Games like Grow Up
If Grow Up is your kind of game, the closest matches are Grow Home, Reytrieve Odyssey and Ragdoll Chimps — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its open ended sandbox traversal, chill and cozy. 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 →Reflections, a Ubisoft Studio, released this 2016 sequel to Grow Home, published by Atari, where a small robot named B.U.D. explores an alien planet to collect scattered parts of his crashed ship. The design emphasizes physics-based climbing, traversal, and exploration using a jetpack, glider, and plants that can be planted and replanted, with collectible hunting and flora scanning. Reviewers describe it as chill, cozy, and whimsical, and several highlight the no-combat, stress-free gameplay, the open-ended sandbox traversal, and the vibrant world. It holds a 93% positive rating across 1,262 Steam reviews, carries a Metacritic score of 71, is rated Verified on Steam Deck, and costs 9.99 USD. The medium-length, burst-friendly structure suits players who want a relaxing exploration game.
About Grow Up: Leaping from mind-boggling heights, bouncing off Champolines, soaring inches from floating islands, BUD can do it all - that look of mild terror, that’s his daredevil face. Help the adorable little robot collect MOM’s scattered ship parts and return them to the moon.
Players who liked Grow Up also play
Steam players who put hours into Grow Up 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.
Grow Home
WHY THIS
Shares physics based climbing and a relaxing mood with Grow Up.
Top pick for Grow Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Grow Up.
Experience the freedom of unbounded climbing as you take control of BUD, a procedurally animated robot on a quest to save his planet. Create your own path through an alien world as you control and ride a giant plant on a vertical journey to the stars.
Reytrieve Odyssey
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Grow Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Grow Up.
Reytrieve Odyssey is a vibrant 3D platformer starring a feisty android girl on a quest to retrieve mysterious data disks! Switch between powerful cartridges, explore giant colorful islands, and uncover the secrets of a broken world!
Ragdoll Chimps
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Grow Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Grow Up.
Ragdoll Chimps is a Physics-Based Sandbox with a Huge Open World, and Tons of Activities. Farming, Mining, Fishing, Collectibles, Quests, Customization, Fighting, Racing, Mini-Games, and More! Enjoy it in Singleplayer, or Split-Screen Co-op and PVP modes.
Pru the Pigeon
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Grow Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Grow Up.
Pru the Pigeon is a bite-sized 3D platformer with precise and expressive controls. Join Pru on his quest to save his land Asasco. Explore and collect everything in sight!
Completely Stretchy
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Grow Up.
Ranked #5 for Grow Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Grow Up.
A befuddling mishap has made you COMPLETELY STRETCHY! Stretch, swing and stick around the delightfully odd and vibrant Grombi Isles in this eccentric and light-hearted 3D platformer.
Yooka-Laylee
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Grow Up.
Ranked #6 for Grow Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Grow Up.
Yooka-Laylee is an all-new open-world platformer from genre veterans Playtonic! Explore huge, beautiful worlds, meet an unforgettable cast of characters and horde a vault-load of collectibles as buddy-duo Yooka and Laylee embark on an epic adventure to thwart corporate creep Capital B!
Big Hops
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Grow Up.
Ranked #7 for Grow Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Grow Up.
Tongue-swing, free climb, and build your own path forward in a new kind of 3D platformer! Plant veggie bounce pads, tightropes, hookshots, and much more. Find a way home through huge Desert, Ocean, and Mountain worlds and collect bugs, upgrade your backpack, and meet animal friends along the way.
Scrap Garden
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Grow Up.
Ranked #8 for Grow Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Grow Up.
Scrap Garden is a charming puzzle platformer about the adventures of Canny, a lonely robot, who awakens in a post-apocalyptic world to find all other robots shut down and seized up. What happened to the City? Why did all robots stop moving? Did anyone survive except him?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Grow Up at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Grow Up on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Grow Up.
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 ~50% under Grow Up on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Grow Up.
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 ~50% under Grow Up on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Grow Up.
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 ~50% under Grow Up on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Grow Up.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Grow Up on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Grow Up.
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 ~70% under Grow Up on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Grow Up.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Grow Up on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Grow Up.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Grow Up on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Grow Up.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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 Grow Up.
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 Grow Up.
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 Grow Up.
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 Grow Up.
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 Grow Up.
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 Grow Up.
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 and Adventure with Grow Up.
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.
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Grow Home
WHY THIS
Shares physics based climbing and a relaxing mood with Grow Up.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Grow Up.
Experience the freedom of unbounded climbing as you take control of BUD, a procedurally animated robot on a quest to save his planet. Create your own path through an alien world as you control and ride a giant plant on a vertical journey to the stars.
Completely Stretchy
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Grow Up.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Grow Up.
A befuddling mishap has made you COMPLETELY STRETCHY! Stretch, swing and stick around the delightfully odd and vibrant Grombi Isles in this eccentric and light-hearted 3D platformer.
Yooka-Laylee
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Grow Up.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Grow Up.
Yooka-Laylee is an all-new open-world platformer from genre veterans Playtonic! Explore huge, beautiful worlds, meet an unforgettable cast of characters and horde a vault-load of collectibles as buddy-duo Yooka and Laylee embark on an epic adventure to thwart corporate creep Capital B!
Big Hops
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Grow Up.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Grow Up.
Tongue-swing, free climb, and build your own path forward in a new kind of 3D platformer! Plant veggie bounce pads, tightropes, hookshots, and much more. Find a way home through huge Desert, Ocean, and Mountain worlds and collect bugs, upgrade your backpack, and meet animal friends along the way.
Scrap Garden
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Grow Up.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Grow Up.
Scrap Garden is a charming puzzle platformer about the adventures of Canny, a lonely robot, who awakens in a post-apocalyptic world to find all other robots shut down and seized up. What happened to the City? Why did all robots stop moving? Did anyone survive except him?
Frequently asked about Grow Up
- Is Grow Up verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Grow Up is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Grow Up cost?
- Grow Up is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Grow Up?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Grow Up are Grow Home, Reytrieve Odyssey, Ragdoll Chimps.
- Who developed Grow Up?
- Grow Up was developed by Reflections, a Ubisoft Studio and published by Infogrames, Atari.
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