Games like Recess
If Recess is your kind of game, the closest matches are Heroic Musical Chairs, Mutant Football League 2 and Jelly Bubble — 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 Recess: A chaotic multiplayer party game where childhood playground games turn into all-out competition. Tag, hide, chase, and outplay your friends across imaginative maps all before the bell rings.
Players who liked Recess also play
Steam players who put hours into Recess 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.
Heroic Musical Chairs
WHY THIS
Top pick for Recess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Casual with Recess.
Face off against your friends and family in this epic take on musical chairs! Play locally or online as tiny wizard athletes ready to do anything to win. Special powers, dirty tricks, and dozens of crazy arenas: when the music stops, chaos begins!
Mutant Football League 2
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Recess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Casual with Recess.
Mutant Football League 2 is a hard-hitting, arcade-style football game that combines intense gameplay, wisecracking mutants, weapons, deep strategy, and outrageous humor. Prepare yourself for the most insanely brutal football you’ll ever experience.
Jelly Bubble
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Recess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Recess.
Stick with the same color, bounce off the rest! Snatch the soap, sabotage your friends! Adorable jelly critters are here for chaotic, hilarious showdowns! Supports 4-player local and up to 6-player online battles, plus a map editor so you can jump into laugh-out-loud matches anytime!
Tricky Towers
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Recess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Recess.
With your brilliant robe and magic powers, it’s time to build some Tricky Towers! Stack your bricks in this land of fable, whose marvelous tower will be the most stable? Battle your friends and rise to fame, in this frantic physics game.
Walk of Life
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Recess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Recess.
Walk of Life is a competitive life simulator for up to 6 players! Choose from a cast of unique roles and duke it out with your friends, bots, or by yourself, in this wacky and ever-surprising party game!
Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 – The Official Video Game™
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Recess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Casual with Recess.
The Olympic Games are back, and this time it's your chance for glory! Whether you play with friends, family, or go for gold on the global leaderboards, this is a party game that anyone can pick up and enjoy!
Phantom Spark
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Recess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Casual with Recess.
The best feeling racing game out there. Precision time-trial racing against npc champions in the campaign or other players on the leaderboards.
DIRT 5
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Recess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Casual with Recess.
DIRT 5 is a fun, amplified, off-road arcade racing experience created by Codemasters. Blaze a trail on routes across the world, covering gravel, ice, snow and sand, with a roster of cars ranging from rally icons to trucks, to GT heroes.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Recess.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Recess.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Mutant Football League 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Sports and Casual with Recess.
Mutant Football League 2 is a hard-hitting, arcade-style football game that combines intense gameplay, wisecracking mutants, weapons, deep strategy, and outrageous humor. Prepare yourself for the most insanely brutal football you’ll ever experience.
Tricky Towers
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Casual with Recess.
With your brilliant robe and magic powers, it’s time to build some Tricky Towers! Stack your bricks in this land of fable, whose marvelous tower will be the most stable? Battle your friends and rise to fame, in this frantic physics game.
Walk of Life
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Casual with Recess.
Walk of Life is a competitive life simulator for up to 6 players! Choose from a cast of unique roles and duke it out with your friends, bots, or by yourself, in this wacky and ever-surprising party game!
Phantom Spark
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Sports and Casual with Recess.
The best feeling racing game out there. Precision time-trial racing against npc champions in the campaign or other players on the leaderboards.
DIRT 5
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Sports and Casual with Recess.
DIRT 5 is a fun, amplified, off-road arcade racing experience created by Codemasters. Blaze a trail on routes across the world, covering gravel, ice, snow and sand, with a roster of cars ranging from rally icons to trucks, to GT heroes.
Frequently asked about Recess
- Does Recess have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Recess supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
- What games are most similar to Recess?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Recess are Heroic Musical Chairs, Mutant Football League 2, Jelly Bubble.
- Who developed Recess?
- Recess was developed by Lost Echoes Interactive.
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