Games like Pistil
If Pistil is your kind of game, the closest matches are Solaris: Good Harvest, Vision Quest: A New Ascent and Cat-Astrophy — 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 Pistil: An immersive journey deep within the decaying remains of a forgotten behemoth; blending combat, puzzles and movement trials as you discover new ways to traverse. Smash through the belly of the beast in this hand-drawn 2D platformer, challenging all which emerges from it’s decay.
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Steam players who put hours into Pistil 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.
Solaris: Good Harvest
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Top pick for Pistil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pistil.
A humble farmer sets out to rescue his chicken from monstrous abductors. Punch, slash, and parkour your way through elemental-infused chaos in this fast-paced 2D action-platformer!
Vision Quest: A New Ascent
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Second-strongest match for Pistil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pistil.
Vision Quest: A New Ascent is a challenging twin-stick action-adventure shaped by nature. Master lethal combat with precise, health-restoring critical strikes. Expand your comfort-zone as you conquer mental blocks and connect with bizarre and encouraging characters. The summit is calling.
Cat-Astrophy
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Third-strongest match for Pistil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pistil.
Cat-Astrophy is a fast-paced Action Roguelite that combines frantic combat, precision platforming and unique builds across procedurally generated planets. Every run offers new ways to play, death is permanent. Can you survive the cat-astrophe?
KEMURI
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Ranked #4 for Pistil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pistil.
KEMURI is a Yokai-Possession Action Adventure set in KEMURI CITY, where the everyday and paranormal cross paths. Explore as a Yokai Hunter, uncover the unseen with the FOXWINDOW, and wear their powers. Run the streets, race across walls, and cut through the air to dive into the supernatural!
Project Jazzgame
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Ranked #5 for Pistil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Pistil.
Project Jazzgame is An open-world action adventure where fluid parkour meets fast-paced free-flow combat. Leap across dense rooftops or fight through gang-controlled streets in a city built for momentum and mayhem.
Mom, I'll Be Home Late
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Ranked #6 for Pistil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pistil.
A PvE-Cozy-Extraction-Roguelite about the moment when you should really be heading home. Gather loot, grow stronger, survive a world that keeps getting more dangerous — and bring your backpack home.
Secrets of the Burrow: Vixoria's Quest
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Ranked #7 for Pistil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pistil.
Get ready to embark on a cozy action adventure about a Princess who won't go home, and a Knight who won't give up. Play as Princess Vixoria and Sir Foxalot as you explore a cursed forest, bash pesky gnomes, and gather ingredients for a potion that could change everything.
Almos – A Dream Painter's Tale
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Ranked #8 for Pistil fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pistil.
Explore a hand-crafted Metroidvania where dreams and nightmares collide. Master fast-paced combat, craft powerful spells, and harness Color to restore a dying world while uncovering the truth behind the Dream Painters.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Pistil.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Pistil.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pistil.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pistil.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Pistil.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pistil.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pistil.
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 Pistil
- What games are most similar to Pistil?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Pistil are Solaris: Good Harvest, Vision Quest: A New Ascent, Cat-Astrophy.
- Who developed Pistil?
- Pistil was developed by Sagehart Studio.
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 Pistil.
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