Games like Max, an Autistic Journey
If Max, an Autistic Journey is your kind of game, the closest matches are Verfall, OMORI and Doom & Destiny — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its educational without feeling preachy, atmospheric and contemplative. 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 Max, an Autistic Journey: Max, an Autistic Journey is a retro style top-down turn-based RPG filled with mini games, monsters and most of all, heart. Developed by a devoted dad who made a game with his son about his son's autism.
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Steam players who put hours into Max, an Autistic Journey 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.
Verfall
WHY THIS
Top pick for Max, an Autistic Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Max, an Autistic Journey.
Verfall is a turn-based tactical RPG where you must strategically form teams to face a decaying world. Explore, uncover secrets, and use Karma-based abilities. Face challenges, make choices, and determine the fate of the world through multiple endings.
OMORI
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Max, an Autistic Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Max, an Autistic Journey.
Explore a strange world full of colorful friends and foes. When the time comes, the path you’ve chosen will determine your fate... and perhaps the fate of others as well.
Doom & Destiny
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat with Max, an Autistic Journey.
Third-strongest match for Max, an Autistic Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Max, an Autistic Journey.
Be ready for the nerdiest adventure of your life! Journey with four everyday friends into this turn based hilarious jrpg filled with parodies and cameos! Explore a huge fantasy world full of secrets, monsters, dungeons and preposterous villains! Nerds are storming fantasy and it's awesome!
Corpse Party
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Max, an Autistic Journey.
Ranked #4 for Max, an Autistic Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Max, an Autistic Journey.
A group of friends unknowingly perform an occult ritual that traps them in an otherworldly elementary school. Here, the vengeful spirits of young children threaten their lives and their sanity, and the only hope of survival is to uncover the chilling details behind the murders of those trapped before them...
Doom & Destiny Advanced
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Max, an Autistic Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Max, an Autistic Journey.
Four nerds walk into a dungeon. It’s not a joke, it’s Doom & Destiny Advanced.
Disc Creatures
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Max, an Autistic Journey.
Ranked #6 for Max, an Autistic Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Max, an Autistic Journey.
Humans live alongside creatures, each with different personalities, abilities, and moral codes. The invention of the DiscKid has changed life for everyone. Humans can copy creatures and use their power to help others and solve mysteries around the world.
Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Max, an Autistic Journey.
Ranked #7 for Max, an Autistic Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Max, an Autistic Journey.
The Startling Developments Detective Agency springs into action as On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3 begins, set in motion by a call from a mysterious source. The ever escalating perils on the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness will season our tender heroes to their very core!
Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 4
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat and an atmospheric mood with Max, an Autistic Journey.
Ranked #8 for Max, an Autistic Journey fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Max, an Autistic Journey.
Penny Arcade’s “On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 4” concludes the saga of Tycho Brahe, Scion of The Long Project, and his almost certainly human partner Jonathan Gabriel. The world has been destroyed, but existence extends beyond this mortal plane in the gruesome Underhell!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Max, an Autistic Journey at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Max, an Autistic Journey on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Max, an Autistic Journey.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Max, an Autistic Journey on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Max, an Autistic Journey.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Max, an Autistic Journey on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Max, an Autistic Journey.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Max, an Autistic Journey on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Max, an Autistic Journey.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~60% under Max, an Autistic Journey on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Max, an Autistic Journey.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The Test: Final Revelation
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Priced ~60% under Max, an Autistic Journey on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Max, an Autistic Journey.
The third chapter in The Test Trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover who you really are as a person. The Final Revelation is upon us... but are you sure you TRULY want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
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Priced ~60% under Max, an Autistic Journey on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Max, an Autistic Journey.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~80% under Max, an Autistic Journey on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Max, an Autistic Journey.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Max, an Autistic Journey.
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.
Trick & Treat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Max, an Autistic Journey.
Trick or treating in a vampire's house.Trick & Treat is a light-hearted Halloween adventure. It's about exploring and solving puzzles in a spooky atmosphere. There will be some horror elements, romance, many bad ends and a happy ending of true love.
Ann
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Max, an Autistic Journey.
Ann, an art student finds herself trapped in the school when she accidentally broke one of the school's rules. With the help of the school's security guard, help Ann navigate her way out and uncover the secrets of the school before she becomes a permanent resident of the school.
Confess My Love
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Max, an Autistic Journey.
The story takes place after school, when Willie decides to confess his love to the girl of his dreams, Liza. Afraid of being refused, he hesitated for a while. Should he summon up his courage and confess his love to her?
At Home Alone
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Max, an Autistic Journey.
This is a recreational healing Mini-plot game explored at home. Players will play and wander around the house from the perspective of a little girl. What will she do when she is alone? What strange stories will happen in the process, and in the process of exploration, you may find some strange secrets....
Fausts Alptraum
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Max, an Autistic Journey.
Fausts Alptraum is an single player, puzzle game created by LabORat Studio, an indie game team from Taiwan. The story based on Goethe's Faust. Players will play as a troubled girl wandering around in a crayon-drawn world. Players will have to find the relevance between dreams and reality by collecting clues.
Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Max, an Autistic Journey.
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Max, an Autistic Journey.
The Startling Developments Detective Agency springs into action as On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3 begins, set in motion by a call from a mysterious source. The ever escalating perils on the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness will season our tender heroes to their very core!
Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 4
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat and an atmospheric mood with Max, an Autistic Journey.
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Max, an Autistic Journey.
Penny Arcade’s “On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 4” concludes the saga of Tycho Brahe, Scion of The Long Project, and his almost certainly human partner Jonathan Gabriel. The world has been destroyed, but existence extends beyond this mortal plane in the gruesome Underhell!
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Doom & Destiny
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat with Max, an Autistic Journey.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with Max, an Autistic Journey.
Be ready for the nerdiest adventure of your life! Journey with four everyday friends into this turn based hilarious jrpg filled with parodies and cameos! Explore a huge fantasy world full of secrets, monsters, dungeons and preposterous villains! Nerds are storming fantasy and it's awesome!
Corpse Party
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Max, an Autistic Journey.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with Max, an Autistic Journey.
A group of friends unknowingly perform an occult ritual that traps them in an otherworldly elementary school. Here, the vengeful spirits of young children threaten their lives and their sanity, and the only hope of survival is to uncover the chilling details behind the murders of those trapped before them...
Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Max, an Autistic Journey.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with Max, an Autistic Journey.
The Startling Developments Detective Agency springs into action as On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3 begins, set in motion by a call from a mysterious source. The ever escalating perils on the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness will season our tender heroes to their very core!
Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 4
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat and an atmospheric mood with Max, an Autistic Journey.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with Max, an Autistic Journey.
Penny Arcade’s “On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 4” concludes the saga of Tycho Brahe, Scion of The Long Project, and his almost certainly human partner Jonathan Gabriel. The world has been destroyed, but existence extends beyond this mortal plane in the gruesome Underhell!
Frequently asked about Max, an Autistic Journey
- How much does Max, an Autistic Journey cost?
- Max, an Autistic Journey is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Max, an Autistic Journey?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Max, an Autistic Journey are Verfall, OMORI, Doom & Destiny.
- Who developed Max, an Autistic Journey?
- Max, an Autistic Journey was developed by Professional Imagination and published by GPAC.
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 Max, an Autistic Journey.
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