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Games like Amok Runner

If Amok Runner is your kind of game, the closest matches are Turbo Chicken Simulator, DEADPOINT and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chaotic emergent gameplay, community driven challenge and glitches fuel speedruns. 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 Amok Runner: One day, a noble woman turns our protagonist's (the doctor) life upside down by visiting his clinic, in a town where the amok madness is rampant. The doctor leaves all his personal effects and career aside and begins to follow this woman's footsteps while fighting against the deadly amok syndrome.

2022ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedWindowsby Gamedeus
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Steam players who put hours into Amok Runner 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. Turbo Chicken Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Amok Runner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Amok Runner.

    Turbo Chicken Simulator is an immersive, open-world action RPG. Play as a super-powered chicken in an expansive world. Explore, fight enemies to level up, unlock superpowers, embark on epic quests, drive and customize vehicles, cook, fish, customize your character, and much more!

    2023ActionRPGEarly Access14.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. DEADPOINT

    WHY THIS

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

    "Deadpoint" is an engaging third-person survival game set in an apocalyptic world overrun by zombies. Players take on the role of a resourceful scavenger, tasked with navigating the dangerous landscape and ensuring their survival amid the hordes of undead.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Amok Runner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Amok Runner.

    Welcome to Vice City. Welcome to the 1980s. From the decade of big hair, excess and pastel suits comes a story of one man's rise to the top of the criminal pile.

    2008ActionAdventureSteam ↗
  4. Grand Theft Auto III

    WHY THIS

    Shares a dark mood with Amok Runner.

    Ranked #4 for Amok Runner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Amok Runner.

    Welcome to Liberty City. Where it all began. With stellar voice acting, a darkly comic storyline, a stunning soundtrack and revolutionary open-world gameplay, Grand Theft Auto III is the game that defined the open world genre for a generation.

    2008ActionAdventureSteam ↗
  5. THE DARK SIDE OF CECLON

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Amok Runner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Amok Runner.

    Jensen, the sole survivor of the Nexentia shuttle crash on the planet CECLON. Alone, light years away from all human life! You will have to face the Nocturnes, primitive creatures in order to bring back the Veka energy, humanity's only hope.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.49 USDSteam ↗
  6. Flashing Lights - Police, Firefighting, Emergency Services (EMS) Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Shares a stressful mood with Amok Runner.

    Ranked #6 for Amok Runner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Amok Runner.

    Play solo or in up to 10-player multiplayer co-op! Flashing Lights is an open world police, firefighting and EMS simulator game with plenty of opportunity for role-play or more relaxed fun with friends. Become the law or save lives! Discover leagues of player-created mods!

    2023ActionIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. American Theft 80s: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Shares a tense mood with Amok Runner.

    Ranked #7 for Amok Runner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Amok Runner.

    You're Jack, a thief in the 80s. Steal VCRs, tapes, and other 80s items in this prologue of American Theft 80s! Newest game from THIEF SIMULATOR developers.

    2022ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Amazing Frog? 2

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Amok Runner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Amok Runner.

    Amazing Frog? 2 is the next generation of Amazing Frog? A Hardcore Parkour, open world buffet of bonkers physics sandbox ...ness.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Amok Runner at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Amok Runner on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Amok Runner.

    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 Amok Runner on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Amok Runner.

    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 Amok Runner on Steam right now. Shares Action with Amok Runner.

    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 Amok Runner on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Amok Runner.

    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 Amok Runner on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Amok Runner.

    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 Amok Runner on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Amok Runner.

    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 Amok Runner on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Amok Runner.

    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 Amok Runner on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Amok Runner.

    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. 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 Amok Runner.

    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 ↗
  2. 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 Amok Runner.

    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 ↗
  3. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Amok Runner.

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Amok Runner.

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft

    WHY THIS

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

    Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.

    2021IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Paper Lily - Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

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

    Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.

    2024IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  8. Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue

    WHY THIS

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

    Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.

    2021IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Amok Runner

Is Amok Runner verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — Amok Runner 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 Amok Runner cost?
Amok Runner is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Amok Runner?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Amok Runner are Turbo Chicken Simulator, DEADPOINT, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
Who developed Amok Runner?
Amok Runner was developed by Gamedeus.

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 Amok Runner.

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