Games like Purple Heart
If Purple Heart is your kind of game, the closest matches are Pukan Bye Bye, Dark Sauce and The Way — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its circular saws as obstacles, hardcore platforming challenge and pixel art aesthetic. 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.
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Pukan Bye Bye
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Purple Heart.
Top pick for Purple Heart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Purple Heart.
Created to enrage.
Dark Sauce
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Purple Heart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Purple Heart.
Take gold from the dragon, and not become a barbecue. Colorful cubic platformer about pig and dragon
The Way
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Purple Heart.
Third-strongest match for Purple Heart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Purple Heart.
Journey to another planet and discover its secrets in order to bring your loved one back to life. Experience an adventure, inspired by old school classics like Another World, Heart of Darkness and Flashback.
Expelled
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Purple Heart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Purple Heart.
Expelled - the adventure of a rabbit on dangerous planets, and all in order to use the only chance to get out of prison and return home to his wife and children.
Downwell
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Purple Heart.
Ranked #5 for Purple Heart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Purple Heart.
Downwell is a curious game about a young person venturing down a well in search of untold treasures with only his Gunboots to protect him.
Cave Story+
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Purple Heart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Purple Heart.
Run, jump, shoot, fly and explore your way through a massive action-adventure reminiscent of classic 8- and 16-bit games.
Castle In The Darkness
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Purple Heart.
Ranked #7 for Purple Heart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Purple Heart.
Castle In The Darkness is a fun and challenging shout out to the early days of video games! It's an action exploration platformer with some RPG elements, much like games from the Castlevania or Metroid series. It's super fast-paced, challenging, and full of secrets!
1001 Spikes
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Purple Heart.
Ranked #8 for Purple Heart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Purple Heart.
Discover the lost treasures of Ukampa in South America as Aban Hawkins searches for his estranged father, world-famous archeaologist, Jim Hawkins. Aban Hawkins races into the frozen tundra of the antarctic, undiscovered temple ruins and the vast caverns of South America in search of his father and the legendary treasure rumored to lie...
Reviewers mention these as similar to Purple Heart
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Super Meat Boy
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Purple Heart.
Reviewers of Purple Heart cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Purple Heart.
The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!
Mega Man X Legacy Collection
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Purple Heart.
Reviewers of Purple Heart cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Mega Man X Legacy Collection includes the legendary 16-bit titles and the series’ exciting foray into the 32-bit era: Mega Man X, Mega Man X2, Mega Man X3, and Mega Man X4. Test your skills in the new X Challenge mode, which pits players against two deadly bosses at once.
Celeste
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Purple Heart.
Reviewers of Purple Heart cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Purple Heart.
Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Purple Heart at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Purple Heart on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Purple Heart.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Purple Heart on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Purple Heart.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Purple Heart on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Purple Heart.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Purple Heart on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Purple Heart.
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 ~60% under Purple Heart on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Purple Heart.
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?
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 Purple Heart.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Purple Heart.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Purple Heart.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Purple Heart.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Purple Heart.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Purple Heart.
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.
Floating Point
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Purple Heart.
Floating Point is a peaceful, free game about using a grappling hook to swing yourself gracefully through randomly generated spaces. The only objective is to collect points, and the only thing that increases your points is swinging swiftly, smoothly and elegantly without hitting anything.
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More from Artalasky
Other recommendable Steam games by Artalasky, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Pukan Bye Bye
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Purple Heart.
Another title from Artalasky, the studio behind Purple Heart. Shares Indie and Adventure with Purple Heart.
Created to enrage.
Zero Symptom
WHY THIS
Another title from Artalasky, the studio behind Purple Heart. Shares Indie and Adventure with Purple Heart.
The Covid vaccine has turned some of the population into monsters. Will you be able to stop the zombie apocalypse and create a new vaccine, or will you turn to the dark side in this first-person horror shooter with consequences for your choices.
Dark Sauce
WHY THIS
Another title from Artalasky, the studio behind Purple Heart. Shares Indie and Adventure with Purple Heart.
Take gold from the dragon, and not become a barbecue. Colorful cubic platformer about pig and dragon
Frequently asked about Purple Heart
- How much does Purple Heart cost?
- Purple Heart is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Purple Heart?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Purple Heart are Pukan Bye Bye, Dark Sauce, The Way.
- Who developed Purple Heart?
- Purple Heart was developed by Artalasky.
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 Purple Heart.
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