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Games like Mental Salvo

If Mental Salvo is your kind of game, the closest matches are HitTube, INFERIUS and Death In Your Dice — 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 Mental Salvo: Mental Salvo is a surreal top down art game with a procedural open world. A blank sandbox where you can explode your head, talk to weird entities, and perhaps find out if androids dream of electric sheep.

IndieAdventureRPGCasualWindowsby imaginini
Mental Salvo — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Mental Salvo 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. HitTube

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Mental Salvo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mental Salvo.

    HitTube is a satirical open-world roguelike looter shooter. You're a post-apocalyptic video blogger who fights for donations while streaming your survival. Shoot, loot, trade and use magical cards to gain superpowers in a procedurally generated world!

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. INFERIUS

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Mental Salvo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mental Salvo.

    Descend through nine dominions of Hell in a first-person horror roguelike deckbuilder. Wield Major Arcana tarot cards, upgrade your deck between deaths, use your lantern to survive the dark, and defeat each ruler before your sanity breaks.

    StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. Death In Your Dice

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Mental Salvo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mental Salvo.

    Roll the dice… or cities die. Learn lethal rules, twist outcomes, accept the cost. One bad throw calls the bombs. Win to delay death. Lose to become a murderer. Every choice reshapes your ending. Fate is loaded. Your turn is encoded?

    2026StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  4. DROSS

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Mental Salvo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mental Salvo.

    DROSS is a procedurally Generated FPS, set in a derelict facility infested with alien bugs. Explore, collect powerful weapons and equipment, to upgrade your gear and fight the Dross.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  5. Forty-Niner

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Mental Salvo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mental Salvo.

    Immerse yourself in a survival and exploration game set in a procedural Wild West world. Choose your role, and set out to prove your legend on the frontier by building, mining, and battling alone or with friends.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  6. The Element Of

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Mental Salvo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Mental Salvo.

    The Element Of is an element bending roguelite dungeon crawler set in a strange fantasy world. Choose from a variety of elements all with their unique playstyles to fight through floors of enemies and gain rewards that make you and your element stronger.

    2027ActionIndieRPGSteam ↗
  7. Edge Ember

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Mental Salvo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Mental Salvo.

    Edge Ember is a top-down action Roguelike game. You will play characters of different professions, embark on a threatening journey, challenge forces from all sides, and find the answer to save the city-state and the tribe.

    2027ActionIndieRPGSteam ↗
  8. Monster Chef

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Mental Salvo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mental Salvo.

    FIGHT! COOK! SERVE! Play as Pranzo, a tiny chef-warrior who cooks monsters right on the battlefield. In this action RPG, explore the world of Delizia, grow your inn’s reputation, serve picky customers, and rise through the ranks of the ancient Monster Chef Order as you uncover its secrets.

    ActionSportsIndieSteam ↗

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 and Casual with Mental Salvo.

    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 Adventure with Mental Salvo.

    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 Indie with Mental Salvo.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Mental Salvo.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

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

    A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Mental Salvo.

    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.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Mental Salvo

What games are most similar to Mental Salvo?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mental Salvo are HitTube, INFERIUS, Death In Your Dice.
Who developed Mental Salvo?
Mental Salvo was developed by imaginini.

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 Mental Salvo.

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