Games like Substance Lab POL
If Substance Lab POL is your kind of game, the closest matches are Marquito's Arcade - Play while Learning, CrystalCanvas and Sticker Kittens — 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.
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Marquito's Arcade - Play while Learning
WHY THIS
Top pick for Substance Lab POL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Substance Lab POL.
Have fun and learn with this collection of educational games. Each one with different gameplays. Featuring: Cell Works - Chemibot Helps the City - Gaia and the Weather Powers - Super Pizza Delivery - Itchy Earth.More Games will Come!
CrystalCanvas
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Substance Lab POL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Substance Lab POL.
Enjoy ColorByNumber in 3D voxel art. Match the numbers, paint the blocks, and create beautiful 3D artwork in this relaxing experience. Complete a variety of models, from cute animals to massive buildings, and unleash your creativity in Sandbox Mode!
Sticker Kittens
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Substance Lab POL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Substance Lab POL.
Sticker Kittens is a sudoku-like puzzle where you need to match kittens. You can also learn about how to raise and play with kittens!
Sokobond
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Substance Lab POL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Substance Lab POL.
Sokobond is an elegantly designed puzzle game about chemistry. It's logical, minimalist, and beautiful - crafted with love and science.
Moho-Moho DX
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Substance Lab POL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Substance Lab POL.
"Moho-Moho DX" is a new puzzle game where you place falling color blocks by looking at the finished picture to recreate it.Featuring 333 stages and 3 modes: relaxing "FIX", challenging "SIMILAR", and mirrored "MIRROR". Plus time attacks, custom stage sharing, and infinite generated stages!
IntuiCraft
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Substance Lab POL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Substance Lab POL.
A minimalistic intuition trainer app designed to sharpen your intuitive senses and enhance your decision-making abilities.
LX Patterns
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Substance Lab POL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Substance Lab POL.
How smart are you? The ability to recognize patterns is used to measure intelligence. LX patterns is a puzzle game in which you have to identify different patterns while listening to a relaxing soundtrack.
Breaking Good
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Substance Lab POL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Substance Lab POL.
1 puzzle, 4 views. Grab your test tubes and enter the lab to solve a unique puzzle game based on chemical compounds. Match the chemical elements to get more than 900 different compounds and see how far you can go. Do you have what it takes?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Substance Lab POL at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Substance Lab POL on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Substance Lab POL.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Substance Lab POL on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Substance Lab POL.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~45% under Substance Lab POL on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Substance Lab POL.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Substance Lab POL on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Substance Lab POL.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Substance Lab POL on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Substance Lab POL.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under Substance Lab POL on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Substance Lab POL.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Substance Lab POL on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Substance Lab POL.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Substance Lab POL on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Substance Lab POL.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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 Substance Lab POL.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Substance Lab POL.
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 Substance Lab POL.
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 with Substance Lab POL.
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 Substance Lab POL.
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 Substance Lab POL.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Substance Lab POL.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Substance Lab POL
- How much does Substance Lab POL cost?
- Substance Lab POL is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Substance Lab POL?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Substance Lab POL are Marquito's Arcade - Play while Learning, CrystalCanvas, Sticker Kittens.
- Who developed Substance Lab POL?
- Substance Lab POL was developed by PhaseOutLimit.
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 Substance Lab POL.
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