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Games like Kill A Million Rats

If Kill A Million Rats is your kind of game, the closest matches are 9 Lives to Defend, Kitty's Last Adventure and Repetendium — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and funny. 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.

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About Kill A Million Rats: A base-building, Roguelike Action/Turn-based Strategy (RATS) game, in a forest invaded by a million Rats. As the powerful Spirit of Vengeance, you must save the adorable Villagers! Explore a randomly generated world, expand your village, and exterminate the Rats!

2025ActionStrategyIndieAdventure10.99 USDWindowsby Nerdook Productions
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Players who liked Kill A Million Rats also play

Steam players who put hours into Kill A Million Rats 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.

  1. 9 Lives to Defend

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Kill A Million Rats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Kill A Million Rats.

    Face a pest infestation and survive until Loki's parents return from their trip! Defend the house with your 9 lives. Choose upgrades, play with different versions of Loki, with unique weapons and abilities to fight this war ^.^

    2025ActionIndieRPG3.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Kitty's Last Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Shares build variety, meta progression, roguelite and a whimsical mood with Kill A Million Rats.

    Second-strongest match for Kill A Million Rats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Kill A Million Rats.

    Cute Survivor where you play as Kitty the cat aboard her flying cat-saucer🛸 created by her distraught human.

    2025ActionCasual4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Repetendium

    WHY THIS

    Shares meta progression, procedural generation and an intense mood with Kill A Million Rats.

    Third-strongest match for Kill A Million Rats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Kill A Million Rats.

    Repetendium is a top-down roguelike-lite shooter. Select from a rowdy group of characters to play as and wield an ever expanding variety of gear and items to conquer the underworld. Death awaits...

    2022ActionIndieAdventure5.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Cluckmech Oasis

    WHY THIS

    Shares tower defense, build variety, roguelite and a funny mood with Kill A Million Rats.

    Ranked #4 for Kill A Million Rats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Kill A Million Rats.

    Cluckmech Oasis, a top-down shooting Roguelike tower defense game. Play as the Warcluck and lead your team of animal heroes in a fight for survival. Collect, build and upgrade defenses, and engage in intense battle against waves of plant enemies.

    2024ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Blazing Beaks

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Kill A Million Rats.

    Ranked #5 for Kill A Million Rats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Kill A Million Rats.

    Roguelite - where too much greediness can be fatal. A colorful world with armed birds blazing their way through piles of mutants, monsters and creepy creatures. Lots of mysteries to unravel, secrets to discover and levels to explore.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Keep Keepers

    WHY THIS

    Shares tower defense, wave based combat and a whimsical mood with Kill A Million Rats.

    Ranked #6 for Kill A Million Rats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Kill A Million Rats.

    Tower Defense meets Base Management. Strategically place your defenses. Craft wacky ammunition like fiery peppers and boomerang bananas. Discover amazing weapons and automate your economy while defending against waves of enemies. Can you handle the chaos?

    2024ActionStrategyIndie11.69 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Run Build Pew!

    WHY THIS

    Shares meta progression and a contemplative mood with Kill A Million Rats.

    Ranked #7 for Kill A Million Rats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Kill A Million Rats.

    You’re being Bounty-Hunted! Run, Build your ship piece-by-piece and make it work with the parts you find, Destroy outposts and waves of fleets, and Pick your battles carefully to overcome your hunters in this Fast-Paced Top-Down Action Roguelite Shooter.

    2022ActionStrategyIndie2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. REMEDIUM: Sentinels

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Kill A Million Rats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Kill A Million Rats.

    Become a Sentinel and face the plague in roguelite fast-paced auto-shooter set in the same world as REMEDIUM game. Combine items and alchemical elements to acquire more powerful weapons and create unique builds to defend the plague survivors against the endless hordes of mutants!

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Kill A Million Rats at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under Kill A Million Rats on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kill A Million Rats.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Kill A Million Rats.

    Priced ~55% under Kill A Million Rats on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Kill A Million Rats.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~59% under Kill A Million Rats on Steam right now. Shares Action with Kill A Million Rats.

    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.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~43% under Kill A Million Rats on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kill A Million Rats.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under Kill A Million Rats on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kill A Million Rats.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under Kill A Million Rats on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kill A Million Rats.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~91% under Kill A Million Rats on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Kill A Million Rats.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under Kill A Million Rats on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Kill A Million Rats.

    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.

    2009Strategy4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kill A Million Rats.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Kill A Million Rats.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kill A Million Rats.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 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 Kill A Million Rats.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kill A Million Rats.

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Kill A Million Rats.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kill A Million Rats.

    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!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kill A Million Rats.

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Nerdook Productions

Other recommendable Steam games by Nerdook Productions, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Monster Slayers

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Kill A Million Rats.

    Another title from Nerdook Productions, the studio behind Kill A Million Rats. Shares Action and Indie with Kill A Million Rats.

    Monster Slayers is a rogue-like deck-building RPG adventure. Create a hero and choose your path through the perilous Northern Valley as you battle to become a true Monster Slayer.

