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Games like Metavoidal

If Metavoidal is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dusk Hunters, 20MTD: Emberpath and Horde Reapers — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, hypnotic and intense. 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 Metavoidal: Heavy metal might be immortal, but you're not. In Metavoidal, you play as a drummer as they attempt to escape the clutches of a threatening metal band by using off-beat techniques to defeat each band member... Or die trying!

2025ActionIndie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedWindows · macOSby Yellow Lab Games
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Dynamic soundtrack adapts to your buildEach run feels distinct with randomized tracks and relicsPixel art captures eldritch metal aestheticAtmosphericHypnoticIntense

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Steam players who put hours into Metavoidal 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. Dusk Hunters

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Metavoidal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Metavoidal.

    Dusk Hunters is a dark fantasy roguelite action RPG where you battle relentless forces of darkness in brutal skill-based combat. Wield powerful abilities, craft devastating builds, and challenge ruthless bosses at the end of every run.

    ActionIndieRPGSteam ↗
  2. 20MTD: Emberpath

    WHY THIS

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

    20MTD: Emberpath is a spin-off of the acclaimed 20 Minutes Till Dawn. In this roguelike, you combine different abilities and artifacts to create an almighty character that can mow down waves of Lovecraftian creatures. Can you hold out against the horde, until the night is over?

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  3. Horde Reapers

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Metavoidal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Metavoidal.

    Face hordes and bosses, solo or in online co-op with up to 4 players. Shape your build with weapons, items, and elemental powers, then bring resources back to rebuild your village and unlock permanent upgrades.

    2026ActionSteam ↗
  4. BloodRush: Undying Wish

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Metavoidal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Metavoidal.

    BloodRush: Undying Wish is an extremely fast-paced hack n' slash roguelike set in a gothic, undying world. Dash, shoot and strike with ability combos, weaving between enemies like an improvised dance. Death is gone; bring her back.

    2025ActionIndieEarly Access9.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Zombie Horde Survivors

    WHY THIS

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

    Zombie Horde Survivors is a 2D pixel-art top-down bullet heaven shooter. Survive in a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by a biochemical outbreak. Upgrade your gear, strengthen your body, break through waves of zombies, and fight to the end!

    ActionIndieCasualSteam ↗
  6. Bauble

    WHY THIS

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

    An action-stealth roguelite about newly-sentient creatures investigating the sudden collapse of their ecosystem. Fight, sneak, and talk your way through expeditions, learning a little more about your planet each time.

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  7. Sole Salvation

    WHY THIS

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

    Sole Salvation is an action roguelite hack and slash where you can wield a ranged weapon and a melee weapon simultaneously. Recover your thoughts to combine your abilities, defeat the creatures that hunt you, and advance through the corrupted lands of your memories in search of redemption.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  8. GOD FORSAKEN

    WHY THIS

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

    The God - Forsaken Land is a roguelike survival adventure game that combines the features of Diablo. In this abandoned land of despair, you fend off endless monsters, light a fire in the darkness, and search for that faint glimmer of hope.

    2026ActionStrategyIndie13.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Metavoidal on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Metavoidal.

    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 ~67% under Metavoidal on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Metavoidal.

    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. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under Metavoidal on Steam right now. Shares Action with Metavoidal.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Metavoidal on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Metavoidal.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Metavoidal on Steam right now. Shares Action with Metavoidal.

    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 ↗
  6. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Metavoidal on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Metavoidal.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Metavoidal on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Metavoidal.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. How to Fish

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Metavoidal on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Metavoidal.

    A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.

    2026ActionIndieSimulation4.95 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  3. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

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

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

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

    The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Disfigure

    WHY THIS

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

    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!

    2023ActionIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It

    WHY THIS

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

    USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.

    2025IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. The Children of Clay

    WHY THIS

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

    The Children of Clay is a short stop motion archeology horror game, where you have to study an ancient artefact and discover its dark secret.

    2025IndieAdventureSimulationFreeSteam ↗
  8. Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt

    WHY THIS

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

    Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).

    2016ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Metavoidal

Is Metavoidal verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — Metavoidal 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 Metavoidal cost?
Metavoidal is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Metavoidal?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Metavoidal are Dusk Hunters, 20MTD: Emberpath, Horde Reapers.
Who developed Metavoidal?
Metavoidal was developed by Yellow Lab 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 Metavoidal.

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