Games like Bulb Boy on Nintendo Switch
Closest overall match: Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes (★ 3.3). Highest rated: Detention at ★ 4.1. Quickest to finish: Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes at about 3 hours.
These 7 games score highest on our similarity model for Bulb Boy — weighted by shared tags, genre overlap, rating proximity and release era. The strongest common threads are Point & Click, steam-trading-cards and Steam Achievements.
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71%
1. Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes
Shares Dark Humor, Dark, Point & Click, Horror and 2D and 3 more tags; same developer.
- Year
- 2011
- Rating
- ★ 3.3
- Metacritic
- 75
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 77%
- Shared genres
- 3, 7, Indie
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68%
2. Deponia Doomsday
Shares Point & Click, 2D, steam-trading-cards, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; same developer; rated 0.7 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 4.1
- Metacritic
- 76
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 91%
- Shared genres
- 3, 7, Indie
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66%
3. Felix The Reaper
Shares Point & Click, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; same developer; rated 0.4 lower.
- Year
- 2019
- Rating
- ★ 3.0
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 21%
- Shared genres
- 3, 7, Indie
-
64%
4. Deponia
Shares Dark Humor, Point & Click, 2D, steam-trading-cards and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags; same developer; rated 0.5 higher.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Metacritic
- 74
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 75%
- Shared genres
- 3, 7, Indie
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64%
5. Detention
Shares Surreal, Dark, Point & Click, Horror and steam-trading-cards and 2 more tags; rated 0.7 higher; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 4.1
- Metacritic
- 83
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 89%
- Shared genres
- 3, 7, Indie
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63%
6. State of Mind
Shares Dark, steam-trading-cards, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; same developer.
- Year
- 2018
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 68
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 62%
- Shared genres
- 3, 7, Indie
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63%
7. Thimbleweed Park
Shares puzzles, Point & Click, 2D, steam-trading-cards and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags; rated 0.7 higher; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 4.1
- Metacritic
- 84
- Playtime
- 7h
- Finish rate
- 70%
- Shared genres
- 3, 7, Indie
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like Bulb Boy on Nintendo Switch?
On our similarity model, Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes is the closest match to Bulb Boy on Nintendo Switch — shares Dark Humor, Dark, Point & Click, Horror and 2D and 3 more tags; same developer.
Which game like Bulb Boy is rated highest?
Detention holds the highest player rating in this list at 4.1/5 from 136 players.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Bulb Boy on five signals: weighted tag overlap (rare tags count more), genre overlap, platform family overlap, rating and playtime proximity, and release era. The list is recomputed nightly as ratings and new releases change.
Base game data via RAWG.