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Games like The Great Exhibition

If The Great Exhibition is your kind of game, the closest matches are Crystal Project, The Dreamthief and Cursed Dungeon Raider — 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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About The Great Exhibition: You are the head curator of a museum. Gather ancient artifacts to expand your collection by raiding temples of long-lost civilizations.

AdventureWindowsby Robin van der Horst, Jelle Pahlplatz
The Great Exhibition — Steam game cover

Players who liked The Great Exhibition also play

Steam players who put hours into The Great Exhibition 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.

  1. Crystal Project

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for The Great Exhibition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Great Exhibition.

    Crystal Project is a non-linear JRPG where you are the maker of your own adventure. Explore the world while you find Crystals, unlock classes, learn abilities, and create a strategy capable of taking down the world's toughest bosses. Or just stick to exploring; it's up to you.

    2022StrategyIndieAdventure13.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Dreamthief

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for The Great Exhibition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Great Exhibition.

    Bjørn watches a mysterious figure steal his parents’ dreams and follows it into a world consumed by nightmares. Explore, fight, solve puzzles, and open rifts between dream and nightmare in a Ghibli-inspired isometric action-adventure about facing childhood fears.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. Cursed Dungeon Raider

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Great Exhibition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Great Exhibition.

    Embark on an exploration adventure with spooky and horror elements, tasked with recovering real historical artifacts from excavation sites around the world. Beware of local traps and monsters inspired by the mythology of each region.

    2027IndieAdventureSteam ↗
  4. OOLO

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for The Great Exhibition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Great Exhibition.

    OOLO is a modern take on the classic isometric adventure. Embark on a non-linear journey across mysterious forests, haunted catacombs, and magical factories. Solve puzzles to collect keys and discover upgrades that change the way you explore this lush fantasy world.

    2025IndieAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Frog Fall

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The Great Exhibition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Great Exhibition.

    Eskweenkleh Brahvoh, I made you to escape this labyrinthine prison. Forget their gravity; you bring your own. Embrace confusion; leap over the impossible, roll on, and, kohn ehl fahbohr dehdyohs, bounce high enough to charm the world’s corpse.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  6. 100 Pumpkins

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for The Great Exhibition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Great Exhibition.

    Can you find all 100 pumpkins in this interconnected world? If you do, you will be rewarded based on how many lives you had to use!

    2021ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Samurai Bringer

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for The Great Exhibition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    Samurai Bringer is a roguelite action game with levels which change with every playthrough, where you cut down hordes of Samurai and Demons to collect combat techniques and polish your fighting style in order to defeat Yamata-no-Orochi, the eight-headed dragon of Japanese mythology.

    2022ActionIndie9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. The Girl from Arkanya

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for The Great Exhibition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Great Exhibition.

    The Girl from Arkanya is a top-down treasure hunting RPG, mimicking the style and feel of 2D Zelda games. Explore the jungles of Amazonia as Marisa, alongside her capybara companion!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Great Exhibition.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Great Exhibition.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Great Exhibition.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Great Exhibition.

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Great Exhibition.

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Great Exhibition.

    The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Paper Lily - Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Great Exhibition.

    Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.

    2024IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Crystal Project

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Great Exhibition.

    Crystal Project is a non-linear JRPG where you are the maker of your own adventure. Explore the world while you find Crystals, unlock classes, learn abilities, and create a strategy capable of taking down the world's toughest bosses. Or just stick to exploring; it's up to you.

    2022StrategyIndieAdventure13.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Samurai Bringer

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box.

    Samurai Bringer is a roguelite action game with levels which change with every playthrough, where you cut down hordes of Samurai and Demons to collect combat techniques and polish your fighting style in order to defeat Yamata-no-Orochi, the eight-headed dragon of Japanese mythology.

    2022ActionIndie9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. The Girl from Arkanya

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Great Exhibition.

    The Girl from Arkanya is a top-down treasure hunting RPG, mimicking the style and feel of 2D Zelda games. Explore the jungles of Amazonia as Marisa, alongside her capybara companion!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Great Exhibition

What games are most similar to The Great Exhibition?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Great Exhibition are Crystal Project, The Dreamthief, Cursed Dungeon Raider.
Who developed The Great Exhibition?
The Great Exhibition was developed by Robin van der Horst, Jelle Pahlplatz and published by Advonger 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 The Great Exhibition.

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