Games like 17 Steps
If 17 Steps is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fortune Avenue, Biblios Dice and PlayZone — 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 17 Steps: 17 Steps is a fast-paced mahjong strategy duel inspired by the Japanese variant “Seventeen Steps.” Choose a ready hand, then battle through 17 discards. No drawing, no chi, pon, kan, or tsumo — only ron. Read your opponent, hide your waits, lock away dangerous tiles, and survive a tense mind game!
Players who liked 17 Steps also play
Steam players who put hours into 17 Steps 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.
Fortune Avenue
WHY THIS
Top pick for 17 Steps fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with 17 Steps.
A competitive board game where players vote to shape their destiny. Transform caravans into 5-star hotels, collect wonders, and earn bounties for bankrupting opponents. Use airports to outmaneuver rivals, organize World Cups to multiply your rent. Can you turn your empire into a global monopoly?
Biblios Dice
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for 17 Steps fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with 17 Steps.
Biblios Dice is a digital adaptation of the dice game by Dr. Finn. In it you are working as medieval monks to produce illustrations and improve the prestige of your abbey. Manipulate the value of the five different resources, buy and sell at the market, and gain the bishop's favor.
PlayZone
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for 17 Steps fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with 17 Steps.
PlayZone is a multiplayer party game that combines various classic gameplay elements with social interaction, making it both relaxing and fun. It supports personalized avatars and a reward system. Come and play with your friends!
Jack & Detectives - A Silent Social Detection Game -
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for 17 Steps fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with 17 Steps.
Jack the Ripper is hiding among us. Can you find him? This is a turn-based detection game, but with some twists that make it unique. No talking. No player elimination. Ten minutes per game. These rules are simple, but its nuanced mechanics will keep you entertained.
CASE
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for 17 Steps fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with 17 Steps.
Expand by producing and defending through tiles against other players, conquer your enemies. Use the various cards you find, each with different mechanics, on your enemies or allies, and become the victor of the battle. The battlefield awaits you.
Wingspan
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for 17 Steps fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with 17 Steps.
Wingspan is a relaxing, award-winning strategy card game about birds for 1 to 5 players. Each bird you play extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your three habitats. Your goal is to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves.
Gremlins, Inc.
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for 17 Steps fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with 17 Steps.
This is an intense strategy board game in a steampunk world of corrupt capitalist gremlins who compete for money, political power and prestige. Save and invest, steal and extort, arrest and get arrested – in single-player and multiplayer, with ranks and ladders, team mode and spectator mode.
Unmatched: Digital Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for 17 Steps fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with 17 Steps.
Unmatched: Digital Edition is a highly asymmetrical game of card-driven battles between epic heroes from story and myth. ⚔️ Witness clashes you've never seen before in duels or team fights. 💥 In battle, there are no equals! 💥
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below 17 Steps at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under 17 Steps on Steam right now. Shares Indie with 17 Steps.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under 17 Steps on Steam right now. Shares Indie with 17 Steps.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under 17 Steps on Steam right now. Shares Casual with 17 Steps.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under 17 Steps on Steam right now. Shares Casual with 17 Steps.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under 17 Steps on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with 17 Steps.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under 17 Steps on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with 17 Steps.
"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
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under 17 Steps on Steam right now. Shares Casual with 17 Steps.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with 17 Steps.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with 17 Steps.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with 17 Steps.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with 17 Steps.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with 17 Steps.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with 17 Steps.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with 17 Steps.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with 17 Steps.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Fortune Avenue
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with 17 Steps.
A competitive board game where players vote to shape their destiny. Transform caravans into 5-star hotels, collect wonders, and earn bounties for bankrupting opponents. Use airports to outmaneuver rivals, organize World Cups to multiply your rent. Can you turn your empire into a global monopoly?
Wingspan
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with 17 Steps.
Wingspan is a relaxing, award-winning strategy card game about birds for 1 to 5 players. Each bird you play extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your three habitats. Your goal is to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves.
Gremlins, Inc.
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with 17 Steps.
This is an intense strategy board game in a steampunk world of corrupt capitalist gremlins who compete for money, political power and prestige. Save and invest, steal and extort, arrest and get arrested – in single-player and multiplayer, with ranks and ladders, team mode and spectator mode.
Frequently asked about 17 Steps
- How much does 17 Steps cost?
- 17 Steps is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does 17 Steps have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — 17 Steps supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to 17 Steps?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside 17 Steps are Fortune Avenue, Biblios Dice, PlayZone.
- Who developed 17 Steps?
- 17 Steps was developed by SmilingMiles.
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 17 Steps.
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