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Games like Mai Pillow Smash

If Mai Pillow Smash is your kind of game, the closest matches are Everliving Town, Between the notes and Five Elements Chess — 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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About Mai Pillow Smash: A mental puzzle game about insomnia and the fragments that fill your head. Mai can't sleep. Every night, restless thoughts flood her mind. Match them, calm them, and clear the noise before it takes over.

2026IndieWindowsby Nayth
Mai Pillow Smash — Steam game cover

Players who liked Mai Pillow Smash also play

Steam players who put hours into Mai Pillow Smash 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.

  1. Everliving Town

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Mai Pillow Smash fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Mai Pillow Smash.

    In a town of exactly 245 residents, every breath is a subtraction. A narrative experience blending Gothic hand-drawn art and natural history puzzles. Waking into a world of "domestic bliss" as thick as a fungal bloom, will you submit to the morbid order, or shatter the balance?

    IndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Between the notes

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Mai Pillow Smash fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Mai Pillow Smash.

    A mystical psychological thriller set in the quiet village of Klavishne. Talk to the locals, learn stories, enjoy the atmosphere, pick up the pieces. But find out: who is the woman in the portrait and what happened to her?

    2026IndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. Five Elements Chess

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Mai Pillow Smash fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Mai Pillow Smash.

    A spell-duel game that combines the Five Elements theory and match-three gameplay.

    2026StrategyIndieCasualSteam ↗
  4. Crescent Roll

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Mai Pillow Smash fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Mai Pillow Smash.

    The all-in-one, super-sweet, physics-based, gravity-altering, action-packed, fully-customizable, bite-sized 2D marble racing game.

    2025IndieCasualRacing9.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. rook

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Mai Pillow Smash fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    rook is a chess deckbuilding roguelike. cover your board in stickers and stack spare tiles to supercharge the cascading chaos and watch your scores go exponential, maybe then you might just survive the gauntlet.

    StrategyCasualSteam ↗
  6. The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Mai Pillow Smash fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Mai Pillow Smash.

    The Dream Machine is an award-winning point & click adventure game about exploring other people's dreams. It's built by hand using materials such as clay, cardboard and broccoli.

    2012IndieAdventureCasual3.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. AMEN 11 11

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Mai Pillow Smash fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Mai Pillow Smash.

    AMEN 11 11 is a hidden object adventure game set in an atmosphere of apocalypse and psychological horror. The player's task is to find objects hidden on the maps.

    2026IndieAdventure2.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Papetura

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Mai Pillow Smash fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Mai Pillow Smash.

    Papetura is a short atmospheric adventure game, with unique world handmade entirely out of paper, and beautiful fragile music. It tells the story of two little creatures whose house is in danger of being burned down.

    2021IndieAdventureCasual11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mai Pillow Smash.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mai Pillow Smash.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mai Pillow Smash.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mai Pillow Smash.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. 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 Mai Pillow Smash.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mai Pillow Smash.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Mai Pillow Smash

What games are most similar to Mai Pillow Smash?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mai Pillow Smash are Everliving Town, Between the notes, Five Elements Chess.
Who developed Mai Pillow Smash?
Mai Pillow Smash was developed by Nayth and published by Cartographe Imaginaire.

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 Mai Pillow Smash.

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