Games like Golem
If Golem is your kind of game, the closest matches are Lair of the Clockwork God, Stick it to The Man! and In Other Waters — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its puzzle design is innovative, 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 Golem: A heart-warming adventure about a young girl and a shape-shifting golem who must navigate the ruins of an ancient tower to solve its challenging puzzles and re-activate its long-dormant machines.
Players who liked Golem also play
Steam players who put hours into Golem 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.
Lair of the Clockwork God
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Golem.
Top pick for Golem fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Golem.
A fast-paced Point-and-Click adventure AND an indie platfomer in one! Join adventurer Ben and wannabe indie darling Dan in a race against time to stop all the Apocalypses happening at the same time.
Stick it to The Man!
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Golem.
Second-strongest match for Golem fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Golem.
Hard hat tester, Ray, has a bizarre accident and wakes up with a giant pink spaghetti arm sticking out of his brain! With his awesome new powers he can read minds and change the world with stickers but he’s on the run for a crime he didn’t commit. Can you help Ray out of this sticky situation?
In Other Waters
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Golem.
Third-strongest match for Golem fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Golem.
Play as an Artificial Intelligence guiding a stranded xenobiologist through a beautiful and mysterious alien ocean. A non-violent sci-fi story, enter a world of wonder, fear and vulnerability, unraveling the history and ecology of an impossible planet. What will you discover together?
Little Misfortune
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Golem.
Ranked #4 for Golem fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Golem.
Led by her new friend, Mr. Voice, Misfortune ventures into the woods, where mysteries are unraveled and a little bad luck unfolds.
Gorogoa
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Golem.
Ranked #5 for Golem fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Golem.
Gorogoa is an elegant evolution of the puzzle genre, told through a beautifully hand-drawn story designed and illustrated by Jason Roberts. Winner of Debut Game at the 2018 BAFTA Games Awards, as well as Best Mobile Game and the Innovation Award at the GDC 2018 Choice Awards.
Detention
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Golem.
Ranked #6 for Golem fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Golem.
Detention is an atmospheric horror game set in 1960s Taiwan under martial law. Incorporated religious elements based in Taiwanese/Chinese culture and mythology, the game provided players with unique graphics and gaming experience.
Thimbleweed Park™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Golem.
Ranked #7 for Golem fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Golem.
In Thimbleweed Park, a dead body is the least of your problems. Switch between five playable characters to uncover the surreal secrets of this strange town in a modern mystery adventure game from the creators of Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion. The deeper you go, the weirder it gets.
Stories Untold
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Golem.
Ranked #8 for Golem fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Golem.
Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental adventures, including a remaster of the original hit episode “The House Abandon”.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Golem
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RiME
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Golem.
Reviewers of Golem cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Golem.
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.
FEZ
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Golem.
Reviewers of Golem cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Golem.
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.
Hexen Hegemony
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Golem cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Golem.
Hexen Hegemony is a TPS (Third Person Shooter) game that makes it possible to fight against other witches with hundreds of different magic combinations. Enjoy team strategy, competition and spoils in 4 vs 4 matches. Remember, winners takes everything on the world of hexen.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Golem at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Golem on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Golem.
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 Golem on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Golem.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Golem on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Golem.
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?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Golem on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Golem.
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 Golem on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Golem.
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 Golem on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Golem.
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 ~67% under Golem on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Golem.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Golem on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Golem.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Golem.
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.
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 Golem.
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.
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Golem.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
Cube Escape: Paradox
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Golem.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Golem.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Floating Point
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Golem.
Floating Point is a peaceful, free game about using a grappling hook to swing yourself gracefully through randomly generated spaces. The only objective is to collect points, and the only thing that increases your points is swinging swiftly, smoothly and elegantly without hitting anything.
The Supper
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Golem.
The Supper is a short adventure game about the darkest side of the human soul. Ms. Appleton was always a wellspring of kindness, until The Voice started talking to her.
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More from Longbow Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Longbow Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Hegemony III: Clash of the Ancients
WHY THIS
Another title from Longbow Games, the studio behind Golem. Shares Indie with Golem.
Command armies, manage resources, and build an empire in this real-time strategy wargame from Longbow Games. Will Rome fulfil its destiny to rule the ancient world or will history be rewritten to forge a new Etruscan, Gallic, or Greek hegemony!
DX-Ball 2: 20th Anniversary Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Golem.
Another title from Longbow Games, the studio behind Golem. Shares Indie with Golem.
The king of breakout games is back in a special 20th Anniversary Edition with high-res boards, new power-ups, online leaderboards, a boardset editor and more!
Hegemony Rome: The Rise of Caesar
WHY THIS
Another title from Longbow Games, the studio behind Golem. Shares Indie with Golem.
Hegemony Rome: The Rise of Caesar takes you to the plains and forests of ancient Gaul where Julius Caesar wages a decade long war to subjugate the barbarian hordes. Hegemony Rome will immerse you in the history like no other real time strategy game ever before, forcing you to pay close attention to the changing seasons and rapidly...
Hegemony Gold: Wars of Ancient Greece
WHY THIS
Another title from Longbow Games, the studio behind Golem. Shares Indie with Golem.
Conquer the ancient Greek world in Hegemony Gold: Wars of Ancient Greece, an epic strategy wargame that expands and refines the award-winning Hegemony: Philip of Macedon with brand new content and features.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Lair of the Clockwork God
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Golem.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Golem.
A fast-paced Point-and-Click adventure AND an indie platfomer in one! Join adventurer Ben and wannabe indie darling Dan in a race against time to stop all the Apocalypses happening at the same time.
Gorogoa
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Golem.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Golem.
Gorogoa is an elegant evolution of the puzzle genre, told through a beautifully hand-drawn story designed and illustrated by Jason Roberts. Winner of Debut Game at the 2018 BAFTA Games Awards, as well as Best Mobile Game and the Innovation Award at the GDC 2018 Choice Awards.
Detention
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Golem.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Golem.
Detention is an atmospheric horror game set in 1960s Taiwan under martial law. Incorporated religious elements based in Taiwanese/Chinese culture and mythology, the game provided players with unique graphics and gaming experience.
Thimbleweed Park™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Golem.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Golem.
In Thimbleweed Park, a dead body is the least of your problems. Switch between five playable characters to uncover the surreal secrets of this strange town in a modern mystery adventure game from the creators of Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion. The deeper you go, the weirder it gets.
Frequently asked about Golem
- How much does Golem cost?
- Golem is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Golem?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Golem are Lair of the Clockwork God, Stick it to The Man!, In Other Waters.
- Who developed Golem?
- Golem was developed by Longbow Games.
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