Games like Infest
If Infest is your kind of game, the closest matches are Monster Train, Roguebook and Deep Sky Derelicts — 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 Infest: Infest is a roguelike deckbuilder where every pixel on the battlefield can burn, freeze, corrode, shock, and melt. Carefully craft your deck and deploy cards to alter the environment, buff your stats, and unleash stunning pixel-by-pixel damage upon your enemies!
Players who liked Infest also play
Steam players who put hours into Infest 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.
Monster Train
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a challenging mood with Infest.
Top pick for Infest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Infest.
Monster Train is a strategic roguelike deck building game with a twist. Set on a train to hell, you’ll use tactical decision making to defend multiple vertical battlegrounds. With real time competitive multiplayer and endless replayability, Monster Train is always on time.
Roguebook
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Infest.
Second-strongest match for Infest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Infest.
Embrace the challenge of a roguelike deckbuilder with unique mechanics from the developers of Faeria and Richard Garfield, creator of Magic: The Gathering™. Build a team of two heroes, unleash powerful combos and defeat the legends of the Roguebook!
Deep Sky Derelicts
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Infest.
Third-strongest match for Infest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Infest.
Deep Sky Derelicts is an original combination of turn-based strategy and RPG, enriched with tactical card combat and popular roguelike elements. Explore derelict alien ships, fight, loot and upgrade your gear, all in distinctive retro-futuristic comic book aesthetic style.
Cat God Ranch
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, roguelite progression, roguelite and a contemplative mood with Infest.
Ranked #4 for Infest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Infest.
Lead hundreds of "wise" little animals to pay tribute to the Cat God!! 7 animal families, 100+ animals, 10+ Cat Gods, 100+ items, and various animal combinations waiting for you to explore!
LONESTAR
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Infest.
Ranked #5 for Infest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Infest.
LONESTAR is a strategic Roguelike spaceship deckbuilder. As a bounty hunter, you will capture criminals scattered across the universe. Win the shockwave battle to gain rewards and vacations. Find treasures, customize spaceships, unlock talents, defeat the felons and be a legend!
Circadian Dice
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Infest.
Ranked #6 for Infest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Infest.
Circadian Dice is a game inspired by single-player deck-building games, but instead of upgrading a deck, you build up a set of dice! Use 10 different heroes and 60 game-warping relics to take on 13 hand-crafted scenarios, in runs that take 10-30 minutes. Lots of secrets and unlocks to discover!
Castle Morihisa
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Infest.
Ranked #7 for Infest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Infest.
"Castle Morihisa" is a roguelike featuring strategic deckbuilder. You need to build up your deck through constant battles, acquire powerful talents, and wield the power of the Fallen Heroes to unveil the truth behind the rebellion in Castle Morihisa.
Pawnbarian
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a punishing mood with Infest.
Ranked #8 for Infest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Infest.
Pawnbarian is a quick-playing, turn-based puzzle roguelike. Play cards to move your hero like a chess piece, and conquer challenging dungeons full of cunning monsters!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Infest at current Steam store prices.
Nodebuster
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Infest on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Infest.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~87% under Infest on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Infest.
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!
Tower Wizard
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Infest on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Infest.
Help a wizard build and upgrade a wizard tower in this incremental game! Use the tower to study magic, summon spirits, create buildings, and influence the world.
Bejeweled® 3
WHY THIS
Priced ~87% under Infest on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Infest.
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.
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~87% under Infest on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Infest.
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.
Hexcells Plus
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Infest on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Infest.
Hexcells Plus is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.
Lords of the Realm II
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Infest on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Infest.
The great Lords of England have their eyes on the the English throne! Muster an army and overrun your enemies' castles in this classic, nail-biting strategy game that blends turn-based and real-time gameplay.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
The Lab
WHY THIS
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!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Infest.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Infest.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Infest.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
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More from Chute Apps
Other recommendable Steam games by Chute Apps, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Rogue Star Rescue
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Infest.
Another title from Chute Apps, the studio behind Infest. Shares Strategy with Infest.
Bullet Hell Insanity + Tower Defense Strategy. Rogue Star Rescue is a quirky new type of rogue-like shooter. Blast your way through diverse planets while rescuing your teammates and gathering traps for your defense strategy. Play solo or online to stop the Rogue Star before it annihilates everything!
Forest Fire
WHY THIS
Another title from Chute Apps, the studio behind Infest.
Be the Forest Fire and burn everything in sight! A Rogue-lite destruction-fest where every pixel is physically simulated. Burn trees, buildings, vehicles, and tiny screaming humans. Dodge bullet-hell rain clouds and pissed-off firefighters to stay alive... Only YOU can start Forest Fires.
Sandbox Skyline
WHY THIS
Another title from Chute Apps, the studio behind Infest. Shares Strategy with Infest.
Build impressive skyscrapers pixel-by-pixel, and protect them from the harsh realities of nature. Each pixel is physically simulated to interact with earthquakes, firestorms, blizzards, and tsunamis. Protect your skyline and expand your territory in this relaxing (yet challenging) sandbox builder.
Repterra
WHY THIS
Another title from Chute Apps, the studio behind Infest. Shares Strategy with Infest.
Repterra is a base-building survival RTS set in a world overrun by dinosaurs. Manage your colony while battling massive dino hordes. Breed and ride your own dinos, unlock permanent upgrades, and fight to reclaim the world for humanity.
Mega Prison
WHY THIS
Another title from Chute Apps, the studio behind Infest. Shares Strategy with Infest.
Mega Prison is a prison defense and riot-control strategy game. Deploy guards, dogs, water cannons, barriers, and riot vehicles to contain thousands of inmates as unrest escalates. Manage resources, hold the line, and KEEP THEM IN... at any cost!
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Frequently asked about Infest
- Does Infest run on Steam Deck?
- Infest 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 Infest cost?
- Infest is listed on Steam at 7.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Infest?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Infest are Monster Train, Roguebook, Deep Sky Derelicts.
- Who developed Infest?
- Infest was developed by Chute Apps.
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 Infest.
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