Games like Xenomycology
If Xenomycology is your kind of game, the closest matches are Parallax Blue, Save the Llama and The Rift Tower Defense — 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 Xenomycology: Xenomycology is a metroidvania tower defense game. You control a colony of extra-terrestrial fungus spreading across a planet, and fighting off invading creatures. Xenomycology also offers a peaceful mode if you only want to grow mushrooms and explore the world.
Players who liked Xenomycology also play
Steam players who put hours into Xenomycology 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.
Parallax Blue
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Top pick for Xenomycology fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Xenomycology.
A strategy tower defence where you create the towers! Gather resources, build towers, defeat bugs, and survive. Unlock new weapons, create towers, gather resources, and die. Don't fall short of the Company's expectations... these resources are worth more than any life, including yours.
Save the Llama
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Second-strongest match for Xenomycology fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Xenomycology.
Craft the perfect defense upon shifting platforms, turning gears, and railways to save your llamas from alien abduction in this space western tower defense.
The Rift Tower Defense
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Third-strongest match for Xenomycology fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Xenomycology.
The Rift is a tower defense game with elements of RPG gameplay that will appeal to players of all skill levels. Enemies from an alternate universe are attacking and it's up to the player to stop them by strategically building defensive towers.
Tep The Destroyer TD
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Ranked #4 for Xenomycology fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Xenomycology.
TEP the destroyer is a single player tower defense game where you will face alien monsters and ships in ground and space battles! Your strategy will decide the fate of your people in a sci-fi environment of varying difficulties!
Swarming Planet
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Ranked #5 for Xenomycology fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Xenomycology.
Build towers and learn abilities to defend against swarms of hundreds of on-screen hostile alien creatures. Choose between sets of randomized upgrades that both upgrade you and the alien swarm. From enormous explosions to far-reaching flamethrowers, no two games are the same.
Raging Titan
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Ranked #6 for Xenomycology fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Xenomycology.
Build your towers, plan your efforts, watch out for changing paths and strike back against the alien invaders in this challenging tower defense game!
CARNAGE OFFERING Tower Defense
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Ranked #7 for Xenomycology fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Xenomycology.
The replicator robots are back! It's 2528. The machines are increasingly infecting the planets with genetically modified monsters. Challenge them and try to stop the onslaught. Upgrade buildings and heroes, mine resources, discover technology and fight to save humanity!
Defense Grid: The Awakening
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Ranked #8 for Xenomycology fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Xenomycology.
Defense Grid: The Awakening is a unique spin on tower defense gameplay that will appeal to players of all skill levels. A horde of enemies is invading, and it's up to the player to stop them by strategically building fortification towers around their base.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Xenomycology.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Xenomycology.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Xenomycology.
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?
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Xenomycology.
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 Indie with Xenomycology.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Xenomycology.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Xenomycology.
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.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Xenomycology.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Frequently asked about Xenomycology
- What games are most similar to Xenomycology?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Xenomycology are Parallax Blue, Save the Llama, The Rift Tower Defense.
- Who developed Xenomycology?
- Xenomycology was developed by Peccary 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 Xenomycology.
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