Games like CHUCHEL
If CHUCHEL is your kind of game, the closest matches are Pilgrims, Freaky Trip and Tearstone: Thieves of the Heart — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its absurd humor never stops, expressions carry the narrative and comedic. 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 →CHUCHEL is a comedy adventure game developed and published by Amanita Design, released in 2018 and priced at $14.99 USD. Players guide a hairy protagonist through a series of point-and-click puzzles and environmental challenges to retrieve a stolen cherry, competing against a rival character along the way. The game features physics-based interactions and mini-games within a colorful, cartoon art style characteristic of Amanita Design's work. Reviewers describe the humor as slapstick and absurdist, with character expressions driving a wordless narrative. Players describe the puzzles as feeling like mini-games and appreciate how the experience packs charm into a compact format. The game supports solo play in short bursts, is verified for Steam Deck, and holds an 85% positive rating from 1425 Steam reviews alongside a Metacritic score of 81.
About CHUCHEL: CHUCHEL is a comedy adventure game from the creators of Machinarium, Botanicula and Samorost. Join the hairy hero Chuchel and his rival Kekel as they will be facing numerous puzzles and challenges in their quest to retrieve the precious cherry!
Players who liked CHUCHEL also play
Steam players who put hours into CHUCHEL 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.
Pilgrims
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with CHUCHEL.
Top pick for CHUCHEL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with CHUCHEL.
Pilgrims is a playful adventure game, created by the team behind Machinarium and Samorost. Roam the land as you please and make new friends, share a laugh with your fellow travelers and help them complete their little stories, your way. How many different solutions can you find?
Freaky Trip
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for CHUCHEL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with CHUCHEL.
Put your imagination to the test and go on a freaky rescue trip. Help rescue Salcy’s beloved cockapoo from unknown danger in which she was sure to find herself. In Freaky Trip you will encounter many logical puzzles, which you can find everywhere.
Tearstone: Thieves of the Heart
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for CHUCHEL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with CHUCHEL.
The Heart of Tearstone has gone missing! Climb aboard and hold on tight for a challenging and enchanting Puzzle Adventure game for the ages!
Secret Cats - Spring Festival
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for CHUCHEL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with CHUCHEL.
Dive into the enchanting world of "Secret Cats - Spring Festival" a hidden object game where your mission is to uncover every cat hidden within stunning hand-painted artwork. Let your keen eye and curiosity guide you through this captivating journey.
Secret Cats - Haunted Mansion
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for CHUCHEL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with CHUCHEL.
Dive into the enchanting world of "Secret Cats - Haunted Mansion" a hidden object game where your mission is to uncover every cat hidden within stunning hand-painted artwork. Let your keen eye and curiosity guide you through this captivating journey.
Botanicula
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and a whimsical mood with CHUCHEL.
Ranked #6 for CHUCHEL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with CHUCHEL.
Humor-filled indie adventure game created by the makers of Machinarium and Samorost.
Samorost 3
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for CHUCHEL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with CHUCHEL.
Samorost 3 is an exploration adventure and puzzle game from the award-winning creators of Machinarium and Botanicula. Travel across space to nine unique worlds teeming with colorful challenges, creatures and surprises to discover, brought to life with beautiful artwork, sound and music.
Mizi NO!
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and a funny mood with CHUCHEL.
Ranked #8 for CHUCHEL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with CHUCHEL.
In this free 2D puzzle game, you must reassemble broken objects that your cat has knocked over.
Reviewers mention these as similar to CHUCHEL
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Machinarium
WHY THIS
Shares point and click with CHUCHEL.
Reviewers of CHUCHEL cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with CHUCHEL.
Machinarium is the award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost series, Botanicula and CHUCHEL. Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang!
Samorost 3
WHY THIS
Reviewers of CHUCHEL cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with CHUCHEL.
Samorost 3 is an exploration adventure and puzzle game from the award-winning creators of Machinarium and Botanicula. Travel across space to nine unique worlds teeming with colorful challenges, creatures and surprises to discover, brought to life with beautiful artwork, sound and music.
Karma. Incarnation 1
WHY THIS
Shares point and click and a whimsical mood with CHUCHEL.
Reviewers of CHUCHEL cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with CHUCHEL.
This multi-award winning adventure game explores a love story between two beautiful souls through ingenious humour, mind bending puzzles and a bizarre, hand-drawn, frame-by-frame animation style.
Hidden Folks
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with CHUCHEL.
Reviewers of CHUCHEL cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with CHUCHEL.
Search for hidden folks in hand-drawn, interactive, miniature landscapes. Unfurl tent flaps, cut through bushes, slam doors, and poke some crocodiles! Rooooaaaarrrr!!!!!
Botanicula
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and a whimsical mood with CHUCHEL.
Reviewers of CHUCHEL cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with CHUCHEL.
Humor-filled indie adventure game created by the makers of Machinarium and Samorost.
Bring You Home
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with CHUCHEL.
