Games like Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets
If Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dead Space (2008), PLANET ALPHA and Observation — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging 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 Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets: Become the most epic intern of all times (or at least save your own neck), in this frantic puzzle-adventure game infested with aliens ! Created by the studio behind the award-winning game "Nihilumbra".
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Dead Space (2008)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
Top pick for Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
You are Isaac Clarke, an engineer on the spacecraft USG Ishimura. You're not a warrior. You're not a soldier. You are, however, the last line of defense for the remaining living crew.
PLANET ALPHA
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
Second-strongest match for Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
PLANET ALPHA, a beautiful alien world filled with mystery and danger. Pursued by relentless enemies, you must harness the power of night and day as you struggle to survive.
Observation
WHY THIS
Shares environmental puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
Third-strongest match for Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
Observation is a sci-fi thriller uncovering what happened to Dr. Emma Fisher, and the crew of her mission, through the lens of the station’s artificial intelligence S.A.M.
Outer Wilds
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
Ranked #4 for Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
Deliver Us The Moon
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
Ranked #5 for Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
The Moon has gone dark, cutting off Earth’s last source of energy. As a lone astronaut, you’ll explore abandoned lunar bases, solve intricate puzzles, and navigate stunning zero-gravity environments. Operate advanced vehicles, uncover hidden truths, and survive in this gripping sci-fi thriller.
BLACKHOLE
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
Ranked #6 for Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
BLACKHOLE is an award-winning hardcore platformer with over 15 hours of story-driven sci-fi comedy and gravity-twisting puzzles. Complete Edition out now!
The Station
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
Ranked #7 for Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
The Station is a first-person sci-fi mystery set on a space station sent to study a sentient alien civilization. Assuming the role of a recon specialist, players must unravel a mystery which will decide the fate of two civilizations.
DG2: Defense Grid 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
Ranked #8 for Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
Great strategy is timeless. Build, adapt, and defend across dynamic maps, solo or online - every session brings new strategies, new solutions, and new surprises. Now is the perfect time to enter the grid.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets
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Nihilumbra
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
Reviewers of Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
Discover the beautiful world of Nihilumbra and join Born on his adventure to find himself whilst trying to escape from his inevitable curse. Born was created from the absolute nothingness: The Void. But somehow he separates himself from the black emptiness and appears in the world.
Boulder Dash Deluxe
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
Reviewers of Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
Boulder Dash® Gem collecting puzzle action in an update of the classic game!
Sokoban 3D
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
Move the cubes to their correct locations and solve the levels.
BoxIsland: Sokoban
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
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 Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
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 Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
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 Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
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 Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
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 Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
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 Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
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 Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
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.
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 Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
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.
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
Cube Escape: Paradox
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
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 Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
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.
The Supper
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
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.
Samsara Room
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
You woke up in a mysterious room you have never seen before. Can you find another way out? Samsara Room is a remake of the praised predecessor of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
Samorost 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
Explore the beginnings of the Samorost series in the space gnome’s original bite-sized adventure, formerly released in 2003. Now with remastered sounds, enhanced graphics, and new music by Floex.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from BeautiFun Games
Other recommendable Steam games by BeautiFun Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Nihilumbra
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
Another title from BeautiFun Games, the studio behind Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets. Shares Indie and Adventure with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
Discover the beautiful world of Nihilumbra and join Born on his adventure to find himself whilst trying to escape from his inevitable curse. Born was created from the absolute nothingness: The Void. But somehow he separates himself from the black emptiness and appears in the world.
Megamagic: Wizards of the Neon Age
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
Another title from BeautiFun Games, the studio behind Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets. Shares Indie and Adventure with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
Prepare to delve into a fascinating world where the forces of technology and magic are embroiled in a vicious struggle! Blurring the lines between the RPG and strategy genres, Megamagic recaptures the unmistakable flavour of the 80s in a game magnified by the incredible music by Mitch Murder.
Professor Lupo: Ocean
WHY THIS
Another title from BeautiFun Games, the studio behind Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets. Shares Indie and Adventure with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
Professor Lupo: Ocean is a 2D grid-based exploration puzzle adventure from the famed creators of “Nihilumbra”. Trapped below the ocean, take on strange creatures, use water to solve puzzles and escape your fate, while uncovering the mysteries of who you really are.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Dead Space (2008)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
You are Isaac Clarke, an engineer on the spacecraft USG Ishimura. You're not a warrior. You're not a soldier. You are, however, the last line of defense for the remaining living crew.
Outer Wilds
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
Deliver Us The Moon
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
The Moon has gone dark, cutting off Earth’s last source of energy. As a lone astronaut, you’ll explore abandoned lunar bases, solve intricate puzzles, and navigate stunning zero-gravity environments. Operate advanced vehicles, uncover hidden truths, and survive in this gripping sci-fi thriller.
DG2: Defense Grid 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets.
Great strategy is timeless. Build, adapt, and defend across dynamic maps, solo or online - every session brings new strategies, new solutions, and new surprises. Now is the perfect time to enter the grid.
Frequently asked about Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets
- Does Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets run on Steam Deck?
- Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets cost?
- Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets are Dead Space (2008), PLANET ALPHA, Observation.
- Who developed Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets?
- Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets was developed by BeautiFun Games.
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