Games like The End Is Nigh
If The End Is Nigh is your kind of game, the closest matches are BROTHER!!! Save him! - Hardcore Platformer, Hirocato - The Delivery Hero and Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its music is stupendous, writing quality is exceptional and brutal. 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 →The End Is Nigh is a 2017 action-adventure indie platformer developed by Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel. Players navigate a challenging 2D pixel-art world where collectible-hunting and hidden-challenges reward exploration alongside precision-platforming skill. The game tasks solo players with mastering demanding sequences across a medium-length campaign. Reviewers and players consistently highlight that the controls feel smooth and fine-tuned, and that the music is stupendous, contributing to an atmospheric experience. Players describe the mood as brutal, challenging, and dark, creating a demanding journey for dedicated players. Priced at $14.99, the title achieved a 93% positive rating from 1896 Steam reviews and is verified for Steam Deck play, holding an 84 Metacritic score.
About The End Is Nigh: The End Is Nigh is a sprawling adventure platformer where you die a lot, but thats ok because you are probably already dead anyway.
Players who liked The End Is Nigh also play
Steam players who put hours into The End Is Nigh 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.
BROTHER!!! Save him! - Hardcore Platformer
WHY THIS
Top pick for The End Is Nigh fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The End Is Nigh.
The legendary game is now on Steam! Can you prove that you are a good player, go through a difficult path and save your brother? This challenge is not for wimps!
Hirocato - The Delivery Hero
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The End Is Nigh fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The End Is Nigh.
Jump, dash, rewind, and deliver food on time in Hirocato - The Delivery Hero! Play as Cato, a crazy cute cat on a food delivery mission. Parkour through tricky levels, avoid obstacles, and rewind time to fix mistakes. Enjoy hand-made pixel art and great music. Can you complete every delivery?
Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The End Is Nigh.
Third-strongest match for The End Is Nigh fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The End Is Nigh.
"The most rewarding game of 2013!" Influenced by retro classics Mega Man and Castlevania, Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures features the AVGN and friends as they blast their way through 10 levels of fun, fast paced 2D action based on the AVGN's adventures in his online series.
Celeste
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The End Is Nigh.
Ranked #4 for The End Is Nigh fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The End Is Nigh.
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.
Rusted Moss
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The End Is Nigh.
Ranked #5 for The End Is Nigh fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The End Is Nigh.
Rusted Moss is a twin-stick shooter metroidvania where you sling around the map with your grapple, blasting your way through witches and rusted machine monstrosities alike. This wasteland once harboring mankind has since fallen, and Fae long forgotten now knock on humanity's door...
Jump King
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The End Is Nigh.
Ranked #6 for The End Is Nigh fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The End Is Nigh.
Take up the challenge and face true high-stakes platforming in Jump King! Struggle upwards in search of the Smoking Hot Babe of legend, but explore with care; a single missed jump could lead to a long fall back down...
Slime-san: Superslime Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The End Is Nigh.
Ranked #7 for The End Is Nigh fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The End Is Nigh.
Slime-san was minding his own business when suddenly… A giant worm appeared and gobbled him up! Deep within the worm’s belly, Slime-san has to face a decision: Be digested by the incoming wall of stomach acid... Or jump, slide and slime his way through the worm and back out its mouth!
VVVVVV
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The End Is Nigh.
Ranked #8 for The End Is Nigh fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The End Is Nigh.
VVVVVV is a platform game all about exploring one simple mechanical idea - what if you reversed gravity instead of jumping?
Reviewers mention these as similar to The End Is Nigh
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Super Meat Boy
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with The End Is Nigh.
Reviewers of The End Is Nigh cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with The End Is Nigh.
The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!
The Binding of Isaac
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with The End Is Nigh.
Reviewers of The End Is Nigh cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with The End Is Nigh.
Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!
Celeste
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The End Is Nigh.
Reviewers of The End Is Nigh cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with The End Is Nigh.
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.
Mewgenics
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with The End Is Nigh.
Reviewers of The End Is Nigh cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The End Is Nigh.
Build the ultimate cat army through tactical breeding and send them into deep, challenging turn-based adventures. Draft abilities, collect items, and manipulate genetics across generations in this roguelike tactics game from the creators of The Binding of Isaac and The End is Nigh.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The End Is Nigh at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The End Is Nigh on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The End Is Nigh.
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 ~67% under The End Is Nigh on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The End Is Nigh.
