Games like Hollowed
If Hollowed is your kind of game, the closest matches are Iconoclasts, YesterMorrow and A Juggler's Tale — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its free with surprising polish, piano soundtrack enhances immersion and atmospheric. 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 Hollowed: Hollowed tells the story of a woman who will do anything to bring her perished loved one back to the world of the living. Control Halia and her spirit Oco simultaneously on a single controller in this side-scrolling puzzle platformer.
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Iconoclasts
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollowed.
Top pick for Hollowed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hollowed.
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.
YesterMorrow
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Hollowed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hollowed.
YesterMorrow is a single-player time travelling 2D platformer, mixing action sequences with puzzle elements. Follow the engaging story of Yui, who travels back into the past to save her family and the remnants of a world now trapped in Never-ending Night.
A Juggler's Tale
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollowed.
Third-strongest match for Hollowed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hollowed.
Lead Abby the string puppet through a bruised, but beautiful fairy tale world in this cinematic adventure. Solve riddles, evade traps and shake off pursuers on the way to find freedom. Can Abby take control of her fate with all the strings attached?
Pinstripe
WHY THIS
Shares environmental puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Hollowed.
Ranked #4 for Hollowed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hollowed.
An ex-minister ventures through the frozen depths of Hell in search of his kidnapped daughter.
Aeon Drive
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollowed.
Ranked #5 for Hollowed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hollowed.
Rush through the cyberpunk landscapes of Neo Barcelona in Aeon Drive, an action-platformer with a speedrunning twist! Whether solo or in up to 4 player co-op, sprint and dash through many areas of the neon-infused city - and use your time and space-bending abilities to get ahead.
Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollowed.
Ranked #6 for Hollowed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hollowed.
Built from scratch, enjoy breathtaking visuals, enhanced audio and improved, deeper gameplay as New 'n' Tasty reignites the original Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee using the latest next-generation technology.
BADLAND: Game of the Year Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollowed.
Ranked #7 for Hollowed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hollowed.
With BADLAND: Game of the Year Edition, experience the multi-award-winning action adventure like never before - redesigned for Steam.
Semblance
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollowed.
Ranked #8 for Hollowed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hollowed.
Semblance is an innovative platformer with deformable terrain, set in a beautiful minimalist world. It’s a game that asks, what if you could deform and reshape the world itself? Semblance takes the idea of a ‘platform’ in a platformer and turns it on its head.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Hollowed
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Portal
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Hollowed.
Reviewers of Hollowed cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Hollowed.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
Outland
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollowed.
Reviewers of Hollowed cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Hollowed.
Outland is a fast-paced, dynamic platformer where the player uses powers of light and dark in an epic journey to save the world from forces of chaos.
ReCore: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollowed.
Reviewers of Hollowed cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Hollowed.
From creator Keiji Inafune and the makers of Metroid Prime comes the ReCore: Definitive Edition, an action-adventure crafted for a new generation. As one of the last humans, forge friendships with robotic companions and lead them on an epic adventure through a dynamic world.
Trine 2: Complete Story
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollowed.
Reviewers of Hollowed cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Hollowed.
Three Heroes make their way through dangers untold in a fairytale world, featuring physics-based puzzles, beautiful sights and online co-op.
Cuphead
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollowed.
Reviewers of Hollowed cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Hollowed.
Cuphead is a classic run and gun action game heavily focused on boss battles. Inspired by cartoons of the 1930s, the visuals and audio are painstakingly created with the same techniques of the era, i.e. traditional hand drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings.
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Iconoclasts
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollowed.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Hollowed.
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.
A Juggler's Tale
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollowed.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Hollowed.
Lead Abby the string puppet through a bruised, but beautiful fairy tale world in this cinematic adventure. Solve riddles, evade traps and shake off pursuers on the way to find freedom. Can Abby take control of her fate with all the strings attached?
Pinstripe
WHY THIS
Shares environmental puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Hollowed.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hollowed.
An ex-minister ventures through the frozen depths of Hell in search of his kidnapped daughter.
BADLAND: Game of the Year Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollowed.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Hollowed.
With BADLAND: Game of the Year Edition, experience the multi-award-winning action adventure like never before - redesigned for Steam.
Semblance
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hollowed.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Hollowed.
Semblance is an innovative platformer with deformable terrain, set in a beautiful minimalist world. It’s a game that asks, what if you could deform and reshape the world itself? Semblance takes the idea of a ‘platform’ in a platformer and turns it on its head.
Frequently asked about Hollowed
- Does Hollowed run on Steam Deck?
- Hollowed is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- Is Hollowed free to play?
- Yes — Hollowed is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to Hollowed?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hollowed are Iconoclasts, YesterMorrow, A Juggler's Tale.
- Who developed Hollowed?
- Hollowed was developed by Project Polish Productions.
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 Hollowed.
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