Games like Wickling
If Wickling is your kind of game, the closest matches are Well Dweller, LIMBO and LOVE ETERNAL — 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 Wickling: A cheerful 8-bit kingdom platformer with a candle for a head and something wrong underneath. World maps, power-up suits, fortresses and airships in the spirit of the NES classics. And a stalker that only moves when you look away. Don't let your flame go out.
Players who liked Wickling also play
Steam players who put hours into Wickling 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.
Well Dweller
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Top pick for Wickling fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Wickling.
Well Dweller is a dark fairy-tale metroidvania, full of charming characters living in a wretched kingdom. Play as Glimmer - a tiny bird armed with a matchstick - who must burn the wicked queen to save his family.
LOVE ETERNAL
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Wickling fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wickling.
Wander a castle built of bitter memories in LOVE ETERNAL, a psychological horror platformer with devious trials and an unsettling, experimental narrative. Find a way out - or live in Shelter forever more.
TetherGeist
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Wickling fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Wickling.
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.
The Darkest Tales
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Ranked #5 for Wickling fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Wickling.
When a nightmare creeps into reality, the only ones that can help are those whose magical powers we’ve believed in since childhood. A brave teddy bear heads to the far side of “happily ever after” to rescue his owner, Alicia.
Froggo's Adventure: Verdant Venture
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Ranked #6 for Wickling fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Wickling.
A Simple and Bite-sized retro 2D Platformer about a frog on another side-scrolling adventure
HOLY GRAIL for DUMMIES
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Wickling fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Wickling.
HOLY GRAIL for DUMMIES is a colorful and absurd action-platformer about Buckethead, a hero past his prime, in a world that, let's be honest, has seen better days...
Cursed Castilla (Maldita Castilla EX)
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Wickling fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Wickling.
Cursed Castilla (Maldita Castilla EX) is an arcade action platformer full of creatures from medieval myths from Spain and the rest of Europe, as well as from chivalric romances. The extended version of the classic Maldita Castilla, originally created by the indie Locomalito.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Wickling.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Wickling.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Wickling.
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 Wickling.
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 Wickling.
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 Wickling.
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 Wickling.
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.
LOVE ETERNAL
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wickling.
Wander a castle built of bitter memories in LOVE ETERNAL, a psychological horror platformer with devious trials and an unsettling, experimental narrative. Find a way out - or live in Shelter forever more.
TetherGeist
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Wickling.
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.
The Darkest Tales
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Wickling.
When a nightmare creeps into reality, the only ones that can help are those whose magical powers we’ve believed in since childhood. A brave teddy bear heads to the far side of “happily ever after” to rescue his owner, Alicia.
Froggo's Adventure: Verdant Venture
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Wickling.
A Simple and Bite-sized retro 2D Platformer about a frog on another side-scrolling adventure
Cursed Castilla (Maldita Castilla EX)
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Wickling.
Cursed Castilla (Maldita Castilla EX) is an arcade action platformer full of creatures from medieval myths from Spain and the rest of Europe, as well as from chivalric romances. The extended version of the classic Maldita Castilla, originally created by the indie Locomalito.
Frequently asked about Wickling
- What games are most similar to Wickling?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Wickling are Well Dweller, LIMBO, LOVE ETERNAL.
- Who developed Wickling?
- Wickling was developed by Grey Line Interactive LLC.
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 Wickling.
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