Games like NineLives
If NineLives is your kind of game, the closest matches are Shieldmaiden: Remix Edition, White Hell and Bizzare Cat Rescuer — 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.
Get personalized picks →About NineLives: The artificial intelligence "Leviathan" awakens consciousness and kills his creator, Professor Steinberg. As a courier, you will travel through a world after nuclear war, searching for lost memory fragments and solving the mystery of your own identity.
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Steam players who put hours into NineLives 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.
Shieldmaiden: Remix Edition
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Top pick for NineLives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with NineLives.
The end of the world just started and everyone is gone. The machines took over and your only goal is to look for your missing sister in a retro wave atmosphere. Fight and find your way into the danger with your shield in this vibrant pixel art world.
White Hell
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Second-strongest match for NineLives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with NineLives.
White Hell is a retro-style first-person shooter set in a frost-bound Finland after the apocalypse.
Bizzare Cat Rescuer
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for NineLives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with NineLives.
A strange homeless-looking man unsuccessfully tries to escape from an equally strange schizophrenic self-destructing world in 10 minutes, saving cats along the way. It is completely unclear what is happening. And it will not become clearer...
MindKatt:First Strike
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Ranked #4 for NineLives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with NineLives.
An action-adventure game set in a dystopian future where mentally evolved cats fight for their freedom using robotic suits to interact with the human world.
Hack Fate
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Ranked #5 for NineLives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with NineLives.
Hack Fate is a fast-paced, cyberpunk pixel-style hack-and-slash action game. In a flash of lightning, control time and space, switch identities, and deliver swift, fatal blows to all enemies. But if it's the heavens you're up against? Then you shall hack fate itself.
Oddworld: Soulstorm Enhanced Edition
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Ranked #6 for NineLives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with NineLives.
Oddworld: Soulstorm is the explosive second game in a brand new Oddworld Quintology that tells the continuing story of Abe and his comrades as they discover further crimes against Mudokonkind and look for the spark that will ignite a revolution.
Loopmancer
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Ranked #7 for NineLives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with NineLives.
Loopmancer is a 3D platformer roguelite action game with realistic graphics that takes place in a cyberpunk universe. Players play as a detective who comes back to life after an unexpected death, and battle in this lifelike and futuristic city of the east.
SANABI
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Ranked #8 for NineLives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with NineLives.
SANABI is an exhilarating stylish dystopian action-platformer. Play as a legendary retired veteran and use your signature prosthetic arm to jump over cliffs and skyscrapers, zip through bullets and traps and defeat powerful enemies.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with NineLives.
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.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with NineLives.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with NineLives.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with NineLives.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with NineLives.
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.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with NineLives.
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!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with NineLives.
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 Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with NineLives.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Frequently asked about NineLives
- What games are most similar to NineLives?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside NineLives are Shieldmaiden: Remix Edition, White Hell, Bizzare Cat Rescuer.
- Who developed NineLives?
- NineLives was developed by Yoyiyo Studio.
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 NineLives.
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