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Games like Automaton Heart

If Automaton Heart is your kind of game, the closest matches are .45 PARABELLUM BLOODHOUND - Cyberpunk Active Time Action, CYBER92 DATAWAR and The Windzen Legend — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, eerie and immersive. 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.

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About Automaton Heart: Automaton Heart is an RPG with platforming elements where you visit obscure and interesting places while upgrading your organs and strategizing about which items to bring along.

2026ActionIndieAdventureRPG13.49 USDDeck VerifiedWindows · Linuxby Luke Vincent
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Steam players who put hours into Automaton Heart 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.

  1. .45 PARABELLUM BLOODHOUND - Cyberpunk Active Time Action

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Automaton Heart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Automaton Heart.

    .45 PARABELLUM BLOODHOUND is an ACTIVE TIME ACTION game about a washed out radical looking for paradise.

    2026ActionIndieRPGSteam ↗
  2. CYBER92 DATAWAR

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Automaton Heart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Automaton Heart.

    CYBER92 DATAWAR is a Surreal, Retro-Realistic Cyberpunk Shooter, First time 3rd/2nd-Person perspective. 90's Pixel-Glitch Art style. Shift through glitching vision modes, use destructive vehicles, and survive a fractured, twisted reality under constant time pressure.

    2026ActionIndie9.92 USDSteam ↗
  3. The Windzen Legend

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Automaton Heart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Automaton Heart.

    In a world covered by endless water... Join some new friends on an old adventure! Patricia and AutoBolt brave the ruins underneath Yasmar Island. Battle ancient machines and awesome Air-Pirates!

    2026ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. FOG - Fear Of Going

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Automaton Heart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Automaton Heart.

    Your new action-RPG addiction. Battle through the circles levels of hell in a psychedelic watercolor painted world. Unleash your creativity to create a character build that will take you all the way to the gates of heaven.

    2022ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  5. Datura Time

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Automaton Heart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Automaton Heart.

    Step into the enigmatic world of Datura Time and uncover the alluring lore behind the mysterious "Zone", while battling sinister forces in the style of 90s fifth generation 3D action adventure games - with a distinctive post-Soviet and Eastern European inspired aesthetic.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Bio Goddess : Doomsday Begins

    WHY THIS

    Shares backtracking, exploration, indie and an atmospheric mood with Automaton Heart.

    Ranked #6 for Automaton Heart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Automaton Heart.

    Bio Goddess: Doomsday Begins is a third-person shooter survival game where players assume the role of a female high school student surviving in a school struck by a biochemical crisis. They investigate the events, uncover their connection to their father, and explore their own identity.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure23.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Barbotine

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Automaton Heart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Automaton Heart.

    An atmospheric horror micro-game that touches on topics of anxiety, isolation, body image and obsessive habits with a surreal PSX aesthetic.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Voidling Bound

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Automaton Heart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Automaton Heart.

    Hatch, evolve, and upgrade powerful space creatures in this action-packed sci-fi 3rd person shooter that reinvents the monster taming genre!

    2026ActionAdventureRPG22.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Automaton Heart at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Automaton Heart on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Automaton Heart.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Automaton Heart on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Automaton Heart.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~48% under Automaton Heart on Steam right now. Shares Action with Automaton Heart.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~41% under Automaton Heart on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Automaton Heart.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Automaton Heart on Steam right now. Shares Action with Automaton Heart.

    Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~54% under Automaton Heart on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Automaton Heart.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~41% under Automaton Heart on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Automaton Heart.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. How to Fish

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Automaton Heart on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Automaton Heart.

    A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.

    2026ActionIndieSimulation4.95 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Automaton Heart.

    Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Automaton Heart.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Automaton Heart.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Automaton Heart.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Automaton Heart.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Automaton Heart.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Automaton Heart.

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Automaton Heart.

    The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Luke Vincent

Other recommendable Steam games by Luke Vincent, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Automaton Lung

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Automaton Heart.

    Another title from Luke Vincent, the studio behind Automaton Heart. Shares Action and Indie with Automaton Heart.

    Make use of your special abilities to skate, shoot, and fly through over 40 unique locations. In a strange land with almost no information you must be resourceful and clever. Question everything you see and trust nothing you hear.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Willful

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Luke Vincent, the studio behind Automaton Heart. Shares Adventure with Automaton Heart.

    Willful is a fast paced shooting/exploration game that takes place over ten worlds. Explore ruins, forests, other dimensions, and take down an evil organization as a small rabbit Will.

    2017Adventure3.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Harold's Walk

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Luke Vincent, the studio behind Automaton Heart. Shares Action and Indie with Automaton Heart.

    Harold's Walk on Steam is a remaster of the original Harold's Walk game that debuted on the Nintendo 3ds in 2020. Odd and unusual spaces comprise most of your journey as you venture through this surreal collectathon.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure8.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Gnome RTS

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Luke Vincent, the studio behind Automaton Heart. Shares Indie and RPG with Automaton Heart.

    Gnome RTS is a real-time strategy dungeon crawler where you direct a colony of gnomes and escape a cursed labrynth. Command Gnomes to clear out dungeons and discover hidden treasure while you slog your way through the underworld to retrieve the Boulder of Fate and save the forests above.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Automaton Heart

Is Automaton Heart verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — Automaton Heart is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
How much does Automaton Heart cost?
Automaton Heart is listed on Steam at 13.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Automaton Heart?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Automaton Heart are .45 PARABELLUM BLOODHOUND - Cyberpunk Active Time Action, CYBER92 DATAWAR, The Windzen Legend.
Who developed Automaton Heart?
Automaton Heart was developed by Luke Vincent.

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 Automaton Heart.

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