Games like Trace Elements
If Trace Elements is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hue Hooligans, Nijoaju and Inverted Journey — 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 Trace Elements: Trace Elements is an unorthodox puzzle game where the solution begins on a blank canvas. Discover and draw runes with which you can shape the spells you cast, realize surprising interactions and create novel solutions to every level.
Players who liked Trace Elements also play
Steam players who put hours into Trace Elements 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.
Hue Hooligans
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Top pick for Trace Elements fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Trace Elements.
A puzzle-platformer where you use phone booths to switch between Hooligans, each with a unique ability. Guide each one to their graffiti spot and spray it to complete the level.
Nijoaju
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Trace Elements fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Trace Elements.
Two characters. One goal. Think as one. In Nijoaju, control a powerful stone creature and an agile water creature, combining their unique abilities to solve challenging puzzles, overcome obstacles, and prove that only by working together can you move forward.
Inverted Journey
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Trace Elements fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Trace Elements.
Inverted Journey is a mind-bending puzzle platformer where you can enter the negative space of levels. Use this unique ability to solve strange puzzles, collect hidden treasures, and journey on a quest to save your little brother from a terrible fate.
IndieSteam ↗Rollick N' Roll
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Ranked #4 for Trace Elements fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Trace Elements.
Rollick N' Roll combines fun physics with intuitive controls to deliver a joyful puzzle experience for all ages. Explore a collection of marvelous marble runs, with a modern twist.
Compress(space)
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Ranked #5 for Trace Elements fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
A mind and space-bending puzzle game where you fold space to cheat your way through puzzles. Master space manipulation and reach beyond the stars to uncover the mystery at the end of the universe.
Fail Fail Succeed
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Ranked #6 for Trace Elements fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Trace Elements.
Logic driven puzzle platformer set in an uncomfortable dream world, where failures let you pave the way through a deadly environment. Fail, reflect and uncover the way out, while finding quiet comfort in your dog along the way.
UwUbUwU
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Ranked #8 for Trace Elements fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Trace Elements.
UwUbUwU is a small cozy puzzle game based on a simple idea: What if you took classic Snake but inverted the goal and made it so you have to form a loop by eating your own tail.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Trace Elements.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Trace Elements.
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!
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Trace Elements.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Trace Elements.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Trace Elements.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Trace Elements.
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Frequently asked about Trace Elements
- What games are most similar to Trace Elements?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Trace Elements are Hue Hooligans, Nijoaju, Inverted Journey.
- Who developed Trace Elements?
- Trace Elements was developed by schr.
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 Trace Elements.
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