Games like Harpooner
If Harpooner is your kind of game, the closest matches are FishPond, Fish to Cats: Catch & Feed and Incresleeper — 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 Harpooner: Harpooner is an action-driven incremental fishing game where you hunt bizarre alien fish from a meteor crash. Grab your gear, grow stronger with every dive, and take down massive bosses to save Earth's ecosystem!
Players who liked Harpooner also play
Steam players who put hours into Harpooner 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.
FishPond
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Top pick for Harpooner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Harpooner.
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.
Fish to Cats: Catch & Feed
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Second-strongest match for Harpooner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Harpooner.
Loads of fish! Loads of cats! Sail out to sea, charm every furball on Cat Island with fresh catch. Live your cozy ocean cat life!
Incresleeper
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Third-strongest match for Harpooner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Harpooner.
A short, active incremental game about fighting insomnia. Go to bed, bust hordes of demons in your dreams and get powerful upgrades to become a master at sleeping.
Catnip Cosmos
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Ranked #4 for Harpooner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Harpooner.
Shoot. Upgrade. Incrementally progress further. Pilot cat-operated spaceships on timed Zoomies runs in this space shooter. Combine pilots for powerful synergies, defeat boss challenges to unlock new weapons and improve exponentially.
The Fishercat
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Ranked #5 for Harpooner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Casual with Harpooner.
Cats love fish so much, they started fishing.
Hex Core
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Ranked #6 for Harpooner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Harpooner.
Hex Core is a short, incremental clicker-style defense game where you help PeteOS hold back waves of viruses until you can wipe them out for good. Spend resources to unlock a huge spread of upgrades, new mechanics, weapons, and research.
Magical Girl: incremental gaiden
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Ranked #7 for Harpooner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Harpooner.
Short incremental Bullet Hell about Magical Girl! Fight against Shadows, gather resources, upgrade skill tree and defeat all the Witches to save humanity!
Screen Survivors
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Ranked #8 for Harpooner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Harpooner.
An idle survivor-like that sits in the corner of your screen.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Harpooner.
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. Shares Indie and Casual with Harpooner.
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!
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Harpooner.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Harpooner.
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. Shares Indie and Casual with Harpooner.
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.
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Harpooner.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
Tukoni: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Harpooner.
Tukoni: Prologue is a point-and-click puzzle adventure, based on a series of award-winning books by the Ukrainian artist Oksana Bula. Play as Tukoni, the forest spirits, as you meet unique characters, solve captivating puzzles, craft new items, and explore a magical world filled with kindness.
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Frequently asked about Harpooner
- What games are most similar to Harpooner?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Harpooner are FishPond, Fish to Cats: Catch & Feed, Incresleeper.
- Who developed Harpooner?
- Harpooner was developed by Mango Salad Games.
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 Harpooner.
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