Games like What Surrounds Us
If What Surrounds Us is your kind of game, the closest matches are Perplexicube, PlanckMan and Coupling — 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.
Get personalized picks →About What Surrounds Us: Explore an abstract ecosystem in What Surrounds Us, a cozy indie puzzling adventure. Encounter unique species and solve environmental challenges to protect their colourful habitat. Find your way through curious biomes and overcome the threat looming over this peaceful little world.
Players who liked What Surrounds Us also play
Steam players who put hours into What Surrounds Us 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.
Perplexicube
WHY THIS
Top pick for What Surrounds Us fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with What Surrounds Us.
Perplexicube is a challenging isometric puzzler where you must work together with your past and future selves. You'll have to think ahead as you create loops backwards in time to set your futures selves up for success.
PlanckMan
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for What Surrounds Us fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with What Surrounds Us.
PlanckMan is a grid based puzzle game that tests your skill at maintaining your tail, one step at a time. Eat red pellets to regain your tail, and yellow pellets to grow. Do not hit or lose your tail, or else you will lose the game! How high can you get? Includes extra benefits for purchasing.
soundStrider
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for What Surrounds Us fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Surrounds Us.
Enter a synthesized reality. Explore endless worlds. Play an instrument. Save bookmarks. A psychedelic audio exploration game, walking simulator, music generator, and relaxation tool best experienced with headphones.
What's Your Gender?
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for What Surrounds Us fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with What Surrounds Us.
An antichamber inspired educational puzzle game, that allows you to simultaneously explore a non-euclidean maze and concepts and terms related to gender, identity and expression in a playful and reassuring manner.
Yugo Puzzle
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for What Surrounds Us fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with What Surrounds Us.
Yugo Puzzle is a minimalist, relaxing, and satisfying puzzle game. Move jelly blocks left and right to merge them with the same color. It may sound simple, but it’s deceptively challenging. Enjoy the satisfaction of solving each puzzle.
Monument Valley 3
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for What Surrounds Us fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Surrounds Us.
Set sail for a world-changing adventure as you guide Noor in their quest through a series of mind-bending illusions and atmospheric puzzles. Can you unlock the secrets of the mysterious world – and the meaning behind the Sacred Light?
Sokobond
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Ranked #8 for What Surrounds Us fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with What Surrounds Us.
Sokobond is an elegantly designed puzzle game about chemistry. It's logical, minimalist, and beautiful - crafted with love and science.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below What Surrounds Us at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under What Surrounds Us on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with What Surrounds Us.
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 ~52% under What Surrounds Us on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with What Surrounds Us.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under What Surrounds Us on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with What Surrounds Us.
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 ~52% under What Surrounds Us on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with What Surrounds Us.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under What Surrounds Us on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Surrounds Us.
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 ~71% under What Surrounds Us on Steam right now. Shares Indie with What Surrounds Us.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under What Surrounds Us on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Surrounds Us.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Human Fall Flat
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under What Surrounds Us on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Surrounds Us.
Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.
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 What Surrounds Us.
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 Adventure with What Surrounds Us.
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 What Surrounds Us.
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 What Surrounds Us.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 What Surrounds Us.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with What Surrounds Us.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Surrounds Us.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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Frequently asked about What Surrounds Us
- How much does What Surrounds Us cost?
- What Surrounds Us is listed on Steam at 10.39 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to What Surrounds Us?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside What Surrounds Us are Perplexicube, PlanckMan, Coupling.
- Who developed What Surrounds Us?
- What Surrounds Us was developed by Florent "Salty" Martinais.
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 What Surrounds Us.
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