Games like Pertinence
If Pertinence is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mech Chip, Escape Zolstar and Cave Story+ — 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 Pertinence: Explore a mind and space-bending labyrinth, overcome challenging obstacles, and discover many strange secrets. Distort the walls around you to reach otherwise inaccessible locations.
Players who liked Pertinence also play
Steam players who put hours into Pertinence 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.
Mech Chip
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Top pick for Pertinence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Pertinence.
Mech Chip is an action-adventure platformer with pilotable machinery. Explore the internal labyrinth of the cybersphere, and install yourself into devices to gain new quirks and abilities.
Escape Zolstar
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Second-strongest match for Pertinence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pertinence.
Escape Zolstar is a metroidvania where you explore, collect powerups, fight enemies, and defeat bosses.
Cave Story+
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Third-strongest match for Pertinence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pertinence.
Run, jump, shoot, fly and explore your way through a massive action-adventure reminiscent of classic 8- and 16-bit games.
Bookbound Brigade
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Ranked #4 for Pertinence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pertinence.
Bookbound Brigade is about beating the hell out of historical and literary characters you studied in school by leading a dream team of real and fictional heroes through a 2D side-scrolling platform-adventure.
La-Mulana
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Ranked #5 for Pertinence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pertinence.
LA-MULANA is an “Archaeological Ruin Exploration Action Game,” bringing the classic appeal of adventure with the punishing difficulty of retro-inspired gaming. Search inside ancient ruins, seeking out the “Secret Treasure of Life” – which sleeps in the sprawling ruins of “LA-MULANA” and is said to be the beginning of all civilization.
Valdis Story: Abyssal City
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Pertinence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pertinence.
Assume the role of Wyatt in this Action/Exploration Platformer as you explore the ruins of a holy city that was lost many years ago. Battle various types of demons, angels, and a new threat known only as the “Ferals”, using swordsmanship, martial arts, and sorcery.
8Doors: Arum's Afterlife Adventure
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Pertinence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pertinence.
8Doors is a story-driven Metroidvania-style action platformer heavily influenced by Korean folktales. Play as ‘Arum’, a brave girl that has entered the realm of the afterlife in search of her father’s soul and guide her through the '8 Doors of Purgatory' to solve the mysteries that lie deep within.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Pertinence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pertinence.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Pertinence at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Pertinence on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Pertinence.
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
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Priced ~50% under Pertinence on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pertinence.
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 ~63% under Pertinence on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pertinence.
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
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Priced ~75% under Pertinence on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Pertinence.
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.
shapez
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Priced ~75% under Pertinence on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pertinence.
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!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~50% under Pertinence on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pertinence.
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?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
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Priced ~50% under Pertinence on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pertinence.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~75% under Pertinence on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Pertinence.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Pertinence.
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.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pertinence.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
100 Asian Cats
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Pertinence.
🏮🐈 100 Asian Cats - Join the cutest adventure in the Asia! 😻 🌸 Explore the charming hand-drawn artwork of Asian temples 🏯 as you embark on a quest to find 100 adorable cats hidden throughout the game. 🕵️♂️❌ Can you find them all? 🕵️♂️🐈✅
100 Capitalist Cats
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Pertinence.
🐱💼 100 Capitalist Cats - Join the cutest adventure in the Wall Street! 😻💰💵 Explore the charming hand-drawn artwork of New York, heart of Capitalism, as you embark on a quest to find 100 adorable cats hidden throughout the game. 🕵️♂️❌ Can you find them all? 🕵️♂️🐈✅
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Pertinence.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
A Park Full of Cats
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pertinence.
Welcome to 'A Park Full of Cats,' a hidden object game that invites you to revel in the enchanting world of amusement parks! Experience the thrill and excitement of the rides and give those cats the fun they truly deserve!
Trick & Treat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pertinence.
Trick or treating in a vampire's house.Trick & Treat is a light-hearted Halloween adventure. It's about exploring and solving puzzles in a spooky atmosphere. There will be some horror elements, romance, many bad ends and a happy ending of true love.
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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.
La-Mulana
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Pertinence.
LA-MULANA is an “Archaeological Ruin Exploration Action Game,” bringing the classic appeal of adventure with the punishing difficulty of retro-inspired gaming. Search inside ancient ruins, seeking out the “Secret Treasure of Life” – which sleeps in the sprawling ruins of “LA-MULANA” and is said to be the beginning of all civilization.
Valdis Story: Abyssal City
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Pertinence.
Assume the role of Wyatt in this Action/Exploration Platformer as you explore the ruins of a holy city that was lost many years ago. Battle various types of demons, angels, and a new threat known only as the “Ferals”, using swordsmanship, martial arts, and sorcery.
8Doors: Arum's Afterlife Adventure
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Pertinence.
8Doors is a story-driven Metroidvania-style action platformer heavily influenced by Korean folktales. Play as ‘Arum’, a brave girl that has entered the realm of the afterlife in search of her father’s soul and guide her through the '8 Doors of Purgatory' to solve the mysteries that lie deep within.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Pertinence.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
Frequently asked about Pertinence
- How much does Pertinence cost?
- Pertinence is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Pertinence?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Pertinence are Mech Chip, Escape Zolstar, Cave Story+.
- Who developed Pertinence?
- Pertinence was developed by Not Magic.
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