Games like Celeste
If Celeste is your kind of game, the closest matches are Kid Ball Adventure, Mount Farewell and Eden Genesis — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its music enhances emotional moments, writing quality is exceptional 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.
Get personalized picks →Celeste is a 2018 action-indie-adventure that tasks players with guiding protagonist Madeline up Celeste Mountain. The game combines precise platformer mechanics with puzzle elements across hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, while weaving in a narrative focused on the protagonist's personal struggle. Players describe the experience as both challenging and emotional, with reviewers highlighting how the soundtrack enhances key moments throughout the journey. The title features character development woven into its level design, with secrets to uncover and mysteries to piece together. The game achieved a 97% positive rating from over 58,000 Steam reviews and runs verified on Steam Deck, with a modding community that players say adds significant replay value. At 19.99 USD, it offers a substantial single-player experience.
About Celeste: Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.
Players who liked Celeste also play
Steam players who put hours into Celeste 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.
Kid Ball Adventure
WHY THIS
Top pick for Celeste fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Celeste.
A platformer with excellent level design that's unforgiving. With two buttons, overcome 100 levels filled with traps, enemies, dangerous situations, and bosses. Test your patience and precision. If you're looking for a challenge, this is your game.
Mount Farewell
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Celeste fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Celeste.
Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Five stages to overcome on Mount Farewell. This game is a difficult 2D precision platformer about grief for those who like a challenge.
Eden Genesis
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Celeste.
Third-strongest match for Celeste fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Celeste.
Help Leah overcome a serious illness caused by her cybernetic implants. In this a platformer from the creators of Aeterna Noctis, you will face hundreds of challenges and secrets that unravel the mystery of Eden Genesis. Live this Cyberpunk 2D adventure.
Kitsune Tails
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Celeste.
Ranked #4 for Celeste fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Celeste.
Run, jump, and dash across a land inspired by Japanese mythology and untangle the love triangle between three young women on a journey of self discovery. Explore the complicated relationships between kitsune and humans through classic platforming action.
Aeon Drive
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Celeste.
Ranked #5 for Celeste fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Celeste.
Rush through the cyberpunk landscapes of Neo Barcelona in Aeon Drive, an action-platformer with a speedrunning twist! Whether solo or in up to 4 player co-op, sprint and dash through many areas of the neon-infused city - and use your time and space-bending abilities to get ahead.
Ageless
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Celeste.
Ranked #6 for Celeste fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Celeste.
Ageless is a story driven puzzle platformer where you must alter the age of animals and plant life around you to progress. Play as Kiara, a young girl who braves through heartache and loss as she journeys across a mysterious world to discovers its secrets and herself.
Sunblaze
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Celeste.
Ranked #7 for Celeste fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Celeste.
Sunblaze is a brain-twisting precision platformer with hundreds of challenging, handcrafted levels to keep you dying for hours and hours.
TetherGeist
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Celeste.
Ranked #8 for Celeste fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Celeste.
TetherGeist is a challenging precision platformer that rewards practice and perseverance. Guide Mae and her axolotl spirit, Bao, on a wholesome coming-of-age pilgrimage while mastering Astral Projection, a tether that links Mae to her spirit and is the source of her strength.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Celeste
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Super Meat Boy
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Celeste.
Reviewers of Celeste cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Celeste.
The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!
Katana ZERO
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Celeste cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Celeste.
Katana ZERO is a stylish neo-noir, action-platformer featuring breakneck action and instant-death combat. Slash, dash, and manipulate time to unravel your past in a beautifully brutal acrobatic display.
I wanna be the Creator
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Celeste.
Reviewers of Celeste cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Celeste.
这是一款可以自制关卡的IWBTG同人游戏，在里面你可以体验到各种千奇百怪的关卡，同样也可以创作出属于你自己的关卡。
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Celeste.
Reviewers of Celeste cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Celeste.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
OneShot
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Celeste.
Reviewers of Celeste cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Celeste.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
The End Is Nigh
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Celeste.
Reviewers of Celeste cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Celeste.
The End Is Nigh is a sprawling adventure platformer where you die a lot, but thats ok because you are probably already dead anyway.
The Messenger
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Celeste cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Celeste.
As a demon army besieges his village, a young ninja ventures through a cursed world, to deliver a scroll paramount to his clan’s survival. What begins as a classic action platformer soon unravels into an expansive time-traveling adventure full of thrills, surprises, and humor.
Sunblaze
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Celeste.
Reviewers of Celeste cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Celeste.
Sunblaze is a brain-twisting precision platformer with hundreds of challenging, handcrafted levels to keep you dying for hours and hours.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Celeste at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Celeste on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Celeste.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Celeste on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Celeste.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Celeste on Steam right now. Shares Action with Celeste.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Celeste on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Celeste.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Celeste on Steam right now. Shares Action with Celeste.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
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 with Celeste.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Celeste.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Celeste.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Celeste.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Celeste.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Celeste.
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 Celeste.
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.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Eden Genesis
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Celeste.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Celeste.
Help Leah overcome a serious illness caused by her cybernetic implants. In this a platformer from the creators of Aeterna Noctis, you will face hundreds of challenges and secrets that unravel the mystery of Eden Genesis. Live this Cyberpunk 2D adventure.
Kitsune Tails
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Celeste.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Celeste.
Run, jump, and dash across a land inspired by Japanese mythology and untangle the love triangle between three young women on a journey of self discovery. Explore the complicated relationships between kitsune and humans through classic platforming action.
Ageless
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Celeste.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Celeste.
Ageless is a story driven puzzle platformer where you must alter the age of animals and plant life around you to progress. Play as Kiara, a young girl who braves through heartache and loss as she journeys across a mysterious world to discovers its secrets and herself.
Frequently asked about Celeste
- Is Celeste verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Celeste is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Celeste cost?
- Celeste is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Celeste?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Celeste are Kid Ball Adventure, Mount Farewell, Eden Genesis.
- Who developed Celeste?
- Celeste was developed by Maddy Makes Games Inc., Extremely OK Games, Ltd. and published by Maddy Makes Games Inc..
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 Celeste.
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