Games like A Standard Deviation
If A Standard Deviation is your kind of game, the closest matches are Only Up: 2D Platformer, Unbound Drift and Super Gorilla Quest 2: A Space Chimpanzee — 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 A Standard Deviation: Explore the exotic planet Crystal Archipelago, study its strange phenomena and wrap your head around its divergence-based puzzles, accompanied by peculiar pirate crew seeking a mythical treasure.
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Only Up: 2D Platformer
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Top pick for A Standard Deviation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Standard Deviation.
Only Up: 2D Platformer is a vertical platformer where the goal is to reach the top. Jump and dash across platforms as you climb higher. Discover new places, explore changing environments, leave the atmosphere behind, and find out what awaits you at the top...
Unbound Drift
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Second-strongest match for A Standard Deviation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Standard Deviation.
Take a swing through space in this unique precision based physics game. Embrace the rush chasing the elusive golden speed trail, or relax as you trace perfect paths through the terrain. Either way, the graceful arcs and cosmic challenges will leave you in the perfect flow state: The Unbound Drift
Super Gorilla Quest 2: A Space Chimpanzee
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Third-strongest match for A Standard Deviation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Standard Deviation.
Super Gorilla Quest 2: A Space Chimpanzee is a surreal comedy-filled RPG about four primates attempting to stop humans from destroying the universe.
Last Writes
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Ranked #4 for A Standard Deviation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Standard Deviation.
Last Writes is a sound-based puzzle game with very sparse and cryptic instructions, reflecting on what remains of religion in a world that has long strived to overcome it. Follow the signal and confront a rogue AI that sees you as its God.
Panspermia - El eco de los antiguos
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Ranked #5 for A Standard Deviation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Standard Deviation.
A narrative adventure where your words matter. Explore, decide, and uncover the secrets of the Panspermia universe in an experience inspired by classic text parser adventures.
Gravity Break
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Ranked #6 for A Standard Deviation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Standard Deviation.
Take a break from gravity. Flourish in a dangerous solar system, where psychotic apes from Mars are raiding the Earth for resources. Accelerate interplanetary economy by riding a rocket in simulated physics. Find your resonance between planetary movements and accelerating competitive cheese trade.
MirrorMoon EP
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Ranked #7 for A Standard Deviation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Standard Deviation.
MirrorMoon EP is a game about mystery and exploration set in outer space. These space travels begin on a red planet and its unique moon and extend across galaxies. The single player part of MirrorMoon EP blends adventure and exploration with navigation-based puzzle solving.
Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure
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Ranked #8 for A Standard Deviation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Standard Deviation.
Between Horizons is a narrative 2.5D sci-fi detective adventure. 33 years into the Zephyr's journey, its mission is suddenly jeopardized. Can you find the culprit before it's too late? Experience an enthralling story set in a semi-open world that branches and ends based on your choices.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below A Standard Deviation at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~88% under A Standard Deviation on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Standard Deviation.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~63% under A Standard Deviation on Steam right now. Shares Indie with A Standard Deviation.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
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Priced ~53% under A Standard Deviation on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Standard Deviation.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
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Priced ~75% under A Standard Deviation on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Standard Deviation.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~81% under A Standard Deviation on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Standard Deviation.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~88% under A Standard Deviation on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with A Standard Deviation.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
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Priced ~63% under A Standard Deviation on Steam right now. Shares Indie with A Standard Deviation.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
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Priced ~50% under A Standard Deviation on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Standard Deviation.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with A Standard Deviation.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Standard Deviation.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Standard Deviation.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with A Standard Deviation.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Standard Deviation.
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.
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with A Standard Deviation.
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!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Standard Deviation.
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.
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Frequently asked about A Standard Deviation
- How much does A Standard Deviation cost?
- A Standard Deviation is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to A Standard Deviation?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside A Standard Deviation are Only Up: 2D Platformer, Unbound Drift, Super Gorilla Quest 2: A Space Chimpanzee.
- Who developed A Standard Deviation?
- A Standard Deviation was developed by Alessandro Perelli.
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