Apopia: Sugar Coated Tale is a comedic adventure with dark mysteries. Help young girl Mai to find her way home. Progress by solving puzzles and outsmarting enemies in minigames. Make friends and foes with talking animals. Unravel the mystery of Mai’s identity from her dark and blurry memories.

    2026IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Bluey: The Videogame

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen.

    Play a brand-new story set across 4 interactive adventures, explore iconic locations, play your favourite games from the TV show and also play with your friends and family in local multiplayer.

    2023ActionAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. CHUCHEL

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen.

    CHUCHEL is a comedy adventure game from the creators of Machinarium, Botanicula and Samorost. Join the hairy hero Chuchel and his rival Kekel as they will be facing numerous puzzles and challenges in their quest to retrieve the precious cherry!

    2018IndieAdventureCasual14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Grapple Dog

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen.

    Jump, Swing and Zip your way through colourful worlds and exciting challenges in this unique 2D action-platformer! Master the power of the Grapple on your adventure to save the world!

    2022ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. The Holy Gosh Darn

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen.

    Play as Cassiel, a foul-mouthed angel trapped in a time loop with a mission to save Heaven. Use the magical clock bestowed upon you from Death (yes, that Death, from Manual Samuel, stop asking) to jump between timelines across Heaven, Hell, Earth and Helheim to stop Heaven from going boom. Again.

    2024IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen

How much does Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen cost?
Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen is listed on Steam at 35.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen are Effie, Shovel Knight Dig, Apopia: Sugar Coated Tale.
Who developed Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen?
Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen was developed by Halfbrick Studios Pty Ltd and published by PM Studios, Inc..

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 Bluey's Quest For The Gold Pen.

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