Games like SUM
If SUM is your kind of game, the closest matches are Afloat, You Are a Bird and Battlewake — 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.
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Players who liked SUM also play
Steam players who put hours into SUM 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.
You Are a Bird
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for SUM fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SUM.
You Are a Bird is an immersive VR bird flight sim where your real arms become wings. Flap and angle your wings to explore and hunt in VR. Based on real bird flight mechanics and soaring flight physics.
Battlewake
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for SUM fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SUM.
Fight for dominion in Battlewake, a fantasy naval combat game built for VR. Play as 4 mythical pirate lords, captain massive battle-ready warships, and summon ancient powers as you set sail on a larger-than-life nautical war for the ages.
J15 Jet Fighter VR (歼15舰载机)
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for SUM fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with SUM.
The J15 Jet Fighter is a modern air combat VR Game, You will be driving the J-15 fighter, carrying out training missions and combat missions on the Liaoning aircraft carrier.
Police Enforcement VR : 1-King-27
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for SUM fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SUM.
Police Simulator Built From The Ground Up For Virtual Reality!
HelixVision
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for SUM fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SUM.
Epic stereoscopic gaming, HelixMod in virtual 3D TV brings your full length 2D games into the 3rd dimension. Try our Free slideshow Demo in VR.
The Walking Dead Onslaught
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for SUM fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SUM.
There’s no rest when survival is on the line. Step into AMC’s The Walking Dead and prepare for an onslaught of walkers as you assume the roles of your favorite characters from the show, and confront the horrors and humanity of this apocalyptic new world.
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for SUM fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SUM.
Saints & Sinners is a game unlike any other in The Walking Dead universe. Every challenge you face and decision you make is driven by YOU. Fight the undead, scavenge through the flooded ruins of New Orleans, and face gut-wrenching choices for you and the other survivors. Live The Walking Dead.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below SUM at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under SUM on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with SUM.
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 ~64% under SUM on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with SUM.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under SUM on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with SUM.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under SUM on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with SUM.
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?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under SUM on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SUM.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under SUM on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with SUM.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under SUM on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with SUM.
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 ~64% under SUM on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with SUM.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with SUM.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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!
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with SUM.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with SUM.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with SUM.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Waltz of the Wizard (Legacy demo)
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with SUM.
Store page for the legacy demo of Waltz of the Wizard created as a prototype to showcase the power of room-scale VR. Please find the full product in the description below.
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with SUM.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
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Frequently asked about SUM
- How much does SUM cost?
- SUM is listed on Steam at 13.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to SUM?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside SUM are Afloat, You Are a Bird, Battlewake.
- Who developed SUM?
- SUM was developed by WeVery and published by Wevery.
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 SUM.
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