Games like Nion Forge
If Nion Forge is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cosmic Tails, Upload Aliens and WingWhiz — 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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Cosmic Tails
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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.
Become the Cat Bounty Hunter. Blast off through deep space as you decimate hordes of space creatures with bounties on their heads. Upgrade unique cat-themed abilities, unlock pulverizing weapons, and survive until your contract expires -- or join the ranks of fallen bounty hunters before you.
Upload Aliens
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Second-strongest match for Nion Forge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nion Forge.
Have you ever seen a game where you throw enemies at a boss? Throw aliens at the boss and blow it up!
WingWhiz
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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.
You’re a combat aircraft fighting to survive in a chaos-ruled world where everything is against you. Upgrade your plane, secure power-ups, build combos, and tear apart anything in your way to unlock new worlds. Stay alive and show no mercy!
Invaders X
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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.
Crack Spaceships, Improve your Machine, Get New Lead Pilots to the Resistence and Free our species through different "Worlds" across the Solar System. In a 2.5D Shoot 'em up. ... from a time where much less, seemed much more.
Soul Machine
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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.
Build your ultimate mech and face endless hordes of rogue robots. In this fast-paced rogue-lite twin-stick shooter, combine devastating weapons, unlock synergies, and salvage scrap to survive the mechanical swarm. Will your chassis hold together?
Bug Drop
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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.
Fight, upgrade, and survive in a fast-paced top-down action roguelite where 20 unique heroes with special traits, weapons and abilities take on the swarm of alien bugs.
Archaea Ascent
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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.
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.
MOBU
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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.
Survive waves of bouncing enemies raining from the skies in this fast-paced action roguelite. Play as a superpowered monk, craft game-breaking builds, and conquer the chaos in sub-30-minute runs.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 and Casual 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 Cosmic Tails, Upload Aliens, WingWhiz.
- 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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