Games like Negative Time
If Negative Time is your kind of game, the closest matches are Grid Demon, Star Scrap and LOCUS PROTOCOL — 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 Negative Time: Negative Time is a top-down shooter with bullet hell and roguelike elements where each time you get hit, you are sent further and further back in time, until you are sent into the past they tried so hard to erase. Maybe in there lies the key to your escape?
Players who liked Negative Time also play
Steam players who put hours into Negative Time 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.
Grid Demon
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Top pick for Negative Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Negative Time.
A cyberpunk bullet-heaven roguelite. Survive the swarm, hack your kills, and turn enemy machines into your own weapons
Star Scrap
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Negative Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Negative Time.
A broke bounty hunter. A sarcastic robot. 1,000,000 credit debt. Star Scrap is a chaotic twin stick space roguelite. Blast through increasingly difficult waves of enemies to pay it off.
LOCUS PROTOCOL
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Negative Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Negative Time.
80 waves. 8 bosses. 17 logs that will make you question everything you've been defending. Locus Protocol is a twin-stick bullet heaven with an adaptive AI Director and a horror story hidden inside a cozy geometric shell.
ActionSteam ↗The Gun is Good
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Ranked #4 for Negative Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Negative Time.
Action roguelike horde shooter. Bullet heaven vs bullet hell. Enter The Astral to slay demons by the thousands, loot and craft powerful guns and items, use the power of runes to get strong enough to defeat the Astral Kings.
Fast Food Wars
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Ranked #5 for Negative Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Negative Time.
Fast Food Wars is a bullet-hell shoot'em up rogue-lite game in a procedural generated restaurant with random power ups, weapons. You play as a burger fighting to claim back all the invaded burger restaurant from other fast foods
Symphorix
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Ranked #6 for Negative Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Negative Time.
Symphorix is a survivorlike roguelite that blends ambient music with strategic pre-planning ( Not a rhythm game). Customize your Core, configure to use recurring musical cues in your favorite songs, and shape your defenses to overcome challenging waves. Unlock new ways of using your favorite songs.
Talas
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Ranked #7 for Negative Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Negative Time.
Shoot your way across deep space. Shred through waves of enemies, unravel the secrets hiding beneath the surface, and explore the endless synergies in this retro-inspired action roguelike.
Bat Blitz
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Ranked #8 for Negative Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Negative Time.
Bat Blitz is a fast paced, top down shooter, roguelike where you have to kill bats to stay alive as long as possible.
Free alternatives
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 with Negative Time.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Negative Time.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Negative Time.
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 Negative Time.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Negative Time.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Negative Time.
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.
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Frequently asked about Negative Time
- What games are most similar to Negative Time?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Negative Time are Grid Demon, Star Scrap, LOCUS PROTOCOL.
- Who developed Negative Time?
- Negative Time was developed by Round Owl.
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 Negative Time.
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