Games like Shift
If Shift is your kind of game, the closest matches are Shine's Adventures 5(World Of Box), ココロワヒメ、おにぎりを届けるの巻 -Kokorowa Onigiri Delivery- and Raining Blobs — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, contemplative and relaxing. 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 Shift: It's a fun puzzle game. You have to connect as many figures as possible together. Use yellow "shifters" to change direction of the line. Get more points for longer line.
Players who liked Shift also play
Steam players who put hours into Shift 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.
Shine's Adventures 5(World Of Box)
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Shift.
Top pick for Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shift.
Girls came to a world of box. The robot NPC in here has an abnormality. We must sanction against these NPCs. In combat, players need to eliminate blocks to launch skills. You can combine blocks to get props and skills, or you can gain extra abilities through passive skills.
ココロワヒメ、おにぎりを届けるの巻 -Kokorowa Onigiri Delivery-
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shift.
"Look over there, it's Sakuna, and she's starving! It's my time to shine!" This is a fan-made puzzle game based on Sakuna: of Rice and Ruin, where you place contraptions on the board to deliver onigiri to Sakuna. There are no real-time elements, so you can play at your own pace and take your time.
Raining Blobs
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shift.
Raining Blobs is a challenging, fast-paced arcade puzzle game based around matching falling blocks, featuring adorable anime-style pixelart! Prove that you have what it takes to survive the endless blob rain with up to 16 players!
Zenza
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shift.
Zenza is a calming yet strategic puzzle game based off of Kigo Haiku, a form of Japanese poems thematically relating to the seasons. Put colors or shapes together to achieve balance. Progress through increasingly challenging levels to perfect your zen.
OPUS: Rocket of Whispers
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Shift.
Ranked #5 for Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Shift.
Rocket of Whispers is an award-winning post-apocalyptic adventure that follows two survivors on a journey to launch a space burial for the lost souls of their desolate world. Help them search the snowy wasteland for supplies and the courage to say goodbye.
100% Orange Juice
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shift.
100% Orange Juice is a digital multiplayer board game populated by developer Orange Juice's all-star cast. Characters from Flying Red Barrel, QP Shooting, Suguri and Sora come together with all-new characters to duke it out... with dice.
NEOVERSE
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Shift.
Ranked #7 for Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shift.
Neoverse is a beautiful, fantastic game consisting of adventures with thrilling challenges. It is a strategic, action, rogue-lite, deck building game that will test the player’s skill. Start an adventure with unique heroes to save the world along various timelines.
Ever Forward
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Shift.
Ranked #8 for Shift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shift.
A girl trapped in a strange world somewhere between reality and imagination. Help her find her way in this adventure puzzle game.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Shift at current Steam store prices.
QUICKERFLAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Shift on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shift.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Shift on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shift.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Gachi Heroes
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Shift on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shift.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Shift on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shift.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
Shotgun Legend
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Shift on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shift.
Eugene must battle aliens and the undead in search of a truck rim, as it seems to be his ticket home.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shift.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shift.
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!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shift.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shift.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shift.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shift.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
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More from Black Lime Studio
Other recommendable Steam games by Black Lime Studio, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Office Battle
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Shift.
Another title from Black Lime Studio, the studio behind Shift. Shares Indie with Shift.
Welcome to Office Battle! Many workers will lose their job because a layoff is happening very soon in your office. That is why "Big B" decided to organize a competition and the winners gets to keep his job. But don’t think that it will be easy.
Darkness Assault
WHY THIS
Another title from Black Lime Studio, the studio behind Shift. Shares Indie with Shift.
The number of missing in the city increased. People talk about the experiments on human beings. And now, only you can figure out if it was true. Especially because you have no choice. Mysteriously, you find yourself in a terrible location 40 meters underground. Your name is Katrine, and you do not remember anything about your past.
Botology
WHY THIS
Another title from Black Lime Studio, the studio behind Shift. Shares Indie with Shift.
A company is currently in development of robots for the new generation - Botology, conduct tests for a new system for the remote control of robots. The purpose of the company is to help future potential buyers explore the remote space systems.
Redemption: Saints And Sinners
WHY THIS
Another title from Black Lime Studio, the studio behind Shift.
Squad of professional soldiers was sent to scout distant space station. After the accident, that station were evacuated long ago and all the exits were blocked with power shields. But the incoming signal from there made the Commander concerned. Squad's ship were fired upon and the survivors woke up at the station.
ROMBY
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Shift.
Another title from Black Lime Studio, the studio behind Shift. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shift.
In ROMBY you will earn points by placing 4 and even more figures of one color in a straight line. Earn more points and open all hidden girls. Trust me it won't be easy.
Bad Day
WHY THIS
Another title from Black Lime Studio, the studio behind Shift.
Bad Day - an endless runner with unique combination of 2D graphics and 3D environment. Compete with players from all around the world. But do not forget that the difficulty increases as you progress through.
GG Puzzler
WHY THIS
Another title from Black Lime Studio, the studio behind Shift. Shares Indie with Shift.
GG Puzzler is a classic puzzle/mosaic game. You gonna need to build full picture of the girls out of small fragments using only small reference and your imagination.
Space Alliance: Frontier
WHY THIS
Another title from Black Lime Studio, the studio behind Shift. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shift.
Get ready to protect the entire solar system from an unprecedented threat - the D'Ahari, a race of insect-like aliens. Control an entire fleet of spaceships, trade with other races of an Alliance, and develop your own space station.
Frequently asked about Shift
- How much does Shift cost?
- Shift is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Shift?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shift are Shine's Adventures 5(World Of Box), ココロワヒメ、おにぎりを届けるの巻 -Kokorowa Onigiri Delivery-, Raining Blobs.
- Who developed Shift?
- Shift was developed by Black Lime Studio.
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 Shift.
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