Games like The Underlayer
If The Underlayer is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hot Worlds, Ashmourn and Chasing the Wind — 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 The Underlayer: A comedic roguelike shooter in which a routine trip to the bathroom opens a portal to a crazy Underside. Explore mysterious dimensions, fight absurd monsters, unlock powerful weapons and help Petka escape from a world where logic has ceased to exist.
Players who liked The Underlayer also play
Steam players who put hours into The Underlayer 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.
Hot Worlds
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Top pick for The Underlayer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Underlayer.
When all-star MMA fighter Valentina Rubio discovers a door to a shadow dimension, she goes on an adventure through the fabric of space to compete in HOT WORLDS; the biggest anything-goes fighting championship in the universe!
Ashmourn
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Underlayer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Underlayer.
ASHMOURN is a hand-crafted 2D roguelike of relentless combat and deep build-craft. Parry, dash and unleash god-given boons across five cursed biomes that reshape every run. Fall, grow stronger, and break the false dawn. · 6 languages.
Chasing the Wind
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Underlayer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Underlayer.
In this game, players will collect resources while exploring maps, relying on the accumulated resources to compete on the global leaderboard; they will also gain unique enjoyment from adventure and competition.
Barbearian
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Ranked #4 for The Underlayer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Underlayer.
Barbearian is a fast-paced hack'n'slash with massive battles in a colorful, hand-drawn world. Fight for your life, discover the secrets of the Arbitrators and find your way back home!
Kill Fish
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Ranked #5 for The Underlayer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Underlayer.
Kill Fish is a surreal 2D side-scroll platformer blending action, puzzle challenges, and hand-drawn visuals in a mysterious, atmospheric world with a layered narrative.
Fuzz Dungeon
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Ranked #6 for The Underlayer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Underlayer.
Descend through absurd layers of history as a rat-dog-witch trying to escape employment and transcend reality. Explore weird museums, cosmic hallways, and your own bad dreams in a chaotic mash-up of art, humor, and a playable existential crisis.
Genokids
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Ranked #8 for The Underlayer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Underlayer.
A bizarre music band named Genokids is rocking one of their best concerts to date when The Infinite Empire of Zenodia decides to invade Earth and assimilate mankind, landing right on top of the band and ruining both their concert and mood.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Underlayer.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Underlayer.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Underlayer.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Underlayer.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Underlayer.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Underlayer.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Underlayer.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Underlayer.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Frequently asked about The Underlayer
- What games are most similar to The Underlayer?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Underlayer are Hot Worlds, Ashmourn, Chasing the Wind.
- Who developed The Underlayer?
- The Underlayer was developed by Real Pixel Game.
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 The Underlayer.
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