Games like Soul Machine
Below are 24 hand-picked alternatives to Soul Machine for fans of action, strategy, indie, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Soul Machine also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, cheaper alternatives, free-to-play picks. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About Soul Machine: Build your ultimate mech and face endless hordes of rogue robots. In this fast-paced rogue-lite twin-stick shooter, combine devastating weapons, unlock synergies, and salvage scrap to survive the mechanical swarm. Will your chassis hold together?
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Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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Nion Forge
Top pick for Soul Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Soul Machine.
Nion Forge is a blend of roguelite gameplay and modular shipbuilding, set in a stylish cyberpunk world. By carefully selecting the right modules, you'll have a chance to conquer all 9 districts of the city, defeat their district bosses, and attain your freedom.
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Deep Breach
Second-strongest match for Soul Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Soul Machine.
A tactical top-down roguelike where you contain a collapsing corrupted research facility alongside a damaged tactical AI. Break shields, shred armor, deploy orbital defenses, and build devastating weapon and turret synergies to survive the next Dawn.
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Bug Drop
Third-strongest match for Soul Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Soul Machine.
Fight, upgrade, and survive in a fast-paced top-down action roguelite where 20 unique heroes with special traits, weapons and abilities take on the swarm of alien bugs.
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OVER SAND
Ranked #4 for Soul Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Soul Machine.
Take to the steampunk skies! Defend your flying ship over endless sands from mechanical hordes. Master turret firepower, switch weapons, and craft synergistic perk builds mid-wave. No movement — pure skill!
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Genome Guardian 2
Ranked #5 for Soul Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Soul Machine.
COMBINE WEAPONS in the microscopic shooter with macroscopic depth. BUILD YOUR NANOBOT from hundreds of parts. SURVIVE the microbial onslaught once more in this psychedelic dive to the Abyss, full of mutations, minerals, anomalies and powerup polyps. SHMUP mode turns it into a vertical shoot 'em up!
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TerraTech Legion
Ranked #6 for Soul Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Soul Machine.
TerraTech Legion, a chaotic Bullet Heaven Builder. Build the ultimate battle vehicle block by block and survive waves of robotic foes, ramming them at speed and shooting infinite projectiles.
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Gunbot Diplomacy
Ranked #7 for Soul Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Soul Machine.
Splatter slimes, massacre mutants, and assemble your perfect Gunbot! Survive hordes of enemies in this top-down shooter roguelite by customizing your weapons on the unique upgrade grid, and pick from a wide variety of build-defining modules and wacky base bots for a new experience every run.
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Gunbot Diplomacy: Blast Off
Ranked #8 for Soul Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Soul Machine.
Splatter slimes, massacre mutants, and assemble your perfect Gunbot! Survive the wasteland in this top-down shooter roguelite by customizing your weapons on the unique upgrade grid, and pick from tons of build-defining modules and wacky bots for a new experience every run. Prologue teaser build.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Soul Machine at current Steam store prices.
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POSTAL 2
Priced ~72% under Soul Machine on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Soul Machine.
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?
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The Test
Priced ~43% under Soul Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Soul Machine.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
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Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
Priced ~57% under Soul Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Soul Machine.
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.
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Blood and Bacon
Priced ~72% under Soul Machine on Steam right now. Shares Action with Soul Machine.
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.
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shapez
Priced ~72% under Soul Machine on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Soul Machine.
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!
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The Test: Hypothesis Rising
Priced ~43% under Soul Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Soul Machine.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
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The NOexistenceN of you AND me
Priced ~43% under Soul Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Soul Machine.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
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Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
Priced ~72% under Soul Machine on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Soul Machine.
"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!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Soul Machine.
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.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Soul Machine.
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.
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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Soul Machine.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Soul Machine.
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?
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ENA: Dream BBQ
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Soul Machine.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Soul Machine.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Soul Machine.
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.
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Frequently asked about Soul Machine
- How much does Soul Machine cost?
- Soul Machine is listed on Steam at 3.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Soul Machine?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Soul Machine are Nion Forge, Deep Breach, Bug Drop.
- Who developed Soul Machine?
- Soul Machine was developed by Zanarka Studio.
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 Soul Machine.
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