Games like Negative Time
If Negative Time is your kind of game, the closest matches are HYPERWIRED, Fast Food Wars and Symphorix — 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.
HYPERWIRED
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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.
Hyperwired is a classic top-down action shooter, where your spaceship has a plug hanging from it. Wire yourself into sockets, gather upgrades, and unlock ships as you explore a procedurally generated galaxy with roguelike elements.
Fast Food Wars
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match 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
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match 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.
Chivalware
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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.
Chivalware is a frantic tile-matching action roguelite. Challenge your reflexes and coordination in real-time on a grid battlefield: evade attacks, match tiles to charge your weapons, and find the right opportunity to strike.
Waterpunk: Through the Rust
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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.
A roguelite action game set in a post-apocalyptic water world. Shape your strategy by choosing which abilities shine by day and which awaken at night.
Go Nutz
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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.
Go Nutz is a platforming roguelike where you play as a time-stopping squirrel trying to save the forests. Fight, shoot, dash, and glide through branches, survive harsh weather, deposit nuts into squirrel holes, and unlock new skills. Can you reach the Edge and discover what's disturbing nature?
Witchinour
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Ranked #7 for Negative Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Negative Time.
Witchinour is a roguelite twin stick shooter focused on fast, 60fps action and constantly increasing difficulty. You play as an explorer who comes across a dungeon that an apprentice witch named Nour found herself lost in years ago on a full moon...
UBERMOSH:BLACK
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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.
UBERMOSH:BLACK is the second volume of the arcade series UBERMOSH. Cut bullets with your sword, shoot with heavy guns and splatter enemies with a rage fueled psionic wave.
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 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.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Negative Time.
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.
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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 HYPERWIRED, Fast Food Wars, Symphorix.
- 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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