Games like Painworld
If Painworld is your kind of game, the closest matches are Pal Up!, Menes: The Chainbreaker and Blue Fire — 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 Painworld: Painworld is a hardcore 3D platformer inspired by Boshy-style challenges. Explore a dangerous world of anomalies, survive brutal traps, master wall running and gravity shifts, and throw fireballs straight into boss faces on your way to victory.
Players who liked Painworld also play
Steam players who put hours into Painworld 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.
Menes: The Chainbreaker
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Painworld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Painworld.
Glide using the Icarus wings, face deadly bosses and uncover why is the Creator being chained. You will fall a lot, but rise even more! Defeat Gods and Monsters, overcome hazards, mysterious lore and surreal aesthetics. Uncover the first pieces of Menes and Bastet’s story.
Blue Fire
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Painworld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Painworld.
Explore the fallen world of Penumbra in this precision 3D metroidvania platformer. Slash fierce enemies, conquer deadly traps, uncover ancient temples, and master fast, fluid movement across challenging platforming gauntlets in your quest to restore a fallen kingdom.
Remnant: From the Ashes
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Painworld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Painworld.
The world has been thrown into chaos by an ancient evil from another dimension. As one of the last remnants of humanity, you must set out alone or alongside up to two other survivors to face down hordes of deadly enemies to try to carve a foothold, rebuild, and retake what was lost.
Scars Above
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Ranked #5 for Painworld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Painworld.
Scars Above is a challenging sci-fi third-person action adventure shooter combining the rewarding feel of overcoming difficulty with a compelling and intricate story, set in a mysterious alien world to explore.
Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Painworld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Painworld.
Her legacy lives on! Play the next series of Tomb Raider adventures in this remastered collection of Lara Croft's darkest adventures.
Mineirinho Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Painworld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Painworld.
A really cool 3d platform game, lots of extreme adventures with our friend Miner, now we have the option Double Miner and the adventure gets a lot cooler. Director's Cut version has unpublished scenes that have never been seen.
Cloudbuilt
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Painworld fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Painworld.
Rocket parkour your way through dizzying obstacles and lethal robot hazards, in this 3rd person action platformer with over 40 levels, and even more community levels.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Painworld at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Painworld on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Painworld.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Painworld on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Painworld.
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 ~70% under Painworld on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Painworld.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Painworld on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Painworld.
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.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Painworld on Steam right now. Shares Action with Painworld.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Painworld on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Painworld.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Painworld on Steam right now. Shares Action with Painworld.
Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~60% under Painworld on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Painworld.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Painworld.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Painworld.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Painworld.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Painworld.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Painworld.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Painworld.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Painworld.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Blue Fire
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Painworld.
Explore the fallen world of Penumbra in this precision 3D metroidvania platformer. Slash fierce enemies, conquer deadly traps, uncover ancient temples, and master fast, fluid movement across challenging platforming gauntlets in your quest to restore a fallen kingdom.
Remnant: From the Ashes
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Painworld.
The world has been thrown into chaos by an ancient evil from another dimension. As one of the last remnants of humanity, you must set out alone or alongside up to two other survivors to face down hordes of deadly enemies to try to carve a foothold, rebuild, and retake what was lost.
Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Painworld.
Her legacy lives on! Play the next series of Tomb Raider adventures in this remastered collection of Lara Croft's darkest adventures.
Cloudbuilt
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Painworld.
Rocket parkour your way through dizzying obstacles and lethal robot hazards, in this 3rd person action platformer with over 40 levels, and even more community levels.
Frequently asked about Painworld
- How much does Painworld cost?
- Painworld is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Painworld?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Painworld are Pal Up!, Menes: The Chainbreaker, Blue Fire.
- Who developed Painworld?
- Painworld was developed by kaledanski.
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 Painworld.
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