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Games like The Future Project

If The Future Project is your kind of game, the closest matches are High On Life 2, Exophobia and STAR WARS™: Battlefront Classic Collection — 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 Future Project: Take control of an AI soldier, explore planets, and partake in fast paced combat in The Future Project, a first person metroidvania. Explore distinct worlds, obtain new weapons and abilities, and defeat powerful enemies in humanity's quest to journey the stars.

2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDWindowsby Infinite Level
The Future Project — Steam game cover

Players who liked The Future Project also play

Steam players who put hours into The Future Project 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. High On Life 2

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for The Future Project fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Future Project.

    An intergalactic conspiracy threatens the fate of humanity! Team up with a wide cast of talking alien guns as you shoot, stab, and skate your way through the exotic locales to take down the bad guys and save your favorite species (humans)!

    2026ActionAdventure59.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Exophobia

    WHY THIS

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

    Explore and fight your way through a crashed human spaceship infested with relentless hordes of aliens as you become more powerful with exciting weapon upgrades and powerups in this retro inspired first-person shooter.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. STAR WARS™: Battlefront Classic Collection

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Future Project fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Future Project.

    Play the classic STAR WARS™ Battlefront games, online and offline in this definitive collection.

    2024Action26.25 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Frogmonster

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for The Future Project fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Future Project.

    Discover some of the most charming and challenging soulslike bosses in Frogmonster, a Metroidvania FPS adventure where you explore a lively world filled with creatures, bugs, and beasts.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Call of Duty®: Infinite Warfare

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The Future Project fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Future Project.

    Infinite Warfare delivers three unique game modes: Campaign, Multiplayer, and Zombies.

    2016ActionAdventure59.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. PowerSlave Exhumed

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for The Future Project fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Future Project.

    PowerSlave Exhumed is a KEX Engine port of the classic console game perfectly blending both the PlayStation & Saturn versions

    2022ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Sanctum 2

    WHY THIS

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

    Sanctum 2 is the sequel to the world’s first Tower Defense/FPS hybrid game. Pick from four unique character classes and embark on a mission to protect the oxygen-producing Cores from hordes of deadly aliens who are threatened by their existence.

    2013ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Prey

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for The Future Project fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Future Project.

    In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.

    2017ActionAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Future Project at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under The Future Project on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Future Project.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under The Future Project on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Future Project.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under The Future Project on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Future Project.

    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.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under The Future Project on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Future Project.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under The Future Project on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Future Project.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~90% under The Future Project on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Future Project.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under The Future Project on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Future Project.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under The Future Project on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Future Project.

    Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Future Project.

    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 ↗
  3. 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 Future Project.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Future Project.

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. 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 Future Project.

    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 ↗
  6. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

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

    Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. High On Life 2

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with The Future Project.

    An intergalactic conspiracy threatens the fate of humanity! Team up with a wide cast of talking alien guns as you shoot, stab, and skate your way through the exotic locales to take down the bad guys and save your favorite species (humans)!

    2026ActionAdventure59.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Exophobia

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Future Project.

    Explore and fight your way through a crashed human spaceship infested with relentless hordes of aliens as you become more powerful with exciting weapon upgrades and powerups in this retro inspired first-person shooter.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. STAR WARS™: Battlefront Classic Collection

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with The Future Project.

    Play the classic STAR WARS™ Battlefront games, online and offline in this definitive collection.

    2024Action26.25 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. PowerSlave Exhumed

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with The Future Project.

    PowerSlave Exhumed is a KEX Engine port of the classic console game perfectly blending both the PlayStation & Saturn versions

    2022ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Sanctum 2

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Future Project.

    Sanctum 2 is the sequel to the world’s first Tower Defense/FPS hybrid game. Pick from four unique character classes and embark on a mission to protect the oxygen-producing Cores from hordes of deadly aliens who are threatened by their existence.

    2013ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Prey

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with The Future Project.

    In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.

    2017ActionAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Future Project

How much does The Future Project cost?
The Future Project is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to The Future Project?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Future Project are High On Life 2, Exophobia, STAR WARS™: Battlefront Classic Collection.
Who developed The Future Project?
The Future Project was developed by Infinite Level.

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 Future Project.

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