Games like Publish or Perish
If Publish or Perish is your kind of game, the closest matches are Meow Legion, Mega City Force and Madville+ — 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 Publish or Perish: Publish or Perish is a game that simulates working in academia. In order to keep your job, you must publish scientific work. Reviewers are here to get you and all you can do is try to survive. Can you publish enough papers to enjoy tenure? (Contains practical advice for academics)
Players who liked Publish or Perish also play
Steam players who put hours into Publish or Perish 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.
Meow Legion
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Top pick for Publish or Perish fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Publish or Perish.
Meow Legion is a game about assembling an army of cats to defend against waves of enemies.A top-down roguelite shooter game where you hire cats and level them up to fight mice from the evil Mousy Empire!
Mega City Force
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Publish or Perish fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Retrowave Action Roguelike featuring tough agents battling crime to the electrifying music of artists like Droid Bishop, Timecop1983, and more! Choose your agent and dive into hardcore action against enemies and bosses, utilizing a vast arsenal and special abilities that will define your playstyle
Madville+
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Publish or Perish fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Publish or Perish.
Madville+ is a rogue-lite / arena shooter with ridiculous upgrades. It is designed to have short play sessions (30-40 min) and replayability.
Outnumbered
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Ranked #4 for Publish or Perish fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Publish or Perish.
Outnumbered is a mass-enemy top-down shooter with rogue-lite elements. You may be greatly outnumbered, but not outpowered. Evolve into the ultimate weapon of destruction!
Archaea Ascent
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Ranked #5 for Publish or Perish fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Publish or Perish.
Undergo trials, build your identity, build a team, build your skills, fight the system. The operators are watching — and the directives are getting harder to follow.
Towerful Defense: A Rogue TD
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Ranked #6 for Publish or Perish fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
A roguelike tower defense where you control a single tower to fight against hordes of aliens coming from all directions. Pick your tower, equip up to 4 skills, and choose from a variety of traits and unique effect items to craft powerful builds that lead you to victory.
SHPR
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Ranked #7 for Publish or Perish fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
SHPR is an arena survival roguelike in which you have to buy items while creating amazing builds and synergies that will help you defeat enemies and bosses to be able to pass to the next stages.
GLIMPO
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Ranked #8 for Publish or Perish fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Publish or Perish.
Fight endless waves of enemies in this arcade roguelite shooter. Build and level up your skillset, unlock synergies and become ridiculously overpowered!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Publish or Perish at current Steam store prices.
Miss Neko
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Priced ~51% under Publish or Perish on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Publish or Perish.
Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)
QUICKERFLAK
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Priced ~51% under Publish or Perish on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Publish or Perish.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
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Priced ~51% under Publish or Perish on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Publish or Perish.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Gachi Heroes
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Priced ~51% under Publish or Perish on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Publish or Perish.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Fishing at the Lake Full of Cats
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Priced ~51% under Publish or Perish on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Publish or Perish.
Fishing at the Lake Full of Cats is a puzzle solving, cat collecting, fishing game where you uncover the secrets of Silly Lake in a quest to fish up every last one of its pointy eared denizens.
Love wish
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Priced ~51% under Publish or Perish on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Publish or Perish.
Love Wish is an easy, fun and challenging jigsaw puzzle.♪(^∇^*) Put the pieces together to restore the full picture of the girls. Collect their photos and animations and remember this wonderful moment❤
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Publish or Perish.
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?
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Publish or Perish.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Publish or Perish.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Publish or Perish.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Publish or Perish.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Publish or Perish.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Publish or Perish.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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Frequently asked about Publish or Perish
- How much does Publish or Perish cost?
- Publish or Perish is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Publish or Perish?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Publish or Perish are Meow Legion, Mega City Force, Madville+.
- Who developed Publish or Perish?
- Publish or Perish was developed by Tapped Mango.
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 Publish or Perish.
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