Games like Semblance
If Semblance is your kind of game, the closest matches are Toki Tori, Hue and The Pedestrian — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its hidden collectibles encourage exploration, atmospheric and contemplative. 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 Semblance: 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.
Players who liked Semblance also play
Steam players who put hours into Semblance 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.
Toki Tori
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Semblance.
Top pick for Semblance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Semblance.
The gameplay in Toki Tori is a blend of two genres. While it looks like a platform game, it's a puzzle game at heart. To progress through the game, the player must pick up each egg in a level using a set number of tools.
Hue
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Semblance.
Second-strongest match for Semblance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Semblance.
Hue is a vibrant, award-winning puzzle-adventure, where you alter the world by changing its background colour.
The Pedestrian
WHY THIS
Shares environmental interaction and an atmospheric mood with Semblance.
Third-strongest match for Semblance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Semblance.
I can see the signs in my sleep now, always guiding me closer. Will this really work? Have we almost achieved the impossible?
TurnOn
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Semblance.
Ranked #4 for Semblance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Semblance.
"TurnOn" tells the spellbinding tale of a brave alien creature and its striking journey through blackout world, in an incredibly colorful and detailed platformer without platforms.
Unravel
WHY THIS
Shares environmental interaction and an atmospheric mood with Semblance.
Ranked #5 for Semblance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Semblance.
Unravel is a physics-based puzzle platformer. Yarny, a character made from a single thread of yarn, must embark on a larger than life adventure.
My Memory of Us
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Semblance.
Ranked #6 for Semblance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Semblance.
My Memory of Us is a moving fairy tale about friendship and hope in the darkest moments of our times. Enter a hand-crafted, gorgeously animated 2D world full of adventure, exploration, stealth and puzzles. Meet the kids brought up in different worlds and help them survive during times of occupation.
Iconoclasts
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Semblance.
Ranked #7 for Semblance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Semblance.
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.
Grapple Dog
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Semblance.
Ranked #8 for Semblance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Semblance.
Jump, Swing and Zip your way through colourful worlds and exciting challenges in this unique 2D action-platformer! Master the power of the Grapple on your adventure to save the world!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Semblance at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Semblance on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Semblance.
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 ~50% under Semblance on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Semblance.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Semblance on Steam right now. Shares Action with Semblance.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Semblance on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Semblance.
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 ~50% under Semblance on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Semblance.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Semblance on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Semblance.
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 ~70% under Semblance on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Semblance.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Semblance on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Semblance.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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 and Casual with Semblance.
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 Semblance.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Semblance.
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 Semblance.
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 and Casual with Semblance.
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 Semblance.
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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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
The Pedestrian
WHY THIS
Shares environmental interaction and an atmospheric mood with Semblance.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Semblance.
I can see the signs in my sleep now, always guiding me closer. Will this really work? Have we almost achieved the impossible?
My Memory of Us
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Semblance.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Semblance.
My Memory of Us is a moving fairy tale about friendship and hope in the darkest moments of our times. Enter a hand-crafted, gorgeously animated 2D world full of adventure, exploration, stealth and puzzles. Meet the kids brought up in different worlds and help them survive during times of occupation.
Iconoclasts
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Semblance.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Semblance.
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.
Grapple Dog
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Semblance.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Semblance.
Jump, Swing and Zip your way through colourful worlds and exciting challenges in this unique 2D action-platformer! Master the power of the Grapple on your adventure to save the world!
Frequently asked about Semblance
- Is Semblance verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Semblance 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 Semblance cost?
- Semblance is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Semblance?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Semblance are Toki Tori, Hue, The Pedestrian.
- Who developed Semblance?
- Semblance was developed by Nyamakop and published by Good Shepherd Entertainment.
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 Semblance.
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