Games like Nion Forge
If Nion Forge is your kind of game, the closest matches are DET-33, Neon Carnage and Archaea Ascent — 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 Nion Forge: Your ship is your build. Put it together in the hangar from 50+ modules and enter the games: 9 districts, 9 bosses, one time limit - and beyond them, freedom. Run went sideways? Come back with scrap and build it better. 100+ upgrades, 30+ cores, countless builds.
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DET-33
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Top pick for Nion Forge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nion Forge.
A bullet-heaven roguelite in the ruins of new London. Take contracts from four warring factions, build a gun that breaks the game, and reach the evac before the city closes over you. 700+ weapons, interlocking build engines, and a fresh map every run.
Neon Carnage
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Second-strongest match for Nion Forge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Nion Forge.
Outrun the law. Destroy everything. Survive an escalating cyberpunk manhunt in this explosive vehicular roguelike.
Archaea Ascent
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Third-strongest match for Nion Forge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nion Forge.
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.
Beyond the First Star
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Ranked #4 for Nion Forge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nion Forge.
Beyond the First Star is a fast-paced 2D side-scrolling shoot 'em up. Choose from distinct pilots, collect and switch between varied weapons, battle through handcrafted stages, and face bosses with unique attack patterns.
WingWhiz
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Ranked #5 for Nion Forge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nion Forge.
WingWhiz brings classic arcade shoot 'em ups into 3D with roguelite progression. Destroy everything in your path, level up, build your plane, unlock new weapons and planes, and try different playstyles as you fight through new worlds.
Ronan Rage: The Rugged Space Chase
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Ranked #6 for Nion Forge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nion Forge.
You are Ronan, an ex-gang boss. When your old crew pulls a hilarious heist and steals your precious Turkish rug, it's all-out war! Jump in for a 3D roguelite rail-shooter: dodge space rocks, survive laser gauntlets, upgrade your ship and unleash hell. Fly fast. Shoot straight. Get that rug back!
Rogue Space Convoy
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Ranked #7 for Nion Forge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nion Forge.
Rogue Space Convoy is a roguelite space action shooter where you pilot a fighter, build a convoy, and choose branching encounters across five hostile passages. Disable enemy cruisers, salvage upgrades, and keep the Ark alive long enough to reach the gate.
Voidrunners
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Ranked #8 for Nion Forge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nion Forge.
Voidrunners is a space bullet heaven where you combine unique weapons, equipment, and upgrades to create powerful builds. Explore maps filled with secrets, unlock new ships, and survive endless hordes of enemies.
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Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Nion Forge.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Nion Forge.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Nion Forge.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
OnlyCans: Thirst Date
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Nion Forge.
Feel The Fizz Inside You™ with the brand new Shize™ Collection!
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Nion Forge.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Nion Forge.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
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- What games are most similar to Nion Forge?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Nion Forge are DET-33, Neon Carnage, Archaea Ascent.
- Who developed Nion Forge?
- Nion Forge was developed by Relypse, Martin Steguweit and published by DreamStudios.
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 Nion Forge.
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