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 ~53% under The End Is Nigh on Steam right now. Shares Action with The End Is Nigh.
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.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The End Is Nigh on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The End Is Nigh.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under The End Is Nigh on Steam right now. Shares Action with The End Is Nigh.
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 ~58% under The End Is Nigh on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The End Is Nigh.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The End Is Nigh on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The End Is Nigh.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The End Is Nigh on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The End Is Nigh.
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.
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 The End Is Nigh.
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 The End Is Nigh.
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 The End Is Nigh.
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 The End Is Nigh.
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 The End Is Nigh.
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 The End Is Nigh.
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 The End Is Nigh.
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
More from Edmund McMillen
Other recommendable Steam games by Edmund McMillen, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with The End Is Nigh.
Another title from Edmund McMillen, the studio behind The End Is Nigh. Shares Action with The End Is Nigh.
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is a randomly generated action RPG shooter with heavy Rogue-like elements. Following Isaac on his journey players will find bizarre treasures that change Isaac’s form giving him super human abilities and enabling him to fight off droves of mysterious creatures, discover secrets and fight his way to safety.
The Binding of Isaac
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with The End Is Nigh.
Another title from Edmund McMillen, the studio behind The End Is Nigh. Shares Action and Indie with The End Is Nigh.
Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!
Mewgenics
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with The End Is Nigh.
Another title from Edmund McMillen, the studio behind The End Is Nigh. Shares Indie and Adventure with The End Is Nigh.
Build the ultimate cat army through tactical breeding and send them into deep, challenging turn-based adventures. Draft abilities, collect items, and manipulate genetics across generations in this roguelike tactics game from the creators of The Binding of Isaac and The End is Nigh.
The Legend of Bum-Bo
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with The End Is Nigh.
Another title from Edmund McMillen, the studio behind The End Is Nigh. Shares Indie and Adventure with The End Is Nigh.
A puzzle based deck building rogue-like prequel to The Binding of Isaac... Made of cardboard!
The Basement Collection
WHY THIS
Shares precision platforming and a dark mood with The End Is Nigh.
Another title from Edmund McMillen, the studio behind The End Is Nigh. Shares Indie and Adventure with The End Is Nigh.
A collection of 9 award winning indie games from the creator of "Binding of isaac" and "Super Meat Boy"!
Fingered
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with The End Is Nigh.
Another title from Edmund McMillen, the studio behind The End Is Nigh. Shares Indie with The End Is Nigh.
GUILTY! THEY ARE ALL GUILTY! FINGERED is a "whodunit" hyperrealisic police sim where you must finger the guilty and clean up this darn city using the descriptions of the local busy bodies. but everyone's perspective is different: one man's fat is another man's sexy! send him to the chair!!!
Gish
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The End Is Nigh.
Another title from Edmund McMillen, the studio behind The End Is Nigh. Shares Action and Indie with The End Is Nigh.
Gish isn't your average hero. In fact, he's not your average anything...you see, Gish is a ball of tar. A Sunday stroll with his lady friend, Brea, goes awry when a shadowy figure emerges from an open manhole and pulls Brea below ground.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The End Is Nigh.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The End Is Nigh.
"The most rewarding game of 2013!" Influenced by retro classics Mega Man and Castlevania, Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures features the AVGN and friends as they blast their way through 10 levels of fun, fast paced 2D action based on the AVGN's adventures in his online series.
Celeste
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The End Is Nigh.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The End Is Nigh.
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.
Jump King
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The End Is Nigh.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The End Is Nigh.
Take up the challenge and face true high-stakes platforming in Jump King! Struggle upwards in search of the Smoking Hot Babe of legend, but explore with care; a single missed jump could lead to a long fall back down...
VVVVVV
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The End Is Nigh.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The End Is Nigh.
VVVVVV is a platform game all about exploring one simple mechanical idea - what if you reversed gravity instead of jumping?
Frequently asked about The End Is Nigh
- Is The End Is Nigh verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The End Is Nigh 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 The End Is Nigh cost?
- The End Is Nigh is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The End Is Nigh?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The End Is Nigh are BROTHER!!! Save him! - Hardcore Platformer, Hirocato - The Delivery Hero, Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures.
- Who developed The End Is Nigh?
- The End Is Nigh was developed by Edmund McMillen, Tyler Glaiel and published by Edmund McMillen, Tyler Glaiel.
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