Games like Contagion Protocol
If Contagion Protocol is your kind of game, the closest matches are Glowlings, Squadika and Police Heroes — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Contagion Protocol: Survive an endless undead horde in this brutal auto-battling roguelike. Slash, upgrade, and evolve your arsenal as chaos unfolds to the pulse of an industrial metal soundtrack. Contagion Protocol is fast, bloody, and built for replayability.
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Steam players who put hours into Contagion Protocol 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.
Glowlings
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Top pick for Contagion Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Contagion Protocol.
Deepdive in a top-down rougelite and defend yourself as a Glowling against the machines that have come to life. Collect the Scrap from you dead enemys to build new items and weapons. Find new ways to combine your character, items and weapons to develope powerful synergys.
Squadika
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Second-strongest match for Contagion Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Contagion Protocol.
Top-down arena shooter roguelite where Steam friends & Twitch chatters become your power. Control a squad, survive relentless waves and defeat powerful bosses. Compete on leaderboards! Bullet hell Brotato-like with wild builds, random events & high replayability.
Police Heroes
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Third-strongest match for Contagion Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Contagion Protocol.
Use multiple heroes, each with their own choices, abilities and play style to defeat the zombie apocalypse! Play several stages in different locations, against hordes of increasingly stronger and more dangerous zombies. All this with a unique mechanic where damage equals money!
Pay To Slay
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Ranked #4 for Contagion Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Contagion Protocol.
Survive endless zombie hordes, unlock devastating weapons, craft powerful synergies with drinks and tarot cards, defeat deadly bosses, and compete for the top spot on the online leaderboards.
Horde Sweepers
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Ranked #5 for Contagion Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Contagion Protocol.
Horde Sweepers is a dynamic Rogue-lite action game built on speed, movement, and shooting. Blast through hordes of mutants while expertly weaving between enemies. Collect powerful weapon and upgrade combos. Cleanse the city of the infestation — one sweep at a time!
Rotten Survivor
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Ranked #6 for Contagion Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Contagion Protocol.
Fight massive hordes of bizarre zombies! Start with an axe and upgrade to a bazooka, equip a rifle and a katana, or a machine gun and a grenade launcher. Create your own play style and become an unstoppable force! But the question is... Are YOU stuck with THEM, or are THEY stuck with YOU?
NO LIFE: Zombie Survivor
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Ranked #7 for Contagion Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Contagion Protocol.
NO LIFE: Zombie Survivor is a brutal survival roguelite where you’ll face endless hordes of relentless zombies. Choose your survivor and weapons, each with unique abilities and playstyles, and gear up for increasingly intense battles against the undead.
FatalZone: Outbreak
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Ranked #8 for Contagion Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Contagion Protocol.
Outbreak is the demo version of FatalZone, a bullet heaven zombie apocalypse shooter where you'll have to upgrade your base, hone your mercs' skills, and put them to the test to survive.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Contagion Protocol.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Contagion Protocol.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Contagion Protocol.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Contagion Protocol.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Contagion Protocol.
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.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Contagion Protocol.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Contagion Protocol.
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.
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Frequently asked about Contagion Protocol
- What games are most similar to Contagion Protocol?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Contagion Protocol are Glowlings, Squadika, Police Heroes.
- Who developed Contagion Protocol?
- Contagion Protocol was developed by Para Interactive.
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 Contagion Protocol.
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