Games like Malón
If Malón is your kind of game, the closest matches are Thronefall, Vasterra and Pelikeeper — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and tense. 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 Malón: From the plains in the Pampas to the most hostile places in the untamed Patagonia: Manage your own frontier outpost, build new structures, train soldiers, and survive relentless attacks from the enemy.
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Steam players who put hours into Malón 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.
Thronefall
WHY THIS
Shares tower defense, resource management and a challenging mood with Malón.
Top pick for Malón fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Malón.
A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.
Vasterra
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Malón fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Malón.
Enter the world of Helheim and build your village on a desolate island in the underworld of Norse mythology. Improve and maintain your village by gathering resources and defending it from enemy attacks. Can you thrive in the realm of the dead?
Pelikeeper
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Malón fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Malón.
Pelikeeper is a tower defense & base building comfort-strategy game where you play as the last pelican in a world swallowed by a shadowy fog. Build up and defend the settlement around your lighthouse, rescue lost animal neighbors, and return constellations to the cosmos.
Towers & Goblins: The Last Stand
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Malón fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Malón.
Build towers, manage resources, and lead units to defend your kingdom against goblins. Every decision you make determines your kingdom's fate.
Stormbridge
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Malón fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Malón.
Can you build the longest bridge before the storm catches up? Stormbridge is a roguelite city builder about growth, survival, and watching everything fall apart. Stay ahead of the danger, unlock upgrades between runs, and uncover the storm’s origin.
Tiny Kings
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Malón fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Malón.
Tiny Kings is the whimsical medieval base builder where your dreams of building and managing a pint-sized kingdom come true! Unleash your inner ruler and build your kingdom, manage your citizens' tasks, and dominate the siege to become the ultimate ruler.
BEACONFALL
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Malón fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Malón.
A fast-paced tower defense strategy with settlement management. Build, assign villagers, empower the lighthouse, and keep the light alive until the final wave.
Ash & Adam's Existential Treads
WHY THIS
Shares tower defense, wave based survival and an atmospheric mood with Malón.
Ranked #8 for Malón fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Malón.
A mini action city-builder in a post-post-apocalyptic world. Grow your settlement. Fend off waves of enemies. Restore nature.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Malón at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Malón on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Malón.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Malón on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Malón.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Malón on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Malón.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Malón on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Malón.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Malón on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Malón.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Malón on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Malón.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Malón on Steam right now. Shares Action with Malón.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Malón on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Malón.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Malón.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 Malón.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Malón.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Malón.
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.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Malón.
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.
The Lab
WHY THIS
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!
An Arcade Full of Cats
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Malón.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Casual with Malón.
『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.
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Frequently asked about Malón
- Does Malón run on Steam Deck?
- Malón 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 Malón cost?
- Malón is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Malón?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Malón are Thronefall, Vasterra, Pelikeeper.
- Who developed Malón?
- Malón was developed by LTP Argentina.
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 Malón.
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