Games like Blackout
If Blackout is your kind of game, the closest matches are SEARCH ALL - ARROWS, Kubo and Deleted Wiki: Clean Up the Lost Files — 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 Blackout: Blackout is an indie puzzle game inspired by old-school handheld games from the 80s and 90s. 5x5 grid only able to be solved by a 3x3 cross/plus.
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Steam players who put hours into Blackout 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.
SEARCH ALL - ARROWS
WHY THIS
Top pick for Blackout fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Blackout.
This is a hidden object game in which you need to find all the arrows from a bow in a large location. The arrows will be located in a wide variety of places, from the most prominent to the most barely noticeable places.
Kubo
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Blackout fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Blackout.
A sci-fi 3D puzzle game where you place and rotate route cards across the faces of a rotatable cube to connect stars, fill every Kube, and restore a fractured cosmic network level by level.
Deleted Wiki: Clean Up the Lost Files
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Blackout fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Blackout.
In 2007 a vandal deleted all 10,324 items on the fan wiki for Plains of Embercraft: Online. You are the new Moderator. Drag each item out of the deletion log into its department, its sub-folder and its row, and watch the broken pages come back.
SUDOKU IT
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Blackout fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Blackout.
Cozy paper-style Sudoku to unwind with — 500 levels plus Endless, Relax, and Daily modes, medals and 60 achievements. Solve at your own pace.
Prim3 Hunt
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Blackout fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Blackout.
Prim3 Hunt (Prime Hunt) is a minimalist indie puzzle-strategy game. Combine numbers on a 5x5 grid to discover prime numbers and stabilize a corrupted system. Master deep strategy, multiple game modes, and a haunting retro-tech atmosphere.
Bach For More Words
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Blackout fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Blackout.
Bach For More Words is a challenging word game where you unscramble a word and select its definition from three related definitions. Then, you'll pair up the remaining definitions with their matching words. You'll find yourself learning new words without even trying with Bach For More Words!
Bloom Inc
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Blackout fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Blackout.
Bloom Inc is a cozy incremental gardening game. Harvest plants, unlock skills and abilities. Explore different maps and grow your own plants in the background.
The Merchant's Eden
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Blackout fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Blackout.
Build a medieval town around a thriving market. Defend your citizens and traveling merchants against raiding bandits. A minimalist game blending cozy city-building and intense tower-defense as you grow and protect your town.
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 and Casual with Blackout.
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.
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 Indie with Blackout.
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 Blackout.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Blackout.
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 Indie with Blackout.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Blackout.
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.
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More from OB3
Other recommendable Steam games by OB3, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Aim Trainer X
WHY THIS
Another title from OB3, the studio behind Blackout. Shares Indie and Casual with Blackout.
Aim Trainer X is a challenging aim training assistant that helps you improve your reactions, reflexes and all-around aiming.
Sky Dominion
WHY THIS
Another title from OB3, the studio behind Blackout. Shares Indie with Blackout.
Sky Dominion is a War Simulation-like shooter where the player has to protect their aircraft, while being attacked from the ground, until the aircraft reaches the end of its capabilities and the round ends. At the end of every round the player can see the score they reached.
Blind Person Simulator
WHY THIS
Another title from OB3, the studio behind Blackout. Shares Indie with Blackout.
Blind Person Simulator can help you understand how an everyday person with blindness can live trough the day. Limited vision, endless possibilities, hard achievements, recipe for a good simulator.
Frequently asked about Blackout
- What games are most similar to Blackout?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Blackout are SEARCH ALL - ARROWS, Kubo, Deleted Wiki: Clean Up the Lost Files.
- Who developed Blackout?
- Blackout was developed by OB3.
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 Blackout.
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