Games like Gish
If Gish is your kind of game, the closest matches are Furry Chronicles, Trine Enchanted Edition and Trine 2: Complete Story — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its boss fights memorable, controls deepen with mastery and physics challenges reward creativity. 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 Gish: Gish isn't your average hero. In fact, he's not your average anything...you see, Gish is a ball of tar. A Sunday stroll with his lady friend, Brea, goes awry when a shadowy figure emerges from an open manhole and pulls Brea below ground.
Players who liked Gish also play
Steam players who put hours into Gish 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.
Furry Chronicles
WHY THIS
Top pick for Gish fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gish.
Furry Chronicles is a classic sidescrolling platformer game with challenging levels and puzzles - jump, run, earn rewards, fight monsters, avoid traps, unlock premium features, use different heroes, and have fun.
Trine Enchanted Edition
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Gish fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gish.
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.
Trine 2: Complete Story
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Gish fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gish.
Three Heroes make their way through dangers untold in a fairytale world, featuring physics-based puzzles, beautiful sights and online co-op.
Pikuniku
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Gish fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gish.
Pikuniku is an absurdly wonderful puzzle-exploration game that takes place in a strange but playful world where not everything is as happy as it seems. Help peculiar characters overcome struggles, uncover a deep state conspiracy, and start a little revolution in this delightful dystopian adventure!
Portal 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Gish.
Ranked #5 for Gish fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Gish.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
And Yet It Moves
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Gish.
Ranked #6 for Gish fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gish.
And Yet It Moves is a puzzle-platformer, set in a unique world, made of ripped paper. Within the paper-collage you can jump, run and last but certainly not least: rotate the world. Learn how to apply the physical consequences of rotation to master the many tricky situations you may encounter.
Building Block Heroes
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Gish fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gish.
Building Block Heroes is a puzzle block platformer (with boss fights!) in which you use coloured blocks to build pathways around each level. Grab a friend and construct your own means to save the Jollyfolk!
Building Block Heroes: Rush Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Gish fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gish.
Building Block Heroes: Rush Edition is a faster-paced stand-alone expansion for Building Block Heroes, made for those who enjoyed the core mechanics of the original but preferred a pick-up-and-play experience!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Gish
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Super Meat Boy
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Gish.
Reviewers of Gish cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Gish.
The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!
Surgeon Simulator
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Gish cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Gish.
Surgeon Simulator is an over-the-top operation sim, stitching together pitch-black humour with life-saving surgery. Become Dr. Burke, a would-be surgeon with a less than conventional toolkit, as he performs procedures on patients including the Heavy from TF2! ...is that a hammer?
Human Fall Flat
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Gish cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gish.
Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Gish at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Gish on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gish.
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 Gish on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Gish.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Gish on Steam right now. Shares Action with Gish.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Gish on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gish.
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 Gish on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gish.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Gish on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Gish.
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 Gish on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Gish.
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 Gish on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Gish.
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.
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 Gish.
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 Gish.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gish.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Gish.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Gish.
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.
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Frequently asked about Gish
- Does Gish work on Steam Deck?
- Gish is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Gish cost?
- Gish is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Gish have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Gish 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 Gish?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Gish are Furry Chronicles, Trine Enchanted Edition, Trine 2: Complete Story.
- Who developed Gish?
- Gish was developed by Cryptic Sea, Edmund McMillen and published by Chronic Logic.
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 Gish.
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