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Games like Runbow

If Runbow is your kind of game, the closest matches are Floody, Fairyfail and Ultimate Sheep Raccoon — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, competitive and intense. 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 Runbow: Runbow, and all its 9-player madness, is now on Steam!With tons of competitive modes for up to 9 players--locally and online--and a massive Single Player Adventure, Runbow is the crazy, colour-based platformer you've been waiting for.

2016ActionIndieAdventureCasualRacing14.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby 13AM Games
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Steam players who put hours into Runbow 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. Floody

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Runbow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Runbow.

    Let's Have Fun in a HARDCORE Party Game! Be the last one standing on platforms. Build the stage with friends. (And block them!) There are more rules waiting for you to discover!

    2021ActionIndieRacing5.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Fairyfail

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Runbow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Runbow.

    Fairyfail is a 4 Player multiplayer party game where you attempt to reach the Goal round after round, while each time the Level gets more complicated and chaotic. So grab some friends, build some traps and be ready to have some fun in your new favorite Build´n´Run!

    2021ActionIndieCasual9.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Sheep Raccoon

    WHY THIS

    Shares a competitive mood with Runbow.

    Third-strongest match for Runbow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Runbow.

    Ultimate Sheep Raccoon is a bike-racing party game where you and your friends build the course together. Add obstacles and dangerous traps, take the lead with power-ups, and race to the finish!

    2025ActionIndieCasual19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Chicken Horse

    WHY THIS

    Shares a competitive mood with Runbow.

    Ranked #4 for Runbow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Runbow.

    Ultimate Chicken Horse is a party platformer game where you build the level as you play, placing traps and hazards to screw your friends over, but trying not to screw yourself.

    2016ActionIndieCasual14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Unspottable

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with Runbow.

    Ranked #5 for Runbow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Runbow.

    Now Online! Unspottable is a competitive party game. Blend in the crowd of AI characters, hunt down the other players and use the many different environment specific rules to win the game. Walk like a robot and punch like a human!

    2020StrategyIndieCasual9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. DIRT 5

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Runbow.

    Ranked #6 for Runbow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Runbow.

    DIRT 5 is a fun, amplified, off-road arcade racing experience created by Codemasters. Blaze a trail on routes across the world, covering gravel, ice, snow and sand, with a roster of cars ranging from rally icons to trucks, to GT heroes.

    2020ActionSportsAdventure17.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Fling to the Finish

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Runbow.

    Ranked #7 for Runbow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Runbow.

    Fling to the Finish is a cooperative racing game where teammates are tethered together by a stretchy elastic rope. Get up close and personal with your partner to maneuver two characters bouncing, rolling, and flinging their way to the finish line!

    2024ActionIndieCasual19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Move or Die

    WHY THIS

    Shares a competitive mood with Runbow.

    Ranked #8 for Runbow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Runbow.

    Move or Die is an absurdly fast-paced 4-player local and online party game where the mechanics change every 20 seconds! It's THE friendship-ruining game.

    2016ActionIndie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Runbow on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Runbow.

    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 ~67% under Runbow on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Runbow.

    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. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under Runbow on Steam right now. Shares Action with Runbow.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Runbow on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Runbow.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Runbow on Steam right now. Shares Action with Runbow.

    Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Runbow on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Runbow.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Runbow on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Runbow.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Runbow on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Runbow.

    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 ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Runbow.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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 Runbow.

    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 ↗
  3. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

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

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Runbow.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. The Lab

    WHY THIS

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

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  6. Floating Point

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Runbow.

    Floating Point is a peaceful, free game about using a grappling hook to swing yourself gracefully through randomly generated spaces. The only objective is to collect points, and the only thing that increases your points is swinging swiftly, smoothly and elegantly without hitting anything.

    2014IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Runbow.

    Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Epic Battle Fantasy 3

    WHY THIS

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

    Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!

    2016IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from 13AM Games

Other recommendable Steam games by 13AM Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Dawn of the Monsters

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Runbow.

    Another title from 13AM Games, the studio behind Runbow. Shares Action and Adventure with Runbow.

    The cataclysmic battle between giant monsters has begun in this manga-inspired, side-scrolling, kaiju beat-'em-up!

    2022ActionAdventure29.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Double Cross

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Runbow.

    Another title from 13AM Games, the studio behind Runbow. Shares Action and Indie with Runbow.

    Explore alternate dimensions, fight interdimensional criminals, and solve crimes in this thrilling action platformer!

    2019ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Missile Command Delta

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Runbow.

    Another title from 13AM Games, the studio behind Runbow. Shares Indie and Adventure with Runbow.

    Missiles are incoming. The stakes are high. Only you can stop the destruction. Manage your pool of defenses strategically to survive rounds of incoming missiles in this high-pressure, tactical turn-based game. Will you be able to unravel the mystery in time?

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Dungeon Lurker

    WHY THIS

    Another title from 13AM Games, the studio behind Runbow. Shares Action and Indie with Runbow.

    Fight your way into the depths of a cursed dungeon in Dungeon Lurker, a retro action roguelike with a dark twist. Uncover a sinister secret connected to your past as you plunge into a world of dark horror and brutal combat.

    ActionIndieRPGSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Ultimate Chicken Horse

    WHY THIS

    Shares a competitive mood with Runbow.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Runbow.

    Ultimate Chicken Horse is a party platformer game where you build the level as you play, placing traps and hazards to screw your friends over, but trying not to screw yourself.

    2016ActionIndieCasual14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Unspottable

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with Runbow.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Casual with Runbow.

    Now Online! Unspottable is a competitive party game. Blend in the crowd of AI characters, hunt down the other players and use the many different environment specific rules to win the game. Walk like a robot and punch like a human!

    2020StrategyIndieCasual9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. DIRT 5

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Runbow.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Runbow.

    DIRT 5 is a fun, amplified, off-road arcade racing experience created by Codemasters. Blaze a trail on routes across the world, covering gravel, ice, snow and sand, with a roster of cars ranging from rally icons to trucks, to GT heroes.

    2020ActionSportsAdventure17.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Fling to the Finish

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Runbow.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Runbow.

    Fling to the Finish is a cooperative racing game where teammates are tethered together by a stretchy elastic rope. Get up close and personal with your partner to maneuver two characters bouncing, rolling, and flinging their way to the finish line!

    2024ActionIndieCasual19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Move or Die

    WHY THIS

    Shares a competitive mood with Runbow.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Runbow.

    Move or Die is an absurdly fast-paced 4-player local and online party game where the mechanics change every 20 seconds! It's THE friendship-ruining game.

    2016ActionIndie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Runbow

Does Runbow run on Steam Deck?
Runbow 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 Runbow cost?
Runbow is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Runbow have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Runbow supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
What games are most similar to Runbow?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Runbow are Floody, Fairyfail, Ultimate Sheep Raccoon.
Who developed Runbow?
Runbow was developed by 13AM Games.

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 Runbow.

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