Games like Arise: A Simple Story
If Arise: A Simple Story is your kind of game, the closest matches are Path of Kami: Journey Begins, Marble Parkour 2: Roll and roll and The Smurfs 2 - The Prisoner of the Green Stone — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its beautiful timeless art design, fitting and soulful soundtrack and writing quality is exceptional. 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 Arise: A Simple Story: Embark on an emotional journey of losing the love of one's life. Manipulate time, solve puzzles, reshape surroundings as you push forward into the bittersweet recollections of a past life. This is a story about happiness and hardship, joy and sorrow. A story that all of us will one day experience.
Players who liked Arise: A Simple Story also play
Steam players who put hours into Arise: A Simple Story 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.
Path of Kami: Journey Begins
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Top pick for Arise: A Simple Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Arise: A Simple Story.
A relaxing puzzle exploration game following a recently-deceased Japanese wolf Kazeyo as he navigates the trials of the Mortal and Spirit World through puzzles.
Marble Parkour 2: Roll and roll
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Arise: A Simple Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Arise: A Simple Story.
Sequel to marble parkour. Roll more and avoid new traps and play different minigames
The Smurfs 2 - The Prisoner of the Green Stone
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Arise: A Simple Story.
Third-strongest match for Arise: A Simple Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Arise: A Simple Story.
With your crack team and the help of the SmurfoMix, liberate the village of the Smurfs from the grip of the Green Stone!
Forgotten Spirits
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Ranked #4 for Arise: A Simple Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Arise: A Simple Story.
Discover the secrets of an abandoned world as two companions have to work together, using their unique abilities to solve puzzles - Enjoy this 2D Adventure game on your own or with a friend.
Stick Tongue
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Arise: A Simple Story.
Ranked #5 for Arise: A Simple Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Arise: A Simple Story.
Hello, I'm Frogus! Humans have ruined the Earth and drained its resources. My plan? Climb to heaven with my tongue and ask God to make it rain!
It Takes Two
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Arise: A Simple Story.
Ranked #6 for Arise: A Simple Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Arise: A Simple Story.
Embark on the craziest journey of your life in It Takes Two. Invite a friend to join for free with Friend’s Pass and work together across a huge variety of gleefully disruptive gameplay challenges. Winner of GAME OF THE YEAR at the Game Awards 2021.
Evergate
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Arise: A Simple Story.
Ranked #7 for Arise: A Simple Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Arise: A Simple Story.
Evergate is a haunting 2D puzzle-platformer set in a stunning hand-drawn vision of the Afterlife with an original score recorded by a live orchestra. Navigate 85 challenging stages and unleash the extraordinary powers of the genre-defining 'Soulflame' to help a lost soul reincarnate on earth!
Papo & Yo
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Arise: A Simple Story.
Ranked #8 for Arise: A Simple Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Arise: A Simple Story.
Quico’s best friend, Monster, is a huge beast with razor-sharp teeth, but that doesn’t scare Quico away from playing with him. That said, Monster does have a very dangerous problem: an addiction to poisonous frogs.
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RUSH: A Disney • PIXAR Adventure
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Reviewers of Arise: A Simple Story cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Arise: A Simple Story.
Rush: A Disney•Pixar Adventure invites families and fans of all ages to experience the worlds of six beloved Disney•Pixar films like never before. Team up with characters from The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Up, Cars, Toy Story, and Finding Dory to solve puzzles and uncover hidden secrets.
Neva
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Arise: A Simple Story.
Reviewers of Arise: A Simple Story cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Arise: A Simple Story.
Experience the moving tale of a young woman and her lifelong bond with a magnificent wolf as they embark on a thrilling adventure through a rapidly dying world.
UP
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Arise: A Simple Story cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Arise: A Simple Story.
Test your reflexes in a vertically designed world. Master constantly changing mechanics and traps as you climb your way to the top.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Arise: A Simple Story at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~75% under Arise: A Simple Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Arise: A Simple Story.
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
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Priced ~50% under Arise: A Simple Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Arise: A Simple Story.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Arise: A Simple Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Arise: A Simple Story.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~75% under Arise: A Simple Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Arise: A Simple Story.
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!
PEAK
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Priced ~60% under Arise: A Simple Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Arise: A Simple Story.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
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 Arise: A Simple Story.
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 Adventure with Arise: A Simple Story.
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 Arise: A Simple Story.
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 Arise: A Simple Story.
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 Arise: A Simple Story.
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 Indie and Adventure with Arise: A Simple Story.
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 Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Arise: A Simple Story.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about Arise: A Simple Story
- Is Arise: A Simple Story verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Arise: A Simple Story is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Arise: A Simple Story cost?
- Arise: A Simple Story is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Arise: A Simple Story have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Arise: A Simple Story supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Arise: A Simple Story?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Arise: A Simple Story are Path of Kami: Journey Begins, Marble Parkour 2: Roll and roll, The Smurfs 2 - The Prisoner of the Green Stone.
- Who developed Arise: A Simple Story?
- Arise: A Simple Story was developed by Piccolo Studio and published by Untold Tales.
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 Arise: A Simple Story.
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