Games like Bub
If Bub is your kind of game, the closest matches are His World, Game of Mods and Filthy us 2 — 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 Bub: A narrative adventure game about turning your memories into art while you still can. Made with slashes of ink and paint and thousands of cut paper pieces, Bub is a deeply personal, living, breathing game world.
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His World
WHY THIS
Top pick for Bub fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bub.
His World is a short visual novel game where you play as a young shy introvert boy and witness his life with his family and get to see his internal world and struggles. You also make a few decisions throughout the game that will decide on one of game's multiple endings.
Game of Mods
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Bub fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bub.
You make mods. Other players walk through them. Game of Mods ships with five contemplative chapters—each an obstacle of mind—as proof of format, then hands you the full creator toolkit. Local AI dialogue. macOS Apple Silicon. Early Access.
Filthy us 2
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Bub fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bub.
千禧年初西北某地，一起恶性杀人事件轰动一时，行凶者临死前紧紧握着半张佛脸，他强烈的怨念引起了“无者”的注意。随着探究的深入，竟又牵扯出十年前另一起纵火灭门案！相同的一尊佛像，背后暗藏的究竟是天灾还是人祸。在那片由怨念产生的怨秽地之中，种种诡异可怖的表象之下，深埋着未知的秘密。
Before Your Eyes
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Bub fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bub.
Embark on an emotional first-person narrative adventure where you control the story—and affect its outcomes—with your real-life blinks. With this innovative technique you will fully immerse yourself in a world of memories, both joyous and heartbreaking, as your whole life flashes before your eyes.
Anamorphine
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Bub fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bub.
Explore the past as you resolve the present in Anamorphine, a surreal adventure of rendered emotions. Journey into the mind of the main character, a young man in denial. His subconscious is pushing him to face his past - or be consumed by it.
Welcome to Elk
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Bub fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bub.
True stories told by real people. Welcome to Elk transforms the weird, wonderful, dark and desperate tales of the road less-traveled into an inventive, biographical adventure. This is an island like no other where drama, trauma, love and laughter hide around every corner.
The Last Show of Mr. Chardish
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Bub fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bub.
Decades have passed and the Actress, Ella, returns to the abandoned theatre to uncover a preserved collection of extraordinary performances. Explore a variety of magical, hand-painted worlds as you collect the lost pieces of the past.
The Stanley Parable
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Bub fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bub.
The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.
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 with Bub.
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 Bub.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Bub.
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 Bub.
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 Bub.
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 with Bub.
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 Bub.
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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Frequently asked about Bub
- What games are most similar to Bub?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Bub are His World, Game of Mods, Filthy us 2.
- Who developed Bub?
- Bub was developed by Paperfrog.
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 Bub.
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