Games like ESPER
If ESPER is your kind of game, the closest matches are Carpe Lucem - Seize The Light VR, Tentacular and VR Furballs - Demolition — 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 ESPER: As one of a small number of citizens who have been endowed with the power to move objects with their minds, you have been enrolled by the government to undertake a series of tests to show that you are in control of your powers.
Players who liked ESPER also play
Steam players who put hours into ESPER 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.
Carpe Lucem - Seize The Light VR
WHY THIS
Top pick for ESPER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with ESPER.
Carpe Lucem challenges and entertains players by transferring classical 2D puzzles into the virtual space. It creates a whole new way of interacting and playing mind teasing puzzle games and it made nobody sick in hundreds of demos at trade shows. VR equipment such as HTC Vive or Oculus required.
Tentacular
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for ESPER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with ESPER.
Tentacular is a VR game about a gigantic but good-hearted tentacled beast trying to figure out its place in the world.
VR Furballs - Demolition
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for ESPER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with ESPER.
Grab your slingshot, grab a Furball... AND DEMOLISH THEM ALL!!! In this challenging VR physics-based demolition puzzle game, you will have to toss, sling, smash, slam, shoot, and even headbutt adorable Furballs into their evil foes and their crazy constructions to demolish them all!
Clash of Chefs VR
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for ESPER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with ESPER.
Ready, set, cook! Clash of Chefs VR is a competitive cooking game that’ll put your culinary skills to the test as you race to finish orders. Complete 100 single player stages, or take on human opponents in both real-time and asynchronous competitive multiplayer with four unique restaurants.
Paper Beast
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for ESPER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with ESPER.
An exploration and adventure game about wildlife sprung from the depths of the internet. An unknown power seems to upset its balance. Join forces with exotic creatures to unravel the mysteries of this universe.
Crowbar Climber
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for ESPER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with ESPER.
In Crowbar Climber, use your crowbars to make your way up! Face hooks, planks, and gears using only your arms. Can you beat the game before you run out of energy?
Kayak VR: Mirage
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for ESPER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with ESPER.
Kayak VR: Mirage is a jaw-dropping and exhilarating journey through beautiful locations, made for Virtual Reality. Maneuver our fully physically accurate kayak around checkpoints and crown yourself the fastest, or take it easy and use the free roam mode and enjoy the scenery.
Sports Bar VR
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for ESPER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with ESPER.
The new Sports Bar VR with cross-play is a major social experience update & now available on Steam. A single through 8-player cross-platform virtual sports bar overflowing with fun and silly props, featuring an awesome set of fun games and new game modes for pool, darts, shuffleboard & more. (Formally Pool Nation VR)
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below ESPER at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under ESPER on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with ESPER.
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 ~44% under ESPER on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with ESPER.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under ESPER on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with ESPER.
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 ~44% under ESPER on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with ESPER.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under ESPER on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ESPER.
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 ~67% under ESPER on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ESPER.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under ESPER on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with ESPER.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under ESPER on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ESPER.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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 with ESPER.
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.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with ESPER.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with ESPER.
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 ESPER.
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 Casual with ESPER.
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!
100 Asian Cats
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ESPER.
🏮🐈 100 Asian Cats - Join the cutest adventure in the Asia! 😻 🌸 Explore the charming hand-drawn artwork of Asian temples 🏯 as you embark on a quest to find 100 adorable cats hidden throughout the game. 🕵️♂️❌ Can you find them all? 🕵️♂️🐈✅
Floating Point
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with ESPER.
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 Coatsink
Other recommendable Steam games by Coatsink, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Kingdom Two Crowns
WHY THIS
Another title from Coatsink, the studio behind ESPER. Shares Indie with ESPER.
Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.
Chip
WHY THIS
Another title from Coatsink, the studio behind ESPER. Shares Indie with ESPER.
Chip is an isometric puzzle game with robots, electricity and fancy dress! The player must help recharge Chip - a plucky little red robot - who has been imprisoned by the nefarious villain, Rust.
Shu
WHY THIS
Another title from Coatsink, the studio behind ESPER. Shares Indie with ESPER.
Shu is a stylish 2.5D platformer set in a beautiful and engrossing world. Guide Shu and a cast of beautifully hand-drawn characters as they run, jump and glide their way across exotic lands, forever pursued by the monstrous and unrelenting Storm. CAN YOU OUTRUN THE END OF THE WORLD?
Augmented Empire
WHY THIS
Another title from Coatsink, the studio behind ESPER. Shares Indie with ESPER.
Step into New Savannah, 2058 - a city divided by class and corruption, where your tactical choices spark a cyberpunk revolution. Assemble a team of misfits and lead them through 26 intense missions with deep strategy and immersive storytelling. Every decision shapes your rebellion.
Frequently asked about ESPER
- How much does ESPER cost?
- ESPER is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to ESPER?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ESPER are Carpe Lucem - Seize The Light VR, Tentacular, VR Furballs - Demolition.
- Who developed ESPER?
- ESPER was developed by Coatsink.
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 ESPER.
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