Games like Make the Bus
If Make the Bus is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Journey of the Gnomes: The Battle of the Elder Isles, Circulo and Forecast Death — 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 Make the Bus: Catch the bus or get left behind! Dash, dodge, and survive a chaotic suburban neighborhood in this action roguelike about the world's worst morning commute. Buy upgrades, perfect your route, and reach the bus before time runs out.
Players who liked Make the Bus also play
Steam players who put hours into Make the Bus 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.
The Journey of the Gnomes: The Battle of the Elder Isles
WHY THIS
Top pick for Make the Bus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Make the Bus.
One gnome wizard against an entire army of darkness. Journey of the Gnomes is a fantasy survivors-like, bullet heaven game. Cast powerful spells, mighty elemental synergies, and survive the shadow horde!
Forecast Death
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Make the Bus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Make the Bus.
Survive the chaos of a bullet-heaven action game. Tear through enemy hordes, stack wild ability combos, and endure cataclysms that rewrite the rules mid-fight. The pace ramps up every minute - either you grow stronger, or you get wiped out.
GODSPEED
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Make the Bus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Make the Bus.
A top-down twin-stick shooter roguelite blending frenetic spaceship combat with deep base-building and tower defense. Fight through hostile territory, scavenge hardware, upgrade your ship, then build up your station to further empower your runs... as long as you can defend it. Godspeed, Commander.
Talas
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Ranked #5 for Make the Bus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Make the Bus.
Shoot your way across deep space. Shred through waves of enemies, unravel the secrets hiding beneath the surface, and explore the endless synergies in this retro-inspired action roguelike.
Gravelight
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Ranked #6 for Make the Bus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Make the Bus.
Light is your only way forward. Lose it - and the darkness takes you.
Plush Rangers
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Ranked #7 for Make the Bus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Make the Bus.
Survive waves of wacky mutated constructs and defeat powerful bosses with your team of Plushie friends in this quirky chaotic Survivors-like. Collect loot! Acquire merit badges! Dodge and dash your way to victory!
You Are Circle
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Ranked #8 for Make the Bus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Make the Bus.
You are a circle in a sharp world. Fight jagged enemies in a neon twin-stick bullet-hell roguelite, build devastating ability combos, and grow from fragile to unstoppable through shifting neon labyrinths.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Make the Bus.
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?
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 Make the Bus.
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 Action and Indie with Make the Bus.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Make the Bus.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Make the Bus.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Make the Bus.
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!
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Frequently asked about Make the Bus
- What games are most similar to Make the Bus?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Make the Bus are The Journey of the Gnomes: The Battle of the Elder Isles, Circulo, Forecast Death.
- Who developed Make the Bus?
- Make the Bus was developed by Fancy Ferret 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 Make the Bus.
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