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Games like Alien Colony

If Alien Colony is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cube Crusaders, Zombotron and STAR WARS™: Bounty Hunter™ — 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 Alien Colony: Alien Colony is a 2.5D action-horror game where you take command of a squad of four marines. Each death restarts the mission with a new cloned squad, in a mining colony where horror comes as much from the creatures as from dehumanization itself.

2026ActionIndieAdventureWindowsby Pulsar Creation
Alien Colony — Steam game cover

Players who liked Alien Colony also play

Steam players who put hours into Alien Colony 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. Cube Crusaders

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Alien Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Alien Colony.

    Adoros is dying. A catastrophic Void Anomaly has torn open the planet’s surface, warping reality and unleashing forces no one fully understands. You are a Cube Crusader sent to crush the Anomaly, at any cost.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Zombotron

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Alien Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Alien Colony.

    Fight to survive on a mysterious alien planet, outwit its vicious inhabitants, and do whatever it takes to find a way off that wretched rock.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. STAR WARS™: Bounty Hunter™

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Alien Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Alien Colony.

    Bring In Your Bounty, Dead or Alive

    2024ActionAdventure6.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Demon Skin

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Alien Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Alien Colony.

    Brutal Hack&Slash game with a challenging combat system plunges you into the harsh dark fantasy world to test your will and your skills. Only those who dare to get into the Demon Skin can survive!

    2021ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Possessor(s)

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Alien Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Alien Colony.

    Possessor(s) is a fast-paced action side scroller with combat inspired by platform fighters, a story told through dangerous characters, set in a deep interconnected world ready for exploration.

    2025ActionAdventure2.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Deadlight

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Alien Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Alien Colony.

    “Probably the best downloadable title on the market right now.” 9/10 – Eurogamer.se

    2012ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Cursed Castilla (Maldita Castilla EX)

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Alien Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Alien Colony.

    Cursed Castilla (Maldita Castilla EX) is an arcade action platformer full of creatures from medieval myths from Spain and the rest of Europe, as well as from chivalric romances. The extended version of the classic Maldita Castilla, originally created by the indie Locomalito.

    2016ActionIndieAdventure11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Cloudbuilt

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Alien Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Alien Colony.

    Rocket parkour your way through dizzying obstacles and lethal robot hazards, in this 3rd person action platformer with over 40 levels, and even more community levels.

    2014ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Alien Colony.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. 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 Alien Colony.

    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 ↗
  5. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Alien Colony.

    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.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Alien Colony.

    Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Alien Colony.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. STAR WARS™: Bounty Hunter™

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Alien Colony.

    Bring In Your Bounty, Dead or Alive

    2024ActionAdventure6.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Cursed Castilla (Maldita Castilla EX)

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Alien Colony.

    Cursed Castilla (Maldita Castilla EX) is an arcade action platformer full of creatures from medieval myths from Spain and the rest of Europe, as well as from chivalric romances. The extended version of the classic Maldita Castilla, originally created by the indie Locomalito.

    2016ActionIndieAdventure11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Cloudbuilt

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Alien Colony.

    Rocket parkour your way through dizzying obstacles and lethal robot hazards, in this 3rd person action platformer with over 40 levels, and even more community levels.

    2014ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Alien Colony

What games are most similar to Alien Colony?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Alien Colony are Cube Crusaders, Zombotron, STAR WARS™: Bounty Hunter™.
Who developed Alien Colony?
Alien Colony was developed by Pulsar Creation.

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 Alien Colony.

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