Games like Alma's Search
If Alma's Search is your kind of game, the closest matches are Papetura, Botanicula and TOHU — 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 Alma's Search: "Alma’s Search" is a cozy adventure puzzle game. Help Alma step out of her comfort zone and find her best friend, the lost bird Bert, in a vibrant city. Interact with residents, assemble objects in mini-games, and collect clues to keep the search on the right path. Will Alma be able to find Bert?
Players who liked Alma's Search also play
Steam players who put hours into Alma's Search 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.
Papetura
WHY THIS
Top pick for Alma's Search fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alma's Search.
Papetura is a short atmospheric adventure game, with unique world handmade entirely out of paper, and beautiful fragile music. It tells the story of two little creatures whose house is in danger of being burned down.
Botanicula
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Alma's Search fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alma's Search.
Humor-filled indie adventure game created by the makers of Machinarium and Samorost.
TOHU
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Alma's Search fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alma's Search.
Experience a brand new adventure game set amongst a world of weird and wonderful fish planets. Explore beautiful environments, solve intricate puzzles and discover the truth about a mysterious little girl and her mechanical alter-ego, Cubus.
Samorost 3
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Alma's Search fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alma's Search.
Samorost 3 is an exploration adventure and puzzle game from the award-winning creators of Machinarium and Botanicula. Travel across space to nine unique worlds teeming with colorful challenges, creatures and surprises to discover, brought to life with beautiful artwork, sound and music.
Koira
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Alma's Search fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alma's Search.
Save a puppy and embark on a heartwarming, hand-drawn adventure together. Journey to the heart of an enchanted forest, solving puzzles and avoiding hunters to protect your newfound friend.
Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Alma's Search fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alma's Search.
Guide brush strokes and solve a variety of puzzles to help an aspiring artist complete her masterpiece amid her brusque neighbor’s gaze and his pesky cat. As her painting starts to take shape, uncover an emotional tale of chance and artistry revealed behind unrelated yet familiar moments.
The Tiny Bang Story
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Ranked #7 for Alma's Search fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alma's Search.
Life on Tiny Planet was calm and carefree until a great disaster occurred - Tiny Planet was hit by a meteor! The world fell apart and now its future depends only on you! Use your imagination and creativity: in order to restore Tiny Planet and help its inhabitants you will have to fix a variety of machines and mechanisms as well as solve...
No Longer Home
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Alma's Search fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alma's Search.
No Longer Home is a game about letting go of the life you've built due to circumstances beyond your control. Immerse yourself in the lives of Bo and Ao and learn about their dreams, frustrations and fears. Welcome the magic of the everyday and somewhat extraordinary.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Alma's Search.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Alma's Search.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Alma's Search.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Alma's Search.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alma's Search.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Casual with Alma's Search.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Alma's Search.
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.
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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.
Papetura
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alma's Search.
Papetura is a short atmospheric adventure game, with unique world handmade entirely out of paper, and beautiful fragile music. It tells the story of two little creatures whose house is in danger of being burned down.
Botanicula
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alma's Search.
Humor-filled indie adventure game created by the makers of Machinarium and Samorost.
TOHU
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alma's Search.
Experience a brand new adventure game set amongst a world of weird and wonderful fish planets. Explore beautiful environments, solve intricate puzzles and discover the truth about a mysterious little girl and her mechanical alter-ego, Cubus.
Samorost 3
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alma's Search.
Samorost 3 is an exploration adventure and puzzle game from the award-winning creators of Machinarium and Botanicula. Travel across space to nine unique worlds teeming with colorful challenges, creatures and surprises to discover, brought to life with beautiful artwork, sound and music.
Koira
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alma's Search.
Save a puppy and embark on a heartwarming, hand-drawn adventure together. Journey to the heart of an enchanted forest, solving puzzles and avoiding hunters to protect your newfound friend.
Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alma's Search.
Guide brush strokes and solve a variety of puzzles to help an aspiring artist complete her masterpiece amid her brusque neighbor’s gaze and his pesky cat. As her painting starts to take shape, uncover an emotional tale of chance and artistry revealed behind unrelated yet familiar moments.
No Longer Home
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Alma's Search.
No Longer Home is a game about letting go of the life you've built due to circumstances beyond your control. Immerse yourself in the lives of Bo and Ao and learn about their dreams, frustrations and fears. Welcome the magic of the everyday and somewhat extraordinary.
Frequently asked about Alma's Search
- What games are most similar to Alma's Search?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Alma's Search are Papetura, Botanicula, TOHU.
- Who developed Alma's Search?
- Alma's Search was developed by Aylin Mirza.
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 Alma's Search.
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