Games like HIVESWAP: ACT 1
If HIVESWAP: ACT 1 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Starfish Simulator 👍, Deep Sleep: Labyrinth of the Forsaken and Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, 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 →HIVESWAP: ACT 1 is a 2017 indie point-and-click adventure set on a hostile alien planet on the brink of rebellion. Players take on the role of Joey Claire, a teenager transported from 1994, navigating the environment through character-dialogue-driven progression and item-combination puzzles. The game features dense text interactions and lore exploration alongside achievement-hunting for completionists. Reviewers describe the experience as atmospheric, funny, and lighthearted, with quirky humor and charming characters. Players highlight the self-contained story as welcoming to newcomers while still delivering rich interactions. Currently priced at $7.99 USD, it holds a 94% positive rating from over 2,600 Steam reviews and is marked as playable on Steam Deck. It is designed for solo play with a relaxed, chill difficulty profile.
About HIVESWAP: ACT 1: A hand-drawn tribute to hilarious '90s adventure games (with none of the accompanying frustration). Play as Joey Claire, a puzzle-solving teen snatched out of her time (1994) and place (Earth) and stranded on a hostile alien planet on the brink of rebellion.
Players who liked HIVESWAP: ACT 1 also play
Steam players who put hours into HIVESWAP: ACT 1 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.
Starfish Simulator 👍
WHY THIS
Top pick for HIVESWAP: ACT 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 1.
Game characters come in all shapes and sizes. They can be brave knights, brilliant scientists, or superheroes who save entire worlds. This game offers a more unusual experience. Here you can become a starfish.
Deep Sleep: Labyrinth of the Forsaken
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with HIVESWAP: ACT 1.
Second-strongest match for HIVESWAP: ACT 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 1.
What dreams are made of is the stuff of nightmares in this new point-and-click adventure. Delve deep into realms both fantastical and terrifying, and use the power of lucid dreaming to solve puzzles, explore, and contend with eerie adversaries in your search for the brother you thought had died.
Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with HIVESWAP: ACT 1.
Third-strongest match for HIVESWAP: ACT 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 1.
Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor is an anti-adventure game about picking up trash in an alien bazaar. Play as the Janitor, an Alaensee girlbeast with a municipally-subsidized trash incineration job and dreams of leaving the planet of Xabran's Rock far behind her.
HIVESWAP: ACT 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with HIVESWAP: ACT 1.
Ranked #4 for HIVESWAP: ACT 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 1.
Continue Joey and Xefros’s adventure through the dark and dangerous planet Alternia. Meet dozens of unique and memorable characters, some more helpful than others, as you navigate this volatile alien culture. Hurry up! There’s a train to catch.
Slap Village: Reality Slap
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with HIVESWAP: ACT 1.
Ranked #5 for HIVESWAP: ACT 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 1.
Set in an anachronistic Western with multitude of characters and adventures to discover, Slap Village mixes up the past and the present time within a context full of humour and mystery. Immerse yourself in this wild adventure and find out about the story of Lurditas and her inseparable friend Rasta.
Paradise Killer
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with HIVESWAP: ACT 1.
Ranked #6 for HIVESWAP: ACT 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 1.
Paradise Island, a world outside reality. There’s been a murder that only "investigation freak" Lady Love Dies can solve. Gather evidence and interrogate suspects in this open world adventure. You can accuse anyone, but you’ll have to prove your case in trial. It’s up to you to decide who’s guilty.
Silence
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with HIVESWAP: ACT 1.
Ranked #7 for HIVESWAP: ACT 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 1.
Can you save Silence, the grim, but also serene world between life and death? Can you help Noah find his little sister Renie in this suffering world? Can you bring her home? Explore Silence and join the siblings on their adventurous journey.
Rumu
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for HIVESWAP: ACT 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 1.
Rumu is an intimate, narrative-driven adventure that follows the path into sentience of a robot vacuum cleaner.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below HIVESWAP: ACT 1 at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under HIVESWAP: ACT 1 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 1.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under HIVESWAP: ACT 1 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with HIVESWAP: ACT 1.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under HIVESWAP: ACT 1 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 1.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under HIVESWAP: ACT 1 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 1.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~81% under HIVESWAP: ACT 1 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 1.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under HIVESWAP: ACT 1 on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 1.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under HIVESWAP: ACT 1 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with HIVESWAP: ACT 1.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under HIVESWAP: ACT 1 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 1.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
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 HIVESWAP: ACT 1.
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 Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 1.
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 HIVESWAP: ACT 1.
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 HIVESWAP: ACT 1.
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 HIVESWAP: ACT 1.
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 HIVESWAP: ACT 1.
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 and Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 1.
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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More from What Pumpkin Games, Inc.
Other recommendable Steam games by What Pumpkin Games, Inc., ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Pesterquest
WHY THIS
Another title from What Pumpkin Games, Inc., the studio behind HIVESWAP: ACT 1. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 1.
Embark on a quest of epic importance in Pesterquest, a grimsical episodic visual novel adventure set in the darkly funny Homestuck / Hiveswap universe, created by American author and artist Andrew Hussie.
Hiveswap Friendsim
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with HIVESWAP: ACT 1.
Another title from What Pumpkin Games, Inc., the studio behind HIVESWAP: ACT 1. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 1.
You’ve crash landed on a dangerous alien planet with no food, medicine, or prospects, but you do know one thing—you are absolutely desperate for friendship.
HIVESWAP: ACT 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with HIVESWAP: ACT 1.
Another title from What Pumpkin Games, Inc., the studio behind HIVESWAP: ACT 1. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 1.
Continue Joey and Xefros’s adventure through the dark and dangerous planet Alternia. Meet dozens of unique and memorable characters, some more helpful than others, as you navigate this volatile alien culture. Hurry up! There’s a train to catch.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Deep Sleep: Labyrinth of the Forsaken
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with HIVESWAP: ACT 1.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 1.
What dreams are made of is the stuff of nightmares in this new point-and-click adventure. Delve deep into realms both fantastical and terrifying, and use the power of lucid dreaming to solve puzzles, explore, and contend with eerie adversaries in your search for the brother you thought had died.
Paradise Killer
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with HIVESWAP: ACT 1.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 1.
Paradise Island, a world outside reality. There’s been a murder that only "investigation freak" Lady Love Dies can solve. Gather evidence and interrogate suspects in this open world adventure. You can accuse anyone, but you’ll have to prove your case in trial. It’s up to you to decide who’s guilty.
Silence
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with HIVESWAP: ACT 1.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIVESWAP: ACT 1.
Can you save Silence, the grim, but also serene world between life and death? Can you help Noah find his little sister Renie in this suffering world? Can you bring her home? Explore Silence and join the siblings on their adventurous journey.
Frequently asked about HIVESWAP: ACT 1
- Does HIVESWAP: ACT 1 run on Steam Deck?
- HIVESWAP: ACT 1 is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does HIVESWAP: ACT 1 cost?
- HIVESWAP: ACT 1 is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to HIVESWAP: ACT 1?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside HIVESWAP: ACT 1 are Starfish Simulator 👍, Deep Sleep: Labyrinth of the Forsaken, Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor.
- Who developed HIVESWAP: ACT 1?
- HIVESWAP: ACT 1 was developed by What Pumpkin Games, Inc..
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