Games like UPBEAT
If UPBEAT is your kind of game, the closest matches are SketchBook Escape, SongRunner and Geometry Jump: Impossible Game — 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 UPBEAT: UPBEAT is a music-driven score-chasing arcade platformer where your drum-machine loops build the climb beneath your feet. Create beats, spawn bouncing platforms, upgrade your kit, and chain combos as the tempo rises to beat your friends’ high scores.
Players who liked UPBEAT also play
Steam players who put hours into UPBEAT 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.
SketchBook Escape
WHY THIS
Top pick for UPBEAT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with UPBEAT.
The path shifts with the music, and every jump answers your flow. Sprint through a sketchbook world that moves to the beat - scratch your own rhythm with Dynamic Gestures, and carve new routes with Mix Jumps across 9 tracks that never play the same way twice.
SongRunner
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for UPBEAT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with UPBEAT.
A puzzle platformer where the platforms are your own musical loops! Navigate handcrafted stages full of puzzly platforming challenges while creating platforms in time with a high energy original soundtrack!
Geometry Jump: Impossible Game
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for UPBEAT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with UPBEAT.
Geometry Jump is a lightning-fast 3D precision platformer that challenges even the most hardcore gamers. Master rapid jumps and razor-sharp reflexes as you navigate through a relentless maze of obstacles where every second counts!
Super Hot Cube
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for UPBEAT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with UPBEAT.
Super Hot Cube is an intense challenge for most mortals. Navigate a relentless cage of fast-paced traps, master precision platforming, and use your gravitational powers to survive. Are you ready?
RobotzZz
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for UPBEAT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with UPBEAT.
A robot, after humanity. The beat builds the world. Chase it or fall behind. Chain pickups, build combos, survive three stages of escalating rhythm.
The Vorlec
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for UPBEAT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with UPBEAT.
The Vorlec is a third-person action video game set in a RetroWave world. Explore different dimensions where you'll encounter enemies, challenges, puzzles, and, in the end, a great enemy will always be waiting for you.
Infernal Dash
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for UPBEAT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with UPBEAT.
Imagine Geometry Dash in 3D, with Death chasing you. Run, glide on an aerial skate, bend time, and prove to yourself and others what you're capable of. Create your own worlds and unite in guilds. Your worlds, your rules.
Speed Fall
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for UPBEAT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with UPBEAT.
An intense vertical descent survival game. Control different characters, jump across procedurally generated platforms, dodge various traps, collect fruit, and strive to survive as long as possible.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below UPBEAT at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~78% under UPBEAT on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with UPBEAT.
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 ~56% under UPBEAT on Steam right now. Shares Indie with UPBEAT.
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 ~67% under UPBEAT on Steam right now. Shares Indie with UPBEAT.
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 ~78% under UPBEAT on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with UPBEAT.
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.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under UPBEAT on Steam right now. Shares Casual with UPBEAT.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~78% under UPBEAT on Steam right now. Shares Casual with UPBEAT.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
WHY THIS
Priced ~45% under UPBEAT on Steam right now. Shares Action with UPBEAT.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~78% under UPBEAT on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with UPBEAT.
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!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with UPBEAT.
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 UPBEAT.
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 with UPBEAT.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 UPBEAT.
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 Action and Indie with UPBEAT.
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 UPBEAT.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about UPBEAT
- How much does UPBEAT cost?
- UPBEAT is listed on Steam at 4.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to UPBEAT?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside UPBEAT are SketchBook Escape, SongRunner, Geometry Jump: Impossible Game.
- Who developed UPBEAT?
- UPBEAT was developed by CALYPSO LABS.
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 UPBEAT.
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