Games like Tanglewood
If Tanglewood is your kind of game, the closest matches are Martin and the Magic Staff, Shovel Pirate and PostBear Tales — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its authentic 16 bit experience, beautiful chiptune soundtrack and challenging but fair difficulty. 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 Tanglewood: Experience puzzle-platforming the way it’s meant to be. Designed and built on 90’s hardware, Tanglewood is a 16-bit love letter to the golden age of gaming. Guide Nymn home through a forest filled with danger, in classic 2D pixel-art style.
Players who liked Tanglewood also play
Steam players who put hours into Tanglewood 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.
Martin and the Magic Staff
WHY THIS
Top pick for Tanglewood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Tanglewood.
Discover the world of a fabulous puzzle platformer in the pixel art style. You have to help the aspiring magician to pass all the challenges and fill his sorcerous staff with pure magic.
Shovel Pirate
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Tanglewood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Tanglewood.
X marks the spot! Follow the map and find hidden treasures.
PostBear Tales
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Tanglewood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Tanglewood.
You are a bear, a PostBear, the best one! And you have an important mission, deliver a King's letter to the neighbor kingdom!
Freedom Planet 2
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Tanglewood.
Ranked #4 for Tanglewood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Tanglewood.
The fast paced platforming of Freedom Planet returns! Become a full-time cartoon heroine and use abilities and items suited to your play style to explore the world of Avalice and defend its animal citizens!
Biolab Wars
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Tanglewood.
Ranked #5 for Tanglewood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Tanglewood.
Inspired by the 8-bit games and by the movies from the 80's, your goal is to blow things up, defeat aliens and fight bizarre bosses in this platformer 2D with classic mechanics.
Super Catboy
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Tanglewood.
Ranked #6 for Tanglewood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Tanglewood.
Super Catboy is an action-packed platformer created in a high-bit pixel art style, combining the best elements of the golden 16-bit platformer era of the 90s with some ‘pawsome’ new mechanics! And let’s not forget; there’s plenty of CAT CONTENT!
Cybarian: The Time Travelling Warrior
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Tanglewood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Tanglewood.
Cybarian The Time Travelling Warrior is a classically inspired arcade action game, with a mixture of modern and retro gaming tropes.
Aeon Drive
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Tanglewood.
Ranked #8 for Tanglewood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Tanglewood.
Rush through the cyberpunk landscapes of Neo Barcelona in Aeon Drive, an action-platformer with a speedrunning twist! Whether solo or in up to 4 player co-op, sprint and dash through many areas of the neon-infused city - and use your time and space-bending abilities to get ahead.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Tanglewood
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Sonic Generations Collection
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Tanglewood.
Reviewers of Tanglewood cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Tanglewood.
Celebrate 20 years of Sonic in an all new adventure that delivers a definitive experience to Sonic fans new and old!
Sonic CD
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Tanglewood.
Reviewers of Tanglewood cross-mention this title as a similar play.
It’s time to usher the past into the future in this enhanced recreation of Sonic CD! Sonic travels to the distant shores of Never Lake for the once-a-year appearance of Little Planet - a mysterious world where past, present, and future collide through the power of the Time Stones that lie hidden within it.
INSIDE
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Tanglewood.
Reviewers of Tanglewood cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Tanglewood.
Hunted and alone, a boy finds himself drawn into the center of a dark project. INSIDE is a dark, narrative-driven platformer combining intense action with challenging puzzles. It has been critically acclaimed for its moody art style, ambient soundtrack and unsettling atmosphere.
Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Tanglewood.
Reviewers of Tanglewood cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Tanglewood.
“Ori and the Blind Forest” tells the tale of a young orphan destined for heroics, through a visually stunning Action-Platformer crafted by Moon Studios.
the another world
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Tanglewood cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Tanglewood.
The Another World is a fantasy-themed adventure game where you have to defeat the monster king, but before that, you have to find a key to open each door to reach the monster king, and every time you look for the key, there will be monsters in your way! Be careful
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Tanglewood at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Tanglewood on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tanglewood.
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 ~44% under Tanglewood on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Tanglewood.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Tanglewood on Steam right now. Shares Action with Tanglewood.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Tanglewood on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Tanglewood.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Tanglewood on Steam right now. Shares Action with Tanglewood.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tanglewood.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
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 Tanglewood.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tanglewood.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tanglewood.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Tanglewood.
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 Action and Indie with Tanglewood.
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 Tanglewood.
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.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Freedom Planet 2
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Tanglewood.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Tanglewood.
The fast paced platforming of Freedom Planet returns! Become a full-time cartoon heroine and use abilities and items suited to your play style to explore the world of Avalice and defend its animal citizens!
Biolab Wars
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Tanglewood.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Tanglewood.
Inspired by the 8-bit games and by the movies from the 80's, your goal is to blow things up, defeat aliens and fight bizarre bosses in this platformer 2D with classic mechanics.
Super Catboy
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Tanglewood.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Tanglewood.
Super Catboy is an action-packed platformer created in a high-bit pixel art style, combining the best elements of the golden 16-bit platformer era of the 90s with some ‘pawsome’ new mechanics! And let’s not forget; there’s plenty of CAT CONTENT!
Cybarian: The Time Travelling Warrior
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Tanglewood.
Cybarian The Time Travelling Warrior is a classically inspired arcade action game, with a mixture of modern and retro gaming tropes.
Frequently asked about Tanglewood
- How much does Tanglewood cost?
- Tanglewood is listed on Steam at 17.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Tanglewood?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Tanglewood are Martin and the Magic Staff, Shovel Pirate, PostBear Tales.
- Who developed Tanglewood?
- Tanglewood was developed by Big Evil Corporation.
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 Tanglewood.
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