Games like Intake
If Intake is your kind of game, the closest matches are QWERTY Rhythm Power, MODSORK and RobotzZz — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its mouse control mastery matters, neon visuals are immersive and atmospheric. 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 Intake: Intake is the new retro-futuristic drugstep arcade shooter from Cipher Prime. In this polychromatic love child of Dr. Mario and Ikaruga, you battle a never-ending barrage of pills, pushing your skill and reflexes to the limit to avoid a lethal dosage.
Players who liked Intake also play
Steam players who put hours into Intake 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.
QWERTY Rhythm Power
WHY THIS
Top pick for Intake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Intake.
BECOME THE QWERTY MAESTRO. Turn your keyboard into a rhythm instrument. Hit falling notes to play songs you actually know, climb global leaderboards, guess famous melodies by ear in free play, and build your own charts to share. A precision rhythm game built around the tunes stuck in your head.
MODSORK
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Intake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Intake.
A challenging arcade game about dual-wielding and interactive music that will have you going "just one more try!".
RobotzZz
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Intake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Intake.
A robot, after humanity. The beat builds the world. Chase it or fall behind. Chain pickups, build combos, survive three stages of escalating rhythm.
hate.net
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Intake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Intake.
An abandoned arena shooter overtaken by bots. You are a mere passerby, a witness to a world that has long been lost to fake accounts and false advertisers. Thousands before you, and thousands after you.
Savant - Ascent
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Intake.
Ranked #5 for Intake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Intake.
A malicious orb has cast Savant out of his tower and transformed his surroundings into dangerous enemies!Dodge and shoot your way back up the tower, and blast down waves of enemies as you make your way towards the top! As you progress, you unlock CDs that not only give you new tracks to play to, but also grant you powerful new abilities!
Super Hexagon
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with Intake.
Ranked #6 for Intake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Intake.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Thumper
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Intake.
Ranked #7 for Intake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Intake.
Thumper is rhythm violence: classic rhythm-action, blistering speed, and brutal physicality. You are a space beetle. Brave the hellish void and confront a maniacal giant head from the future.
APE OUT
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Intake.
Ranked #8 for Intake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Intake.
APE OUT is a wildly intense and colorfully stylized smash ‘em up about primal escape, rhythmic violence, and frenetic jazz.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Intake at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Intake on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Intake.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Intake on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Intake.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Intake on Steam right now. Shares Action with Intake.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Intake on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Intake.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Intake on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Intake.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Intake on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Intake.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Intake on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Intake.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Intake on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Intake.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Intake.
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.
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Intake.
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!
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 Intake.
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).
Khimera: Destroy All Monster Girls
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Intake.
Play as Chelshia the chimera in this platforming beat-em-up adventure into the wonderful world of monster girls!
Waves
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Intake.
Waves is an Arcade Twin-Stick Shooter that's all about High Scores. Build your combo and drop bombs in pursuit of Leaderboard dominance over seven game-modes!
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Cipher Prime Studios
Other recommendable Steam games by Cipher Prime Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Splice
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Intake.
Another title from Cipher Prime Studios, the studio behind Intake. Shares Indie with Intake.
Splice is an experimental and artistic puzzler. Immerse yourself in its microbial world and start splicing! Every level ("strand") consists of a number of cells that you will need to rearrange into a target structure in several moves ("splices").
Auditorium
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with Intake.
Another title from Cipher Prime Studios, the studio behind Intake. Shares Indie with Intake.
Turn light into sound in this multi-award winning game from the creators of Fractal!
Fractal: Make Blooms Not War
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Intake.
Another title from Cipher Prime Studios, the studio behind Intake. Shares Indie with Intake.
Push, Combo, and Chain your way through a pulsing technicolor dreamscape all the while expanding your consciousness at 130 BPM.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Super Hexagon
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with Intake.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Intake.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Thumper
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Intake.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Intake.
Thumper is rhythm violence: classic rhythm-action, blistering speed, and brutal physicality. You are a space beetle. Brave the hellish void and confront a maniacal giant head from the future.
APE OUT
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Intake.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Intake.
APE OUT is a wildly intense and colorfully stylized smash ‘em up about primal escape, rhythmic violence, and frenetic jazz.
Frequently asked about Intake
- Does Intake run on Steam Deck?
- Intake 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 Intake cost?
- Intake is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Intake?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Intake are QWERTY Rhythm Power, MODSORK, RobotzZz.
- Who developed Intake?
- Intake was developed by Cipher Prime Studios.
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 Intake.
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