Games like Vaccine
If Vaccine is your kind of game, the closest matches are Unstable Nuclear Reactor, Crowntakers and Invisible, Inc. — 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 Vaccine: Vaccine is a Minesweeper-inspired roguelike where you use logic and limited medicine to cure the infected. Each level is procedurally generated, offering endless puzzling challenges. Deduce who's sick, heal carefully, and scavenge for more supplies—mistakes are costly, but hope is contagious.
Players who liked Vaccine also play
Steam players who put hours into Vaccine 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.
Unstable Nuclear Reactor
WHY THIS
Top pick for Vaccine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vaccine.
An incremental hex-puzzle roguelite game where merging atomic elements prevents a nuclear meltdown.
Crowntakers
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Vaccine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vaccine.
Crowntakers combines turn-based strategy with RPG elements and takes you at the behest of the crown into a medieval fantasy world full of challenging encounters and epic adventures. With its randomly generated world, Crowntakers offers a varied gaming experience every time you set out to fight evil.
Invisible, Inc.
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Vaccine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vaccine.
Take control of Invisible's agents in the field and infiltrate the world's most dangerous corporations. Stealth, precision, and teamwork are essential in high-stakes, high-profit missions, where every move may cost an agent their life.
HyperRogue
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Ranked #4 for Vaccine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Vaccine.
Time moves when you move in a truly non-Euclidean world
NEO Scavenger
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Ranked #5 for Vaccine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vaccine.
NEO Scavenger is a game where you must survive in the wasteland long enough to figure out who you are. Each turn, you must decide where to go, how to scavenge for supplies, and how to deal with anything and anyone you encounter.
FTL: Faster Than Light
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Vaccine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vaccine.
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
Wildfrost
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Ranked #7 for Vaccine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vaccine.
Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…
Insurmountable
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Ranked #8 for Vaccine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vaccine.
Confront various terrains as a lonely mountaineer and endure the countless dangers of climbing! Many tough decisions await you in a risky environment. Make your way up and down the mountain, overcoming insurmountable heights!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Vaccine at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Vaccine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Vaccine.
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?
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~50% under Vaccine on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Vaccine.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Peggle Deluxe
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Priced ~50% under Vaccine on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Vaccine.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
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Priced ~50% under Vaccine on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vaccine.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~50% under Vaccine on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Vaccine.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
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Priced ~50% under Vaccine on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Vaccine.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
Bejeweled® 3
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Priced ~50% under Vaccine on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Casual with Vaccine.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vaccine.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Vaccine.
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?
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Vaccine.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Vaccine.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Vaccine.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vaccine.
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.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Vaccine.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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More from Adam Thompson
Other recommendable Steam games by Adam Thompson, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Warpaint
WHY THIS
Another title from Adam Thompson, the studio behind Vaccine. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vaccine.
It's chess with catapults! Warpaint is a casual tabletop wargame where you command an army of dwarves and catapults. You can paint your army with pixel perfect control, just like real miniatures! Victory is won through superior tactical positioning and siege dexterity.
Space Viking Raiders
WHY THIS
Another title from Adam Thompson, the studio behind Vaccine. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vaccine.
Co-op action role-playing comedy in a sci-fi multiverse. 3-5 hour campaign, 1-4 players online! Badass abilities will have you wreck havoc with physics and mass destruction. The best vikings use their limited energy to efficiently wipe out hordes of enemies. PvE MOBA-style hack-and-cast!
Space Viking Raiders VR
WHY THIS
Another title from Adam Thompson, the studio behind Vaccine. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vaccine.
Looking for an online co-op game to play through with friends? You want a hilarious story with full voice acting! Diablo meets Gauntlet in this dungeon crawler action RPG. Wreck havoc with physics and mass destruction in SPACE VIKING RAIDERS! Wishlist now!
Frequently asked about Vaccine
- How much does Vaccine cost?
- Vaccine is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Vaccine?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Vaccine are Unstable Nuclear Reactor, Crowntakers, Invisible, Inc..
- Who developed Vaccine?
- Vaccine was developed by Adam Thompson.
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 Vaccine.
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