Games like Embryogenesis
If Embryogenesis is your kind of game, the closest matches are Shattered Ninja, Anzu Castle Gracula and Salt and Sacrifice — 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 Embryogenesis: Discover what has become of humanity after corporations were allowed to go too far and Artificial Superintelligence has done its damage. Embryogenesis is a multiplayer twin-stick metroidvania. Stay together or split up. Explore the remnants of the world and save humanity. Or, perhaps, not.
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Steam players who put hours into Embryogenesis 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.
Shattered Ninja
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Top pick for Embryogenesis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Embryogenesis.
A Super Ninja-themed Game That Has “Metroidvania” Core Experience, The World Fell Into Wasteland And Chaos With Unknown Reasons， Rebirthed With Bio-Technology called Katana - 007 , Will Fight Against Evil Mechanical Lifeform Under The Guidance Of Master Ninja，Collect The Lost Advanced Ninjutsu。
Anzu Castle Gracula
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Second-strongest match for Embryogenesis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Embryogenesis.
Locked away in a lost corner of the world lies a ruin where the dead refuse to rest. Using your wits and your treacherous whip can you discover the secrets interred within this QBASIC action/adventure?
Salt and Sacrifice
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Third-strongest match for Embryogenesis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Embryogenesis.
Join your fellow Marked Inquisitors in this online coop successor to award-winning 2016 Soulslike Salt and Sanctuary.
Angel's Gear
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Ranked #4 for Embryogenesis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Embryogenesis.
Angel's Gear is a challenging horror-flavored Metroidvania set in a world tainted by a mechanical disease.
Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider
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Ranked #5 for Embryogenesis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Embryogenesis.
Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider is a side-scrolling action platformer that channels the golden age of classic 16-bit action games in a full-throttle quest for revenge. Created to defend a totalitarian state, the Moonrider rejects its programming and now seeks vengeance on its creators.
Curse of the Sea Rats
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Ranked #6 for Embryogenesis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Embryogenesis.
Embark on an epic, hand-animated, ‘ratoidvania’ adventure, where your crew has been turned into rats by a pirate witch! Explore a rich non-linear world, enjoy fun action platforming, face challenging bosses, and unlock unique abilities - either alone or in local co-op!
Hacktag
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Ranked #7 for Embryogenesis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Embryogenesis.
Hacktag is a fast-paced two-player co-op stealth-game with unique asymmetric gameplay. Play as the stealth Agent in the field or as the virtually-infiltrated Hacker and work together to carry out espionage missions where nothing goes as expected!
Recompile
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Ranked #8 for Embryogenesis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Embryogenesis.
This atmospheric, Metroidvania hacking adventure lets you take control of a semi-sapient program struggling against deletion. In the sprawling 3D world of a Mainframe, Recompile features intense combat, tight 3D platforming, super-powered abilities and an environmental logic-based hacking mechanic.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Embryogenesis.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Embryogenesis.
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 Embryogenesis.
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 Indie with Embryogenesis.
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 Indie with Embryogenesis.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Embryogenesis.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Embryogenesis.
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There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Embryogenesis.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Salt and Sacrifice
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Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Embryogenesis.
Join your fellow Marked Inquisitors in this online coop successor to award-winning 2016 Soulslike Salt and Sanctuary.
Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Embryogenesis.
Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider is a side-scrolling action platformer that channels the golden age of classic 16-bit action games in a full-throttle quest for revenge. Created to defend a totalitarian state, the Moonrider rejects its programming and now seeks vengeance on its creators.
Recompile
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Embryogenesis.
This atmospheric, Metroidvania hacking adventure lets you take control of a semi-sapient program struggling against deletion. In the sprawling 3D world of a Mainframe, Recompile features intense combat, tight 3D platforming, super-powered abilities and an environmental logic-based hacking mechanic.
Frequently asked about Embryogenesis
- Does Embryogenesis have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Embryogenesis supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Embryogenesis?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Embryogenesis are Shattered Ninja , Anzu Castle Gracula, Salt and Sacrifice.
- Who developed Embryogenesis?
- Embryogenesis was developed by Pilose Picaroon Projects, LLC.
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 Embryogenesis.
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