Games like Neanderthallica
If Neanderthallica is your kind of game, the closest matches are Prehistoric Dude, Plungeez and Primal Planet — 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 Neanderthallica: Puzzle-metroidvania game set in a prehistoric world with a twist of sci-fi. Master the ability to change the weather, altering the environment and battles. Craft unique gear and weapons, and explore hidden secrets as you journey through humor-filled stone age.
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Prehistoric Dude
WHY THIS
Top pick for Neanderthallica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Neanderthallica.
A retro style mini metroidvania game about a caveman who loves ham!
Plungeez
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Neanderthallica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Neanderthallica.
Explore a non-linear underground world in this puzzle-adventure. Solve intricate environmental challenges, uncover hidden secrets, and navigate a pixel-art labyrinth where every path leads to a new mystery. Can you plunge into the depths and find what lies beneath?
Primal Planet
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Neanderthallica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Neanderthallica.
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!
B.I.O.T.A.
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Neanderthallica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Neanderthallica.
Intense 2D action-platformer set in a mining colony infected by an alien plague. In B.I.O.T.A. you can choose your hero, fight gruesome monsters, and customize your 8-bit retro experience with swappable 4-color palettes.
Lone Fungus
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Neanderthallica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Neanderthallica.
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!
Serious Sam 3: BFE
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Neanderthallica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Neanderthallica.
Serious Sam 3: BFE is a prequel to the original indie fast action FPS and Game of the Year sensation - Serious Sam: The First Encounter!
Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Neanderthallica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Neanderthallica.
Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials is a snarky action-adventure puzzle game with a good dose of humor. Explore hundreds of secret-filled rooms, fight big bosses, gather companions for your party and use the powers of Pip—your bat buddy—to solve puzzles and escape the eldritch abyss!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Neanderthallica at current Steam store prices.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Neanderthallica on Steam right now. Shares Action with Neanderthallica.
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.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Neanderthallica on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Neanderthallica.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~63% under Neanderthallica on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Neanderthallica.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Neanderthallica on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Neanderthallica.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Neanderthallica on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Neanderthallica.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~81% under Neanderthallica on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Neanderthallica.
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 ~88% under Neanderthallica on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Neanderthallica.
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.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
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Priced ~63% under Neanderthallica on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Neanderthallica.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
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 Neanderthallica.
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 Neanderthallica.
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 Neanderthallica.
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 Neanderthallica.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Neanderthallica.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Neanderthallica.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Neanderthallica.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
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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
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Neanderthallica.
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!
B.I.O.T.A.
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Neanderthallica.
Intense 2D action-platformer set in a mining colony infected by an alien plague. In B.I.O.T.A. you can choose your hero, fight gruesome monsters, and customize your 8-bit retro experience with swappable 4-color palettes.
Lone Fungus
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Neanderthallica.
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!
Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Neanderthallica.
Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials is a snarky action-adventure puzzle game with a good dose of humor. Explore hundreds of secret-filled rooms, fight big bosses, gather companions for your party and use the powers of Pip—your bat buddy—to solve puzzles and escape the eldritch abyss!
Frequently asked about Neanderthallica
- How much does Neanderthallica cost?
- Neanderthallica is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Neanderthallica?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Neanderthallica are Prehistoric Dude, Plungeez, Primal Planet.
- Who developed Neanderthallica?
- Neanderthallica was developed by Cheers LLC and published by Bonus Stage Publishing.
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 Neanderthallica.
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