    2017ActionIndie8.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Reverse Crawl

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Kill A Million Rats.

    Another title from Nerdook Productions, the studio behind Kill A Million Rats. Shares Action and Strategy with Kill A Million Rats.

    A dungeon crawl where YOU are the dungeon! Lead your minions in tactical turn-based combat against the pesky heroes, and unlock a variety of evil Powers. With a dynamic campaign system and a branching storyline, "Reverse Crawl" lets you experience an RPG from a whole new angle!

    2015ActionStrategyAdventure5.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Rogue AI Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation, resource management and a whimsical mood with Kill A Million Rats.

    Another title from Nerdook Productions, the studio behind Kill A Million Rats. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kill A Million Rats.

    Play as a Rogue Artificial Intelligence, in the sequel to the hit Flash game "I'm an Insane Rogue AI", played more than 4 million times! Your Prime Directive is simple: design a facility & manage human Test Subjects for the Dept of Science. But be careful: they NEVER stop being suspicious of you...

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation11.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 魔物讨伐团

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Kill A Million Rats.

    Another title from Nerdook Productions, the studio behind Kill A Million Rats. Shares Action and Strategy with Kill A Million Rats.

    卡牌与RPG结合的无尽地牢探险之旅!最早融合Roguelike与卡牌的游戏之一。多达14种职业,真人配音+纸娃娃系统,完善的卡牌设计,各类魔物与随机事件等你体验!

    2018ActionStrategyIndie1.03 USDSteam ↗
  5. Vertical Drop Heroes HD

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation and an intense mood with Kill A Million Rats.

    Another title from Nerdook Productions, the studio behind Kill A Million Rats. Shares Action with Kill A Million Rats.

    Vertical Drop Heroes is a procedural platformer RPG hybrid with roguelike elements, where your hero adventures through randomly generated stages. Armed with a variety of skills and traits, you must use your cunning and reflexes to survive the dangers of each stage.

    2014ActionRPG6.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. The Magister

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation and a whimsical mood with Kill A Million Rats.

    Another title from Nerdook Productions, the studio behind Kill A Million Rats. Shares Action and Indie with Kill A Million Rats.

    The Magister is a murder-mystery card-battler RPG. Build and customise your deck to fight in battles, or use ‘Tactical Diplomacy’ to pacify those who stand in your way. Gather clues and discover motives as you investigate the death of your predecessor and unmask the guilty culprit.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Magister - The First Two Days

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Nerdook Productions, the studio behind Kill A Million Rats. Shares Action and Indie with Kill A Million Rats.

    The Magister: The First Two Days gives you the chance to begin your investigation in this murder-mystery card-battler RPG. Build and customize your deck to fight in battles, or use ‘Tactical Diplomacy’ to pacify those who stand in your way. Gather clues and investigate the death of your predecessor!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗
  8. Rogue AI: Idle Domination

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Nerdook Productions, the studio behind Kill A Million Rats. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kill A Million Rats.

    A Rogue A.I. simulator that sits at the bottom of your screen. Take over the world while taking care of other tasks!

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation5.99 USDSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. 9 Lives to Defend

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Kill A Million Rats.

    Face a pest infestation and survive until Loki's parents return from their trip! Defend the house with your 9 lives. Choose upgrades, play with different versions of Loki, with unique weapons and abilities to fight this war ^.^

    2025ActionIndieRPG3.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Kitty's Last Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Shares build variety, meta progression, roguelite and a whimsical mood with Kill A Million Rats.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Kill A Million Rats.

    Cute Survivor where you play as Kitty the cat aboard her flying cat-saucer🛸 created by her distraught human.

    2025ActionCasual4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Blazing Beaks

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Kill A Million Rats.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Kill A Million Rats.

    Roguelite - where too much greediness can be fatal. A colorful world with armed birds blazing their way through piles of mutants, monsters and creepy creatures. Lots of mysteries to unravel, secrets to discover and levels to explore.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Run Build Pew!

    WHY THIS

    Shares meta progression and a contemplative mood with Kill A Million Rats.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with Kill A Million Rats.

    You’re being Bounty-Hunted! Run, Build your ship piece-by-piece and make it work with the parts you find, Destroy outposts and waves of fleets, and Pick your battles carefully to overcome your hunters in this Fast-Paced Top-Down Action Roguelite Shooter.

    2022ActionStrategyIndie2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. REMEDIUM: Sentinels

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Kill A Million Rats.

    Become a Sentinel and face the plague in roguelite fast-paced auto-shooter set in the same world as REMEDIUM game. Combine items and alchemical elements to acquire more powerful weapons and create unique builds to defend the plague survivors against the endless hordes of mutants!

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Kill A Million Rats

How much does Kill A Million Rats cost?
Kill A Million Rats is listed on Steam at 10.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Kill A Million Rats?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Kill A Million Rats are 9 Lives to Defend, Kitty's Last Adventure, Repetendium.
Who developed Kill A Million Rats?
Kill A Million Rats was developed by Nerdook Productions and published by Surefire.Games.

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 Kill A Million Rats.

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