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Games like The Buddy Signal

If The Buddy Signal is your kind of game, the closest matches are Solar Voltage, Tellyport and Soft(A)ware — 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.

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About The Buddy Signal: Combine Stella's expressive movement and BG-27's creative construction mechanics to solve clever 3D puzzles. Use objects of various types and connected machinery across a planet with varied biomes in this non-linear 3D puzzle platforming adventure.

ActionIndieAdventureWindowsby Dennis Löfgren Games
The Buddy Signal — Steam game cover

Players who liked The Buddy Signal also play

Steam players who put hours into The Buddy Signal 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.

  1. Solar Voltage

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for The Buddy Signal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Buddy Signal.

    After a huge solar storm destroyed their ship and left them stranded, help Volt and her crewmates escape the dangerous planet filled with deadly robots and a mysterious AI.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Tellyport

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for The Buddy Signal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Buddy Signal.

    Play as Sally, the granddaughter of a brilliant and eccentric inventor, who invited you to explore her 70s lab, filled with unique inventions. Solve puzzles by crossing TV screens that alter your gravity, size, or both. Observation, manipulation, and thinking are key to progressing!

    2026ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Soft(A)ware

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Buddy Signal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Buddy Signal.

    A surreal puzzle-platformer where you bend gravity, rewind time, and disrupt a virtual prison built to contain you.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  4. Star Overdrive

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for The Buddy Signal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Buddy Signal.

    Star Overdrive is a high-speed action adventure set in an open world. Race across an alien planet on your Hoverboard, mastering tricks, battling enemies, solving puzzles, and using your powers to overcome challenges and shape your destiny!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Chromatic Conundrum

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The Buddy Signal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Buddy Signal.

    Chromatic Conundrum is a first person puzzle game where you manipulate light. Combine different colors and form shadows to illuminate your way through an enigmatic world.

    2026IndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Biped 2

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for The Buddy Signal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Buddy Signal.

    Biped 2 is a coop action adventure game with a strong focus on moment-to-moment collaboration alone or between 2 or 4 players.

    2025ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Wirm

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for The Buddy Signal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Buddy Signal.

    Take a worm on a tiny adventure through this delightfully wiggly physics platformer :)

    2025IndieAdventureSimulation6.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. CHAIRS

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for The Buddy Signal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Buddy Signal.

    A fast-paced action platformer doubling as the most realistic chair simulator money can buy! Have you ever wondered what your chair thinks? What it believes? What it desires? Learn the answers and destroy some dimensions along the way!

    2024ActionIndieRacing4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Buddy Signal.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Buddy Signal.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Buddy Signal.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. 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 The Buddy Signal.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Buddy Signal.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Buddy Signal.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Buddy Signal.

    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!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Buddy Signal.

    A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Star Overdrive

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Buddy Signal.

    Star Overdrive is a high-speed action adventure set in an open world. Race across an alien planet on your Hoverboard, mastering tricks, battling enemies, solving puzzles, and using your powers to overcome challenges and shape your destiny!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Biped 2

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Buddy Signal.

    Biped 2 is a coop action adventure game with a strong focus on moment-to-moment collaboration alone or between 2 or 4 players.

    2025ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Wirm

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Buddy Signal.

    Take a worm on a tiny adventure through this delightfully wiggly physics platformer :)

    2025IndieAdventureSimulation6.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. CHAIRS

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Buddy Signal.

    A fast-paced action platformer doubling as the most realistic chair simulator money can buy! Have you ever wondered what your chair thinks? What it believes? What it desires? Learn the answers and destroy some dimensions along the way!

    2024ActionIndieRacing4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Buddy Signal

What games are most similar to The Buddy Signal?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Buddy Signal are Solar Voltage, Tellyport, Soft(A)ware.
Who developed The Buddy Signal?
The Buddy Signal was developed by Dennis Löfgren Games.

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 The Buddy Signal.

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