Games like The Quest for the BIG KEY
If The Quest for the BIG KEY is your kind of game, the closest matches are La-Mulana, Mini Ghost and Ghoulboy - Dark Sword of Goblin — picked from the ranked list below. 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 The Quest for the BIG KEY: The Quest for the BIG KEY is highly inspired by NES classics that you will no doubt recognize. It focuses more on the exploring part. It comes completely without Enemies and Battles. So if you like finding secret passages and collecting items that allow you to progress in different parts of the map, ...
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La-Mulana
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Quest for the BIG KEY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Quest for the BIG KEY.
LA-MULANA is an “Archaeological Ruin Exploration Action Game,” bringing the classic appeal of adventure with the punishing difficulty of retro-inspired gaming. Search inside ancient ruins, seeking out the “Secret Treasure of Life” – which sleeps in the sprawling ruins of “LA-MULANA” and is said to be the beginning of all civilization.
Mini Ghost
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Quest for the BIG KEY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Quest for the BIG KEY.
"Mini Ghost" is a mini metroidvania in the 80's MSX art style and gameplay. It's the mini prequel of Ghost 1.0.
Ghoulboy - Dark Sword of Goblin
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Quest for the BIG KEY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Quest for the BIG KEY.
Ghoulboy is a retro-inspired action platformer. Explore a magical realm of dungeons, towns, treasures and devious monsters.
Other Worlds India
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Quest for the BIG KEY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Quest for the BIG KEY.
Pure metroidvania game, adventures, secret locations, tons of weapons, and of course hardcore gameplay.
Owlboy
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Quest for the BIG KEY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Quest for the BIG KEY.
Owlboy is a story-driven platform adventure game, where you can fly and explore a brand new world in the clouds! Pick up your friends, and bring them with you as you explore the open skies, in one of the most detailed adventures of this era.
ANIMAL WELL
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Quest for the BIG KEY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Quest for the BIG KEY.
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
La-Mulana 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Quest for the BIG KEY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Quest for the BIG KEY.
The long-awaited sequel to La-Mulana, La-Mulana 2 follows Lumisa Kosugi as she explores the ancient ruins of La-Mulana. Desperate to find the cause of the recent slew of monsters appearing from the ruins, Lumisa discovers the "other" La-Mulana: the ruins known as Eg-Lana.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Quest for the BIG KEY at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Quest for the BIG KEY on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Quest for the BIG KEY.
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?
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Quest for the BIG KEY on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with The Quest for the BIG KEY.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Quest for the BIG KEY on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Quest for the BIG KEY.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Quest for the BIG KEY on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Quest for the BIG KEY.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Quest for the BIG KEY on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Quest for the BIG KEY.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Quest for the BIG KEY on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Quest for the BIG KEY.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
Bejeweled® 3
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Quest for the BIG KEY on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Quest for the BIG KEY.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
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. Shares Action and Adventure with The Quest for the BIG KEY.
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.
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 The Quest for the BIG KEY.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Quest for the BIG KEY.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Quest for the BIG KEY.
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 The Quest for the BIG KEY.
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!
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Quest for the BIG KEY.
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 and Casual with The Quest for the BIG KEY.
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 hOSHI
Other recommendable Steam games by hOSHI, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
VR: Vacate the Room (Virtual Reality Escape)
WHY THIS
Another title from hOSHI, the studio behind The Quest for the BIG KEY. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Quest for the BIG KEY.
VR: Vacate the Room is a short Escape the Room game.It is a VR Experience where you need to find clues to solve puzzles and find your way out.
VRemin (Virtual Reality Theremin)
WHY THIS
Another title from hOSHI, the studio behind The Quest for the BIG KEY.
Hey Musician and Audio Fanboy! Ever wanted to try the Theremin without paying hundreds of Dollars? Now you can!
VR2: Vacate 2 Rooms (Virtual Reality Escape)
WHY THIS
Another title from hOSHI, the studio behind The Quest for the BIG KEY. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Quest for the BIG KEY.
You need to find a lot of hidden items. Uncover secrets. Use strange mechanisms to proceed through the different rooms to the exit.
hOSHIs Elektronauts
WHY THIS
Another title from hOSHI, the studio behind The Quest for the BIG KEY. Shares Action and Indie with The Quest for the BIG KEY.
hOSHIs Elektronauts is a simple Multiplayer game that is played on a single keyboard on a single screen. Chase each other with glowing stripes of pixels. But avoid hitting the walls or the pixeltrails.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
La-Mulana
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Quest for the BIG KEY.
LA-MULANA is an “Archaeological Ruin Exploration Action Game,” bringing the classic appeal of adventure with the punishing difficulty of retro-inspired gaming. Search inside ancient ruins, seeking out the “Secret Treasure of Life” – which sleeps in the sprawling ruins of “LA-MULANA” and is said to be the beginning of all civilization.
Owlboy
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Quest for the BIG KEY.
Owlboy is a story-driven platform adventure game, where you can fly and explore a brand new world in the clouds! Pick up your friends, and bring them with you as you explore the open skies, in one of the most detailed adventures of this era.
ANIMAL WELL
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Quest for the BIG KEY.
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
La-Mulana 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Quest for the BIG KEY.
The long-awaited sequel to La-Mulana, La-Mulana 2 follows Lumisa Kosugi as she explores the ancient ruins of La-Mulana. Desperate to find the cause of the recent slew of monsters appearing from the ruins, Lumisa discovers the "other" La-Mulana: the ruins known as Eg-Lana.
Frequently asked about The Quest for the BIG KEY
- How much does The Quest for the BIG KEY cost?
- The Quest for the BIG KEY is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Quest for the BIG KEY?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Quest for the BIG KEY are La-Mulana, Mini Ghost, Ghoulboy - Dark Sword of Goblin.
- Who developed The Quest for the BIG KEY?
- The Quest for the BIG KEY was developed by hOSHI.
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