Games like ETCH
If ETCH is your kind of game, the closest matches are Noxcode, TRAINCORE and Lunaris — 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 ETCH: A fast top-down roguelike maze-runner. You're a PSI-class Runner, the one unit they can't capture. Slip into a Tracer-held sector, bring its cores online, and take it back before they close in.
Players who liked ETCH also play
Steam players who put hours into ETCH 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.
Noxcode
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Top pick for ETCH fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ETCH.
Reach the TOP by any means possible. Run, jump, climb, fly, or even fall your way up in this chaotic jump quest platformer. Master crazy movement, discover wild shortcuts, and push your skills to the limit!
TRAINCORE
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Second-strongest match for ETCH fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ETCH.
Command a fusion-powered war train through a cyberpunk world. Build specialized wagons, consume resources, salvage enemy wreckage, upgrade your convoy, and survive until the next station.
Lunaris
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Third-strongest match for ETCH fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ETCH.
Lunaris is a fast-paced sci-fi top-down roguelite shooter: survive escalating enemy waves, stack powerful passive and active abilities, craft wild build synergies, and turn the arena into a neon storm of lasers and explosions. Every run feels fresh and intense.
SPELLFALL
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Ranked #4 for ETCH fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ETCH.
SPELLFALL is a dark fantasy action roguelike with one task: kill the witch harvesting the moons magic. Fight your way through various areas and vile creatures to reach the top of her looming castle.
Rogue Dot
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Ranked #5 for ETCH fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ETCH.
Control Rogue, a sentient interface built to navigate the mainframe's deadliest sectors. Dodge bugs, outrun corrupted scripts, and collect data chips to rebuild the program before total shutdown.
Chrome Survivor
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Ranked #6 for ETCH fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ETCH.
In this bullet heaven roguelite combine weapons into powerful evolutions, collect items to enhance your runs, equip and craft powerful cybernetic augments that change the way you play. Can you complete a 9 modded nightmare difficulty run and become John Cyberpunk?
Paddle Legends
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Ranked #7 for ETCH fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ETCH.
A chaotic roguelite twist on retro arcade action. Every run will test your reflexes and decision-making as you unlock new paddles with unique projectiles and conquer levels with a variety of modifiers and challenging foes.
Burning Skies
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Ranked #8 for ETCH fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ETCH.
Burning Skies is a frantic roguelite bullet hell. Join the resistance and assemble the ultimate warjet, shoot take down giant bosses and avoid many dangers to destroy the tyrants who are ruling the world.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with ETCH.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with ETCH.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with ETCH.
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!
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 ETCH.
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).
Meteor 60 Seconds!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with ETCH.
Meteor 60 seconds! is a simple, fun, comic-like action game that simulates your life if there were a meteor heading towards Earth and you had 60 seconds to live. Do anything you want to do with your last 60 seconds, even if it's illegal! What about planting an apple tree?
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Frequently asked about ETCH
- What games are most similar to ETCH?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ETCH are Noxcode, TRAINCORE, Lunaris.
- Who developed ETCH?
- ETCH was developed by Conductor 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 ETCH.
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