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Games like Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary

If Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bomb Chicken, Overcooked and Linelight — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its level editor fuels creativity, nostalgic arcade purity and challenging. 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 Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary: Boulder Dash® - 30th Anniversary™ features classic retro-style gameplay with 220 exciting levels across 11 new, gorgeous and unique worlds, and 10 playable characters. The new level editor and Steam Workshop support offers potentially infinite replay with both user as well as community-created levels.

2016ActionIndieCasual14.99 USDWindows · macOSby BBG Entertainment GmbH
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Faithful to the original 1984 designLevel editor fuels creativityNostalgic arcade purityChallengingLightheartedNostalgic

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Steam players who put hours into Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary 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. Bomb Chicken

    WHY THIS

    Shares a lighthearted mood with Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary.

    Top pick for Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary.

    After a freak accident, a seemingly ordinary chicken becomes a bomb laying free range hero. Explore the versatile mechanic of laying bombs in this explosive exploration platformer.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Overcooked

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary.

    Overcooked is a chaotic couch co-op cooking game for one to four players. Working as a team, you and your fellow chefs must prepare, cook and serve up a variety of tasty orders before the baying customers storm out in a huff.

    2016ActionIndieSimulation16.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Linelight

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary.

    Linelight is an elegant puzzle game set in a world of lines.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Octogeddon

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary.

    Ranked #4 for Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary.

    You ARE Octogeddon, a massive mutant octopus with one mission: DESTROY the world! Grow more tentacles and evolve each of them into deadlier and deadlier weapons until you become the ultimate eight-legged killing machine!

    2018ActionStrategyIndie8.88 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary.

    Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine is a single player or co-op heist game. Assemble a crack team of thieves, case the joint, and pull off the perfect heist.

    2013ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Tooth and Tail

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary.

    Lead the revolution with an army of flamethrowing Boars, mustard gas-lobbing Skunks, and paratrooper-puking Owls. Tooth and Tail is a Real-Time-Strategy game featuring Single Player, Online Competitive Play, Split Screen, Replays, and more. Build a base, lead your army, eat your enemies!

    2017ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Horizon Chase Turbo

    WHY THIS

    Shares a retro mood with Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary.

    Ranked #7 for Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary.

    Thrilling arcade racing game, inspired by the super-fun-straight-to-the-point classic racing games from the 90s.

    2018ActionSportsIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Nidhogg 2

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary.

    The rules are simple. Reach the other side and kill anyone that stands in your way. Deftly parry and rend their throats, riddle their bowels with arrows, or squish their brains between your toes. The wurm cares not for chivalry.

    2017ActionIndieCasual14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary on Steam right now. Shares Action with Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary on Steam right now. Shares Action with Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary.

    Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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 and Casual with Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary.

    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. Shares Action with Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary.

    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 Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from BBG Entertainment GmbH

Other recommendable Steam games by BBG Entertainment GmbH, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Boulder Dash Deluxe

    WHY THIS

    Shares a retro mood with Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary.

    Another title from BBG Entertainment GmbH, the studio behind Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary. Shares Casual with Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary.

    Boulder Dash® Gem collecting puzzle action in an update of the classic game!

    2021StrategyAdventureCasual14.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. DYNABLASTER

    WHY THIS

    Another title from BBG Entertainment GmbH, the studio behind Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary. Shares Action and Indie with Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary.

    Having been a blockbuster, DYNABLASTER® is a game for the strategic thinker whose smart tactics will instill fear in his competitors – playing online or local against others or against the computer. In this captivating action game, destroy your enemies with cleverly placed bombs.

    2023ActionIndieCasual19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. SHARK! SHARK!

    WHY THIS

    Another title from BBG Entertainment GmbH, the studio behind Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary. Shares Action and Indie with Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary.

    Inspired by the legendary SHARK! SHARK!® game released in its original version for the Intellivision® home console in 1982, this reimagined version for up to four players offers you a modern and addictive gameplay, fantastic graphics, great sounds, lots of levels and many underwater characters.

    2023ActionIndieCasual14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. ASTROSMASH

    WHY THIS

    Another title from BBG Entertainment GmbH, the studio behind Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary. Shares Action and Indie with Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary.

    ASTROSMASH® was originally a Shoot´em up game for the Intellivision® console in 1981. This reimagined version is based on the game’s original theme and gameplay but much more exciting and challenging. The new graphics are phenomenal and the amazing background music adds a lot of excitement.

    2023ActionIndieCasual14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. BOULDER DASH 40th Anniversary

    WHY THIS

    Another title from BBG Entertainment GmbH, the studio behind Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary. Shares Action and Indie with Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary.

    BOULDER DASH® 40th Anniversary – A legend returns! Immerse yourself in 40 years of video game history and experience the classic BOULDER DASH® in an epic anniversary edition!

    2025ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. ASTROSMASH 1981

    WHY THIS

    Another title from BBG Entertainment GmbH, the studio behind Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary. Shares Action and Indie with Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary.

    In this retro arcade hit, you control a laser gun and have to shoot asteroids, bombs and other objects to collect points and ensure your survival

    2024ActionIndieSimulation4.99 USDSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Overcooked

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary.

    Overcooked is a chaotic couch co-op cooking game for one to four players. Working as a team, you and your fellow chefs must prepare, cook and serve up a variety of tasty orders before the baying customers storm out in a huff.

    2016ActionIndieSimulation16.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Linelight

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary.

    Linelight is an elegant puzzle game set in a world of lines.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Octogeddon

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary.

    You ARE Octogeddon, a massive mutant octopus with one mission: DESTROY the world! Grow more tentacles and evolve each of them into deadlier and deadlier weapons until you become the ultimate eight-legged killing machine!

    2018ActionStrategyIndie8.88 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Horizon Chase Turbo

    WHY THIS

    Shares a retro mood with Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary.

    Thrilling arcade racing game, inspired by the super-fun-straight-to-the-point classic racing games from the 90s.

    2018ActionSportsIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary

How much does Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary cost?
Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary are Bomb Chicken, Overcooked, Linelight.
Who developed Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary?
Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary was developed by BBG Entertainment GmbH.

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