Games like Paintey
If Paintey is your kind of game, the closest matches are Pierhead Arcade, Klepto and Modbox — 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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Players who liked Paintey also play
Steam players who put hours into Paintey 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.
Pierhead Arcade
WHY THIS
Top pick for Paintey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paintey.
Play in your own virtual arcade with unlimited tokens.
Klepto
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Paintey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paintey.
Welcome to Klepto where there's no place like a burglarized home. In this burglary simulation you'll explore, terrorize and loot your way to success in a variety of open-world sandbox neighborhoods. **VR is NOT required for this game.
Climbey
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Ranked #4 for Paintey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Paintey.
Climbey is a VR-only climbing game! The goal is to climb to the finish as fast as you can, avoiding obstacles and trying not to fall along the way.
Beyond Sandbox
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Paintey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paintey.
Beyond Sandbox is a multiplayer VR modding platform powered by Unreal Engine 5. With advanced physics and the creativity of our modding community, anything is possible.
Time Machine VR
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Ranked #6 for Paintey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paintey.
You are a time traveller tasked with exploring the Jurassic era and the creatures that once ruled the prehistoric oceans. Use an array of advanced tech tools to track, examine, and discover the scientific secrets of mosasaurs, livyatans, and megalodons, among others!
iB Cricket
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Paintey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paintey.
A sport with 2.5 billion fans across the world is now in VR as iB Cricket (vSport). Step into immersive world-class stadiums with thousands cheering for you and our realistic physics makes it intuitive to learn within 10 mins. Hone your skills, compete in global tournaments & become a vSport star.
Virtual Battlegrounds
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Ranked #8 for Paintey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paintey.
Virtual Battlegrounds is a VR Battle Royale built from the ground up for virtual reality. Battle to become the last warrior standing on this dystopian war-crazed island with tactical gun-play, an epic map, and physically controlled locomotion.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Paintey at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Paintey on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paintey.
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 Paintey on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Paintey.
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 Paintey on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paintey.
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
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Priced ~50% under Paintey on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Paintey.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Paintey on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Paintey.
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 ~70% under Paintey on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paintey.
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 Paintey on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Paintey.
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.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
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Priced ~50% under Paintey on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paintey.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Blueshift
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paintey.
fly and jet around vast landscapes at ridiculous speeds. Spread your wings and use your rocket boosters to glide, do tricks, go off jumps, ski, or anything you can imagine.
Microcosm
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paintey.
Build tiny voxel worlds in virtual reality! Microcosm is the game I've wanted to play in VR ever since I saw the Oculus Rift Kickstarter way back in 2012. I picked up a Vive last year, but no one seemed to be making the voxel game I wanted. Finally, I just decided to build it myself.
The Way of Life Free Edition
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Paintey.
The Way of Life makes the player relive the same life's experiences from the point of view of three characters of different ages: an adult, an old man and a child.
ChilloutVR
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paintey.
ChilloutVR is a social sandbox game enabling players and content creators to create, share and explore content in a massive multiplayer metaverse alone, with friends or anyone around the world. Meet new people and explore virtual worlds together. Playable with and without a VR-Headset.
Anarchy Arcade
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Early Access with Paintey.
Turn your entire digital life into a game. AArcade is a 3D desktop that launches shortcuts to absolutely anything you like. Join the anarchy of the persistent online metaverse, or remain in your own private reality. Casual in-game building features, plus hundreds of thousands of addons.
Zaccaria Pinball
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paintey.
Play free and try tables in trial mode with Zaccaria Pinball, featuring 175+ tables, including 40+ officially licensed from Zaccaria was founded by three brothers: Marino, Franco, & Natale. Zaccaria was one of the three largest pinball manufacturers in the world, next to Bally & Williams.
Meditation VR
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Early Access with Paintey.
Birds high up in the sky, waves rolling in on the shore, the wind blowing through palm trees and plants that grow on your private secluded island all contribute both visually and in sound to a surreal experience that practically makes you feel the ocean breeze.
DreamFly
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Paintey.
DreamFly: The game that simulates flights in your dreams! It is a sandbox game, there are no goals. But before you start your adventure, you will need to, well, learn how to fly.
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Frequently asked about Paintey
- How much does Paintey cost?
- Paintey is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Paintey have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Paintey supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Paintey?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Paintey are Pierhead Arcade, Klepto, Modbox.
- Who developed Paintey?
- Paintey was developed by Brian Lindenhof and published by ShadowBrain 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 Paintey.
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