Games like AX
If AX is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mina & Michi, Ancient Mind and Ahack Adventure 2: Quest For The Ciggy — 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 AX: Find the cure for Griztia's father! Explore a unique and dangerous world with secrets around every corner as you collect new tools and meet interesting characters. There are seven herbs said to be able to cure any ailment buried deep in perilous dungeons scattered throughout the wasteland!
Players who liked AX also play
Steam players who put hours into AX 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.
Mina & Michi
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Top pick for AX fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with AX.
A 2D top-down puzzle/adventure game about friendship featuring 2 players local co-op.
Ancient Mind
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for AX fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with AX.
Ancient Mind is a puzzle-action-adventure game about discovering the remains of an ancient civilization. Explore dungeons, fight monsters, solve puzzles, and discover the truth about ancient mysteries.
Ahack Adventure 2: Quest For The Ciggy
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for AX fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with AX.
A retro-inspired action-adventure game with a focus on exploration and nonlinearity, Ahack Adventure 2 provides a journey through nine increasingly harrowing dungeons, and many genuine secrets to find!
Milo's Quest
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Ranked #4 for AX fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with AX.
A mini zelda-like 2D top-down puzzle/adventure game about a dog, bones and a lot of ghosts!
UnMetal
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for AX fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with AX.
UnMetal is a 2D stealth action-adventure that pays homage to the classics with a healthy dose of humor and satire. You play as Jesse Fox, who is definitely NOT an elite commando, under arrest for a crime he didn't commit, and must escape a covert military base using his wits and fists.
Isles of Sea and Sky
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for AX fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with AX.
A fantastic, oceanic, open world puzzle adventure. Solve innovative block puzzles while unearthing a mystifying story, gaining new friends that change the puzzle landscape, and unlocking powers that provide more options for how you choose to progress through the enigmatic Isles of Sea and Sky.
Master Key
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for AX fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with AX.
Master Key is a top-down adventure game with a strong focus on item-based exploration and secrets. Embark on a journey to discover what that key could be used for and meet colorful characters!
The Lacerator
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Ranked #8 for AX fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with AX.
Lose a limb? You’ll adapt in THE LACERATOR! A titillating mix of survival horror and trashy 80’s film.
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 AX.
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.
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 AX.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with AX.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with AX.
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.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with AX.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with AX.
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.
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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.
Ancient Mind
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with AX.
Ancient Mind is a puzzle-action-adventure game about discovering the remains of an ancient civilization. Explore dungeons, fight monsters, solve puzzles, and discover the truth about ancient mysteries.
UnMetal
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with AX.
UnMetal is a 2D stealth action-adventure that pays homage to the classics with a healthy dose of humor and satire. You play as Jesse Fox, who is definitely NOT an elite commando, under arrest for a crime he didn't commit, and must escape a covert military base using his wits and fists.
Isles of Sea and Sky
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with AX.
A fantastic, oceanic, open world puzzle adventure. Solve innovative block puzzles while unearthing a mystifying story, gaining new friends that change the puzzle landscape, and unlocking powers that provide more options for how you choose to progress through the enigmatic Isles of Sea and Sky.
Master Key
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with AX.
Master Key is a top-down adventure game with a strong focus on item-based exploration and secrets. Embark on a journey to discover what that key could be used for and meet colorful characters!
Frequently asked about AX
- What games are most similar to AX?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside AX are Mina & Michi, Ancient Mind, Ahack Adventure 2: Quest For The Ciggy.
- Who developed AX?
- AX was developed by Richard Roberts.
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 AX.
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