Games like Patch Quest
If Patch Quest is your kind of game, the closest matches are PickaLegend, Shape Shifter: Formations and Super Mega Space Blaster Special Turbo — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its charming monster companions, tactical positioning matters and vast explorable world. 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 →Patch Quest is a challenging action-adventure roguelite developed by Lychee Game Labs and published by Curve Games. Set in a treacherous labyrinth, players use a lasso to capture and tame monsters, then ride them to leap, glide, surf, tunnel, and websling across the environment. The game combines bullet-hell combat with exploration and procedural generation in a roguelite loop. Players describe the atmosphere as both atmospheric and whimsical, while reviewers highlight the charming monster companions and the importance of tactical positioning across the vast explorable world. Local co-op is supported. The game runs verified on Steam Deck, holds a 96% positive rating from over 1,000 Steam reviews with a Metacritic score of 80, and is available for $2.99.
About Patch Quest: In a labyrinth surrounded by vicious monsters, Explorers must rely on their Lasso to survive! Capture and tame ANY monster to leap, glide, surf, tunnel and websling through a treacherous, patchwork maze. This roguelike/metroidvania seems cute, but it’s a deceptively difficult bullet-hell challenge!
Players who liked Patch Quest also play
Steam players who put hours into Patch Quest 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.
PickaLegend
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Top pick for Patch Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Patch Quest.
PickaLegend - A bullet hell game about visiting interesting places and destroying everything in sight with your pets.
Shape Shifter: Formations
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Patch Quest.
Second-strongest match for Patch Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Patch Quest.
Shape Shifter: Formations is an action twin-stick shooter with rogue-lite elements, where you must destroy hordes of geometric enemies alone or with a friend. Select your ship and combine a large variety of weapons, abilities and infinitely stacking upgrades to craft your own unique build.
Super Mega Space Blaster Special Turbo
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Patch Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Patch Quest.
The definitive 'Turbo Edition' of the easy to play hard to master space blaster. Bringing more game modes, ships, challenges, upgradable power-ups and frantic retro space blasting fun than ever before. Alone or in co-op you’ll keep coming back to unlock ships, upgrade weapons and beat your high-score.
#KILLALLZOMBIES
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Patch Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Patch Quest.
#KILLALLZOMBIES is an insane twin-stick zombie shooter with Twitch streaming interactions, where you survive hordes of zombies on a dynamically changing arena and spectators may affect gameplay via special Twitch chat commands.
Circus Interstellar
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Ranked #5 for Patch Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Patch Quest.
Circus Interstellar is a brutal arcade shooter featuring high-octane action, and killer music! Earth voyagers encounter a sadistic alien race with a terrifying clownish appearance and a nasty appetite. Will the survivors escape the gory circus? Or will they be assimilated like all the rest?
Ballistic Tanks
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Ranked #7 for Patch Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Patch Quest.
Ballistic Tanks is the best tank game you've played since the 80's. Battle in exhilarating local multiplayer, or challenge yourself in an intense solo/co-op arcade mode. Play 5 game modes in over 50 maps; and destroy your enemies in a frenzy of bullets, lasers, and explosions!
Cyberpulse
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Ranked #8 for Patch Quest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Patch Quest.
Slam your way through waves of viruses and hurl your friends through cyberspace in this flashy arcade thrower that combines classic twin-stick action with inventive physics for an electrifying adventure.
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NeuroVoider
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Patch Quest.
Reviewers of Patch Quest cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Patch Quest.
NeuroVoider is a twin-stick shooter RPG set in a cyber futuristic world about brains shooting around evil robots with nuclear rocket launchers. Battle through the horde of vigilant robots, boost your character with the smoking remains of your victims, and defeat the master NeuroVoider.
Nex Machina
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Reviewers of Patch Quest cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Patch Quest.
Nex Machina is an intense arcade style twin-stick shooter from Housemarque. Taking hints from both Robotron and Smash TV, Nex Machina focuses on pure action, voxel destruction and competition in the distant, cablepunk themed future.
Hollow Knight: Silksong
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Patch Quest.
Reviewers of Patch Quest cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Patch Quest.
Discover a vast, haunted kingdom in Hollow Knight: Silksong! Explore, fight and survive as you ascend to the peak of a land ruled by silk and song.
Returnal™
WHY THIS
Shares bullet hell, procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Patch Quest.
Reviewers of Patch Quest cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Patch Quest.
BREAK THE CYCLE Fight to survive as this award-winning third-person shooter brings Selene’s story to PC. Take on roguelike challenges. Engage enemies in bullet hell-fuelled clashes. Share your journey through Returnal™ with another player.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Patch Quest at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~67% under Patch Quest on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Patch Quest.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~50% under Patch Quest on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Patch Quest.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~67% under Patch Quest on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Patch Quest.
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.
shapez
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Priced ~67% under Patch Quest on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Patch Quest.
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 ~67% under Patch Quest on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Patch Quest.
"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!
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Patch Quest on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Patch Quest.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
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Priced ~67% under Patch Quest on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Patch Quest.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Patch Quest.
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.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Patch Quest.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Patch Quest.
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.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Patch Quest.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
An Arcade Full of Cats
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Patch Quest.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
Cube Escape: Paradox
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Patch Quest.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
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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.
Shape Shifter: Formations
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Patch Quest.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Patch Quest.
Shape Shifter: Formations is an action twin-stick shooter with rogue-lite elements, where you must destroy hordes of geometric enemies alone or with a friend. Select your ship and combine a large variety of weapons, abilities and infinitely stacking upgrades to craft your own unique build.
#KILLALLZOMBIES
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Patch Quest.
#KILLALLZOMBIES is an insane twin-stick zombie shooter with Twitch streaming interactions, where you survive hordes of zombies on a dynamically changing arena and spectators may affect gameplay via special Twitch chat commands.
Frequently asked about Patch Quest
- Is Patch Quest verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Patch Quest 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 Patch Quest cost?
- Patch Quest is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Patch Quest have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Patch Quest supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Patch Quest?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Patch Quest are PickaLegend, Shape Shifter: Formations, Super Mega Space Blaster Special Turbo.
- Who developed Patch Quest?
- Patch Quest was developed by Lychee Game Labs and published by Curve Games.
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