Games like Blackshift
If Blackshift is your kind of game, the closest matches are Gooper, Roku and Rei and Roboggled Sokoban Game — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its community levels add replayability, atmospheric and challenging. 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 Blackshift: Grid-based action puzzle game full of guns, blocks, robots, bombs, lasers, conveyor belts, mirrors, machines, landmines, keys, doors, teleports, crystals, force fields, secrets and mysteries.
Players who liked Blackshift also play
Steam players who put hours into Blackshift 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.
Roku and Rei
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Blackshift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Blackshift.
Dive into the world of Roku and Rei, a puzzle game where the protagonists move in reverse directions! Use their ability to interact with color-coded objects and tackle mind-bending challenges.
Roboggled Sokoban Game
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Blackshift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Roboggled is a brain-twisting Sokoban puzzle game where you take control of a clever little robot on a mission to outsmart tricky environments and deliver crates to their precise drop zones.
Twofold Tower
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Blackshift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Blackshift.
Solve 1000+ handcrafted puzzles, and ponder a philosophical narrative set in the ruins of a broken fantasy world. Outwit monsters, manipulate time and space, and transcend your all-too-human limits – or go mad trying…
Mistified
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Blackshift.
Ranked #6 for Blackshift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Blackshift.
Solve puzzles and save souls by traversing increasingly complex islands. All to secure your lost spices and get home for dinner.
A Directionless Cycle
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Blackshift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Blackshift.
2D Sokoban game where you explore a game that's slowly degrading, while you control multiple tiles with different directions at the same time.
Ailin: Traps and Treasures
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Blackshift fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Blackshift.
Help Ailin to collect treasures in this block-pushing puzzle game inspired by classics like Sokoban and Minesweeper. Navigate through traps and mines and retrieve treasure chests. Create and share challenging levels with a built-in level editor.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Blackshift
Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.
Chip's Challenge 1
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Blackshift.
Reviewers of Blackshift cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Before Chip can join the Bit Busters computer club and hang out with the girl of his dreams, Melinda the Mental Marvel, he must solve all 144 challenging puzzles. Your bird's-eye view can help Chip rush through the puzzles and mazes before he's deleted by monsters, traps and the passage of time.
Sokoban 3D
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Blackshift cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Blackshift.
Move the cubes to their correct locations and solve the levels.
BoxIsland: Sokoban
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Blackshift cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Blackshift.
On the enigmatic Box Island, an ancient civilization has left behind puzzle-filled ruins. Players take on the role of a young explorer, yet the island is shrouded in a mystical force - only by pushing boxes can one unravel the island's secrets and escape this challenging labyrinthine world!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Blackshift at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Blackshift on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Blackshift.
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 ~63% under Blackshift on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Blackshift.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Blackshift on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Blackshift.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Blackshift on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Blackshift.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~81% under Blackshift on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Blackshift.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Blackshift on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Blackshift.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Blackshift on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Blackshift.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Super Hexagon
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Blackshift on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Blackshift.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
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.
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 Blackshift.
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 Blackshift.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Blackshift.
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 with Blackshift.
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.
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
Frequently asked about Blackshift
- How much does Blackshift cost?
- Blackshift is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Blackshift?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Blackshift are Gooper, Roku and Rei, Roboggled Sokoban Game.
- Who developed Blackshift?
- Blackshift was developed by Robin Allen.
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 Blackshift.
For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.