Games like Waking Violet
If Waking Violet is your kind of game, the closest matches are ANIMAL WELL, Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons and Mark of the Ninja — 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 Waking Violet: Waking Violet is a classic 2D top-down puzzle game, but with awesome spells and a unique time rewind mechanic. Playing as Violet, a shy teen with a desire to grow up, you get trapped in a dream you just can't wake up from.
Players who liked Waking Violet also play
Steam players who put hours into Waking Violet 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.
ANIMAL WELL
WHY THIS
Top pick for Waking Violet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Waking Violet.
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.
Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Waking Violet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Waking Violet.
Guide two brothers on an epic fairy tale journey from visionary Swedish film director, Josef Fares and top-tier developer Starbreeze Studios. Control both brothers at once as you experience co-op play in single player mode, like never before.
Mark of the Ninja
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Waking Violet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Waking Violet.
In Mark of the Ninja, you'll know what it is to truly be a ninja. You must be silent, agile and clever to outwit your opponents in a world of gorgeous scenery and flowing animation. Marked with cursed tattoos giving you heightened senses, every situation presents you with options.
CrossCode
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Waking Violet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Waking Violet.
A retro-inspired 2D Action RPG set in the distant future. CrossCode combines 16-bit SNES-style graphics with butter-smooth physics, a fast-paced combat system, and engaging puzzle mechanics, served with a gripping sci-fi story.
FAR: Lone Sails
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Waking Violet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Waking Violet.
Traverse a dried-out seabed littered with the remains of a decaying civilization. Keep your unique vessel going, overcome numerous obstacles and withstand the hazardous weather conditions. How far can you make it? What will you find?
Trine 2: Complete Story
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Waking Violet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Waking Violet.
Three Heroes make their way through dangers untold in a fairytale world, featuring physics-based puzzles, beautiful sights and online co-op.
CARRION
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Waking Violet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Waking Violet.
CARRION is a reverse horror game in which you assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origins, stalking and consuming those that imprisoned you.
Trine Enchanted Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Waking Violet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Waking Violet.
Three Heroes make their way through dangers untold in a fairytale world of great castles and strange machinery, featuring physics-based puzzles, beautiful sights and online co-op.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Waking Violet at current Steam store prices.
Miss Neko
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Waking Violet on Steam right now. Shares Action with Waking Violet.
Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)
QUICKERFLAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Waking Violet on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Waking Violet.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Waking Violet on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Waking Violet.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Gachi Heroes
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Waking Violet on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Waking Violet.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Waking Violet on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Waking Violet.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
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 Waking Violet.
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 Waking Violet.
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 Action and Indie with Waking Violet.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Waking Violet.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Waking Violet.
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 Waking Violet.
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!
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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.
ANIMAL WELL
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Waking Violet.
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.
Mark of the Ninja
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Waking Violet.
In Mark of the Ninja, you'll know what it is to truly be a ninja. You must be silent, agile and clever to outwit your opponents in a world of gorgeous scenery and flowing animation. Marked with cursed tattoos giving you heightened senses, every situation presents you with options.
FAR: Lone Sails
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Waking Violet.
Traverse a dried-out seabed littered with the remains of a decaying civilization. Keep your unique vessel going, overcome numerous obstacles and withstand the hazardous weather conditions. How far can you make it? What will you find?
CARRION
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Waking Violet.
CARRION is a reverse horror game in which you assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origins, stalking and consuming those that imprisoned you.
Frequently asked about Waking Violet
- How much does Waking Violet cost?
- Waking Violet is listed on Steam at 0.90 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Waking Violet?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Waking Violet are ANIMAL WELL, Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons, Mark of the Ninja.
- Who developed Waking Violet?
- Waking Violet was developed by Marco Mastropaolo, MixedBag Srl and published by MixedBag Srl.
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 Waking Violet.
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