IMHO.

Games like Ajayu

If Ajayu is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cloudy Day, Little Guardians: The Last Hope and Deer & Boy — 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 Ajayu: Join Alaya on this spiritual adventure, who, with the help of his ability to control his own soul, will have to face dangerous enemies and solve challenging puzzles across the world's driest desert, to find the place where his ancestors rest.

AdventureWindowsby Infinity Gears Studios
Ajayu — Steam game cover

Players who liked Ajayu also play

Steam players who put hours into Ajayu 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. Cloudy Day

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Ajayu fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Ajayu.

    Cloudy Day is a 2D casual hand-drawn platforming game made entirely by a single person. Play as a lonely cloud that embarks on a journey to learn how to fly and be able to join their fellow clouds!

    2025IndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Little Guardians: The Last Hope

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Ajayu fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Ajayu.

    Join Liam, a boy with newfound strength, on a cinematic 3D puzzle platformer adventure. Solve unique environmental puzzles, overcome platforming challenges, and team up with two companions to uncover a mysterious story.

    2026IndieAdventureCasual14.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Deer & Boy

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Ajayu fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Ajayu.

    In this poetic cinematic platformer, a runaway boy meets a fawn. As their bond grows, so do their abilities and the emotional weight of their journey, where silence speaks louder than words.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  4. Step Lightly

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Ajayu fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    There’s no place like home - and yours is no home at all. Play as Rosa, a neglected child trying to escape her abusive family. Sneak out, but be ever so quiet. Mom is listening, dad is angry, and your big sister is always watching…

    IndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. YesterSol

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Ajayu fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Ajayu.

    Unleash your magical spear! Explore a vast inter-connected world, battling enemies sent by Culex, the dark mosquito deity. Throw, recall, and use your spear as a platform through this minimalistic metroidvania made by one developer!

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  6. In The Drift

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Ajayu fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Ajayu.

    A game about fixing the internet in space. Travel the asteroid belt and restore connections in a dreamy narrative platformer from one half of the creators of Sable.

    IndieAdventureSteam ↗
  7. Goodbye Seoul

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Ajayu fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Ajayu.

    Six months before the asteroid strike, and a new beginning. Goodbye Seoul is a narrative puzzle adventure set in a desolate yet hauntingly beautiful post-apocalyptic Seoul. Will you uncover the truth before time runs out?

    ActionIndieAdventureDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Jasper's Island

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Ajayu fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Ajayu.

    Start a new job as a Lighthouse Keeper and team up with a stray cat in your cabin. Explore a lost island of creatures and locate new tools to take care of the wild and forgotten. Your journey will take you across oceans, caves, forests and deeper into the history of the island.

    IndieAdventureCasualSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Ajayu.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

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

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Ajayu.

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Ajayu.

    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 ↗
  4. 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.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Ajayu.

    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 ↗
  6. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Coloring Pixels

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.

    2018IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  8. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Ajayu

What games are most similar to Ajayu?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ajayu are Cloudy Day, Little Guardians: The Last Hope, Deer & Boy.
Who developed Ajayu?
Ajayu was developed by Infinity Gears Studios.

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 Ajayu.

For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.