Games like What Surrounds Us
Below are 11 hand-picked alternatives to What Surrounds Us for fans of indie, adventure, casual, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in What Surrounds Us also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, and Steam Deck–friendly options. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
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.
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Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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PlanckMan
Top pick 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.
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Gravity Grove
Third-strongest match for What Surrounds Us fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Surrounds Us.
Gravity Grove is a 2D platformer set on the faces of a 3D cube. Walk over the edges to rotate the entire level, shifting gravity in your favor to open up new paths and uncover hidden secrets from the past.
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What's Your Gender?
Ranked #4 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.
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Yugo Puzzle
Ranked #5 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.
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Monument Valley 3
Ranked #6 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?
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Sokobond
Ranked #7 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.
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Chicken Journey
Ranked #8 for What Surrounds Us fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Surrounds Us.
Play as an adorable chicken in this relaxing platformer. Jump, climb and solve puzzles to find the answer to the ULTIMATE question a chicken can ask...
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Yugo Puzzle
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. 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.
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Monument Valley 3
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. 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?
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Chicken Journey
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with What Surrounds Us.
Play as an adorable chicken in this relaxing platformer. Jump, climb and solve puzzles to find the answer to the ULTIMATE question a chicken can ask...
Frequently asked about What Surrounds Us
- 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 PlanckMan, Coupling, Gravity Grove.
- 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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