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Games like Bob Came in Pieces

Below are 24 hand-picked alternatives to Bob Came in Pieces for fans of indie, adventure, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Bob Came in Pieces also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, cheaper alternatives, free-to-play picks, more from Ludosity. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.

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About Bob Came in Pieces: Bob has crashed on a strange planet, lost a bunch of parts for his ship and above all, is late for work! Find the lost parts and rebuild your ship along the way to solve challenging, physics-based puzzles. You can build your ship any way you like in the ship builder – try to find the coolest ship-design for the puzzle at hand!

2010IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableMetacritic 73Windows · macOSby Ludosity
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Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Bob Came in Pieces at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Bob Came in Pieces on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bob Came in Pieces.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Bob Came in Pieces on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bob Came in Pieces.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Bob Came in Pieces on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bob Came in Pieces.

    An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Bob Came in Pieces on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bob Came in Pieces.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~90% under Bob Came in Pieces on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bob Came in Pieces.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Bob Came in Pieces on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bob Came in Pieces.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Bob Came in Pieces on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bob Came in Pieces.

    Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Your Only Move Is HUSTLE

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Bob Came in Pieces on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bob Came in Pieces.

    Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Poppy Playtime

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bob Came in Pieces.

    You must stay alive in this horror/puzzle adventure. Try to survive the vengeful toys waiting for you in the abandoned toy factory. Use your GrabPack to hack electrical circuits or nab anything from afar. Explore the mysterious facility... and don't get caught.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. BEEP

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bob Came in Pieces.

    A combination of platforming with a gravity gun, BEEP is an amazing physics-platformer. Despite its friendly art style, this is a hardcore platformer in the truest sense.

    2011IndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗
  3. Hello Guest: Hello Neighbor 2 pre-alpha

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bob Came in Pieces.

    Hello Guest, beloved Hello Neighbor 2 pre-alpha, a stealth horror thriller with an advanced, self-learning AI. You take the night shift as a security guard at an abandoned Golden Apple Amusement Park where a creature is hiding in the shadows. What can go wrong?

    2020StrategyIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Linebound

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bob Came in Pieces.

    One player navigates. One player creates. Linebound is a 2D asymmetric co-op puzzle platformer where one player navigates the world while the other draws platforms in real time. Progress is only possible through communication.

    2026IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. VITAL

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Bob Came in Pieces.

    VITAL is a first person puzzle platformer taking place in a dream world. You have no idea where you are or how you got there. The only thing that is certain is that someone or something doesn't want you to wake up. Explore the mind of a fragile individual and solve physics-based puzzles.

    2019IndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Scrap Garden - The Day Before

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bob Came in Pieces.

    A new chapter of charming 3D platformer about the little rusty robot C4N who unwittingly finds himself in the midst of momentous events in Robo Land. In order to solve the new riddle, Canny will once again need to run and jump a lot, solve puzzles, and fight against enemies who are much bigger and stronger than he is.

    2016ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Project Sphinx

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bob Came in Pieces.

    In this first-person puzzle-solving game, you're a robot with a mission on a space station. And like any great robot, you're going to have to explore, teleport and ricochet your way around the base, in which each room and corridor is a puzzle to solve.

    2023ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. DreamBack VR

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bob Came in Pieces.

    DreamBack VR is a virtual reality, first-person psychological horror game where you explore the eerie Rickfford Mansion, trying to unravel its mysteries and survive the experience with your sanity intact.

    2020IndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗

More from Ludosity

Other recommendable Steam games by Ludosity, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Ludosity, the studio behind Bob Came in Pieces.

    Brawl it out with your Nickelodeon favorites in epic platform battles.

    2021Action49.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Slap City

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Ludosity, the studio behind Bob Came in Pieces. Shares Indie with Bob Came in Pieces.

    Slap City is a Seriously Fun platform fighter with a perfect mix of characters from the Ludosity universe. Play Locally or Online. Slap it hard in Ranked or fast and loose in Slap Ball game mode. We are the original inventors of Clutch Technology.

    2020ActionIndie19.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Card City Nights

    WHY THIS

    Shares a chill mood with Bob Came in Pieces.

    Another title from Ludosity, the studio behind Bob Came in Pieces. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bob Came in Pieces.

    Card City Nights is not a traditional card-trading game. It's an adventure game with zany characters to meet and weird locations to explore. In the center is our new card battle system that breaks away from the fantasy TCG mold with connecting cards to form combos.

    2014IndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Ittle Dew

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Bob Came in Pieces.

    Another title from Ludosity, the studio behind Bob Came in Pieces. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bob Came in Pieces.

    Adventuress Ittle Dew and her sidekick Tippsie crash onto a strange island, filled with loot and mysterious inhabitants. It quickly dawns on the duo that this might become their biggest adventure yet.Ittle Dew boils down the classic adventure formula until there is only fun left.

    2013IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Princess Remedy 2: In A Heap of Trouble

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Bob Came in Pieces.

    Another title from Ludosity, the studio behind Bob Came in Pieces. Shares Indie with Bob Came in Pieces.

    An enormous Boss Tower has sprung from the ground, lifting entire towns up with it. Now, the people living on the tower are starting to contract all sorts of mysterious illnesses. Princess Remedy, still in Saturnian healing school, must use her powers to heal everyone and defeat the Boss Tower!

    2016ActionIndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. MURI

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Bob Came in Pieces.

    Another title from Ludosity, the studio behind Bob Came in Pieces.

    MURI is a DOS-style shooter from Remar Games and Ludosity. Features PC Speaker sound and 16-color EGA graphics.

    2013Action9.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Ittle Dew 2+

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Bob Came in Pieces.

    Another title from Ludosity, the studio behind Bob Came in Pieces. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bob Came in Pieces.

    Ittle and Tippsie crash onto yet another island filled with loot, puzzles and mysterious inhabitants! With the help of a magical map, they set out to steal eight pieces of a raft from increasingly improbable locations including beaches, prairies, an art exhibit and some dude's basement.

    2016ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Card City Nights 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Bob Came in Pieces.

    Another title from Ludosity, the studio behind Bob Came in Pieces. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bob Came in Pieces.

    Adventure and Cards now back together! And remember, it's always night in space.

    2017StrategyIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Bob Came in Pieces

Does Bob Came in Pieces run on Steam Deck?
Bob Came in Pieces is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Bob Came in Pieces cost?
Bob Came in Pieces is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Who developed Bob Came in Pieces?
Bob Came in Pieces was developed by Ludosity.

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