Games like Pikuniku
If Pikuniku is your kind of game, the closest matches are BattleBlock Theater®, Overcooked! 2 and Never BreakUp — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its comedic, funny and lighthearted. 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 →Pikuniku is a 2019 indie puzzle-platformer adventure developed by Arnaud De Bock, Rémi Forcadell, and Alan Zucconi, published by Devolver Digital, priced at $12.99 and verified on Steam Deck. Set in a whimsical world that subverts its cheerful appearance, the game combines physics-based puzzles with stretching and grabbing mechanics alongside collectathon elements and dance minigames. Players explore through backtracking and achievement-hunting, with local co-op supporting two players for added replayability. Reviewers describe the art style as oozing charm and personality, noting the humor as consistently sharp and unexpected throughout the narrative. The sound design and music are highlighted as enhancing the absurdity, while the stretching mechanic is noted as uniquely satisfying. The game holds a 96% positive rating from over 3,600 Steam reviews, offering a chill, lighthearted experience best suited for short, burst-like play sessions.
About Pikuniku: Pikuniku is an absurdly wonderful puzzle-exploration game that takes place in a strange but playful world where not everything is as happy as it seems. Help peculiar characters overcome struggles, uncover a deep state conspiracy, and start a little revolution in this delightful dystopian adventure!
Players who liked Pikuniku also play
Steam players who put hours into Pikuniku 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.
BattleBlock Theater®
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Pikuniku.
Top pick for Pikuniku fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pikuniku.
Welcome to BattleBlock Theater! You’ve got no where to go but up...on stage. Play single player or co-op to free your friends and save Hatty Hattington! Jump, solve and battle your way through a mysterious theater inhabited by highly technological felines.
Overcooked! 2
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Pikuniku.
Second-strongest match for Pikuniku fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pikuniku.
Overcooked returns with a brand-new helping of chaotic cooking action! Journey back to the Onion Kingdom and assemble your team of chefs in classic couch co-op or online play for up to four players. Hold onto your aprons… it’s time to save the world again!
Never BreakUp
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Pikuniku fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pikuniku.
Never BreakUp is joyful party game allows you to play alone or with friends. To help or trap each other,All depand on you ! No matter win or loose, Never BreakUp!
Yooka-Laylee
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Pikuniku.
Ranked #4 for Pikuniku fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pikuniku.
Yooka-Laylee is an all-new open-world platformer from genre veterans Playtonic! Explore huge, beautiful worlds, meet an unforgettable cast of characters and horde a vault-load of collectibles as buddy-duo Yooka and Laylee embark on an epic adventure to thwart corporate creep Capital B!
Untitled Goose Game
WHY THIS
Shares achievement hunting and a comedic mood with Pikuniku.
Ranked #5 for Pikuniku fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pikuniku.
It's a lovely morning in the village and you are a horrible goose.
The Jackbox Party Pack 2
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Pikuniku.
Ranked #6 for Pikuniku fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Pikuniku.
The sequel to the party game phenomenon The Jackbox Party Pack, featuring FIVE fresh, rib-tickling party games! Your phones or tablets are your controllers – no big mess of controllers needed. For up to 8 players plus an Audience of up to 10,000! It’s a game-night riot in a box… without the box!
Overcooked
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Pikuniku.
Ranked #7 for Pikuniku fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pikuniku.
Overcooked is a chaotic couch co-op cooking game for one to four players. Working as a team, you and your fellow chefs must prepare, cook and serve up a variety of tasty orders before the baying customers storm out in a huff.
Human Fall Flat
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Pikuniku.
Ranked #8 for Pikuniku fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pikuniku.
Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.
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Untitled Goose Game
WHY THIS
Shares achievement hunting and a comedic mood with Pikuniku.
Reviewers of Pikuniku cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Pikuniku.
It's a lovely morning in the village and you are a horrible goose.
Yoku's Island Express
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Pikuniku.
Reviewers of Pikuniku cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pikuniku.
Meet Yoku, the pint-sized postman protagonist of Yoku's Island Express! Use a unique blend of pinball mechanics, platforming and open world exploration to unlock the secrets of Mokumana Island, help the locals, awaken ancient deities and much more in this amazing new tropical adventure!
Wandersong
WHY THIS
Shares a lighthearted mood with Pikuniku.
Reviewers of Pikuniku cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pikuniku.
