Games like Sub-Species
If Sub-Species is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sleeper Agent, SpinZap and Energy Fighters — 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 Sub-Species: At first the alien outbreak spreading throughout the oceans was confined. We delayed our extinction rather than avert it. As part of a salvage crew, you search the hellish containment zones, where a treasure trove of lost tech can help you and your crew eke out a living in a slowly dying world.
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Steam players who put hours into Sub-Species 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.
Sleeper Agent
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Top pick for Sub-Species fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Sub-Species.
Sleeper Agent is a top-down, couch co-op where you play as two mischievous aliens with unique abilities, JUMBO and SLIM, tethered together as they drag along the unconscious body of a secret agent! THRASH, STUMBLE, and SMASH your way through the levels! Oh! And be sure not to wake the agent..
SpinZap
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Second-strongest match for Sub-Species fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Sub-Species.
SpinZap is a challenging game in classic arcade style. Use your reflexes, dexterity and boss skills to conquer 81 levels of circle zapping madness.
Energy Fighters
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Third-strongest match for Sub-Species fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Sub-Species.
A modern retro inspired side scrolling shooter with a deep upgrade system and the ability to absorb enemy fire and also deflect it back to your enemies. A fast paced shooter that can be played solo or local co-op with 12 difficulty modes and lots of boss battles.
Debris Infinity
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Ranked #4 for Sub-Species fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Sub-Species.
Be elusive! Be intense! Be constant! Put your reflexes to the limit, manipulating time itself to make impossible maneuvers, using an advance scoring system to rank your performance!
FullBlast
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Ranked #5 for Sub-Species fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Sub-Species.
Blast your way through waves of alien invaders in this retro style shooter with modern visuals. Collect power ups, destroy the enemy ships and defeat the mega bosses in 12 action packed levels. On your own or with a friend in local co-op mode.
God's Trigger
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Ranked #6 for Sub-Species fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Sub-Species.
Slay enemies with speed and precision in an over-the-top show of blood and explosions. Play solo or with others, make split-second decisions, dodge bullets, and use weapons and abilities to inflict violence in the most graphic way possible.
Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef
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Ranked #7 for Sub-Species fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Sub-Species.
From the developers of the Guns, Gore and Cannoli franchise comes a new 2D run & gun platformer: Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & TEEF! Spearhead an Ork invasion, destroy the hive city and kill your warboss! ‘Ere we go!
Rad Rodgers - Radical Edition
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Ranked #8 for Sub-Species fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Sub-Species.
Bringing back the 90's-era PC platformer with a game inspired by classics like Commander Keen, Conker, Ruff'n'Tumble & Jazz Jackrabbit.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Sub-Species.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Sub-Species.
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 Adventure with Sub-Species.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Sub-Species.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Sub-Species.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Sub-Species.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
The Lab
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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!
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Frequently asked about Sub-Species
- Does Sub-Species have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Sub-Species supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Sub-Species?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Sub-Species are Sleeper Agent, SpinZap, Energy Fighters.
- Who developed Sub-Species?
- Sub-Species was developed by Howling Hamster Entertainment.
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 Sub-Species.
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