Games like Purranoia
If Purranoia is your kind of game, the closest matches are Chronoseum, Starwhisker and Schooled — 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 Purranoia: Purranoia is an action roguelike with a twist: you don’t control movement. Instead, you wield powerful scientific inventions to protect the frightened cat Mousti from waves of questionably designed robots and hostile lab creations.
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Steam players who put hours into Purranoia 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.
Chronoseum
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Top pick for Purranoia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Purranoia.
An action roguelite where you fight through arenas and unlock epic upgrades! Defeat the Bosses and challenge the Emperor. Die, upgrade, die and descend again.
Starwhisker
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Second-strongest match for Purranoia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Purranoia.
Magic cats in space fighting aliens. Light is your weapon, and the Void is hungry. Shift between wavelengths of light, discover powerful upgrades. Help Luma, the last Starwhisker restore hope to a universe being consumed by darkness.
Schooled
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Third-strongest match for Purranoia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Purranoia.
SCHOOLED is a bullet-heaven survivors-like where you collect real chemical elements to spell words and manifest elemental powers. Youre the nerd against the jocks and it's finally your time. Fight escalating waves of jocks with your superior intellect, a lot of chemistry, and pure ingenuity.
Demoman
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Ranked #4 for Purranoia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Purranoia.
Demoman is a 3D top-down arena survival roguelite about a retired soldier who was perfectly happy living out his days with his cat, General Meow — until an alien invasion ruined everything. Now he's dusting off old skills, upgrading his arsenal, learning new tricks, and leveling entire city blocks.
Chrome Survivor
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Ranked #5 for Purranoia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Purranoia.
In this bullet heaven roguelite combine weapons into powerful evolutions, collect items to enhance your runs, equip and craft powerful cybernetic augments that change the way you play. Can you complete a 9 modded nightmare difficulty run and become John Cyberpunk?
Decked Out
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Ranked #6 for Purranoia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Purranoia.
It is a 2D Rouge Like Deck Builder, where you need to open packs to gain more cards to use in your own run! Be aware as difficult enemies are there. Do not worry or give up, you will start winning slowly, and maybe not in your first turn!
Afterwork Apocalypse
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Ranked #7 for Purranoia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Purranoia.
A horde-survival roguelite in a cursed office tower. Weaponise the stapler, the hot coffee and the all-hands microphone, keep your panicking colleagues from quitting mid-fight, and ride the elevator up floor by floor. Overtime is not optional.
POLYMORPH
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Ranked #8 for Purranoia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Purranoia.
You are a cancerous pathogen. Mutate into endless builds, annihilate antibody swarms, and spread at all costs through procedurally generated host vessels.
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Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Purranoia.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Purranoia.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 with Purranoia.
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Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Purranoia.
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!
An Arcade Full of Cats
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
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Frequently asked about Purranoia
- What games are most similar to Purranoia?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Purranoia are Chronoseum, Starwhisker, Schooled.
- Who developed Purranoia?
- Purranoia was developed by Eerie Veery.
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 Purranoia.
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