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Games like Xeodrifter

If Xeodrifter is your kind of game, the closest matches are Juno's Darkest Hour, Cave Story+ and Mutant Mudds Deluxe — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and relaxing. 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 Xeodrifter: Xeodrifter is the story of an interstellar drifter traveling the stars on a simple mission of exploration. We join our nomad as he embarks on the investigation of a small cluster of four planets in the omega sector, after a collision with a rogue asteroid damaged his warp core.

2014ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Atooi
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Layer switching creates unique exploration opportunitiesMinimalist planet designs are memorable and distinctPixel art and soundtrack evoke nostalgiaAtmosphericChallengingRelaxing

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Steam players who put hours into Xeodrifter 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. Juno's Darkest Hour

    WHY THIS

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

    Juno’s Darkest Hour is a simple but challenging 2D action adventure platformer game inspired by the side-scrollers of the past. Explore the secrets of a vast monochromatic world. Will you succeed against all odds, or will you die over and over again?

    2016ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Cave Story+

    WHY THIS

    Shares weapon upgrade system and an atmospheric mood with Xeodrifter.

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

    Run, jump, shoot, fly and explore your way through a massive action-adventure reminiscent of classic 8- and 16-bit games.

    2011ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Mutant Mudds Deluxe

    WHY THIS

    Shares a retro mood with Xeodrifter.

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

    Love pixels? Fond of platformers? Is there a special place in your heart for the 8-bit and 16-bit era? Want to have fun? Yes!? Well, you’ve come to the right place, my friend. Mutant Mudds Deluxe is a “12-bit” action platformer full of pixels and platforming fun!

    2013ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Castle In The Darkness

    WHY THIS

    Shares a retro mood with Xeodrifter.

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

    Castle In The Darkness is a fun and challenging shout out to the early days of video games! It's an action exploration platformer with some RPG elements, much like games from the Castlevania or Metroid series. It's super fast-paced, challenging, and full of secrets!

    2015ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Gato Roboto

    WHY THIS

    Shares a retro mood with Xeodrifter.

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

    Pounce inside of your cozy armored mech and set off on a dangerous trek through an alien underworld full of irritable creatures and treacherous obstacles in a valiant effort to save your stranded captain and his crashed spaceship.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Axiom Verge

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Xeodrifter.

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

    Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.

    2015ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Aggelos

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Xeodrifter.

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

    Critically-acclaimed action-RPG that takes the template laid down by classics like Wonder Boy, nails the 16-Bit aesthetics for nostalgia fans, but updates the mechanics to feel fresh and modern. Explore a beautiful open world and plunder dungeons, caves and forests to help take down epic bosses!

    2018ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Odallus: The Dark Call

    WHY THIS

    Shares backtracking and an atmospheric mood with Xeodrifter.

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

    The old gods have forgotten this land. No one could save our people when darkness started spreading and collecting human souls for its army. Odallus is a classic exploration/action game, inspired by Ghosts’n Goblins, Demon’s Crest and Castlevania.

    2015ActionIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Xeodrifter on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Xeodrifter.

    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 ~50% under Xeodrifter on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Xeodrifter.

    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. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under Xeodrifter on Steam right now. Shares Action with Xeodrifter.

    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 ↗
  4. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Xeodrifter on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Xeodrifter.

    An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Xeodrifter on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Xeodrifter.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~90% under Xeodrifter on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Xeodrifter.

    Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Xeodrifter on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Xeodrifter.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Xeodrifter on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Xeodrifter.

    Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

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

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck 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 Xeodrifter.

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Awaria

    WHY THIS

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

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

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

    A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  6. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2016ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

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

    Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Atooi

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

  1. Mutant Mudds Deluxe

    WHY THIS

    Shares a retro mood with Xeodrifter.

    Another title from Atooi, the studio behind Xeodrifter. Shares Action and Indie with Xeodrifter.

    Love pixels? Fond of platformers? Is there a special place in your heart for the 8-bit and 16-bit era? Want to have fun? Yes!? Well, you’ve come to the right place, my friend. Mutant Mudds Deluxe is a “12-bit” action platformer full of pixels and platforming fun!

    2013ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Dementium: The Ward

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Xeodrifter.

    Another title from Atooi, the studio behind Xeodrifter. Shares Action and Indie with Xeodrifter.

    Classic DS horror reborn. Awaken in an abandoned hospital with no memory, no escape and unspeakable horrors lurking in the dark. The horror classic Dementium: The Ward returns, enhanced for 4K display and Steam Deck Verified, where every shadow hides a new threat, and every corridor a new nightmare.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Mutant Mudds Super Challenge

    WHY THIS

    Shares a retro mood with Xeodrifter.

    Another title from Atooi, the studio behind Xeodrifter. Shares Action and Indie with Xeodrifter.

    Here comes a challenge! Mutant Mudds Super Challenge!! Over 40 levels filled with malicious mutant mudds. This adventure is designed for super players; featuring a host of new platforming challenges and unique boss fights that will test your skills.

    2016ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Xeodrifter

Does Xeodrifter run on Steam Deck?
Xeodrifter is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Xeodrifter cost?
Xeodrifter is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Xeodrifter?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Xeodrifter are Juno's Darkest Hour, Cave Story+, Mutant Mudds Deluxe.
Who developed Xeodrifter?
Xeodrifter was developed by Atooi.

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 Xeodrifter.

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