Games like One Dog Story
If One Dog Story is your kind of game, the closest matches are Gato Roboto, Unbound: Worlds Apart and Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its bosses are surprisingly difficult, challenging and nostalgic. 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 One Dog Story: One Dog Story is an engaging pixel adventure game with RPG elements, gameplay that’ll get you hooked for hours, and well-developed characters. You wake up in an underground laboratory, free again after a horrific accident. Prepare to explore this expansive game world and its many secrets and mysteries.
Players who liked One Dog Story also play
Steam players who put hours into One Dog Story 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.
Gato Roboto
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with One Dog Story.
Top pick for One Dog Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with One Dog Story.
Pounce inside of your cozy armored mech and set off on a dangerous trek through an alien underworld full of irritable creatures and treacherous obstacles in a valiant effort to save your stranded captain and his crashed spaceship.
Unbound: Worlds Apart
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with One Dog Story.
Second-strongest match for One Dog Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with One Dog Story.
Summon portals to overcome vicious beasts, devious puzzles and fiendish platforming challenges. Master the unique powers of each portal to stop the collapse of reality, while exploring lush, hand-drawn worlds and unraveling a deep narrative full of mysteries.
Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with One Dog Story.
Third-strongest match for One Dog Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with One Dog Story.
Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight is the fourth installment in the beloved Momodora series of 2D platformers. Unleash ravaging combos against a variety of formidable monsters and deftly dodge your way through a cursed land to seek audience with the Queen and dispel the evil that threatens all life.
Rabi-Ribi
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with One Dog Story.
Ranked #4 for One Dog Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with One Dog Story.
Dodge bullets, missiles and lasers in battle as you wrap your head around that bunny girl costume! Combo away with your mighty Piko Hammer or spam various spells from afar with your fiery fairy friend. Explore and explode through Rabi-Rabi Island as you collect power-ups and uncover secrets...
Iconoclasts
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for One Dog Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with One Dog Story.
Join renegade mechanic Robin and uncover the secrets of a dying planet. Explore a big world filled with intricate puzzles, interesting characters and menacing bosses in a beautiful platform adventure that tells a personal story about faith, purpose and the challenge of helping people.
Timespinner
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with One Dog Story.
Ranked #6 for One Dog Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with One Dog Story.
Travel back in time to change fate itself, in this beautifully crafted story-driven adventure, inspired by classic 90s action-platformers. Join timekeeper Lunais on her quest for revenge against the empire that killed her family, using time-bending powers to explore a vast, connected world.
Axiom Verge
WHY THIS
Shares non linear progression and a challenging mood with One Dog Story.
Ranked #7 for One Dog Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with One Dog Story.
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
Apotheon
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with One Dog Story.
Ranked #8 for One Dog Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with One Dog Story.
Apotheon is a heroic action game set within the vibrant world of Ancient Greek Mythology. Ascend Mount Olympus, wrestle the divine powers from the Pantheon of Gods, and save mankind.
Reviewers mention these as similar to One Dog Story
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Commander Keen
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with One Dog Story.
Reviewers of One Dog Story cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with One Dog Story.
Commander Keen: Invasion of the Vorticons: Episode 1: Marooned on Mars (Dec. 14th 1990) Episode 2: The Earth Explodes (1991) Episode 3: Keen Must Die! (1991) Commander Keen's very first adventure, and the debut of id's groundbreaking side-scrolling technology.
Cave Story+
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with One Dog Story.
Reviewers of One Dog Story cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with One Dog Story.
Run, jump, shoot, fly and explore your way through a massive action-adventure reminiscent of classic 8- and 16-bit games.
Full Bore
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with One Dog Story.
Reviewers of One Dog Story cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with One Dog Story.
Deep underground lies a reminder of Boarkind’s darkest hours. All it takes is one little boar to dig it back up. A block puzzler with an exploratory twist, Full Bore throws the player into an open world of crumbling mines, arcane ruins, and technological wonders with only curiosity to lead the way.
Bio Menace
WHY THIS
Reviewers of One Dog Story cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with One Dog Story.
You are Snake Logan, a top CIA operative who likes to do things his own way. Metro City has fallen under the attack of hideous mutants and your mission is to fly recon over the city and report back. While circling over the city you're shot down by hostile forces and forced to crash land on the streets of Metro.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below One Dog Story at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under One Dog Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie with One Dog Story.
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 One Dog Story on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with One Dog Story.
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 One Dog Story on Steam right now. Shares Action with One Dog Story.
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 One Dog Story on Steam right now. Shares Action with One Dog Story.
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 One Dog Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie with One Dog Story.
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 One Dog Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie with One Dog Story.
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 One Dog Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie with One Dog Story.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under One Dog Story on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with One Dog Story.
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 One Dog Story.
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 One Dog Story.
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 One Dog Story.
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 One Dog Story.
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 One Dog Story.
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 One Dog Story.
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 One Dog Story.
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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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Gato Roboto
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with One Dog Story.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with One Dog Story.
Pounce inside of your cozy armored mech and set off on a dangerous trek through an alien underworld full of irritable creatures and treacherous obstacles in a valiant effort to save your stranded captain and his crashed spaceship.
Unbound: Worlds Apart
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with One Dog Story.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with One Dog Story.
Summon portals to overcome vicious beasts, devious puzzles and fiendish platforming challenges. Master the unique powers of each portal to stop the collapse of reality, while exploring lush, hand-drawn worlds and unraveling a deep narrative full of mysteries.
Rabi-Ribi
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with One Dog Story.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with One Dog Story.
Dodge bullets, missiles and lasers in battle as you wrap your head around that bunny girl costume! Combo away with your mighty Piko Hammer or spam various spells from afar with your fiery fairy friend. Explore and explode through Rabi-Rabi Island as you collect power-ups and uncover secrets...
Iconoclasts
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with One Dog Story.
Join renegade mechanic Robin and uncover the secrets of a dying planet. Explore a big world filled with intricate puzzles, interesting characters and menacing bosses in a beautiful platform adventure that tells a personal story about faith, purpose and the challenge of helping people.
Timespinner
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with One Dog Story.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with One Dog Story.
Travel back in time to change fate itself, in this beautifully crafted story-driven adventure, inspired by classic 90s action-platformers. Join timekeeper Lunais on her quest for revenge against the empire that killed her family, using time-bending powers to explore a vast, connected world.
Axiom Verge
WHY THIS
Shares non linear progression and a challenging mood with One Dog Story.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with One Dog Story.
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
Apotheon
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with One Dog Story.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with One Dog Story.
Apotheon is a heroic action game set within the vibrant world of Ancient Greek Mythology. Ascend Mount Olympus, wrestle the divine powers from the Pantheon of Gods, and save mankind.
Frequently asked about One Dog Story
- How much does One Dog Story cost?
- One Dog Story is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to One Dog Story?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside One Dog Story are Gato Roboto, Unbound: Worlds Apart, Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight.
- Who developed One Dog Story?
- One Dog Story was developed by Big Way Games and published by Big Way.
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