Games like Mother Machine
If Mother Machine is your kind of game, the closest matches are Plague Breaker, Animosity and Kungfu Cowboy — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its cute animations and noises, endless replayable cave expeditions and chill. 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 Mother Machine: Team up for 1-4 player co-op platforming in procedurally-generated alien caves! Customize your gremlin, embrace the chaos and fart on friends! Tackle challenges together and unlock new looks and wild mutations for your next run!
Players who liked Mother Machine also play
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Plague Breaker
WHY THIS
Top pick for Mother Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Mother Machine.
Plague Breaker is a retro roguelike platformer with heavy RPG elements. Pick your class and ascend a procedurally generated castle filled with undead monsters and corrupted plague doctors. Level up your character and find items, weapons, and traders along the way before taking on each floors boss.
Animosity
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Mother Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Mother Machine.
Through claws and bullets, Red must save his friends from the angry ape menace. Procedural levels create a new experience with every play. Companion AI gives you the backup you need. Coop, Deathmatch, and Speedrun for up to 4 player split screen. Xbox controllers recommended.
Kungfu Cowboy
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Mother Machine.
Third-strongest match for Mother Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Mother Machine.
Headshot, dash and dodge like a Kungfu Cowboy in this quirky, challenging run 'n' gun platformer with roguelike elements. Explore randomly generated levels, acquire strong "gunfu" abilities and stack synergizible upgrades for a powerful build. Team up with friends in PvE or battle each other in PvP!
30XX
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Mother Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Mother Machine.
Jump, shoot, and slash your way through 30XX, the roguelike action platformer you can play with a friend! Explore lush, ever-changing worlds that mix precise platforming with fevered combat. Destroy fearsome Guardians. Master unique Powers. Rediscover the thousand years we've lost.
A Robot Named Fight!
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Mother Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Mother Machine.
A Robot Named Fight is a Metroidvania roguelike focused on exploration and item collection. Explore a different, procedurally-generated labyrinth each time you play and discover randomized power-ups to traverse obstacles, find secrets and explode meat beasts.
Caveblazers
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Mother Machine.
Ranked #6 for Mother Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Mother Machine.
Caveblazers is a challenging and brutal roguelike platformer. Journey into a mysterious cave, fighting orcs and goblins with an abundance of weapons and magical items! Make friends along the way, then watch in despair as they are crushed in to a bloody pulp under a troll's fist.
Ants Took My Eyeball
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Mother Machine.
Ranked #7 for Mother Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Mother Machine.
Ants Took My Eyeball is a 2D action platformer roguelite. Descend into an ever-changing ant hill, fight your way through hordes of insects with a variety of weapons, face formidable bosses and ultimately find your stolen eyeball.
A Valley Without Wind
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a whimsical mood with Mother Machine.
Ranked #8 for Mother Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Mother Machine.
You choose how to play, and the world of Environ adapts around you.
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Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Mother Machine cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Mother Machine.
Built from scratch, enjoy breathtaking visuals, enhanced audio and improved, deeper gameplay as New 'n' Tasty reignites the original Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee using the latest next-generation technology.
Deep Rock Galactic
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a cozy mood with Mother Machine.
Reviewers of Mother Machine cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Mother Machine.
Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player co-op FPS featuring dwarven space miners, procedurally-generated destructible environments, and endless hordes of alien monsters. Explore cave systems, mine for minerals, and work together to survive!
Little Smart Planet
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Mother Machine cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Mother Machine.
Studying is fun. Educational games to review Mathematics, English and Language for children from 6 to 12 years old.
CREATURES
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Mother Machine cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Mother Machine.
Creatures is a multi-player that adds a gaming layer to music. Based around the pioneering artist BillyRacxx, we're creating a world where his fans can game and enjoy unique music that will constantly be updated.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Mother Machine at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Mother Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mother Machine.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Mother Machine on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Mother Machine.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Mother Machine on Steam right now. Shares Action with Mother Machine.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Mother Machine on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Mother Machine.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Mother Machine on Steam right now. Shares Action with Mother Machine.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Mother Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mother Machine.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Mother Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mother Machine.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Mother Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mother Machine.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Mother Machine.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mother 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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mother Machine.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Mother Machine.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Mother 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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mother Machine.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mother Machine.
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.
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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.
Plague Breaker
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Mother Machine.
Plague Breaker is a retro roguelike platformer with heavy RPG elements. Pick your class and ascend a procedurally generated castle filled with undead monsters and corrupted plague doctors. Level up your character and find items, weapons, and traders along the way before taking on each floors boss.
A Robot Named Fight!
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Mother Machine.
A Robot Named Fight is a Metroidvania roguelike focused on exploration and item collection. Explore a different, procedurally-generated labyrinth each time you play and discover randomized power-ups to traverse obstacles, find secrets and explode meat beasts.
Caveblazers
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Mother Machine.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Mother Machine.
Caveblazers is a challenging and brutal roguelike platformer. Journey into a mysterious cave, fighting orcs and goblins with an abundance of weapons and magical items! Make friends along the way, then watch in despair as they are crushed in to a bloody pulp under a troll's fist.
Ants Took My Eyeball
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Mother Machine.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Mother Machine.
Ants Took My Eyeball is a 2D action platformer roguelite. Descend into an ever-changing ant hill, fight your way through hordes of insects with a variety of weapons, face formidable bosses and ultimately find your stolen eyeball.
Frequently asked about Mother Machine
- Is Mother Machine verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Mother Machine 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 Mother Machine cost?
- Mother Machine is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Mother Machine have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Mother Machine supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Shared/Split Screen Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Mother Machine?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mother Machine are Plague Breaker, Animosity, Kungfu Cowboy.
- Who developed Mother Machine?
- Mother Machine was developed by Maschinen-Mensch.
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