A musical platforming adventure with an emotional story. Play as a silly bard and use music to interact with everything on a journey around the world. Along the way you'll explore, solve puzzles, and meet a huge cast of characters!
Ooblets
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Pikuniku.
Reviewers of Pikuniku cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pikuniku.
Ooblets is a relaxing and offbeat farming, town life, and creature collection game. Manage your farm, grow and train your ooblets, explore strange lands, and have dance-offs!
Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion
WHY THIS
Shares achievement hunting and a comedic mood with Pikuniku.
Reviewers of Pikuniku cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Pikuniku.
Play as an adorable yet trouble-making turnip. Avoid paying taxes, solve plantastic puzzles, harvest crops and battle massive beasts all in a journey to tear down a corrupt vegetable government!
Slime Rancher
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Pikuniku.
Reviewers of Pikuniku cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Pikuniku.
Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes.
Rain on Your Parade
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Pikuniku.
Reviewers of Pikuniku cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Pikuniku.
Travel the world as a cute cardboard cloud and ruin everybody's day! Unlock new methods of mischief in over 50 levels, each with unique setting and objectives. This is an adorable schadenfreude simulator!
Children of Morta
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Pikuniku cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Pikuniku.
Children of Morta is a story-driven action RPG game about an extraordinary family of heroes. Lead the Bergsons, with all their flaws and virtues, against the forthcoming Corruption. Will you be able to sacrifice everything to save the ones you care for?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Pikuniku at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Pikuniku on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Pikuniku.
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 ~62% under Pikuniku on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Pikuniku.
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 ~46% under Pikuniku on Steam right now. Shares Action with Pikuniku.
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 ~65% under Pikuniku on Steam right now. Shares Action with Pikuniku.
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 ~52% under Pikuniku on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pikuniku.
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 ~62% under Pikuniku on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Pikuniku.
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 ~62% under Pikuniku on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Pikuniku.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Pikuniku on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Pikuniku.
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 and Casual with Pikuniku.
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 and Adventure with Pikuniku.
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 Pikuniku.
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 Pikuniku.
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 Pikuniku.
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 and Casual with Pikuniku.
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 Pikuniku.
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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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
BattleBlock Theater®
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Pikuniku.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Pikuniku.
Welcome to BattleBlock Theater! You’ve got no where to go but up...on stage. Play single player or co-op to free your friends and save Hatty Hattington! Jump, solve and battle your way through a mysterious theater inhabited by highly technological felines.
Overcooked! 2
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Pikuniku.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Pikuniku.
Overcooked returns with a brand-new helping of chaotic cooking action! Journey back to the Onion Kingdom and assemble your team of chefs in classic couch co-op or online play for up to four players. Hold onto your aprons… it’s time to save the world again!
Yooka-Laylee
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Pikuniku.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Pikuniku.
Yooka-Laylee is an all-new open-world platformer from genre veterans Playtonic! Explore huge, beautiful worlds, meet an unforgettable cast of characters and horde a vault-load of collectibles as buddy-duo Yooka and Laylee embark on an epic adventure to thwart corporate creep Capital B!
Untitled Goose Game
WHY THIS
Shares achievement hunting and a comedic mood with Pikuniku.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Pikuniku.
It's a lovely morning in the village and you are a horrible goose.
The Jackbox Party Pack 2
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Pikuniku.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Casual with Pikuniku.
The sequel to the party game phenomenon The Jackbox Party Pack, featuring FIVE fresh, rib-tickling party games! Your phones or tablets are your controllers – no big mess of controllers needed. For up to 8 players plus an Audience of up to 10,000! It’s a game-night riot in a box… without the box!
Overcooked
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Pikuniku.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Pikuniku.
Overcooked is a chaotic couch co-op cooking game for one to four players. Working as a team, you and your fellow chefs must prepare, cook and serve up a variety of tasty orders before the baying customers storm out in a huff.
Human Fall Flat
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Pikuniku.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pikuniku.
Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.
Frequently asked about Pikuniku
- Is Pikuniku verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Pikuniku is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Pikuniku cost?
- Pikuniku is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Pikuniku have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Pikuniku supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, Shared/Split Screen Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Pikuniku?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Pikuniku are BattleBlock Theater®, Overcooked! 2, Never BreakUp.
- Who developed Pikuniku?
- Pikuniku was developed by Arnaud De Bock, Rémi Forcadell, Alan Zucconi and published by Devolver Digital.
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