Games like Heave Ho
If Heave Ho is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ultimate Chicken Horse, Boomerang Fu and Snowbrawll — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its great for multiplayer fun, hilarious physics engine and simple yet challenging levels. 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 →Heave Ho is a physics-based cooperative and versus platformer developed by Le Cartel Studio and published by Devolver Digital, released in 2019 at $9.99. The game tasks up to four players with navigating treacherous levels using swinging and grabbing mechanics, where cooperative play and level design intersect through physics puzzles that demand both coordination and individual skill. Players describe the experience as funny and whimsical, with the physics engine generating unexpected moments that make multiplayer sessions memorable. Reviewers highlight the simple-yet-challenging level design, noting that tactical positioning matters and that the game suits short, chaotic bursts of local multiplayer action. The title is verified to run on Steam Deck and holds a 92% positive rating from over 1,000 Steam reviews.
About Heave Ho: Heave Ho is a riotous multiplayer party game for up to four players in couch co-op and versus play, or online with Steam Remote Play. Reach out, get a grip, and swing to victory — or meet your messy end!
Players who liked Heave Ho also play
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Ultimate Chicken Horse
WHY THIS
Shares level design and a funny mood with Heave Ho.
Top pick for Heave Ho fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Heave Ho.
Ultimate Chicken Horse is a party platformer game where you build the level as you play, placing traps and hazards to screw your friends over, but trying not to screw yourself.
Boomerang Fu
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Heave Ho fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Heave Ho.
Slice and dice your friends with boomerangs in this frantic physics party game. Join a crew of your favorite foods as you grill, chill and spill your enemies. Discover ridiculous power-ups and stack them together in deadly combinations.
Snowbrawll
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Heave Ho fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Heave Ho.
Snowbrawll is a multiplayer party game with up to 4 players. Crush your friends in an epic snowball fight, throw your snowball, and knock them off the cliff. Roll up the biggest snowball, yeet it with style and become the ultimate snowball champion. Are you ready to Brawll?
Sumo Fumble: Physics Party
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Heave Ho fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Heave Ho.
Sumo Fumble is a silly physics-based couch party game with procedurally self-balancing characters. Grab, heave, and throw your rivals into wild hazards, or pull their pants off for a laugh. Fumble, flail, and fall your way to victory in ever-changing arenas!
ScramBrawl
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Heave Ho fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Heave Ho.
ScramBrawl is a silly physics-based party game where you fight as clumsy, half boiled beings. Blast your buddies with yolk missiles, slap them with fish and much more. Scramble your way to victory in hilarious, chaotic brawls!
Manners Be Damned!
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Heave Ho fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Heave Ho.
Push your friends and steal their hats in this couch co-op party platformer for up to 8 players! You’ll play as posh pixel gentlemen with fancy beards and canes, but don’t be fooled - good manners give no points!
Party Animals
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Heave Ho.
Ranked #7 for Heave Ho fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Heave Ho.
Fight your friends as puppies, kittens and other fuzzy creatures in PARTY ANIMALS! Paw it out with your friends remotely, or huddle together for chaotic fun on the same screen. Interact with the world under our realistic physics engine. Did I mention PUPPIES?
Unspottable
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Heave Ho.
Ranked #8 for Heave Ho fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Heave Ho.
Now Online! Unspottable is a competitive party game. Blend in the crowd of AI characters, hunt down the other players and use the many different environment specific rules to win the game. Walk like a robot and punch like a human!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Heave Ho at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Heave Ho on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heave Ho.
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 ~50% under Heave Ho on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heave Ho.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Heave Ho on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heave Ho.
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 ~50% under Heave Ho on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heave Ho.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Heave Ho on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heave Ho.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Heave Ho on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heave Ho.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Heave Ho on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heave Ho.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Heave Ho on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heave Ho.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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 Heave Ho.
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?
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 Heave Ho.
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 Indie and Adventure with Heave Ho.
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 Indie with Heave Ho.
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.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heave Ho.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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 Heave Ho.
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!
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Heave Ho.
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
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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.
Ultimate Chicken Horse
WHY THIS
Shares level design and a funny mood with Heave Ho.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Heave Ho.
Ultimate Chicken Horse is a party platformer game where you build the level as you play, placing traps and hazards to screw your friends over, but trying not to screw yourself.
Boomerang Fu
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Heave Ho.
Slice and dice your friends with boomerangs in this frantic physics party game. Join a crew of your favorite foods as you grill, chill and spill your enemies. Discover ridiculous power-ups and stack them together in deadly combinations.
Party Animals
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Heave Ho.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Heave Ho.
Fight your friends as puppies, kittens and other fuzzy creatures in PARTY ANIMALS! Paw it out with your friends remotely, or huddle together for chaotic fun on the same screen. Interact with the world under our realistic physics engine. Did I mention PUPPIES?
Unspottable
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Heave Ho.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Heave Ho.
Now Online! Unspottable is a competitive party game. Blend in the crowd of AI characters, hunt down the other players and use the many different environment specific rules to win the game. Walk like a robot and punch like a human!
Frequently asked about Heave Ho
- Is Heave Ho verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Heave Ho 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 Heave Ho cost?
- Heave Ho is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Heave Ho have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Heave Ho supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, Shared/Split Screen Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Heave Ho?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Heave Ho are Ultimate Chicken Horse, Boomerang Fu, Snowbrawll.
- Who developed Heave Ho?
- Heave Ho was developed by Le Cartel Studio and published by Devolver Digital.
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