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Games like Heart Of Squid

If Heart Of Squid is your kind of game, the closest matches are Disaster Island, Hell Division and Laboratory of Nightmares — 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.

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About Heart Of Squid: Returning from vacation, he finds that the island has been invaded by workers who plan to cut down all the trees and blow up the island. Not agreeing with this decision, Grandpa decides to engage in an unequal battle to defend his home.

2024ActionIndieAdventureSimulation0.99 USDWindowsby GiBar
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Players who liked Heart Of Squid also play

Steam players who put hours into Heart Of Squid 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. Disaster Island

    WHY THIS

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

    Disaster Island is a unique survival based game, where you have to accomplish missions on abandoned island. But It's not gonna be easy, its not ordinary island. You will be confronted by natural disasters and numerous hidden dangers.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Hell Division

    WHY THIS

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

    Hell Division is a game from the 3rd person, which is a battle of combat drones.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure13.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Laboratory of Nightmares

    WHY THIS

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

    You are one of the best fighters of the GIBAR unit, and therefore you were sent to destroy a secret laboratory guarded by armed soldiers. This is a dynamic game with a top view in which you have to survive in a secret laboratory and find a way out of it.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. No Road Home

    WHY THIS

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

    Post-Apocalyptic Open World Survival. The bombs fell. The world didn't survive — but some people did. Now mutants haunt the ruins and raiders rule what's left. You have a car, a few bullets, and one mission: bring the survivors back together.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  5. Sniper Road

    WHY THIS

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

    This game can test your sniper abilities. Enemy detection, distance calculation, and precise aiming skills are essential. Kill all the hidden enemy snipers and reach the destination!

    2021ActionIndieSimulation0.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Lost Island

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Heart Of Squid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heart Of Squid.

    Trapped on an Island. Find items to survive and finish missions

    2022IndieAdventureSimulation4.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. For another day

    WHY THIS

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

    Start to play in the open world to master the game! For another day is a new world that need to be discovered from scratch by you.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure11.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Cloudborn

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Heart Of Squid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heart Of Squid.

    A high-speed Ace-style roguelike aerial action game. Fly through an endless world and experience fast, arcade-style dogfights in the sky. Upgrade your abilities and build powerful combos. Every battle is massive, every location is procedurally generated, and every encounter is a spectacular showdown

    ActionSportsStrategySteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. UBERMOSH

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Heart Of Squid on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Heart Of Squid.

    UBERMOSH is an arcade game about cutting bullets with a sword, in a gun-filled cyberpunk mosh pit.

    2015ActionIndie0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Miss Neko

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Heart Of Squid on Steam right now. Shares Action with Heart Of Squid.

    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:)

    2019ActionCasual0.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. QUICKERFLAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Heart Of Squid on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Heart Of Squid.

    QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Save Jesus

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Heart Of Squid on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heart Of Squid.

    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!

    2016IndieCasual0.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Barro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Heart Of Squid on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heart Of Squid.

    Choose your little car and race!

    2018IndieCasualRacing0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Gachi Heroes

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Heart Of Squid on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Heart Of Squid.

    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?

    2018ActionIndieAdventure0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Trip to Vinelands

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Heart Of Squid on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Heart Of Squid.

    Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.

    2016ActionIndie0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. TTV2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Heart Of Squid on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Heart Of Squid.

    TTV2 is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame, sequel to Trip to Vinelands.

    2017ActionIndie0.49 USDSteam ↗

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 Heart Of Squid.

    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. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. 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 Heart Of Squid.

    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 ↗
  5. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  6. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

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

    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.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗

More from GiBar

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

  1. Degrees

    WHY THIS

    Another title from GiBar, the studio behind Heart Of Squid.

    Degrees - racing game with two modes: single and multiplayer mode for 4 players. With a view from above, you control the victim machine on the map, which is pursued by hunters. Escape them and hide in the bushes, so it will be harder for them to find you.

    2018Racing0.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Underwater hunting

    WHY THIS

    Another title from GiBar, the studio behind Heart Of Squid. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heart Of Squid.

    Underwater hunting: Plunge into the underwater world. Your character-a small fish piranha. The glory of these river predators is truly black - river killers, bloodthirsty robbers, river hyenas, sharks. And she always wants to eat.

    2018IndieAdventureRPG0.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Wunderwaffe

    WHY THIS

    Another title from GiBar, the studio behind Heart Of Squid. Shares Action and Indie with Heart Of Squid.

    Wunderwaffe - a game of tanks with a view from above. There are three game modes (team battle for killing, each for himself for killing, capturing a flag) in this game. Also the game is on the same computer.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Oil Baron

    WHY THIS

    Another title from GiBar, the studio behind Heart Of Squid. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heart Of Squid.

    The game has 7 locations with special tasks. You must fulfill them until the end of the day. It can be used to collect N amount of oil or earn several thousand $. To start playing, you need to choose the complexity of the game. There are 5 difficulty levels (easy-normal-difficult-very complicated-insane).

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Oops!!! Puzzles!!!

    WHY THIS

    Another title from GiBar, the studio behind Heart Of Squid. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heart Of Squid.

    We offer you a puzzle game. The meaning of the game – making a mosaic pattern that you want to add up from a variety of fragments of different shapes. The greatest interest in this game will cause thrill-seekers, as it contains scary pictures (horror).

    2019IndieAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Laboratory of Nightmares

    WHY THIS

    Another title from GiBar, the studio behind Heart Of Squid. Shares Action and Indie with Heart Of Squid.

    You are one of the best fighters of the GIBAR unit, and therefore you were sent to destroy a secret laboratory guarded by armed soldiers. This is a dynamic game with a top view in which you have to survive in a secret laboratory and find a way out of it.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Base Dune

    WHY THIS

    Another title from GiBar, the studio behind Heart Of Squid. Shares Action and Adventure with Heart Of Squid.

    Base Dune 3D is a first-person shooter in which you have to go through a large secret laboratory destroying enemies. You can simply move around the game world and shoot the weapons that are given in the game.

    2021ActionAdventure0.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. MOLOGA

    WHY THIS

    Another title from GiBar, the studio behind Heart Of Squid. Shares Action with Heart Of Squid.

    Description: in 1935, the leadership of the USSR decided to build a new reservoir in one of the regions of the republic. Almost all people left villages and towns, but some refused to leave their homes.

    2021Action0.99 USDSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Heart Of Squid

How much does Heart Of Squid cost?
Heart Of Squid is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Heart Of Squid?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Heart Of Squid are Disaster Island, Hell Division, Laboratory of Nightmares.
Who developed Heart Of Squid?
Heart Of Squid was developed by GiBar and published by RoBot.

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 Heart Of Squid.

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