Games like Fish Lab
If Fish Lab is your kind of game, the closest matches are Null Ascent: Stellar, CQ: Calling Any Station and Project: C.E.L.L. — 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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Null Ascent: Stellar
WHY THIS
Top pick for Fish Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Fish Lab.
an incremental game built around one simple loop: hover, destroy, upgrade, ascend. You have a little helper drone, a garden and plenty of powerups to unlock
CQ: Calling Any Station
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Fish Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Fish Lab.
An idle/incremental game about a lone radio operator keying into a silent universe. Click or walk away, both work just as well. Build your station, log distant contacts, retune to grow stronger, and slowly decode what answers back.
Project: C.E.L.L.
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Fish Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Fish Lab.
An arcade incremental where you run cellular simulations for a megacorp obsessed with immortality. Break glucose, build combos, and spend ATP across a massive skill tree. Experiment with different glucose types, proteins, and lipids from your retro terminal.
Idle Tides
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Fish Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Fish Lab.
Idle Tides is an idle incremental where your goal is simple: Catch as many fish as you can. Unlock new boats to automate your fishing, upgrade your fleet, and help the island with this fish overpopulation!
Monslice
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Fish Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Fish Lab.
Monslice is a short incremental game about slicing monsters, collecting resources, expanding your skill tree, and unlocking and buying more monsters!
Loopquarium
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Fish Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Fish Lab.
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.
FishPond
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Fish Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Fish Lab.
Build a living pond where every fish has a unique genetic code. Breed for rare traits, balance oxygen and hunger, unlock new species, and watch your ecosystem compose its own soundtrack in real time. Part sim, part idle game, part science experiment gone beautifully wrong.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Fish Lab at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Fish Lab on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Fish Lab.
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 ~50% under Fish Lab on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Fish Lab.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~66% under Fish Lab on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Fish Lab.
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 ~75% under Fish Lab on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Fish Lab.
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 ~83% under Fish Lab on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Fish Lab.
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 ~50% under Fish Lab on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Fish Lab.
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!
Super Hexagon
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Fish Lab on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Fish Lab.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~66% under Fish Lab on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Fish Lab.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Fish Lab.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Fish Lab.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Fish Lab.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Fish Lab.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Fish Lab.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Fish Lab.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Fish Lab.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Fish Lab
- How much does Fish Lab cost?
- Fish Lab is listed on Steam at 5.94 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Fish Lab?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Fish Lab are Null Ascent: Stellar, CQ: Calling Any Station, Project: C.E.L.L..
- Who developed Fish Lab?
- Fish Lab was developed by stonecodes.
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