Reviewers of CHUCHEL cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with CHUCHEL.
You don't control the hero, but the level ITSELF! In this puzzle adventure, change and rearrange pieces of every level to find the right path. All to guide Polo through crazy worlds and rescue his kidnapped alien pet...
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below CHUCHEL at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under CHUCHEL on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with CHUCHEL.
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 CHUCHEL on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with CHUCHEL.
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 CHUCHEL on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with CHUCHEL.
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 CHUCHEL on Steam right now. Shares Indie with CHUCHEL.
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 CHUCHEL on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with CHUCHEL.
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 CHUCHEL on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with CHUCHEL.
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 CHUCHEL on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with CHUCHEL.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under CHUCHEL on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with CHUCHEL.
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.
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 CHUCHEL.
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 Adventure with CHUCHEL.
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 Indie with CHUCHEL.
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 CHUCHEL.
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 CHUCHEL.
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 CHUCHEL.
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 Indie and Adventure with CHUCHEL.
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
More from Amanita Design
Other recommendable Steam games by Amanita Design, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Machinarium
WHY THIS
Shares point and click with CHUCHEL.
Another title from Amanita Design, the studio behind CHUCHEL. Shares Indie and Adventure with CHUCHEL.
Machinarium is the award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost series, Botanicula and CHUCHEL. Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang!
Pilgrims
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with CHUCHEL.
Another title from Amanita Design, the studio behind CHUCHEL. Shares Indie and Adventure with CHUCHEL.
Pilgrims is a playful adventure game, created by the team behind Machinarium and Samorost. Roam the land as you please and make new friends, share a laugh with your fellow travelers and help them complete their little stories, your way. How many different solutions can you find?
Creaks
WHY THIS
Another title from Amanita Design, the studio behind CHUCHEL. Shares Indie and Adventure with CHUCHEL.
The ground starts shaking, light bulbs are breaking - and something rather unusual is happening right behind the walls of your very room. Equipped with nothing but wit and courage, you slowly descend into a world inhabited by avian folk and seemingly deadly furniture monsters.
Botanicula
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and a whimsical mood with CHUCHEL.
Another title from Amanita Design, the studio behind CHUCHEL. Shares Indie and Adventure with CHUCHEL.
Humor-filled indie adventure game created by the makers of Machinarium and Samorost.
Samorost 3
WHY THIS
Another title from Amanita Design, the studio behind CHUCHEL. Shares Indie and Adventure with CHUCHEL.
Samorost 3 is an exploration adventure and puzzle game from the award-winning creators of Machinarium and Botanicula. Travel across space to nine unique worlds teeming with colorful challenges, creatures and surprises to discover, brought to life with beautiful artwork, sound and music.
Happy Game
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving with CHUCHEL.
Another title from Amanita Design, the studio behind CHUCHEL. Shares Indie and Adventure with CHUCHEL.
A little boy falls asleep to a horrible nightmare. Can you make him happy again?
Samorost 2
WHY THIS
Shares environmental interaction, point and click and a whimsical mood with CHUCHEL.
Another title from Amanita Design, the studio behind CHUCHEL. Shares Indie and Adventure with CHUCHEL.
Samorost 2 tells a surreal story of a space gnome whose dog just got kidnapped by mischievous aliens. Set out on a short expedition to rescue the pup, deal with curious strangers and relax to the soothing music by Tomáš "Floex" Dvořák.
Phonopolis
WHY THIS
Shares point and click and a whimsical mood with CHUCHEL.
Another title from Amanita Design, the studio behind CHUCHEL. Shares Indie and Adventure with CHUCHEL.
Phonopolis is a story-driven puzzle adventure set in a hand-painted 3D world made of cardboard. Solve a wide variety of playful puzzles and help Felix end the Leader's oppressive influence in a resonant dystopian city inspired by avant-garde art.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Pilgrims
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with CHUCHEL.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with CHUCHEL.
Pilgrims is a playful adventure game, created by the team behind Machinarium and Samorost. Roam the land as you please and make new friends, share a laugh with your fellow travelers and help them complete their little stories, your way. How many different solutions can you find?
Botanicula
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and a whimsical mood with CHUCHEL.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with CHUCHEL.
Humor-filled indie adventure game created by the makers of Machinarium and Samorost.
Samorost 3
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with CHUCHEL.
Samorost 3 is an exploration adventure and puzzle game from the award-winning creators of Machinarium and Botanicula. Travel across space to nine unique worlds teeming with colorful challenges, creatures and surprises to discover, brought to life with beautiful artwork, sound and music.
Frequently asked about CHUCHEL
- Is CHUCHEL verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — CHUCHEL 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 CHUCHEL cost?
- CHUCHEL is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to CHUCHEL?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside CHUCHEL are Pilgrims, Freaky Trip, Tearstone: Thieves of the Heart.
- Who developed CHUCHEL?
- CHUCHEL was developed by Amanita Design.
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