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Games like MICRO-ZOO

If MICRO-ZOO is your kind of game, the closest matches are Gniewomir, Astral Arena and Of Grit & Graves — 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 MICRO-ZOO: MICRO-ZOO is a Creature Creating, Dungeon Crawling, Base Building, Turn-Base Battler. Create and Evolve your Creatures/Micro-Morphs from Parts that you gather from Rogue-lite Dives. Customize your Base with Decorations to boost your Micro-Morphs to go deeper into the games Biomes.

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MICRO-ZOO — Steam game cover

Players who liked MICRO-ZOO also play

Steam players who put hours into MICRO-ZOO 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. Gniewomir

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for MICRO-ZOO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with MICRO-ZOO.

    Open-world RPG with deck-building elements allowing you to combat weird enemies in a weird world where you play as weird characters. Go punch a dog for being ugly, or a stork for being horny. You can even punch a dinosaur!

    2027StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Astral Arena

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for MICRO-ZOO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with MICRO-ZOO.

    Monster Taming meets Rogue-Lite Real-Time Combat! Build your team of Astrals and customize their skills with the modular ability system!

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  3. Of Grit & Graves

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for MICRO-ZOO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with MICRO-ZOO.

    A roguelite turn-based tactical RPG inspired by classic tabletop dungeon crawlers, where strategic thinking meets the thrill of the dice. Command your party in tense tactical grid combat across seven perilous realms to destroy the prismatic dragon and end the curse.

    StrategyIndieRPGSteam ↗
  4. Runes of the Abyss

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for MICRO-ZOO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with MICRO-ZOO.

    A turn-based roguelike with JRPG-style combat where the heroes are the reason the world is dying — and they don’t even realize it.

    StrategyIndieRPGSteam ↗
  5. 黑暗之手

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for MICRO-ZOO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with MICRO-ZOO.

    在灰烬废墟中组建三人小队,用卡牌改写命运。速度决定生死,应对逆转战局。搜打撤,重写那本破碎的书。

    2026StrategyIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗
  6. Pocket Pawns

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for MICRO-ZOO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with MICRO-ZOO.

    Catch wild chess pieces by solving checkmate puzzles, build your team and explore nine towns in a chess RPG. Collect 272 pieces and 589 boards, learn with 202 lessons, and challenge six Club Masters on your way to the World Championship.

    StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  7. Memento Resonance

    WHY THIS

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

    Forge a Resonance with enemy monsters and welcome them into your party. Equip their skills with relics to shape your own battle style, then climb an ever-changing tower as you follow the trail of lost memories in this monster-collecting roguelite turn-based strategy game.

    2026StrategyIndieRPGSteam ↗
  8. Spellk

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for MICRO-ZOO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with MICRO-ZOO.

    Spell a word. Smash an enemy. Turn random letters into attacks and stack strange items into ridiculous builds. Make rare letters hit harder or long words pay off in this turn-based word-combat roguelite, solo or with up to three friends in online co-op.

    RPGEarly AccessSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. 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 MICRO-ZOO.

    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. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

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

    Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

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

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeSteam ↗
  6. There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015

    WHY THIS

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

    A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Paper Lily - Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

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

    Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.

    2024IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. 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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about MICRO-ZOO

What games are most similar to MICRO-ZOO?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside MICRO-ZOO are Gniewomir, Astral Arena, Of Grit & Graves.
Who developed MICRO-ZOO?
MICRO-ZOO was developed by Prismatix-.

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 MICRO-ZOO.

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