Games like The Flattening
If The Flattening is your kind of game, the closest matches are Haiju, Ula vs. Nightmare and Ruffed Up — 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 Flattening: Explore a colorful open world inside an early-2000s operating system, meet its living programs and characters, race, explore, and fight back as a mysterious update slowly transforms their utopian world into something flat, corporate, and lifeless. Your actions determine how the story ends.
Players who liked The Flattening also play
Steam players who put hours into The Flattening 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.
Haiju
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Top pick for The Flattening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Flattening.
Gather the 36 Heavenly Wind Bells from across otherworldly landscapes drawn from Japanese mythology. Charge through enemies and glide over vast gaps in a high-speed action platformer charged with electric energy.
Ula vs. Nightmare
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Second-strongest match for The Flattening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Flattening.
Ula vs Nightmare is an eerie platform adventure in a reality-shifting imaginary realm. Explore childhood fears, fight dark entities, solve cryptic puzzles, save fragmented memories, and sneak past dangers, all while being guided by an adversarial narrator to save a little girl from her coma.
Ruffed Up
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Third-strongest match for The Flattening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Flattening.
Ruffed Up is a chaotic co-op physics game where you play as dogs dragging your unconscious dog walker back home. Team up with 2–4 players online or locally to keep your human safe, cross treacherous terrain, dodge hazards, and somehow get everyone home in one piece. It’s no walk in the park!
Tall Trails
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Ranked #4 for The Flattening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Flattening.
A chill exploration game where EVERYTHING goes in the boot! You're Alp, a lil' golem on a quest to find his purpose. Run, climb, and use items as fuel in your Rocket Boot to blast yourself into the air!
A Plague Tale: Requiem
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Ranked #5 for The Flattening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Flattening.
Embark on a heartrending journey into a brutal, breathtaking world, and discover the cost of saving those you love in a desperate struggle for survival. Strike from the shadows or unleash hell with a variety of weapons, tools and unearthly powers.
Castle on the Coast
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Ranked #6 for The Flattening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Flattening.
A hand-drawn, retro 3D collectathon. Parkour through a magic castle as George the Giraffe! String together sweet moves to explore crystal caverns, stone laden halls, and trippy alternate dimensions.
Kena: Bridge of Spirits
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Ranked #7 for The Flattening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Flattening.
A story-driven, action adventure combining exploration with fast-paced combat. Untangle the past as Kena, a young Spirit Guide in search of the sacred Mountain Shrine. Help free the spirits trapped in a forgotten village with the help of the Rot, her adorable (yet powerful) spirit companions.
Demon Turf: Neon Splash
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Ranked #8 for The Flattening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Flattening.
Maintain a constant momentum of precision platforming through surreal worlds, filled with bright neon colors, and enjoy the intoxicating combination of 2D & 3D art! Explore and hunt collectables or knuckle-down and master satisfying mechanics to compete for the best times across the world!
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 Flattening.
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 Indie and Adventure with The Flattening.
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 Indie with The Flattening.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Flattening.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Flattening.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Flattening.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Flattening.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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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.
Tall Trails
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Flattening.
A chill exploration game where EVERYTHING goes in the boot! You're Alp, a lil' golem on a quest to find his purpose. Run, climb, and use items as fuel in your Rocket Boot to blast yourself into the air!
A Plague Tale: Requiem
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with The Flattening.
Embark on a heartrending journey into a brutal, breathtaking world, and discover the cost of saving those you love in a desperate struggle for survival. Strike from the shadows or unleash hell with a variety of weapons, tools and unearthly powers.
Castle on the Coast
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Flattening.
A hand-drawn, retro 3D collectathon. Parkour through a magic castle as George the Giraffe! String together sweet moves to explore crystal caverns, stone laden halls, and trippy alternate dimensions.
Kena: Bridge of Spirits
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Flattening.
A story-driven, action adventure combining exploration with fast-paced combat. Untangle the past as Kena, a young Spirit Guide in search of the sacred Mountain Shrine. Help free the spirits trapped in a forgotten village with the help of the Rot, her adorable (yet powerful) spirit companions.
Frequently asked about The Flattening
- What games are most similar to The Flattening?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Flattening are Haiju, Ula vs. Nightmare, Ruffed Up.
- Who developed The Flattening?
- The Flattening was developed by Terrazzo Games.
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 Flattening.
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