Games like Pathogenic
If Pathogenic is your kind of game, the closest matches are SUPER DEBT, Sundered Soul: Chains of the Undying and PUNK — 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 Pathogenic: You are a disease. Infect the human body as a lone pathogen in this cellular roguelike shooter. Collect organelles to evolve your parasite in a microscopic arms race against your host's immune system. Conquer a beautiful, procedurally generated world of tiny proportions.
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Steam players who put hours into Pathogenic 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.
SUPER DEBT
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Top pick for Pathogenic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pathogenic.
Money is your life in SUPER DEBT! Fight to survive with an arsenal of wildly different weapons and upgrades. In this intense and challenging Twin-Stick Bullet-Hell Roguelike everything costs money, and we mean everything!
Sundered Soul: Chains of the Undying
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Pathogenic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pathogenic.
Sundered Soul: Chains of the Undying is a fast-paced twin-stick action roguelite focused on manual aiming, dodging, and skill-based combat. Choose from 9 distinct classes with unique playstyles. Fight to break an eternal curse—where every victory is earned and every mistake is lethal.
PUNK
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Pathogenic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pathogenic.
PUNK is an open world bullet hell action roguelike. Fight vicious creatures, explore diverse biomes, hone your movement skills, manage resources, tinker with weapons and gadgets to upgrade your tiny ship until you become the apex predator of this strange, alien world.
HyperParasite
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Ranked #4 for Pathogenic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pathogenic.
A rogue-lite twin-stick shooter/brawler that never plays the same twice. Collect and control 60 different characters as the body-snatching alien Parasite with a grudge against humanity. Fight to the top of the food chain: possess the President, push the Big Red Button and one-up the human race.
Genome Guardian 2
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Ranked #5 for Pathogenic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pathogenic.
COMBINE WEAPONS in the microscopic shooter with macroscopic depth. BUILD YOUR NANOBOT from hundreds of parts. SURVIVE the microbial onslaught once more in this psychedelic dive to the Abyss, full of mutations, minerals, anomalies and powerup polyps. SHMUP mode turns it into a vertical shoot 'em up!
Mega City Force
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Ranked #6 for Pathogenic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pathogenic.
Retrowave Action Roguelike featuring tough agents battling crime to the electrifying music of artists like Droid Bishop, Timecop1983, and more! Choose your agent and dive into hardcore action against enemies and bosses, utilizing a vast arsenal and special abilities that will define your playstyle
Legend of Dungeon
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Ranked #7 for Pathogenic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pathogenic.
Legend of Dungeon is a randomly generated action RPG Beat'em'up with heavy Rogue-like elements, striking visuals, and dynamic music.
Dungeon Souls
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Ranked #8 for Pathogenic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pathogenic.
Dungeon Souls is an action-adventure roguelike dungeon crawler which draws heavy inspiration from Nuclear Throne, Risk of Rain, and Overture. Explore vast procedurally generated dungeons, collect loot, and slay hordes of challenging enemies!
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Pathogenic.
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Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pathogenic.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Pathogenic.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Pathogenic.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Pathogenic.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Pathogenic.
A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!
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Frequently asked about Pathogenic
- Does Pathogenic have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Pathogenic supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Pathogenic?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Pathogenic are SUPER DEBT, Sundered Soul: Chains of the Undying, PUNK.
- Who developed Pathogenic?
- Pathogenic was developed by Aberrant Labs and published by Slug Disco.
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 Pathogenic.
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