Games like Materia
If Materia is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sinderfury, BattleBeasts and Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty — 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 Materia: Materia is a top-down sci-fi ARPG set in a vast, evolving galaxy. As a skilled Pilot, explore dangerous Rifts and Vaults, battle colossal World Bosses, and customize your character with the Cosmic Augmentation System. Team up or compete in PvP to shape the future of the Stellar Frontier.
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Sinderfury
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Top pick for Materia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Materia.
From a team of two developers, an INDIE co-op action RPG for 1 - 4 players. Warning: This ARPG has very little hand holding, and is designed for more hardcore players looking for a challenge. The systems are in depth, the bosses are brutal, and the demons are unrelenting.
BattleBeasts
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Second-strongest match for Materia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Materia.
Planet Shima attracts adventure seekers from all over the Galaxy BB-79 due to its unique resources. The mysterious effects on this planet made Artificial Intelligence of Shima aggressive towards all intelligent species of animals.
Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty
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Third-strongest match for Materia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Materia.
A new dark fantasy Three Kingdoms action RPG from Team NINJA, the developers of Nioh.
Fear the Night - 恐惧之夜
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Ranked #4 for Materia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Materia.
In Fear the Night, you are a survivor in a world plagued with zombies. Team up with other survivors and work together to rebuild society from its ashes or choose to trust no one and go your own way in a lawless world.
Stone Rage
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Ranked #5 for Materia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Materia.
Stone Rage is a prehistoric, open-world survival game. Play as a Cro-Magnon or Neanderthal and shape-shift into beasts as you secure your place in a harsh landscape of dangerous animals, scarce resources, and unforgiving climates. Make friends and enemies. Build. Fight. Survive.
Sniper Elite: Resistance
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Ranked #6 for Materia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Materia.
Offering unparalleled sniping mechanics, stealth and tactical third-person combat, Sniper Elite: Resistance turns the attention of the award-winning series towards a hidden war, far from the front lines, deep within the heart of occupied France.
VALHALL: Harbinger
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Ranked #7 for Materia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Materia.
VALHALL is a blend of multiple genres, combining first & third person directional physical combat slasher with a survival experience set in a brutal world of Vikings. Survive, feel Thor's power, become an einherjar, and enter the ultimate battlefield!
九劫曲：诅咒之地 NINE TRIALS
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Ranked #8 for Materia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Materia.
There are immortals everywhere in Shenzhou. One day, A curse comes. The cursed people will have a mark on their body, known as "indescribable mark".Until the full moon night,the cursed person will be inhaled into the alien world. Players play one of the immortals and start their own journey to survive.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Materia.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Materia.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Materia.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Materia.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Materia.
《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.
Dota 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Materia.
Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.
Unturned
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Materia.
You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.
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Frequently asked about Materia
- Does Materia have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Materia supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Materia?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Materia are Sinderfury, BattleBeasts, Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty.
- Who developed Materia?
- Materia was developed by Night Shift Studios.
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 Materia.
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