Games like NineLives
If NineLives is your kind of game, the closest matches are Stellar Mole, SLAVFIGHT and System // Crash — 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.
Players who liked NineLives also play
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.
Stellar Mole
WHY THIS
Top pick for NineLives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with NineLives.
You will play a role of Agent Vanø—infiltrating an alien colonial corporation. Your mission: gather Earth intelligence for alien while weaponizing every dirty trick to torment your alien colleagues, dismantling their operations from within.
SLAVFIGHT
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for NineLives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with NineLives.
Just another couch PvP/co-op game where you can **** your friends with a bazooka (it's a different word, get your mind out of the gutter 🙄). Oh, and if you hate your friends, there's a solo campaign as well!
System // Crash
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for NineLives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with NineLives.
A momentum platformer, with combo-centered hack 'n slash combat. Use your trusty sword, TyBreaker (Among other weapons), to cut and destroy every TyCorp drone in your way. Cut the drones, and take back the world.
Don't Tread On Cat
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for NineLives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with NineLives.
In a post-nuclear city ruled by corporate algorithms, Pushok — a kitten with a jailbroken neural implant—must escape a high-security lab, master stealth hacking, and navigate cyberpunk slums to find his way home.
Nova Slash
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for NineLives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with NineLives.
Play as Veil, a hooded rebel infused with the cataclysmic energy of a collapsed artificial star. Tear through the corrupt mega-nation of Giaath in Nova Slash, an intense action platformer featuring roguelike progression and lethal melee combat.
Frankie Freako
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Ranked #7 for NineLives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with NineLives.
A Freaky Retro Platform Game
Shieldmaiden: Remix Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action 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
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with NineLives.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie 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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie 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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG 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
WHY THIS
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 Stellar Mole, SLAVFIGHT, System // Crash.
- 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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