Games like Ghosty
If Ghosty is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Harbinger of the Deep, Novivors and Escape from Cronos X — 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 Ghosty: Ghosty is a lighthearted top-down action-adventure RPG that features tons of puns, witty dialogue, charming story elements, and a pixelized art style. The game experiments with a splash of unique mechanics that are used both in and out of combat.
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Steam players who put hours into Ghosty 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.
The Harbinger of the Deep
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Top pick for Ghosty fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Ghosty.
Destroy the frustrations of other Beings and befriend them, or ignore them and slay them all instead! Shoot your actions and decide the fate of this submerged world in The Harbinger of the Deep!
Novivors
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Second-strongest match for Ghosty fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Ghosty.
Unlock new heroes and abilities, collect and craft powerful equipment, path the 1000+ nodes stats tree, strategize meta-progression, customized runs, and create game-breaking synergies with 6 active classes and 36 abilities all at once in this roguelite hack and slash survivors bullet heaven game.
Escape from Cronos X
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Third-strongest match for Ghosty fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ghosty.
ESCAPE FROM CRONOS X is a top-down, action RPG, with a deep storyline and epic battles. Fight your way through many action-packed missions to explore Cronos and find a way to escape the planet.
Vanquish Evil
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Ranked #4 for Ghosty fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ghosty.
Vanquish endless waves of challenging enemies in this fast-paced action! Combine upgrades to be even more powerful! Buy and equip Gear and Items for your customized builds and stats! Play as 6 different heroes in this Bullet Heaven vs Bullet Hell! Each hero has mechanically unique abilities!
Scuff Slayer
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Ranked #5 for Ghosty fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ghosty.
Become the Scuff Slayer. The legend who will save the world from simplification! In this top-down 2D pixel art game, programming concepts are woven into the story.
Twinworld Survivor
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Ranked #6 for Ghosty fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ghosty.
Twinworld Survivor is a survival roguelite where you play a girl just become an investigator and entered the twinworld by accident. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds, and defeat waves of monsters to survive, and uncover the secrets of the twinworld.
Sharded World
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Ranked #7 for Ghosty fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ghosty.
Sharded World is a reversed bullet hell, rogue-lite, ARPG game combining simple gameplay and great rpg progression. Each level has its own unique features and challenges. Upgradable characters, weapons and orbs. Challenges, daily quests, and leaderboards. Fight, get stronger and defeat the Lich!
MechCrisis
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Ranked #8 for Ghosty fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Ghosty.
Is there any way we can protect ourselves from intelligent machines? Choose your weapon, choose your exclusive character, upgrade your skills, and enjoy 15 minutes of pigeon experience.
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Frequently asked about Ghosty
- Is Ghosty free to play?
- Yes — Ghosty is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to Ghosty?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ghosty are The Harbinger of the Deep, Novivors, Escape from Cronos X.
- Who developed Ghosty?
- Ghosty was developed by babachoo.
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 Ghosty.
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