Games like Shio
If Shio is your kind of game, the closest matches are Spectrolite, Into The Sky and Cloud Escape — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging 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 Shio: “Shio” is a challenging platformer game in which you deep and moving story by jumping from lantern to lantern. If you are big fan of Super Meat Boy, you will like Shio as well!
Players who liked Shio also play
Steam players who put hours into Shio 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.
Spectrolite
WHY THIS
Top pick for Shio fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shio.
Spectrolite is a challenging first-person platformer set in futuristic environments. Combine parkouring with powerful abilities, test your skills in fast paced timed challenges, and follow the call of a mysterious specter while traveling through a ruined world.
Into The Sky
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Shio fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shio.
In this first-person puzzle platformer you will try to figure out the right way through each level and afterwards can try to improve your timings by finiding hidden paths and secret short cuts. Your goals are to sucessfully finish a level as well as to beat the fastest time of our level designers.
Cloud Escape
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shio.
Third-strongest match for Shio fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shio.
CLOUD ESCAPE is a fast-paced 3D precision platformer with countless traps, obstacles and cool movement mechanics.
Celerity
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shio.
Ranked #4 for Shio fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shio.
Celerity is a fast-paced FPS parkour game. Use Wall Running, Grappling Hooks, Hookshots and many more, chain your moves and never lose momentum.
A Night at the Races
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shio.
Ranked #5 for Shio fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shio.
Play as a guy who is trying to beat a platformer to pay his debts.
Little Triangle
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Shio.
Ranked #6 for Shio fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shio.
Little Triangle has the most complete platformer experience among many others. All three game modes including single player mode, local co-op mode and local mini Battle Royale mode are all well polished and hilarious!
PARKOUR CIVILIZATION
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Shio fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shio.
Parkour Civilization! Progress from a noob to a god by mastering parkour courses, crafting parkour gadgets, and solving parkour puzzles. It's even more fun with friends!
Widget Satchel
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Shio fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shio.
Get widgets, build doohickeys, and do mischief on a space station in the far future as Sprocket the Ferret! Escape your playpen and make your way to the shuttlebay with the most stuff!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Shio
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Super Meat Boy
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shio.
Reviewers of Shio cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Shio.
The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!
Super World War
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Shio cross-mention this title as a similar play.
The world has gone mad, it's time to unleash chaos! Super World War is a turn based strategy game for up to 4 players. Take control of wild leaders and wage war in solo, local multiplayer or online.
Cuphead
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shio.
Reviewers of Shio cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Shio.
Cuphead is a classic run and gun action game heavily focused on boss battles. Inspired by cartoons of the 1930s, the visuals and audio are painstakingly created with the same techniques of the era, i.e. traditional hand drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings.
Celeste
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Shio.
Reviewers of Shio cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Shio.
Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Shio at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Shio on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shio.
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 ~58% under Shio on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Shio.
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 ~42% under Shio on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shio.
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.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Shio on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shio.
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 ~48% under Shio on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shio.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Shio on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shio.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Shio on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shio.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Shio on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Shio.
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?
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 Shio.
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 Shio.
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 Shio.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shio.
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 Shio.
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 Shio.
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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Frequently asked about Shio
- How much does Shio cost?
- Shio is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Shio?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shio are Spectrolite, Into The Sky, Cloud Escape.
- Who developed Shio?
- Shio was developed by Coconut Island Studio and published by Coconut Island 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 Shio.
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