Games like The Maze Contract
Below are 8 hand-picked alternatives to The Maze Contract for fans of action, indie, free to play, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in The Maze Contract also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About The Maze Contract: The Maze Contract is a single player retro action game with vector-style graphics. It takes a lot of inspiration from the 1980's shoot-em-up arcade games, but with added tactical elements and lots of upgrades for your ship and weapons.
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Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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Fragment Hunters
Top pick for The Maze Contract fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Maze Contract.
Crystal Souls: Fragment Hunters is a top down indie space game where you shoot enemy ships, gather crystals, and upgrade your own ship.
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Netherspace
Second-strongest match for The Maze Contract fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Maze Contract.
A sci-fi shoot'em'up game with heavy focus on upgrades experimentation, featuring two unlikely heroes that must work perfectly together, despite their share of secrets, to surpass their limits and succeed in eliminating a threat that might destroy both Earth and Andraxia if left unchecked.
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Lost In Space
Third-strongest match for The Maze Contract fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Free To Play with The Maze Contract.
Connor loves his job as a researcher, but his office space-base is under attack! Your boss has trusted you to vanquish the alien menace by killing as many as possible, and now you can do so on PC!
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Neon Invaders
Ranked #4 for The Maze Contract fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Maze Contract.
Neon Invaders will take you back to your gaming roots with its constant action and relentlessly brutal enemies. Absorb enemy shots of the same colour to trigger a flurry of fire to decimate the alien invaders. Dodge and Match your way to victory through 40 levels and 5 difficulty settings.
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Stop the Saturnians!
Ranked #5 for The Maze Contract fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Maze Contract.
Stop the Saturnians is a shooter inspired by classic arcade games. Dodge enemy fire, destroy procedurally generated alien waves and fight massive bosses. Collect resources in the midst of combat to upgrade your ship or improve Earth's defenses. Protect yourself and the planet both!
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Tank vs. Aliens
Ranked #6 for The Maze Contract fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Maze Contract.
Fight to survive an endless onslaught of aliens, upgrading your tank between levels to keep up with the horde. Death may be inevitable in the aftermath of the invasion, but it is up to you to bring down as many of the these creatures as you can.
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Humans Are Useless
Ranked #7 for The Maze Contract fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Maze Contract.
A gang of nine aliens from another galaxy that were put to community service, want to clean the universe from what they think is the worst garbage: humans! Help them in this arcade game!
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Martian Invaders
Ranked #8 for The Maze Contract fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Maze Contract.
WE HAVE ALIENS, YOU DON'T—Blast Martian invaders and flying saucers across 30 stages with robotic voice effects. Use your destructible shield, rescue army men for bonus points, and chase the high score.
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Frequently asked about The Maze Contract
- Does The Maze Contract run on Steam Deck?
- The Maze Contract is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- Is The Maze Contract free to play?
- Yes — The Maze Contract is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to The Maze Contract?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Maze Contract are Fragment Hunters, Netherspace, Lost In Space.
- Who developed The Maze Contract?
- The Maze Contract was developed by Synthetic Forms.
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 The Maze Contract.
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