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Games like Zoomalia

If Zoomalia is your kind of game, the closest matches are Genetic Survivors, Orium and Loopquarium — 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.

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About Zoomalia: In a world conquered by Zealotory harvesters, Zoomalia’s survival rests in your hands. Build a team of over 100 unique creatures, then fuse, evolve, and mutate them into powerful forms. Adapt your strategy, destroy obelisks, and reclaim the planet in this strategic roguelite.

2027StrategyAdventureRPGCasualWindowsby Rhinosaur Gamez
Zoomalia — Steam game cover

Players who liked Zoomalia also play

Steam players who put hours into Zoomalia 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.

  1. Genetic Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Zoomalia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Zoomalia.

    Breed your strongest survivors and bend the rules of genetics to create the ultimate fighting bloodline. Discover powerful mutation combos, build synergistic teams, and evolve toward the genetic apex in this roguelite autobattler.

    ActionStrategyRPGSteam ↗
  2. Orium

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Zoomalia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Zoomalia.

    Aboard your ship, exterminate your enemies, exploit planets and weave your enterprise across the stars of a dying procedural galaxy. Orium is a Lovecraftian space roguelite, infused with streamlined 4X elements.

    2026ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  3. Loopquarium

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Zoomalia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Zoomalia.

    Loopquarium is an aquarium roguelite where you assemble a school of fish with unique abilities to repel invading apex predators. Start with a group of guppies, grow your population, and balance predator and prey to discover insane combos every run.

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  4. Aleef: Desktop Pet Collector

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Zoomalia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Zoomalia.

    Work, browse, or play other games while hatching eggs in the background! Collect 300+ pets with various stats, unlock powerful upgrades, and build your battle team.

    2026StrategyIndieRPGSteam ↗
  5. Janwar

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Zoomalia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Zoomalia.

    Janwar is a tactical auto battler in a roguelike format. Build your roster, level up your animals and find powerful synergies. Formidable enemies in themed biomes will challenge your strategy on the battle grid. A vast choice of unlockable animals, items and perks guarantee new strategies each run.

    2026StrategySteam ↗
  6. Apotheosis Engine

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Zoomalia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Zoomalia.

    An accident causes a lost space probe to become self aware. "Apotheosis engine" is a lore-rich incremental game. Grow from a piece of engineering into a galactic superdeity by navigating an alien OS.

    2026ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  7. Flowers and Deities

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Zoomalia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Zoomalia.

    Flowers and Deities is a strategy deckbuilder roguelite where you command a blood-soaked lizardkin army through escalating arena battles, spending every drop of spilled blood to cast spells, summon creatures, and survive long enough to claim the favor of the Gods

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation12.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Epochlings

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Zoomalia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Zoomalia.

    Collect, raise and fuse 99 creatures inspired by organisms that once lived on Earth. Journey across 11 ancient eras, build powerful teams, face an era boss at the end of each age and preserve your collection beyond extinction.

    2026StrategyIndieRPGSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Zoomalia.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Zoomalia.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. An Arcade Full of Cats

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Zoomalia.

    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.

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Control, I'm Not Coming Back

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Zoomalia.

    Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.

    2026IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  7. DORONKO WANKO

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Zoomalia.

    『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.

    2024ActionSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  8. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Zoomalia.

    Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Zoomalia

What games are most similar to Zoomalia?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Zoomalia are Genetic Survivors, Orium, Loopquarium.
Who developed Zoomalia?
Zoomalia was developed by Rhinosaur Gamez.

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 Zoomalia.

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