Games like Cathexis
If Cathexis is your kind of game, the closest matches are Prison Escape Simulator, Jeller Fellers and Rubble — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Cathexis: Smash your way out of a massive living machine that reacts to your every move, wielding godlike powers in a playground of creation and destruction.
Players who liked Cathexis also play
Steam players who put hours into Cathexis 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.
Prison Escape Simulator
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Top pick for Cathexis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Cathexis.
The prisoner is in the world’s highest security prison. His only chance to reunite with his family is to escape. Everything is in your hands. Survive and escape. This survival escape game will take your breath away. Will you be able to escape from prison?
Jeller Fellers
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Second-strongest match for Cathexis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Cathexis.
Bounce, squish, and launch through a vibrant, stylized world in Jeller Fellers, where you *attempt* to control a wobbly jelly cube. Solve puzzles, overcome obstacles, and explore diverse environments in this challenging, physics-based precision platformer
Rubble
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Third-strongest match for Cathexis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cathexis.
Rubble is a first-person physics-platformer where you break and dig through levels to solve puzzles in a dystopian game show setting!
SUPERPANEL
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Ranked #4 for Cathexis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Cathexis.
SUPERPANEL is a hardcore tactical shooter with high lethality for solo players or groups of friends. Customize your gear and squads, take on dangerous missions through urban labyrinths, and fight your way to the heart of Megaslavia. Enemies are both humans and monsters.
Supercharged
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Ranked #5 for Cathexis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cathexis.
Play as a developer trapped inside his own game. Shoot platforms, chain wall-runs and race through corrupted digital dimensions in a fast 3D action-platformer built around movement, timing and momentum.
Way of the Dragons
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Ranked #6 for Cathexis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cathexis.
Join the journey of baby dragons who’ve fallen from their nests, climbing back up to find their mothers in a chaotic parkour adventure. Burning or tossing each other off ledges might be fun but don’t let them forget why they’re climbing. Their mothers are waiting above… or are they?
Marble Stars
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Ranked #7 for Cathexis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cathexis.
Marble Stars is a platformer with 55 handcrafted levels suspended above the ocean. Roll, jump, and use special abilities to reach the finish line as fast as you can. Master each course, improve your best times, and earn prestigious medals as you progress.
Rogue Climber
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Ranked #8 for Cathexis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cathexis.
You've only got a short time to climb. An army of enemies and traps are waiting to stop you. Manage your equipment, hone your build, and master your platforming techniques to climb higher than anyone before you.You think you've got what it takes? I don't think so.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cathexis.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cathexis.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Cathexis.
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.).
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Cathexis.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Cathexis.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
The Lab
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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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Cathexis.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
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Frequently asked about Cathexis
- What games are most similar to Cathexis?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cathexis are Prison Escape Simulator, Jeller Fellers, Rubble.
- Who developed Cathexis?
- Cathexis was developed by Syncretic Games.
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 Cathexis.
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