Games like the machine that BREATHES
If the machine that BREATHES is your kind of game, the closest matches are Corpse Mansion, The Lacerator and Echoes of the Living — 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.
Get personalized picks →About the machine that BREATHES: the machine that BREATHES is a 2D Survival Horror game with a focus on situational combat and exploration. Inspired by the likes of Resident Evil and System Shock, you'll crawl through a hostile environment and manage a limited inventory to brace against the unknown.
Players who liked the machine that BREATHES also play
Steam players who put hours into the machine that BREATHES 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.
Corpse Mansion
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Top pick for the machine that BREATHES fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with the machine that BREATHES.
Infiltrate a city under total military lockdown as Detective Draven Vaughn. Search for your missing partner, scavenge for supplies, and customize your arsenal to survive the reanimating dead. In Helga City, every choice counts—and time is running out.
The Lacerator
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Second-strongest match for the machine that BREATHES fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with the machine that BREATHES.
Lose a limb? You’ll adapt in THE LACERATOR! A titillating mix of survival horror and trashy 80’s film.
Echoes of the Living
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Third-strongest match for the machine that BREATHES fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with the machine that BREATHES.
Echoes of the Living is a dark Classic Survival Horror inspired by the greatest hits from the 90's focused on reimagining visual horror, your goal is to make it out alive while uncovering the truth about the incident.
Rain World
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Ranked #4 for the machine that BREATHES fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with the machine that BREATHES.
You are a nomadic slugcat, both predator and prey in a broken ecosystem. Grab your spear and brave the industrial wastes, hunting enough food to survive, but be wary— other, bigger creatures have the same plan... and slugcats look delicious.
Dark Light
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Ranked #5 for the machine that BREATHES fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with the machine that BREATHES.
Dark Light is a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk action-platformer with intense hack'n slash combat. Explore the unknown, enhance your abilities with cyberwares, and face off against supernatural entities to seal the Dark Void and end the eternal darkness.
Trash Quest
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Ranked #6 for the machine that BREATHES fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with the machine that BREATHES.
Trash Quest is a compact metroidvania with a single spawn point, run and gun action and tight platforming. Navigate an interwoven maze of rooms through this space station, destroying robots, collecting power ups and unlocking shortcuts.
Axiom Verge
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Ranked #7 for the machine that BREATHES fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with the machine that BREATHES.
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
Endoparasitic 2
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Ranked #8 for the machine that BREATHES fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with the machine that BREATHES.
Three limbs ripped off, infected with a deadly parasite, you must survive. Drag yourself through the hallways of an infested arcship, fight off twisted eldritch creatures, craft vaccines and ammunition, and escape to civilization.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with the machine that BREATHES.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with the machine that BREATHES.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with the machine that BREATHES.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with the machine that BREATHES.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with the machine that BREATHES.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with the machine that BREATHES.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with the machine that BREATHES.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with the machine that BREATHES.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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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.
Dark Light
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with the machine that BREATHES.
Dark Light is a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk action-platformer with intense hack'n slash combat. Explore the unknown, enhance your abilities with cyberwares, and face off against supernatural entities to seal the Dark Void and end the eternal darkness.
Axiom Verge
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with the machine that BREATHES.
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
Endoparasitic 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with the machine that BREATHES.
Three limbs ripped off, infected with a deadly parasite, you must survive. Drag yourself through the hallways of an infested arcship, fight off twisted eldritch creatures, craft vaccines and ammunition, and escape to civilization.
Frequently asked about the machine that BREATHES
- What games are most similar to the machine that BREATHES?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside the machine that BREATHES are Corpse Mansion, The Lacerator, Echoes of the Living.
- Who developed the machine that BREATHES?
- the machine that BREATHES was developed by Shweep Games.
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 the machine that BREATHES.
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