Games like King of the Hat
If King of the Hat is your kind of game, the closest matches are Nidhogg, Ninza and Thumps & Blows — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its competitive, funny and lighthearted. 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 King of the Hat: A 2D party platformer where you fight with a hat! Throw your hat to attack, defend and bait opponents. But watch out! If someone jumps on your hat... you die!
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Steam players who put hours into King of the Hat 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.
Nidhogg
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with King of the Hat.
Top pick for King of the Hat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with King of the Hat.
Nidhogg is the epic award-winning game of fencing tug-of-war complete with flying giant worms.
Ninza
WHY THIS
Shares rollback netcode and a funny mood with King of the Hat.
Second-strongest match for King of the Hat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with King of the Hat.
Ninza is a free multiplayer game like no other! Instead of directly attacking your opponents, you crush them by pushing pieces of the level. Embrace chaos and dive into an entirely new level of frenzied and creative gameplay, where the environment itself becomes both your weapon and your enemy.
Thumps & Blows
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for King of the Hat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with King of the Hat.
Chaos and fun are guaranteed in this two-player fighting game! Pick your stickman, master ridiculous techniques and humiliate your friends. An easy-to-learn yet hard to master game.
Island Bender
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for King of the Hat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with King of the Hat.
Throw Rocks at each other, collect Powerups, and play with up to 6 players in Local Multiplayer.
Off the Beaten Track
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for King of the Hat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with King of the Hat.
A couch/online multiplayer party game for 2–4 players. Choose from a roster of unique characters, each with their own weapons and abilities, and compete in intense versus matches on varied space arenas filled with environmental hazards.
Bamerang
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for King of the Hat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with King of the Hat.
Bämeräng is a fast paced boomerang fighting game for two to four players. Enjoy hilarious boomerang battles against your friends in local multiplayer or using Steam's Remote Play Together.
Block Sumo
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for King of the Hat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with King of the Hat.
Block Sumo is a local multiplayer game for 2 players. Step on your friend and turn him or her into stone, then push them down to abyss! Duel with your buddy for bets! Have fun!
Little Hellions
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for King of the Hat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with King of the Hat.
GRAB. SWAP. KILL. Dominate the Underworld with lightning fast plays in this passive aggressive fighter for goblins & sickos!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below King of the Hat at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under King of the Hat on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with King of the Hat.
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 King of the Hat on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with King of the Hat.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under King of the Hat on Steam right now. Shares Action with King of the Hat.
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 ~50% under King of the Hat on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with King of the Hat.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under King of the Hat on Steam right now. Shares Action with King of the Hat.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with King of the Hat.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with King of the Hat.
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 King of the Hat.
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 King of the Hat.
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.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with King of the Hat.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with King of the Hat.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with King of the Hat.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with King of the Hat.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
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Frequently asked about King of the Hat
- How much does King of the Hat cost?
- King of the Hat is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does King of the Hat have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — King of the Hat supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
- What games are most similar to King of the Hat?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside King of the Hat are Nidhogg, Ninza, Thumps & Blows.
- Who developed King of the Hat?
- King of the Hat was developed by Hat Games.
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 King of the Hat.
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