Games like Pathogenic
If Pathogenic is your kind of game, the closest matches are SUPER DEBT, Sundered Soul: Chains of the Undying and Animal Rogues — 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.
Players who liked Pathogenic also play
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
WHY THIS
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.
Animal Rogues
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Pathogenic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pathogenic.
Animal Rogues is a dark rogue-lite dungeon crawler bullet-hell with rpg elements. You play as an animal who fights against one possessed beast after another! Discover unique interactable objects such as slot machines, dices.. Collect magical items and level up to become more and more powerful!
Wartheon
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Pathogenic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pathogenic.
Wartheon is a fast-paced 2D roguelike adventure set in a world on the brink of elemental collapse. Take control of one of four unique champions to match your taste. Customize your build, master your skills, and adapt to ever-changing layouts and enemy patterns.
Another Castle
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Pathogenic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pathogenic.
Sick of playing the "Damsel in Distress" Princess Peta ventures into an ever-changing Castle filled with gun wielding cult members, mysterious secrets and a whole heap of items to help boost her firepower. Another Castle is a fast-paced, challenging dungeon-crawling roguelike shooter.
HyperParasite
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 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.
Zombie Party
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Pathogenic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pathogenic.
Zombie Party is a retro rampage of fun and over-the-top action, while still giving the players a deep and engaging Action-RPG Rogue-like experience! Go on a time traveling adventure, or delve deep into procedural dungeons full of gold, loot, and secrets!
ATOMINE
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Pathogenic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pathogenic.
Atomine is a twin stick procedural shooter rogue-lite set in a virtual world with minimalist design, where the player recounts on the screen the real events of STUXNET, the first weapon ever created in the form of computer virus.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Pathogenic at current Steam store prices.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Pathogenic on Steam right now. Shares Action with Pathogenic.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Pathogenic on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Pathogenic.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Pathogenic on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Pathogenic.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Pathogenic on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pathogenic.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Pathogenic on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pathogenic.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~81% under Pathogenic on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pathogenic.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Pathogenic on Steam right now. Shares Action with Pathogenic.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Pathogenic on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Pathogenic.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Pathogenic.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
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
- Is Pathogenic verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Pathogenic is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Pathogenic cost?
- Pathogenic is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- 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, Animal Rogues.
- 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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