Games like PhotonVERSE
If PhotonVERSE is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cyjin: The Cyborg Ninja, Pogo Rocket and Telebbit — 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.
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Players who liked PhotonVERSE also play
Steam players who put hours into PhotonVERSE 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.
Cyjin: The Cyborg Ninja
WHY THIS
Top pick for PhotonVERSE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with PhotonVERSE.
Put your platforming skills to the test with your mouse in Cyjin: The Cyborg Ninja – a unique precision platformer featuring fast-paced gameplay and accelerated dashing action.
Pogo Rocket
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for PhotonVERSE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with PhotonVERSE.
Pogo sticks and Rockets, how could it go wrong? In this space-themed 2D platformer, you control an experimental rocket ship and must stop aliens from taking the Earth's resources. Play through a variety of levels with dangerous obstacles and save the world!
Parallel Shift
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for PhotonVERSE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with PhotonVERSE.
How far would you go to learn the truth? What is the limit of our existence? Switch between dimensions, close the matching breaches and rewind time to escape the unknown in this beautiful Pixel Art Platformer Runner.
Bounce
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for PhotonVERSE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with PhotonVERSE.
Launch your ball into the high-scores in this frantic and stunning physics-based procedurally generated time twister!
Shutterspeed
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for PhotonVERSE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with PhotonVERSE.
Use your awesome camera gadgets to drill through enemies and the environment, fly where no cameraman has flown before and most importantly, freeze the world like a photograph in this platforming adventure through cyberspace!
Don't Byte Your Tongue
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for PhotonVERSE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with PhotonVERSE.
Rage and rise back to the top to reach your robo-lover in this challenging 8-bit retrowave platformer. With every jump counting like your life depends on it, this game will test your skills to the limit. So try your best not to rage and Don't Byte Your Tongue!
DICED Pilot
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for PhotonVERSE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with PhotonVERSE.
DICED Pilot is a 2D action game containing old-school platform-based movement/jump timing challenges, physics-based surroundings, jetpacks, and weapons that can destroy everything in sight! Now with a multitude of cheat options and a full-blown level-editor! (currently in beta)
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below PhotonVERSE at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under PhotonVERSE on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with PhotonVERSE.
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?
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under PhotonVERSE on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with PhotonVERSE.
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.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under PhotonVERSE on Steam right now. Shares Casual with PhotonVERSE.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under PhotonVERSE on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with PhotonVERSE.
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 ~50% under PhotonVERSE on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with PhotonVERSE.
"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!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under PhotonVERSE on Steam right now. Shares Casual with PhotonVERSE.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
Bejeweled® 3
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under PhotonVERSE on Steam right now. Shares Casual with PhotonVERSE.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
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 with PhotonVERSE.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with PhotonVERSE.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with PhotonVERSE.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with PhotonVERSE.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with PhotonVERSE.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with PhotonVERSE.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with PhotonVERSE.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with PhotonVERSE.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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Other recommendable Steam games by IMPERIAL DYNAMICS, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Orbi's chronicles
WHY THIS
Another title from IMPERIAL DYNAMICS, the studio behind PhotonVERSE. Shares Indie and Casual with PhotonVERSE.
Orbi's chronicles is an alternative RPG-looter where the battle system is based on word creation.Μodify your weapons with chips, progress as you level up and gain special skills which can be used on your created words. Disarm deadly traps or activate ancient alien shrines through mini games.
Command-Ω Omega
WHY THIS
Another title from IMPERIAL DYNAMICS, the studio behind PhotonVERSE. Shares Action and Casual with PhotonVERSE.
Protect your six towers against relentless waves of enemies in Command-Ω Omega, a rogue-like shooter tower defense game with a synthwave 80’s aesthetic and modern graphics. Level up, collect upgrades, and enhance your arsenal as you battle to survive and dominate the neon battlefield.
Frequently asked about PhotonVERSE
- How much does PhotonVERSE cost?
- PhotonVERSE is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to PhotonVERSE?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside PhotonVERSE are Cyjin: The Cyborg Ninja, Pogo Rocket, Telebbit.
- Who developed PhotonVERSE?
- PhotonVERSE was developed by IMPERIAL DYNAMICS.
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 PhotonVERSE.
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