Games like Plumbo
If Plumbo is your kind of game, the closest matches are Jiahao, TomoBuddy and What The Dog Doing? — 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 Plumbo: A playful desktop companion that reacts to everything you do to him. Pet, toss, or annoy Plumbo... just don't push your luck.
Players who liked Plumbo also play
Steam players who put hours into Plumbo 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.
Jiahao
WHY THIS
Top pick for Plumbo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Plumbo.
Sit tight: a coronation for the annals of the Hao realm. I’m Jiahao, your desktop pet—its absolute strongest, stock investing’s uncrowned king and fashion’s highest peak. What has this loneliness taught you to love? “You misunderstand. Let me enlighten you.” “You are the challenger.”
TomoBuddy
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Plumbo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Plumbo.
A cozy pixel pet that lives on your desktop. It vibes while you type, eats the words you write at mealtime, plays minigames, levels up, evolves, and collects little treasures. Feed it, clean it, love it, or neglect it and face the wrath of your pixelated digital dependent.
What The Dog Doing?
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Plumbo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Plumbo.
A relaxing idle digging game that sits at the corner of your screen. Work (or don't) while your best friend digs for items, collects treasures and unlocks new biomes and outfits.
DR. VIOLET'S NIGHT OFF
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Plumbo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Plumbo.
Midnight Consult: Dr. Violet's Night Off is an interactive desktop simulation game. Invite the elegant Dr. Violet to your screen to keep you company. Interact using your mouse, watch her gaze track your cursor, customize her outfits, and enjoy a relaxing atmosphere right on your desktop.
Kotamas
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Plumbo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Plumbo.
A cozy pixel dog who lives on your desktop and runs your focus sessions. Start a pomodoro and he naps while you work, quietly clears the distractions you choose, and celebrates every block with you. Play fetch on your breaks, pick from nine breeds and counting, and never work alone again.
Patchy
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Plumbo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Plumbo.
Patchy is a little robot who lives on your desktop. He fishes, gardens, cooks, catches bugs, and mostly functions without you. He'll sit back, watch movies and react to your local weather. If he is angry he will grab your cursor and nudge your panels around until you give him some attention.
Desktop Buddy
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Plumbo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Plumbo.
Desktop buddy is an active sandbox companion game where you can paint, shoot, crush and decorate your very own ragdoll on your desktop. Use familiar paint tools to fully customize your desktop buddy to your liking so you can treat it well, or don't.
Taskbar Cat Club
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Plumbo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Plumbo.
Adopt a club of pixel cats that live on your desktop. They stroll along your taskbar, nap on your monitors, climb your windows, chase your cursor, and wander from screen to screen, always on top and never in your way.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Plumbo.
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 and Simulation with Plumbo.
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?
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 Simulation with Plumbo.
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 with Plumbo.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Plumbo.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Plumbo.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Plumbo.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Plumbo
- What games are most similar to Plumbo?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Plumbo are Jiahao, TomoBuddy, What The Dog Doing?.
- Who developed Plumbo?
- Plumbo was developed by Ozzbit 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 Plumbo.
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