Games like C.A.R.L.
If C.A.R.L. is your kind of game, the closest matches are ElecHead, Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack and Planet of the Eyes — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and retro. 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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Steam players who put hours into C.A.R.L. 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.
Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with C.A.R.L..
Second-strongest match for C.A.R.L. fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with C.A.R.L..
A sci-fi puzzle-platformer of cataclysmic proportions! Evolve from a tiny captive into a world-eating giant. Use your mutant blob powers to devour the pathetic humans and all of civilization!
Planet of the Eyes
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for C.A.R.L. fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with C.A.R.L..
An atmospheric narrative-platformer about a service robot stranded on a mysterious planet, Planet of the Eyes features a stunning visual mix of puzzle and platforming challenges, an original musical score, and fully voiced audio logs left by another survivor. Explore the mystery of an unknown world.
PONCHO
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with C.A.R.L..
Ranked #4 for C.A.R.L. fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with C.A.R.L..
A robot, a poncho and a journey of discovery! Make your way through this wonderful world of pixelated parallax platforming to solve the ultimate puzzle: who is Poncho?
Secret Agent HD
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with C.A.R.L..
Ranked #5 for C.A.R.L. fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with C.A.R.L..
Return to the remote island classic world of rewards and traps in the HD remake of Secret Agent! Guide 006 through puzzles & arcade challenges of your favorite missions, then uncover the whole new Episode loaded with all new puzzles, enemies, challenges, hazards & help 006 finally defeat DVS!
Sunblaze
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with C.A.R.L..
Ranked #6 for C.A.R.L. fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with C.A.R.L..
Sunblaze is a brain-twisting precision platformer with hundreds of challenging, handcrafted levels to keep you dying for hours and hours.
Horace
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with C.A.R.L..
Ranked #7 for C.A.R.L. fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with C.A.R.L..
"The best platformer of 2019."Horace is a huge platforming adventure which pushes the boundaries of the genre with a profound story of a small robot learning of life, the universe and Douglas Adams. Made by videogame lovers for videogame lovers!
Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with C.A.R.L..
Ranked #8 for C.A.R.L. fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with C.A.R.L..
Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials is a snarky action-adventure puzzle game with a good dose of humor. Explore hundreds of secret-filled rooms, fight big bosses, gather companions for your party and use the powers of Pip—your bat buddy—to solve puzzles and escape the eldritch abyss!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below C.A.R.L. at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under C.A.R.L. on Steam right now. Shares Indie with C.A.R.L..
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under C.A.R.L. on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with C.A.R.L..
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under C.A.R.L. on Steam right now. Shares Action with C.A.R.L..
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.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under C.A.R.L. on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with C.A.R.L..
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?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under C.A.R.L. on Steam right now. Shares Action with C.A.R.L..
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under C.A.R.L. on Steam right now. Shares Indie with C.A.R.L..
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under C.A.R.L. on Steam right now. Shares Indie with C.A.R.L..
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...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under C.A.R.L. on Steam right now. Shares Indie with C.A.R.L..
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.
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 C.A.R.L..
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 with C.A.R.L..
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 C.A.R.L..
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 C.A.R.L..
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 with C.A.R.L..
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 C.A.R.L..
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 C.A.R.L..
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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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Planet of the Eyes
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with C.A.R.L..
An atmospheric narrative-platformer about a service robot stranded on a mysterious planet, Planet of the Eyes features a stunning visual mix of puzzle and platforming challenges, an original musical score, and fully voiced audio logs left by another survivor. Explore the mystery of an unknown world.
Horace
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with C.A.R.L..
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with C.A.R.L..
"The best platformer of 2019."Horace is a huge platforming adventure which pushes the boundaries of the genre with a profound story of a small robot learning of life, the universe and Douglas Adams. Made by videogame lovers for videogame lovers!
Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with C.A.R.L..
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with C.A.R.L..
Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials is a snarky action-adventure puzzle game with a good dose of humor. Explore hundreds of secret-filled rooms, fight big bosses, gather companions for your party and use the powers of Pip—your bat buddy—to solve puzzles and escape the eldritch abyss!
Frequently asked about C.A.R.L.
- How much does C.A.R.L. cost?
- C.A.R.L. is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to C.A.R.L.?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside C.A.R.L. are ElecHead, Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack, Planet of the Eyes.
- Who developed C.A.R.L.?
- C.A.R.L. was developed by Andrew Kenady, Morningstar Game Studio and published by Morningstar Game Studio.
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 C.A.R.L..
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