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Games like The Cabbage Effect

If The Cabbage Effect is your kind of game, the closest matches are Phantast, Salt VS Pepper and Arc’s Glitch Defender — 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.

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About The Cabbage Effect: A cartoon-pop-surrealistic twin-stick shooter with brawl elements that takes place in an apocalyptic narrative.

2027ActionIndieWindowsby Ninja Garage
The Cabbage Effect — Steam game cover

Players who liked The Cabbage Effect also play

Steam players who put hours into The Cabbage Effect 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.

  1. Phantast

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for The Cabbage Effect fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Cabbage Effect.

    Help Phantast save his tribe in this atmospheric and quirky top-down shooter!

    2020ActionIndie1.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Salt VS Pepper

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for The Cabbage Effect fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Cabbage Effect.

    Salt VS Pepper is a twin-stick shooter where you switch between black and white every 3 seconds, leaving behind an evil clone every time you switch! Use guns, walls, bowling balls, and anything in between as a weapon!

    ActionIndieCasualSteam ↗
  3. Arc’s Glitch Defender

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Cabbage Effect fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Cabbage Effect.

    Save the galaxy? Boring. Dylo wants the fame. Master breakneck speeds in this ego-fueled arena shooter. Blast through the Shadows, feed your pride, and uncover the dark secret behind a 'perfect' Utopia. Speed is your weapon; hesitation is a glitch.

    2025ActionIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Son of a Gun

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for The Cabbage Effect fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Cabbage Effect.

    A retro-inspired, action packed, twin-stick shooter full of bullets, blood and explosions. Collect and manage your guns to exterminate jungle zombies, swarming bugs, heavy robots, slimy monsters and even space ghosts.

    2024Action9.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. The Hong Kong Massacre

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The Cabbage Effect fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Cabbage Effect.

    Blast your way through the streets of Hong Kong in a fast-paced, top-down shooter. Inspired by classic action movies, The Hong Kong Massacre places you at the center of a hard-boiled revenge story, filled with brutal, cinematic shootouts and vivid underworld locations.

    2019ActionIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Blacksea Odyssey

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for The Cabbage Effect fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Cabbage Effect.

    Enter the Blacksea Odyssey, a violent top-down rogue-lite space shoot ‘em up RPG brimming with colossal creatures and runic technologies. Explore dangerous, interstellar spacescapes as you hunt enormous space-behemoths with a harpoon and rune-infused spears.

    2016ActionIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Danger Scavenger

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for The Cabbage Effect fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Cabbage Effect.

    Danger Scavenger is fast-paced action, cyberpunk-themed, roguelite skyline crawler. Blow up, cut, shoot enemy robots on the roofs of skyscrapers. Choose your way to higher levels, loot, buy stuff, upgrade yourself, fight against greedy corporations, be a rebel!

    2021ActionIndie1.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Crimsonland

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for The Cabbage Effect fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Cabbage Effect.

    Thousands of aliens, giant spiders, mutant lizards, and more are on the attack - can you survive the onslaught? Crimsonland is a top-down shooter with a touch of RPG. Unlock over 30 weapons and over 50 perks from quirky to brutal. Complete the quest and show your skills in five survival modes.

    2014ActionIndieRPG13.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Cabbage Effect.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Cabbage Effect.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Cabbage Effect.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Cabbage Effect.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Cabbage Effect.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 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 The Cabbage Effect.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Cabbage Effect.

    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.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Cabbage Effect.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Cabbage Effect

What games are most similar to The Cabbage Effect?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Cabbage Effect are Phantast, Salt VS Pepper, Arc’s Glitch Defender.
Who developed The Cabbage Effect?
The Cabbage Effect was developed by Ninja Garage.

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 Cabbage Effect.

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