Games like The Leaderboard
If The Leaderboard is your kind of game, the closest matches are Keep It Live, Chess for idiots and Josh Powlison's BUTTON: Mildly Remastered Edition — 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 The Leaderboard: The entire game is a leaderboard. Climb it by doing absolutely nothing: leave the game open, log in daily, complete pointless challenges, or just buy points. Real global rankings, real friends to disappoint, a national board for patriots, and a chat where everyone is coping.
Players who liked The Leaderboard also play
Steam players who put hours into The Leaderboard 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.
Keep It Live
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Leaderboard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Leaderboard.
Keep-it-Live is a small, singleplayer high-score game in which you assume the role of a live stream chat moderator. Your job is to ban any messages that violate the stream’s rules. Will you let the stream get taken down, or are you prepared to Keep it Live?
Chess for idiots
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Leaderboard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Leaderboard.
The first intellectually non-discriminatory chess variant. Instead of thinking, just move your pieces in one of the many absurd ways!
Josh Powlison's BUTTON: Mildly Remastered Edition
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Leaderboard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Leaderboard.
Press a button. Increment a number. Change reality. The instant classic returns for a mildly remastered electric boogaloo on modern computer systems. Once again experience the euphoria of button pressing with Josh Powlison's striking developer commentary to guide you.
Infinite Chili Sauce 无尽的辣酱
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Leaderboard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Leaderboard.
Casual and relaxed placement game, hang your time in your leisure time and build your own chili sauce empire.
Community Button
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Leaderboard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Leaderboard.
A global multiplayer idle clicker where every player contributes to a single evolving number in real time. Gain EXP, level up, unlock milestones, and watch the world change through a live heatmap. Compete, contribute, and shape the outcome—together. How high can it go? Will you press it… or watch?
Progress Bar Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Leaderboard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Leaderboard.
Ever wanted to accelerate the progress bar of your download, slow installation, Windows update or just to kill some time until something else has finished? Then here comes the game you never asked for: Progress Bar: The Game
IT Outage Desk
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Leaderboard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with The Leaderboard.
Start as a help desk technician and build your way to the top. Resolve tickets, hire staff, automate your department, and survive the increasingly absurd chaos of corporate IT in this humorous incremental clicker.
Increbouncer
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Leaderboard fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Leaderboard.
Increbouncer is a short incremental ball game where you launch balls, earn two different currencies from wall bounces and ball collisions, unlock new balls, and level up a skill tree to maximize your income.
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 The Leaderboard.
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 The Leaderboard.
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 The Leaderboard.
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 The Leaderboard.
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 The Leaderboard.
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 Casual with The Leaderboard.
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 The Leaderboard.
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.
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Frequently asked about The Leaderboard
- What games are most similar to The Leaderboard?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Leaderboard are Keep It Live, Chess for idiots, Josh Powlison's BUTTON: Mildly Remastered Edition.
- Who developed The Leaderboard?
- The Leaderboard was developed by ForgeByteLabs.
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 The Leaderboard.
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