Games like The Growth Journey
If The Growth Journey is your kind of game, the closest matches are Swiftly, Hollow Knight and Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty — 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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Steam players who put hours into The Growth Journey 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.
Swiftly
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Growth Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Growth Journey.
Swiftly is a very challenging platformer game. It has simple graphics and easy to understand rules, but you are going to have a hard time completing the levels.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Growth Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Growth Journey.
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.
Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Growth Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Growth Journey.
Built from scratch, enjoy breathtaking visuals, enhanced audio and improved, deeper gameplay as New 'n' Tasty reignites the original Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee using the latest next-generation technology.
Orcs Must Die! 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Growth Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Growth Journey.
You’ve tossed, burned and sliced them by the thousands – now orcs must die more than ever before! Grab a friend and slay orcs in untold numbers in this sequel to the 2011 AIAS Strategy Game of the Year from Robot Entertainment.
Outland
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Growth Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Growth Journey.
Outland is a fast-paced, dynamic platformer where the player uses powers of light and dark in an epic journey to save the world from forces of chaos.
Hektor
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Growth Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Growth Journey.
Experience terrors only madness can conjure in HEKTOR, a psychological horror game set in a world that literally moves with your every twist and turn.
Slime-san: Superslime Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Growth Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Growth Journey.
Slime-san was minding his own business when suddenly… A giant worm appeared and gobbled him up! Deep within the worm’s belly, Slime-san has to face a decision: Be digested by the incoming wall of stomach acid... Or jump, slide and slime his way through the worm and back out its mouth!
CASE: Animatronics
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Growth Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Growth Journey.
CASE: Animatronics is a truly scary and challenging first-person stealth horror on PC. Control of the police department is in the hands of anonymous hacker. All exits are locked. Electricity is off. Metallic thumps are getting closer. Will you survive, Detective Bishop?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Growth Journey at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Growth Journey on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Growth Journey.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Growth Journey on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Growth Journey.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under The Growth Journey on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Growth Journey.
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.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Growth Journey on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with The Growth Journey.
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.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Growth Journey on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Growth Journey.
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!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Growth Journey on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Growth Journey.
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?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Growth Journey on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Growth Journey.
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".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Growth Journey on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Growth Journey.
"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!
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 with The Growth Journey.
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 The Growth Journey.
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.
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More from Cleverweek
Other recommendable Steam games by Cleverweek, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Two Digits
WHY THIS
Another title from Cleverweek, the studio behind The Growth Journey. Shares Indie with The Growth Journey.
Simple, minimalist and difficult. Two Digits is a perfect blend between insanity and happiness. You are given 9 numbers less than 100, and all you have to do is to choose two subsets with the same sum.
Three Digits
WHY THIS
Another title from Cleverweek, the studio behind The Growth Journey. Shares Indie with The Growth Journey.
Three Digits is the sequel to our first game Two Digits. You are given 14 numbers less than 1000, and all you have to do is to choose two subsets with the same sum.
Swiftly
WHY THIS
Another title from Cleverweek, the studio behind The Growth Journey. Shares Action and Indie with The Growth Journey.
Swiftly is a very challenging platformer game. It has simple graphics and easy to understand rules, but you are going to have a hard time completing the levels.
Multimirror
WHY THIS
Another title from Cleverweek, the studio behind The Growth Journey. Shares Indie with The Growth Journey.
Multimirror is a minimal grid-based puzzle game.
Frequently asked about The Growth Journey
- How much does The Growth Journey cost?
- The Growth Journey is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Growth Journey?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Growth Journey are Swiftly, Hollow Knight, Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty.
- Who developed The Growth Journey?
- The Growth Journey was developed by Cleverweek.
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 The Growth Journey.
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