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Games like The Macro-Mines

If The Macro-Mines is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ember Fall, Homam: An Inventor's Fist and TWINSTAR 双星 — 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 The Macro-Mines: The Macro-Mines is a roguelite platformer where the world is governed by rules of  the iconic minesweeper. Explore, discover and face the different challenges this mine will present.

StrategyIndieAdventureWindowsby Under the Lab Soft
The Macro-Mines — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into The Macro-Mines 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. Ember Fall

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for The Macro-Mines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Macro-Mines.

    Step into the shoes of a lone wanderer in a ruined world, guarding the last ember of hope. Solve creative light-based puzzles, battle predators lurking in the shadows, and uncover the forgotten secrets of a broken land in this emotional platformer adventure.

    2025ActionStrategyIndie2.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Homam: An Inventor's Fist

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for The Macro-Mines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Macro-Mines.

    Experience a unique 2D pixel art platformer where satisfying pounding mechanics meet brain-teasing puzzles. Step into Homam’s shoes, a skilled hero with a powerful fist, and help the legendary inventor Al-Jazari on a time-traveling quest. Solve puzzles, and conquer challenges with agility and wit

    2025ActionStrategyIndie5.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. TWINSTAR 双星

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Macro-Mines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Macro-Mines.

    A sci-fi fantasy Metroidvania where you play as a vampire adrift in space. Awaken in a strange space lab, explore the station, solve puzzles, defeat enemies, find hidden rooms, collect odd items, awaken lost powers, and uncover a secret buried deep within.

    2027ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  4. Relic Light

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for The Macro-Mines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Macro-Mines.

    Relic Light is a pixel-style puzzle-action dungeon game. You will play as an explorer who arrives at the remaining ruins, explores to acquire various skills, solves the complex and diverse puzzles within, and discovers the ultimate secret of the ruins.

    IndieAdventureSteam ↗
  5. Super Roboy

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The Macro-Mines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Macro-Mines.

    Delve into the world of Super Roboy, a hand-drawn Metroidvania in a post-apocalyptic setting! Learn enemy skills, explore an interconnected world, battle mutants and robots, and uncover the emotional story of a young robot searching for his father.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Öoo

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for The Macro-Mines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Macro-Mines.

    A Bomb Caterpillar's Big Adventure! "Öoo" is a charming yet mysterious exploration puzzle platformer where you discover creative ways to use bombs!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. A Valley Without Wind 2

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for The Macro-Mines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Macro-Mines.

    A modern take on the 16-bit era, A Valley Without Wind 2 blends a variety of mechanics across multiple genres, seamlessly bringing together the best qualities of old-school platform-shooters and turn-based strategy games.

    2013ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Smelter

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for The Macro-Mines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Macro-Mines.

    You are Eve, fresh out of Eden and armed with a living suit of armor, Smelter. Explore a dangerous new world, battle its bizarre denizens and expand your empire in a desperate journey to find Adam.

    2021ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDSteam ↗

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 The Macro-Mines.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  3. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

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

    A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.

    2024IndieAdventureFree 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 The Macro-Mines.

    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 Indie and Adventure with The Macro-Mines.

    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. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Coloring Pixels

    WHY THIS

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

    A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.

    2018IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  8. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

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

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Macro-Mines

What games are most similar to The Macro-Mines?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Macro-Mines are Ember Fall, Homam: An Inventor's Fist, TWINSTAR 双星.
Who developed The Macro-Mines?
The Macro-Mines was developed by Under the Lab Soft.

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 The Macro-Mines.

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