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Games like Unlucky Day

If Unlucky Day is your kind of game, the closest matches are Be kinder and, like, be a Rewinder, dude!, Working Class Monsters and Buerokratie Idler: Germany — 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 Unlucky Day: A clicker game about surviving a day that hates you. Starting with terrible odds, can Mika make it through ten disasters in a row and meet her friend at the bar?

2026CasualWindowsby Maple Teach
Unlucky Day — Steam game cover

Players who liked Unlucky Day also play

Steam players who put hours into Unlucky Day 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. Be kinder and, like, be a Rewinder, dude!

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Unlucky Day fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Unlucky Day.

    1995, Summer. "Get a job or you're joining the military" shouts your dad. Get your ticket to an incremental game where you'll rewind, loan, buy tapes, buy rewinders, buy food, move to better locations, hire your mates and make a mint at Planet Rewind! Video tape rentals will be around forever!

    2026IndieSimulationCasualSteam ↗
  2. Working Class Monsters

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Unlucky Day fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Unlucky Day.

    Open packs. Collect monsters. Watch the gold pile up. A cozy incremental about a monster workforce - place goblins, undead, and abyssal horrors across tiles where the right neighbors mean bigger payouts. Grow your sleepy island into a gold printing empire and unlock hidden islands to settle on.

    2026StrategySimulationCasualSteam ↗
  3. Buerokratie Idler: Germany

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Unlucky Day fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Unlucky Day.

    Process forms, stamp paperwork, and turn a tiny office into an absurd bureaucracy machine. A satirical idle/clicker game about fictional German-style administration - absolutely not official.

    2026SimulationCasualSteam ↗
  4. Brainrotting

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Unlucky Day fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Unlucky Day.

    Brainrotting is an incremental game about doomscrolling or solving minigames, getting upgrades and eventually automating your dopamine generation.

    2026IndieSimulationCasualSteam ↗
  5. Grandpa Needs Fish

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Unlucky Day fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Unlucky Day.

    Grandpa Needs Fish is a cozy idle clicker game where fortune rides the waves. You are Abraham and you have one mission: catch as many fish as possible. Every cast brings new rewards and every upgrade makes you stronger. Hover, catch, upgrade, and repeat in this satisfying idle incremental adventure.

    2026SimulationCasualSteam ↗
  6. Slots & Diapers

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Unlucky Day fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Unlucky Day.

    Absurd incremental game where you turn even liquid assets into financial glory! Spin for jackpots and hire veteran gamblers to automate the madness. Use permanent upgrades and 'mishaps' to accelerate your progress! Simple. Messy. Addictive.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation4.89 USDSteam ↗
  7. Fruit Fetish

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Unlucky Day fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Unlucky Day.

    Fruit Fetish is an active incremental game where you must strive to make as much money as fast as possible by harvesting and selling a range of juicy fruits. Upgrade your skills and shop to become a master at your craft. Maybe if you work hard enough, you can finally please your corporate overlords.

    IndieCasualSteam ↗
  8. Please Leave Me Alone, I Need to Poop

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Unlucky Day fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Unlucky Day.

    Part visual novel, part WarioWare-inspired minigame collection, Please Leave Me Alone, I Need to Poop is a modern workplace comedy that you can beat within a short session in your office bathroom stall. Multiple stories, multiple minigames, and multiple endings provide replayability.

    2024IndieCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Unlucky Day.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

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

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

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

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Unlucky Day.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  7. 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 ↗
  8. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Unlucky Day.

    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.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Unlucky Day

What games are most similar to Unlucky Day?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Unlucky Day are Be kinder and, like, be a Rewinder, dude!, Working Class Monsters, Buerokratie Idler: Germany.
Who developed Unlucky Day?
Unlucky Day was developed by Maple Teach.

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 Unlucky Day.

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