Games like Horace
If Horace is your kind of game, the closest matches are La-Mulana, Owlboy and Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its emotional, nostalgic and retro. 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 Horace: "The best platformer of 2019."Horace is a huge platforming adventure which pushes the boundaries of the genre with a profound story of a small robot learning of life, the universe and Douglas Adams. Made by videogame lovers for videogame lovers!
Players who liked Horace also play
Steam players who put hours into Horace 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.
La-Mulana
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Horace.
Top pick for Horace fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Horace.
LA-MULANA is an “Archaeological Ruin Exploration Action Game,” bringing the classic appeal of adventure with the punishing difficulty of retro-inspired gaming. Search inside ancient ruins, seeking out the “Secret Treasure of Life” – which sleeps in the sprawling ruins of “LA-MULANA” and is said to be the beginning of all civilization.
Owlboy
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Horace.
Second-strongest match for Horace fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Horace.
Owlboy is a story-driven platform adventure game, where you can fly and explore a brand new world in the clouds! Pick up your friends, and bring them with you as you explore the open skies, in one of the most detailed adventures of this era.
Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Horace fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Horace.
Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials is a snarky action-adventure puzzle game with a good dose of humor. Explore hundreds of secret-filled rooms, fight big bosses, gather companions for your party and use the powers of Pip—your bat buddy—to solve puzzles and escape the eldritch abyss!
The Messenger
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Horace fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Horace.
As a demon army besieges his village, a young ninja ventures through a cursed world, to deliver a scroll paramount to his clan’s survival. What begins as a classic action platformer soon unravels into an expansive time-traveling adventure full of thrills, surprises, and humor.
Skelattack
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Horace fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Horace.
Play Skelattack and save the Underworld in this fun action platformer! Together with your best bat friend Imber, you jump, slash, and flap your way though the Underworld and stop the human threat!
BLACKHOLE
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Horace fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Horace.
BLACKHOLE is an award-winning hardcore platformer with over 15 hours of story-driven sci-fi comedy and gravity-twisting puzzles. Complete Edition out now!
Cathedral
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Horace.
Ranked #7 for Horace fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Horace.
Make your way through more than 600 rooms, and unravel the secrets of your past by finding the five elemental orbs. Cathedral features a vast world, meant for exploring!
Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Horace.
Ranked #8 for Horace fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Horace.
"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.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Horace
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FEZ
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Horace.
Reviewers of Horace cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Horace.
Gomez is a 2D creature living in a 2D world. Or is he? When the existence of a mysterious 3rd dimension is revealed to him, Gomez is sent out on a journey that will take him to the very end of time and space. Use your ability to navigate 3D structures from 4 distinct classic 2D perspectives.
Celeste
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Horace.
Reviewers of Horace cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Horace.
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.
MANIC MINERS
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Horace cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Horace.
Welcome to "MANIC MINERS" - just imagine, "Lemmings" meets "Boulderdash" ... with TNTs, fuse bombs, lasers and flamers tossed-in-too! Deploy your Tiny Miners (TM) to collect, and safely return home, as many jewels as possible. But, be very, very, aware - there's a million ways to die daan there!
Pizza Tower
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Horace cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Horace.
Pizza Tower is a fast paced 2D platformer, with an emphasis on movement, exploration and score attack. Featuring highly stylized pixel art inspired by the cartoons from the '90s, and a highly energetic soundtrack.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Horace at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Horace on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Horace.
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 Horace on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Horace.
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 Horace on Steam right now. Shares Action with Horace.
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 Horace on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Horace.
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 Horace on Steam right now. Shares Action with Horace.
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 Horace on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Horace.
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 Horace on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Horace.
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 Horace on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Horace.
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 Horace.
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 Horace.
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 Horace.
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 Horace.
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 Horace.
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 Horace.
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 Horace.
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.
La-Mulana
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Horace.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Horace.
LA-MULANA is an “Archaeological Ruin Exploration Action Game,” bringing the classic appeal of adventure with the punishing difficulty of retro-inspired gaming. Search inside ancient ruins, seeking out the “Secret Treasure of Life” – which sleeps in the sprawling ruins of “LA-MULANA” and is said to be the beginning of all civilization.
Owlboy
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Horace.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Horace.
Owlboy is a story-driven platform adventure game, where you can fly and explore a brand new world in the clouds! Pick up your friends, and bring them with you as you explore the open skies, in one of the most detailed adventures of this era.
Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Horace.
Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials is a snarky action-adventure puzzle game with a good dose of humor. Explore hundreds of secret-filled rooms, fight big bosses, gather companions for your party and use the powers of Pip—your bat buddy—to solve puzzles and escape the eldritch abyss!
The Messenger
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Horace.
As a demon army besieges his village, a young ninja ventures through a cursed world, to deliver a scroll paramount to his clan’s survival. What begins as a classic action platformer soon unravels into an expansive time-traveling adventure full of thrills, surprises, and humor.
Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Horace.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Horace.
"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.
Frequently asked about Horace
- Is Horace verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Horace 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 Horace cost?
- Horace is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Horace?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Horace are La-Mulana, Owlboy, Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials.
- Who developed Horace?
- Horace was developed by Paul Helman, Sean Scaplehorn and published by 505 Games.
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 Horace.
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