IMHO.

Games like Psionic Awake

If Psionic Awake is your kind of game, the closest matches are Zombie Battlefield Survivors, Town Of The Dead Life 死寂之城 and Earl vs. the Mutants — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 Psionic Awake: Psionic Awake is a Roguelike game . Collect resources during the day and defend against monsters at night. It emphasizes any combination of weapons, talents, treasures and partners.

2025ActionIndieAdventure2.49 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Mighty Cat
Psionic Awake — Steam game cover
Players highlight
Combine weapons for auto attack skills or summoningDaytime exploration fuels nighttime defenseEach character has unique background audioAtmosphericChallengingContemplative

Players who liked Psionic Awake also play

Steam players who put hours into Psionic Awake 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. Zombie Battlefield Survivors

    WHY THIS

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

    Zombie Battlefield Survivors is a top-down view roguelike action shooter game. Fight against hordes of zombies, constantly upgrading attributes and collecting credits to enhance your character's abilities.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Town Of The Dead Life 死寂之城

    WHY THIS

    Shares tower defense with Psionic Awake.

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

    《Town Of The Dead Life》 is an independent game with the background of eschatology. Players will play the role of one of the few surviving humans in the end of the world, surviving in difficult conditions and trying to change the fate of the world.

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure5.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Earl vs. the Mutants

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Psionic Awake.

    Third-strongest match for Psionic Awake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Psionic Awake.

    Save humanity in a mutant-ridden apocalypse! Dive headfirst into Earl vs. the Mutants, a high-octane top-down survival action-roguelite set in the aftermath of a nuclear apocalypse.

    2024ActionAdventureRPG2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Doomsday Hunters

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Psionic Awake.

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

    Shoot stuff in a perfect pixel world, combine items, build guns, die every time! Roguelite twin-stick shooter where magic and post-apocalyptic future technologies collide. Defeat evil lord Dracula and save everyone!

    2023ActionIndie15.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. HYPERGUN

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Psionic Awake.

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

    Fight through waves of alien interlopers and save the world as Dewey Owens in HYPERGUN, a fast-paced roguelite shooter centering around a procedural weapon of questionable effectiveness. Enter the simulation. Build the HYPERGUN!

    2018ActionIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. RAM: Random Access Mayhem

    WHY THIS

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

    The roguelike where you play as the enemies. Take control of your foes, turn them against each other in fast-paced combat, and leap to a new host before your current body breaks down.

    2025ActionIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Rogue Stormers

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Psionic Awake.

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

    An action packed platform shooter mashed-up with roguelike and RPG elements, crazy 3D graphics and co-op multiplayer for one to 4 players.

    2016ActionIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Astro Looter: Survivor

    WHY THIS

    Shares tower defense, procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Psionic Awake.

    Ranked #8 for Psionic Awake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Psionic Awake.

    Explore alien planets to mine resources, kill alien insects, build defense turrets, and survive waves of insect attacks across the galactic frontier. Astro Looter combines elements of survival, roguelike, and tower defense in a top-down shooter.

    2024ActionStrategyAdventure2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Psionic Awake on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Psionic Awake.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Psionic Awake on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Psionic Awake.

    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.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Psionic Awake on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Psionic Awake.

    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!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Psionic Awake on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Psionic Awake.

    "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!

    2015ActionIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Montaro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Psionic Awake on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Psionic Awake.

    Montaro is a DOGE.

    2016IndieCasual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Bit Blaster XL

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Psionic Awake on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Psionic Awake.

    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!

    2016ActionIndieCasual0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Dictators:No Peace Countryballs

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Psionic Awake on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Psionic Awake.

    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.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. TYRONE vs COPS

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Psionic Awake on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Psionic Awake.

    Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.

    2022ActionIndie0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  2. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

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

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. 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 Psionic Awake.

    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 ↗
  4. 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 Psionic Awake.

    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 ↗
  5. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

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

    NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Awaria

    WHY THIS

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

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗

Frequently asked about Psionic Awake

Does Psionic Awake run on Steam Deck?
Psionic Awake is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Psionic Awake cost?
Psionic Awake is listed on Steam at 2.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Psionic Awake?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Psionic Awake are Zombie Battlefield Survivors, Town Of The Dead Life 死寂之城, Earl vs. the Mutants.
Who developed Psionic Awake?
Psionic Awake was developed by Mighty Cat and published by INDIECN.

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 Psionic Awake.

For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.