Games like Hold My Thing
If Hold My Thing is your kind of game, the closest matches are Barbecue, OUTSIDE and Fireworks Designer — 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 Hold My Thing: Hold My Thing is a co-op physics-based building simulator. Team up with your friends as a crew of clumsy workers to renovate, demolish, and restore famous parody buildings. Master double-purpose tools, survive hilarious construction accidents, and fund your dream rocket to the Moon!
Players who liked Hold My Thing also play
Steam players who put hours into Hold My Thing 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.
Barbecue
WHY THIS
Top pick for Hold My Thing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hold My Thing.
Barbecue is a co-op party game where 1 to 4 players manage a backyard BBQ that spirals into total chaos. Light the fire, grill the meat, serve the guests — and try not to burn everything down.
OUTSIDE
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Hold My Thing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hold My Thing.
DARES REALITY GAME SHOW — WITH CAMERAS, NEIGHBORS, AND ESCALATION. Your friends dare you. Then lie, sabotage, and bet on your failure. Fail a dare and you’re sent OUTSIDE — escalating into strangers, neighbors, or real-world dares on camera (optional, phone supported).
Fireworks Designer
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Hold My Thing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hold My Thing.
Design your own fireworks! With a editor fully simulates real-world firework structures, you can effortlessly create stunning, realistic fireworks. GPU-accelerated rendering handles millions of particles without lag, AND you can launch fireworks together with friends!
Idiots Stealing Things
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Hold My Thing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hold My Thing.
A chaotic free-for-all heist game where you backstab your friends for the biggest payout. Trigger fire alarms, tase your rivals, and steal their loot right out of their hands. Race to the getaway van before the cops arrive, because until you extract, nothing you stole is truly yours.
Secret Agent Wizard Boy and the International Crime Syndicate
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Hold My Thing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Early Access with Hold My Thing.
Use magic spells and military surplus explosives to topple an evil crime syndicate hidden beneath a prestigious wizarding school. Learn spells, engage in espionage, and spread lore-unfriendly chaos.
Voxel Project VR
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Hold My Thing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hold My Thing.
Voxel Project offers an immersive sandbox experience set in a fully destructible voxel environment. Explore a dynamic world teeming with vehicles, dynamic fire mechanics, enemy NPCs, voxel gore, weapon customization, and a bunch of additional features to discover.
Kill It With Fire
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Hold My Thing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hold My Thing.
Kill It With Fire is a first-person action game about hunting spiders and causing collateral damage.
Catlateral Damage: Remeowstered
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Hold My Thing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hold My Thing.
The premier first-person destructive house cat simulator is back with a vengeance! Play as a mischievous cat, swat your human's possessions onto the floor, scratch up curtains, smash precious keepsakes, and show your owner who's boss.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Hold My Thing.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hold My Thing.
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 Hold My Thing.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hold My Thing.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Hold My Thing.
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 Hold My Thing.
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 Hold My Thing.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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 Hold My Thing.
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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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Secret Agent Wizard Boy and the International Crime Syndicate
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Early Access with Hold My Thing.
Use magic spells and military surplus explosives to topple an evil crime syndicate hidden beneath a prestigious wizarding school. Learn spells, engage in espionage, and spread lore-unfriendly chaos.
Kill It With Fire
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hold My Thing.
Kill It With Fire is a first-person action game about hunting spiders and causing collateral damage.
Catlateral Damage: Remeowstered
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hold My Thing.
The premier first-person destructive house cat simulator is back with a vengeance! Play as a mischievous cat, swat your human's possessions onto the floor, scratch up curtains, smash precious keepsakes, and show your owner who's boss.
Frequently asked about Hold My Thing
- Does Hold My Thing have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Hold My Thing supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Hold My Thing?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hold My Thing are Barbecue, OUTSIDE, Fireworks Designer.
- Who developed Hold My Thing?
- Hold My Thing was developed by GAMEATOM, PixUp Games and published by GAMEATOM.
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 Hold My Thing.
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