Games like SCARF
If SCARF is your kind of game, the closest matches are Omno, Arise: A Simple Story and Big Hops — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its multiple endings encourage replayability, atmospheric and cozy. 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 SCARF: Scarf is an atmospheric and emotional journey about what it means to be a hero. An adventure game mixing puzzles and 3D platforms. Explore beautifully crafted worlds and discover your true destiny with the help of a dragon-shaped scarf.
Players who liked SCARF also play
Steam players who put hours into SCARF 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.
Omno
WHY THIS
Shares collectible hunting and an atmospheric mood with SCARF.
Top pick for SCARF fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with SCARF.
A single-player journey of discovery through an ancient world of wonders, created by solo developer Jonas Manke.
Arise: A Simple Story
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SCARF.
Second-strongest match for SCARF fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with SCARF.
Embark on an emotional journey of losing the love of one's life. Manipulate time, solve puzzles, reshape surroundings as you push forward into the bittersweet recollections of a past life. This is a story about happiness and hardship, joy and sorrow. A story that all of us will one day experience.
Big Hops
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for SCARF fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with SCARF.
Tongue-swing, free climb, and build your own path forward in a new kind of 3D platformer! Plant veggie bounce pads, tightropes, hookshots, and much more. Find a way home through huge Desert, Ocean, and Mountain worlds and collect bugs, upgrade your backpack, and meet animal friends along the way.
Cirno! Lifts a Boulder
WHY THIS
Shares collectible hunting and an atmospheric mood with SCARF.
Ranked #4 for SCARF fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with SCARF.
Help Cirno get back into her home! A chill, bite-sized 3D platformer in which you explore a frozen Misty Lake and gain boulder-lifting strength.
Grow Home
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SCARF.
Ranked #5 for SCARF fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with SCARF.
Experience the freedom of unbounded climbing as you take control of BUD, a procedurally animated robot on a quest to save his planet. Create your own path through an alien world as you control and ride a giant plant on a vertical journey to the stars.
Demon Tides
WHY THIS
Shares collectible hunting and an atmospheric mood with SCARF.
Ranked #6 for SCARF fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with SCARF.
Race across open oceans and uncover a kingdom’s dark secrets. Expressively platform your way across dozens of locales, upgrading your gear and modifying your move-set every step of the way!
The Smurfs - Mission Vileaf
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for SCARF fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with SCARF.
Go on an adventure to save your forest! Gargamel, the evil sorcerer just created the VILEAF, a plant that has the ability to attract and capture the Smurfs... but it's also TOXIC! Embody 4 iconic Smurfs and heal the plants on your way to Gargamel's hovel: the whole forest depends on you!
RiME
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SCARF.
Ranked #8 for SCARF fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with SCARF.
A land of discovery stretches out before you. Explore the beautiful, rugged world of RiME. Armed with your wits and a will to overcome—and the guidance of a helpful fox—you must explore the enigmatic island, reach the tower's peak, and unlock its closely guarded secrets.
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RiME
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SCARF.
Reviewers of SCARF cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with SCARF.
A land of discovery stretches out before you. Explore the beautiful, rugged world of RiME. Armed with your wits and a will to overcome—and the guidance of a helpful fox—you must explore the enigmatic island, reach the tower's peak, and unlock its closely guarded secrets.
Omno
WHY THIS
Shares collectible hunting and an atmospheric mood with SCARF.
Reviewers of SCARF cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with SCARF.
A single-player journey of discovery through an ancient world of wonders, created by solo developer Jonas Manke.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below SCARF at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under SCARF on Steam right now. Shares Action with SCARF.
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 SCARF on Steam right now. Shares Action with SCARF.
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 SCARF on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with SCARF.
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 SCARF on Steam right now. Shares Action with SCARF.
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.
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under SCARF on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with SCARF.
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...
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under SCARF on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with SCARF.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~93% under SCARF on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with SCARF.
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 ~80% under SCARF on Steam right now. Shares Action with SCARF.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
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.
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 SCARF.
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 with SCARF.
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.
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 Adventure with SCARF.
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.
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 Adventure with SCARF.
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.
Arise: A Simple Story
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SCARF.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with SCARF.
Embark on an emotional journey of losing the love of one's life. Manipulate time, solve puzzles, reshape surroundings as you push forward into the bittersweet recollections of a past life. This is a story about happiness and hardship, joy and sorrow. A story that all of us will one day experience.
Big Hops
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with SCARF.
Tongue-swing, free climb, and build your own path forward in a new kind of 3D platformer! Plant veggie bounce pads, tightropes, hookshots, and much more. Find a way home through huge Desert, Ocean, and Mountain worlds and collect bugs, upgrade your backpack, and meet animal friends along the way.
Cirno! Lifts a Boulder
WHY THIS
Shares collectible hunting and an atmospheric mood with SCARF.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with SCARF.
Help Cirno get back into her home! A chill, bite-sized 3D platformer in which you explore a frozen Misty Lake and gain boulder-lifting strength.
Grow Home
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SCARF.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with SCARF.
Experience the freedom of unbounded climbing as you take control of BUD, a procedurally animated robot on a quest to save his planet. Create your own path through an alien world as you control and ride a giant plant on a vertical journey to the stars.
Demon Tides
WHY THIS
Shares collectible hunting and an atmospheric mood with SCARF.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with SCARF.
Race across open oceans and uncover a kingdom’s dark secrets. Expressively platform your way across dozens of locales, upgrading your gear and modifying your move-set every step of the way!
The Smurfs - Mission Vileaf
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with SCARF.
Go on an adventure to save your forest! Gargamel, the evil sorcerer just created the VILEAF, a plant that has the ability to attract and capture the Smurfs... but it's also TOXIC! Embody 4 iconic Smurfs and heal the plants on your way to Gargamel's hovel: the whole forest depends on you!
RiME
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with SCARF.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with SCARF.
A land of discovery stretches out before you. Explore the beautiful, rugged world of RiME. Armed with your wits and a will to overcome—and the guidance of a helpful fox—you must explore the enigmatic island, reach the tower's peak, and unlock its closely guarded secrets.
Frequently asked about SCARF
- Does SCARF work on Steam Deck?
- SCARF is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does SCARF cost?
- SCARF is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to SCARF?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside SCARF are Omno, Arise: A Simple Story, Big Hops.
- Who developed SCARF?
- SCARF was developed by Uprising Studios and published by HandyGames.
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 SCARF.
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