Games like Plague Genesis
If Plague Genesis is your kind of game, the closest matches are CHERNO, Krimson and Sibylline — 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 Plague Genesis: A night in the forest becomes a fight for survival. Face brutal creatures, explore disturbing places, and uncover the experiments and secrets hidden behind the GENOCYTE Corporation in this 2D pixel-art survival horror.
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CHERNO
WHY THIS
Top pick for Plague Genesis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Plague Genesis.
Escape game where it is necessary to collect the clues to obtain the key and thus level up until you leave the building without being touched by the Russian experiments that seek to devour you. Show your ingenuity to look for clues in the dark and your agility to dodge the experiments' attacks.
Krimson
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Plague Genesis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Plague Genesis.
Krimson is a challenging gritty rhythm platformer featuring heavy electronic metal music. You're an unknown spawn going through a hellish world as it moves rhythmically to the music. One wrong move means death but the checkpoints are often and death is very short.
Sibylline
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Plague Genesis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Plague Genesis.
An amnesia patient wakes up in a locked room. An insomniac watches the world end. An arcane text only visible via projectors and sleep deprivation. Use your mic to give life to the story. Cleanse the corruption and navigate your way to the last chapter to learn the secrets of the Sibylline.
Hormones of the Dead
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Ranked #4 for Plague Genesis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Plague Genesis.
Prim is a trans woman trying to survive the zombie apocalypse. All she wants are her hormones, all the zombies want is to turn her into one of them. Can Prim remain herself? Hormones of the Dead is a ZOMBIE ACTION RPG by Taylor Mccue!
EndlessHorde
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Ranked #5 for Plague Genesis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Plague Genesis.
An Unreal Engine powered side-scrolling action game with visceral zombie combat. Scavenge loot, upgrade your character at camp, and survive endless hordes solo or in local two-player co-op with friends.
Pixel Punch
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Ranked #6 for Plague Genesis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Plague Genesis.
Travel in a Bus, and collect powerful guitar stakes that give you (magic?) powers. Use your music to fight the bad guys, and complete contracts for a Mysterious Limousine Man, your ominous boss pursuing his own cryptic agenda as you paint the world with funky tunes!
SiNiSistar Lite Version
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Ranked #7 for Plague Genesis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Plague Genesis.
A simple 2D action game centered on themes of masochistic tendencies, yearning for death, as well as despair at being attacked by terrifying beings.
Bouncy Bob
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Ranked #8 for Plague Genesis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Plague Genesis.
Simple experimental one button local multiplayer game. Perfect for parties with friends (up to 4 people on 1 keyboard). It also has a single mode in which you jump on platforms and use double jumps and multiple power-ups to defeat the army of the undead!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Plague Genesis.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
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 Plague Genesis.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Plague Genesis.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Plague Genesis.
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 Plague Genesis.
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 and Adventure with Plague Genesis.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Plague Genesis.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Plague Genesis.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Plague Genesis
- What games are most similar to Plague Genesis?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Plague Genesis are CHERNO, Krimson, Sibylline.
- Who developed Plague Genesis?
- Plague Genesis was developed by Breno Augusto and published by BRN_STUDIOS.
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 Plague Genesis.
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