Games like hocus
If hocus is your kind of game, the closest matches are VOI, Puzzlement and TOK HARDCORE — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its minimalist design enhances focus, atmospheric and chill. 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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Players who liked hocus also play
Steam players who put hours into hocus 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.
VOI
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with hocus.
Top pick for hocus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with hocus.
Do you think 1 + 1 = 0 is correct? So what do you think about "black + black = white" statement?
Puzzlement
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for hocus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with hocus.
a game about walking/jumping between plane surfaces to collect all red squares
TOK HARDCORE
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for hocus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with hocus.
TOK HARDCORE is a logical puzzle in which you need to connect all points with lines.
BAFF Halloween
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for hocus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with hocus.
Minimalist, hardcore, and challenging drag-and-drop game in the avoid-em-up genre with a creepy style that will test your reflexes, timing, and planning! This game is as hard as hell!
Kombine
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with hocus.
Ranked #6 for hocus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with hocus.
Kombine is a minimalist puzzle game played on a grid. The goal is to remove all of the blocks that have borders by matching three or more of the same blocks together.
macdows 95
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with hocus.
Ranked #7 for hocus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with hocus.
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Reviewers mention these as similar to hocus
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The Witness
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with hocus.
Reviewers of hocus cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with hocus.
You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.
Stephen's Sausage Roll
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with hocus.
Reviewers of hocus cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with hocus.
A simple 3d puzzle game.
Snakebird
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with hocus.
Reviewers of hocus cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with hocus.
Do you like puzzles, fruit and the notion of crossing a snake with a bird for no good reason? If the answer to at least one of those questions is yes, then Snakebird might be the game for you. Solve your way through this headscratcher of a puzzle game and help the snakebirds sate their hunger.
TIS-100
WHY THIS
Reviewers of hocus cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with hocus.
TIS-100 is an open-ended programming game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infinifactory, in which you rewrite corrupted code segments to repair the TIS-100 and unlock its secrets. It’s the assembly language programming game you never asked for!
Recursed
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with hocus.
Reviewers of hocus cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with hocus.
A puzzle game where the rooms are items and the items are rooms. Get to the goal by moving, rearranging and duplicating rooms and altering the structure of the world.
The Riftbreaker
WHY THIS
Reviewers of hocus cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with hocus.
The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below hocus at current Steam store prices.
Miss Neko
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under hocus on Steam right now. Shares Casual with hocus.
Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)
QUICKERFLAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under hocus on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with hocus.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under hocus on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with hocus.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Gachi Heroes
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under hocus on Steam right now. Shares Indie with hocus.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under hocus on Steam right now. Shares Indie with hocus.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
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 hocus.
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.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with hocus.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with hocus.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with hocus.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with hocus.
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.
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More from Yunus Ayyildiz
Other recommendable Steam games by Yunus Ayyildiz, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
macdows 95
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with hocus.
Another title from Yunus Ayyildiz, the studio behind hocus. Shares Indie and Casual with hocus.
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Puzzlement
WHY THIS
Another title from Yunus Ayyildiz, the studio behind hocus. Shares Indie and Casual with hocus.
a game about walking/jumping between plane surfaces to collect all red squares
Frequently asked about hocus
- How much does hocus cost?
- hocus is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to hocus?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside hocus are VOI, Puzzlement, TOK HARDCORE.
- Who developed hocus?
- hocus was developed by Yunus Ayyildiz, Sho Ohhira and published by Yunus Ayyildiz.
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 hocus.
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