Games like Creaks
If Creaks is your kind of game, the closest matches are Familiar, Adventure Light and Maggie the Magnet — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging yet rewarding gameplay, intricate environmental puzzles and atmospheric. 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 →Creaks is an indie puzzle-platformer developed and published by Amanita Design, released in 2020 at $19.99. The game presents players with environmental puzzles and timing-based challenges set within a hand-drawn underground world. Amanita Design's distinctive artistic approach creates a mysterious atmosphere that players describe as eerie and immersive. The challenging gameplay centers on intricate environmental puzzles that require careful observation and precise timing to overcome. Players highlight the beautiful hand-drawn art style and describe the gameplay as challenging yet rewarding. The experience is designed for solo play with a medium-length campaign best enjoyed in a seated session. Steam Deck verification ensures compatibility with Valve's handheld. The game holds a 96% positive rating from 1902 Steam reviews.
About Creaks: The ground starts shaking, light bulbs are breaking - and something rather unusual is happening right behind the walls of your very room. Equipped with nothing but wit and courage, you slowly descend into a world inhabited by avian folk and seemingly deadly furniture monsters.
Players who liked Creaks also play
Steam players who put hours into Creaks 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.
Familiar
WHY THIS
Top pick for Creaks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Creaks.
Familiar is an illustrated puzzle misadventure from Damsel Stone, following a witch's cat trying to undo a spell gone-wrong. Use a combination of platforming, problem solving, potion drinking, and people pleasing to undo the ongoing disaster and bring familiarity back to your home.
Adventure Light
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Creaks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Creaks.
Adventure Light is a beautiful and very atmospheric puzzle side-scrolling game about the boy with the magic lantern in the mysterious and dark forest.
Maggie the Magnet
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Creaks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Creaks.
Science doesn't have to be boring! Use the powers of gravity and magnetic attraction to fling yourself across the laboratory and help Maggie solve dozens of puzzles to fulfill her mission as a researcher!
CHUCHEL
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Creaks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Creaks.
CHUCHEL is a comedy adventure game from the creators of Machinarium, Botanicula and Samorost. Join the hairy hero Chuchel and his rival Kekel as they will be facing numerous puzzles and challenges in their quest to retrieve the precious cherry!
Raybound
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Creaks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Creaks.
Everyone is born with an appearance of some sort, but you simply don't seem to know what you are... It's time for a sweet adventure, one taking place in a civilization obsessed with a star in the sky... Run, jump, and cast your rays to uncover the puzzles and mysteries of this world...
Nubla
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Creaks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Creaks.
A point'n'click adventure that will take you through the fantastic world of Nubla, full of puzzles and forgotten places. A journey of self-discovery, looking for your personal identity and place in the world.
Ynglet
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Creaks.
Ranked #7 for Creaks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Creaks.
In Ynglet, you jump, dash, slide, bounce and float your way through an abstract, effervescent sky. Melt into the reactive, dynamic soundtrack, while beautiful colors make every moment a visual treat.
Ignatius
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Creaks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Creaks.
Ignatius is a atmospheric puzzle-platformer game with an interesting story. The game with its visual form and plot refers to the old silent movies.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Creaks
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Samorost 3
WHY THIS
Shares environmental puzzles and an atmospheric mood with Creaks.
Reviewers of Creaks cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Creaks.
Samorost 3 is an exploration adventure and puzzle game from the award-winning creators of Machinarium and Botanicula. Travel across space to nine unique worlds teeming with colorful challenges, creatures and surprises to discover, brought to life with beautiful artwork, sound and music.
Toki Tori 2+
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Creaks.
Reviewers of Creaks cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Creaks.
Toki Tori 2+ may look cute, but it’s a challenging puzzle adventure game. Whistle and stomp are the only moves you need to solve increasingly complex puzzles, as you go anywhere, anytime on a lush forest island.
Mini Metro
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Creaks cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Creaks.
Mini Metro is a strategy simulation game about designing a subway map for a growing city. Draw lines between stations and start your trains running. As new stations open, redraw your lines to keep them efficient. Decide where to use your limited resources. How long can you keep the city moving?
