Games like Cast Out Colony
If Cast Out Colony is your kind of game, the closest matches are Eldritch Exterminators, Patch Quest and Shape Shifter: Formations — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its addictive roguelite loop, atmospheric and challenging. 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 Cast Out Colony: Cast Out Colony combines roguelite and bullet-heaven action with robust town-building elements. Choose from various characters, fight hordes of foes, and grow your colony, which in return grows your stats, offering a unique twist on the survival genre.
Players who liked Cast Out Colony also play
Steam players who put hours into Cast Out Colony 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.
Eldritch Exterminators
WHY THIS
Top pick for Cast Out Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Cast Out Colony.
Become a possessed gun in this bullet heaven rogue-lite, mowing down hordes of Eldritch minions with chaotic firepower. Harvest souls, hoard artifacts, and craft insane builds to slay gods and break free.
Patch Quest
WHY THIS
Shares bullet hell and an atmospheric mood with Cast Out Colony.
Second-strongest match for Cast Out Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cast Out Colony.
In a labyrinth surrounded by vicious monsters, Explorers must rely on their Lasso to survive! Capture and tame ANY monster to leap, glide, surf, tunnel and websling through a treacherous, patchwork maze. This roguelike/metroidvania seems cute, but it’s a deceptively difficult bullet-hell challenge!
Shape Shifter: Formations
WHY THIS
Shares meta progression and a whimsical mood with Cast Out Colony.
Third-strongest match for Cast Out Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Cast Out Colony.
Shape Shifter: Formations is an action twin-stick shooter with rogue-lite elements, where you must destroy hordes of geometric enemies alone or with a friend. Select your ship and combine a large variety of weapons, abilities and infinitely stacking upgrades to craft your own unique build.
Binding of Elements
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Cast Out Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cast Out Colony.
In this action-rougelike game you'll have to survive waves of monsters and fight against bosses. You'll be able to combine different elements to get unique abilities and arm yourself against the challenges. Choose from a variety of upgrades and improve your character or abilities.
Earl vs. the Mutants
WHY THIS
Shares difficulty scaling, build variety, roguelite and a whimsical mood with Cast Out Colony.
Ranked #5 for Cast Out Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Cast Out Colony.
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.
X Invader
WHY THIS
Shares meta progression and a whimsical mood with Cast Out Colony.
Ranked #6 for Cast Out Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Cast Out Colony.
X Invader is an action roguelite where you hack into big corporations' servers. Use add-ons from fellow hackers to defeat monsters. Powerful, cute bosses guard these servers!
Towerful Defense: A Rogue TD
WHY THIS
Shares character unlocks, difficulty scaling, roguelite and a whimsical mood with Cast Out Colony.
Ranked #7 for Cast Out Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Cast Out Colony.
A roguelike tower defense where you control a single tower to fight against hordes of aliens coming from all directions. Pick your tower, equip up to 4 skills, and choose from a variety of traits and unique effect items to craft powerful builds that lead you to victory.
Pesticide Not Required
WHY THIS
Shares bullet hell, build variety, cute and a chill mood with Cast Out Colony.
Ranked #8 for Cast Out Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Cast Out Colony.
Mow down countless crops and corrupt critters while crafting game-breaking builds! Pesticide Not Required is an action roguelite bullet heaven game with farming sim elements that offers a myriad of stats and special character traits to create wildly diverse run possibilities.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Cast Out Colony
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Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Cast Out Colony cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Cast Out Colony.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Toaster Defense
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Cast Out Colony cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Cast Out Colony.
Smash and shoot down robots in this challenging fast-paced game that mixes tower defense and shoot 'em up platforming. Build lamps, fans, and meat tenderizers to aid in your defenses and find the deadliest combination. Do you have what it takes to defend the world's cutest toaster?!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Cast Out Colony.
Reviewers of Cast Out Colony cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Cast Out Colony.
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!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cast Out Colony at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Cast Out Colony on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Cast Out Colony.
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
Shares a challenging mood with Cast Out Colony.
Priced ~50% under Cast Out Colony on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Cast Out Colony.
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 Cast Out Colony on Steam right now. Shares Action with Cast Out Colony.
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 Cast Out Colony on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cast Out Colony.
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 Cast Out Colony on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Cast Out Colony.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Cast Out Colony on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Cast Out Colony.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Cast Out Colony on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Cast Out Colony.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Cast Out Colony on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Cast Out Colony.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Cast Out Colony.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Cast Out Colony.
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.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Cast Out Colony.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Cast Out Colony.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Cast Out Colony.
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!
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Casual with Cast Out Colony.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Cast Out Colony.
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!
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Eldritch Exterminators
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and RPG with Cast Out Colony.
Become a possessed gun in this bullet heaven rogue-lite, mowing down hordes of Eldritch minions with chaotic firepower. Harvest souls, hoard artifacts, and craft insane builds to slay gods and break free.
Patch Quest
WHY THIS
Shares bullet hell and an atmospheric mood with Cast Out Colony.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Cast Out Colony.
In a labyrinth surrounded by vicious monsters, Explorers must rely on their Lasso to survive! Capture and tame ANY monster to leap, glide, surf, tunnel and websling through a treacherous, patchwork maze. This roguelike/metroidvania seems cute, but it’s a deceptively difficult bullet-hell challenge!
Shape Shifter: Formations
WHY THIS
Shares meta progression and a whimsical mood with Cast Out Colony.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and RPG with Cast Out Colony.
Shape Shifter: Formations is an action twin-stick shooter with rogue-lite elements, where you must destroy hordes of geometric enemies alone or with a friend. Select your ship and combine a large variety of weapons, abilities and infinitely stacking upgrades to craft your own unique build.
Earl vs. the Mutants
WHY THIS
Shares difficulty scaling, build variety, roguelite and a whimsical mood with Cast Out Colony.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and RPG with Cast Out Colony.
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.
Towerful Defense: A Rogue TD
WHY THIS
Shares character unlocks, difficulty scaling, roguelite and a whimsical mood with Cast Out Colony.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with Cast Out Colony.
A roguelike tower defense where you control a single tower to fight against hordes of aliens coming from all directions. Pick your tower, equip up to 4 skills, and choose from a variety of traits and unique effect items to craft powerful builds that lead you to victory.
Frequently asked about Cast Out Colony
- Does Cast Out Colony run on Steam Deck?
- Cast Out Colony 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 Cast Out Colony cost?
- Cast Out Colony is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Cast Out Colony?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cast Out Colony are Eldritch Exterminators, Patch Quest, Shape Shifter: Formations.
- Who developed Cast Out Colony?
- Cast Out Colony was developed by Wooshido.
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 Cast Out Colony.
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