Games like bōnin
If bōnin is your kind of game, the closest matches are Math Party Fezgugel, Lazy Chess and Papertris — 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 bōnin: Battle your friends in this exciting PvP sudoku showdown! Run around nature-themed puzzle boards while avoiding dangerous pencil projectiles, making good use of power-ups, and, most importantly, fill in the missing numbers faster than your opponent.
Players who liked bōnin also play
Steam players who put hours into bōnin 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.
Math Party Fezgugel
WHY THIS
Top pick for bōnin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with bōnin.
Math Party Fezgugel is a local multiplayer game is for 1 or 2 players looking to sharpen their arithmetic skills while having a blast. It's a wacky festival that transforms addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division into an epic competition. Are you ready to play?. Hard mode enabled.
Lazy Chess
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for bōnin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with bōnin.
Lazy Chess is a new non-profit chess game that narrows your choices down to the best 2 possible moves per turn. The moves provided can always win the game, but how strong are your decisions? Fewer moves. More fun.
Sumo Battlegrounds
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for bōnin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with bōnin.
Sumo is a strategy board game where players maneuver pieces of varying strengths on a 9x9 grid to push and pull their opponent's pieces off the board, combining simple mechanics with deep strategic possibilities.
Ball Guys: Merge Party
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for bōnin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Merge bouncing Ball Guys into massive, satisfying combos in this chaotic physics puzzler where every drop can make — or break — your run.
CasualSteam ↗The Chess Variants Club
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for bōnin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with bōnin.
Play and discover 12 popular chess variants, improve your chess skills with hundreds of chess puzzles, or simply play regular chess with your friends - all in one package. This diverse collection includes several chess games and puzzles. All in a minimalist, beautifully designed virtual chess club.
Math4TopDogs
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for bōnin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with bōnin.
Master the art of reflexes and mental math in a real action-adventure game. Explore magical worlds and uncover all their secrets, creatures, and treasures. Take on every challenge and, if you wish, compete in the global ranking. (7-120 years old)
Schlag den Star - Das 3. Spiel
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for bōnin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with bōnin.
Fans of the popular TV show "Schlag den Star" can look forward to a new gaming experience: "Schlag den Star" is back in its third edition. The game promises even more fun, excitement and challenging games for all fans of the format.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below bōnin at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under bōnin on Steam right now. Shares Indie with bōnin.
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 bōnin on Steam right now. Shares Indie with bōnin.
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 bōnin on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with bōnin.
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 bōnin on Steam right now. Shares Indie with bōnin.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under bōnin on Steam right now. Shares Indie with bōnin.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under bōnin on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with bōnin.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under bōnin on Steam right now. Shares Indie with bōnin.
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 bōnin on Steam right now. Shares Indie with bōnin.
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.
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. Shares Indie with bōnin.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with bōnin.
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.
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.).
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with bōnin.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with bōnin.
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.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with bōnin.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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Frequently asked about bōnin
- How much does bōnin cost?
- bōnin is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does bōnin have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — bōnin supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
- What games are most similar to bōnin?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside bōnin are Math Party Fezgugel, Lazy Chess, Papertris.
- Who developed bōnin?
- bōnin was developed by FriedGangsta.
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 bōnin.
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