Machinarium
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Creaks.
Reviewers of Creaks cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Creaks.
Machinarium is the award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost series, Botanicula and CHUCHEL. Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang!
Hitman GO: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Creaks.
Reviewers of Creaks cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Hitman GO is a simple to play, but difficult to master turn-based strategy game set in a stunning interpretation of the Hitman universe.
Pilgrims
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Creaks.
Reviewers of Creaks cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Creaks.
Pilgrims is a playful adventure game, created by the team behind Machinarium and Samorost. Roam the land as you please and make new friends, share a laugh with your fellow travelers and help them complete their little stories, your way. How many different solutions can you find?
The Room
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Creaks.
Reviewers of Creaks cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Creaks.
A mysterious invitation leads to the attic of an abandoned house. In the room is a cast-iron safe laced with strange carvings and on top, a note from your distant companion. It promises something ancient and astonishing concealed in the iron chamber - you need only find a way in.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Creaks at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Creaks on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Creaks.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Creaks on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Creaks.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Creaks on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Creaks.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Creaks on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Creaks.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Creaks on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Creaks.
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 and Casual with Creaks.
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 Creaks.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Creaks.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Creaks.
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 Creaks.
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 and Casual with Creaks.
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 Creaks.
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.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Amanita Design
Other recommendable Steam games by Amanita Design, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Machinarium
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Creaks.
Another title from Amanita Design, the studio behind Creaks. Shares Indie and Adventure with Creaks.
Machinarium is the award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost series, Botanicula and CHUCHEL. Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang!
Pilgrims
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Creaks.
Another title from Amanita Design, the studio behind Creaks. Shares Indie and Adventure with Creaks.
Pilgrims is a playful adventure game, created by the team behind Machinarium and Samorost. Roam the land as you please and make new friends, share a laugh with your fellow travelers and help them complete their little stories, your way. How many different solutions can you find?
Botanicula
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Creaks.
Another title from Amanita Design, the studio behind Creaks. Shares Indie and Adventure with Creaks.
Humor-filled indie adventure game created by the makers of Machinarium and Samorost.
Samorost 3
WHY THIS
Shares environmental puzzles and an atmospheric mood with Creaks.
Another title from Amanita Design, the studio behind Creaks. Shares Indie and Adventure with Creaks.
Samorost 3 is an exploration adventure and puzzle game from the award-winning creators of Machinarium and Botanicula. Travel across space to nine unique worlds teeming with colorful challenges, creatures and surprises to discover, brought to life with beautiful artwork, sound and music.
CHUCHEL
WHY THIS
Another title from Amanita Design, the studio behind Creaks. Shares Indie and Adventure with Creaks.
CHUCHEL is a comedy adventure game from the creators of Machinarium, Botanicula and Samorost. Join the hairy hero Chuchel and his rival Kekel as they will be facing numerous puzzles and challenges in their quest to retrieve the precious cherry!
Happy Game
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Creaks.
Another title from Amanita Design, the studio behind Creaks. Shares Indie and Adventure with Creaks.
A little boy falls asleep to a horrible nightmare. Can you make him happy again?
Samorost 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Creaks.
Another title from Amanita Design, the studio behind Creaks. Shares Indie and Adventure with Creaks.
Samorost 2 tells a surreal story of a space gnome whose dog just got kidnapped by mischievous aliens. Set out on a short expedition to rescue the pup, deal with curious strangers and relax to the soothing music by Tomáš "Floex" Dvořák.
Phonopolis
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Creaks.
Another title from Amanita Design, the studio behind Creaks. Shares Indie and Adventure with Creaks.
Phonopolis is a story-driven puzzle adventure set in a hand-painted 3D world made of cardboard. Solve a wide variety of playful puzzles and help Felix end the Leader's oppressive influence in a resonant dystopian city inspired by avant-garde art.
Frequently asked about Creaks
- Is Creaks verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Creaks 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 Creaks cost?
- Creaks is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Creaks?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Creaks are Familiar, Adventure Light, Maggie the Magnet.
- Who developed Creaks?
- Creaks was developed by Amanita Design.
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