Games like A Long Way Home
If A Long Way Home is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bounce Quest, BOXNIGMA and The Lonely Helmet — 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 A Long Way Home: On day 200 of a 365 day mission your ship suffers a catastrophic engine meltdown. Stranded in space one hundred light years from Earth, you must make your way back one light year at a time. It's going to be a long way home.
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Steam players who put hours into A Long Way Home 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.
Bounce Quest
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Top pick for A Long Way Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with A Long Way Home.
Bounce Quest is a brutally challenging platformer where you explore a treacherous mountain to uncover what lies at the top. But climb carefully, one wrong jump may send you bouncing all the way down.
BOXNIGMA
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for A Long Way Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with A Long Way Home.
Move the boxes from each level correctly and simultaneously to move to the next challenge in this minimalist and retro 2D puzzle game!
The Lonely Helmet
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Third-strongest match for A Long Way Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Long Way Home.
In a galaxy far far away, there was a collection of helmets. Some were stronger than others, some were smaller and some were bigger, but all helmets had a purpose - to protect their space-human and allow them to breath outside of the Universe.
Crazy Gravity
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Ranked #4 for A Long Way Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Long Way Home.
Crazy Gravity is a challenging Platform / Puzzle game about a little Astronaut lost in space, where your main objective is to energize your rocket and go home. Good luck!
Color-Origin
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Ranked #5 for A Long Way Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Long Way Home.
2D platform casual game with rope physics and other forces It has a simple story It has slow motion, portals and simple color mechanic 76 levels (15-30 min) + speed run mode + community levels use keyboard to play
Voidstepper
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Ranked #6 for A Long Way Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with A Long Way Home.
Experience the elegance of pure black and white in this unique platformer. Navigate through puzzle- and action-packed levels, manipulate gravity, and destroy terrain to overcome obstacles. Dodge mines, lasers, and turrets as you defy gravity and outsmart challenges.
circloO
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Ranked #7 for A Long Way Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with A Long Way Home.
circloO is a colorful physics platformer in a round level. The level grows, so you'll have to avoid and use obstacles in everchanging ways. Enjoy a huge variety of physics challenges, from a sea of tiny blocks to planets with a gravity field! Make your own levels or play thousands of fanmade levels!
Dimensions
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Ranked #8 for A Long Way Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Long Way Home.
An Action-Platformer inspired by Mega Man 2, Dimensions has the player fight crazy bosses, collect and upgrade weapons, and find secrets. Players will take control of a sprite from the 2D universe to save the 3rd dimension universe.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below A Long Way Home at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~50% under A Long Way Home on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Long Way Home.
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?
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~50% under A Long Way Home on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with A Long Way Home.
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.
Peggle Deluxe
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Priced ~50% under A Long Way Home on Steam right now. Shares Casual with A Long Way Home.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
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Priced ~50% under A Long Way Home on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with A Long Way Home.
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!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~50% under A Long Way Home on Steam right now. Shares Indie with A Long Way Home.
"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!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
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Priced ~50% under A Long Way Home on Steam right now. Shares Casual with A Long Way Home.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
Bejeweled® 3
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Priced ~50% under A Long Way Home on Steam right now. Shares Casual with A Long Way Home.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with A Long Way Home.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with A Long Way Home.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Long Way Home.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Long Way Home.
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.
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with A Long Way Home.
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!
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with A Long Way Home.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
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Frequently asked about A Long Way Home
- Does A Long Way Home run on Steam Deck?
- A Long Way Home 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 A Long Way Home cost?
- A Long Way Home is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to A Long Way Home?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside A Long Way Home are Bounce Quest, BOXNIGMA, The Lonely Helmet.
- Who developed A Long Way Home?
- A Long Way Home was developed by Jonathan Mulcahy.
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 A Long Way Home.
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