Games like Medusa
If Medusa is your kind of game, the closest matches are PSYCRON, Tres-Bashers and Trash Quest — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chariot eats carrot doors, creative use of upgrades and retro aesthetic with personality. 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 Medusa: A Metroidvania about Medusa searching for a foregone creature called the Ancient Sludge. Explore eight unique regions, face hordes of menacing enemies and acquire items to help you on your adventure.
Players who liked Medusa also play
Steam players who put hours into Medusa 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.
PSYCRON
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Medusa.
Top pick for Medusa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Medusa.
A fast-paced 2D handcrafted metroidvania with strange sci-fi environments. Something is roaming the halls, watching your every move.
Tres-Bashers
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Medusa.
Second-strongest match for Medusa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Medusa.
Tres-Bashers is a 2D monster-bashing adventure featuring a big interconnected map full of cryptids, secrets, and more! Find 40 different monster types and whack 'em with your baseball bat!
Trash Quest
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Medusa.
Third-strongest match for Medusa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Medusa.
Trash Quest is a compact metroidvania with a single spawn point, run and gun action and tight platforming. Navigate an interwoven maze of rooms through this space station, destroying robots, collecting power ups and unlocking shortcuts.
Primal Planet
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Medusa.
Ranked #4 for Medusa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Medusa.
Unveil a heartfelt story of family, dinosaurs, and UFOs! Craft, upgrade, and survive in a realm of primeval predators, savage tribes and... ancient aliens. Rise from a humble cave dweller to the planet’s last hope — alone or in local co-op. Welcome to the dinovania!
Lone Fungus
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Medusa.
Ranked #5 for Medusa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Medusa.
A handcrafted open-world platformer set in a world built by Mushrooms! Explore different locations filled with secrets, acquire new abilities and use those abilities to reach new places!
ITORAH
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Medusa.
Ranked #6 for Medusa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Medusa.
Discover the world of Nahucan in this 2D action platformer. You are Itorah, the only human in this strange place. Explore, fight and survive to uncover your past and save Nahucan from its biggest threat, a mysterious plague!
Wonder Boy: Asha in Monster World
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Medusa.
Ranked #7 for Medusa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Medusa.
The adventures of Asha, the little warrior, begin! Together with her blue sidekick Pepelogoo, she will run through numerous stages and save the Monster World from the darkness.
Pronty
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Medusa.
Ranked #8 for Medusa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Medusa.
Guide Pronty and its Javelin partner Bront as it defends the once great city of Royla. Explore the deep sea, fight mutant sea creatures, and discover the secrets behind this new Atlantis in this beautiful action-packed adventure.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Medusa at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Medusa on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Medusa.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Medusa on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Medusa.
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.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Medusa on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Medusa.
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.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Medusa on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Medusa.
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!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Medusa on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Medusa.
"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!
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Medusa on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Medusa.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Medusa on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Medusa.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Medusa.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Medusa.
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 Medusa.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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 Medusa.
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.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Medusa.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Medusa.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Medusa.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Medusa.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Primal Planet
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Medusa.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Medusa.
Unveil a heartfelt story of family, dinosaurs, and UFOs! Craft, upgrade, and survive in a realm of primeval predators, savage tribes and... ancient aliens. Rise from a humble cave dweller to the planet’s last hope — alone or in local co-op. Welcome to the dinovania!
Lone Fungus
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Medusa.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Medusa.
A handcrafted open-world platformer set in a world built by Mushrooms! Explore different locations filled with secrets, acquire new abilities and use those abilities to reach new places!
Wonder Boy: Asha in Monster World
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Medusa.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Medusa.
The adventures of Asha, the little warrior, begin! Together with her blue sidekick Pepelogoo, she will run through numerous stages and save the Monster World from the darkness.
Pronty
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Medusa.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Medusa.
Guide Pronty and its Javelin partner Bront as it defends the once great city of Royla. Explore the deep sea, fight mutant sea creatures, and discover the secrets behind this new Atlantis in this beautiful action-packed adventure.
Frequently asked about Medusa
- How much does Medusa cost?
- Medusa is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Medusa?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Medusa are PSYCRON, Tres-Bashers, Trash Quest.
- Who developed Medusa?
- Medusa was developed by radgu8.
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 Medusa.
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