Games like Screen Survivors
If Screen Survivors is your kind of game, the closest matches are Loop Tower, Mine or Burn and Aleef: Desktop Pet Collector — 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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Steam players who put hours into Screen Survivors 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.
Loop Tower
WHY THIS
Top pick for Screen Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Screen Survivors.
Loop Tower tells the story of adventurers climbing an endless tower. Place it on a corner of your desktop and help them continue their ascent. Experience a fresh blend of desktop idle gameplay + roguelike + RPG right now!
Mine or Burn
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Screen Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Screen Survivors.
Mine asteroids, battle hostile miners, and grow a tiny mining rig into an industrial powerhouse in this bullet hell incremental roguelite. Unlock permanent upgrades and push your operation further with each new star system.
Aleef: Desktop Pet Collector
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Screen Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Screen Survivors.
Work, browse, or play other games while hatching eggs in the background! Collect 300+ pets with various stats, unlock powerful upgrades, and build your battle team.
Rejected Draft
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Screen Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Screen Survivors.
You are a flawed doodle thrown in the trash. Battle rival sketches in an idle climb for revenge. Every enemy is drawn by community artists, with alternate versions and direct credits. In an unusual twist on builds, choose which enemies appear in your world, then defeat them to absorb their powers.
Incrempire
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Screen Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Screen Survivors.
Defend. Upgrade. Dominate. A relaxing incremental base-defense game, packed with powerful skills and a deep skill tree.
Soul Reaper: Endless Harvest
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Screen Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Screen Survivors.
Reap souls. Open the portal. Extract or risk it all. A skill-based bullet heaven where every battle is a short harvest. Souls reaped before the portal are safe, souls after are at risk. Spend them in a permanent skill tree, beat the level, push to the next.
Incremental Infinity
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Screen Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Screen Survivors.
Explore an infinite, procedurally generated skill tree as you defend yourself against ever-growing waves of numbers. Play in full screen or as a side-window companion while doing other things.
Insider Trading
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Screen Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Screen Survivors.
Insider Trading is a roguelike deckbuilder where you bend the market to your will. Synergize perks, manipulate stock prices, and trade wisely or risk pricing yourself out.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Screen Survivors.
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?
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Screen Survivors.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Screen Survivors.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Screen Survivors.
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.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Screen Survivors.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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More from Tom Daly
Other recommendable Steam games by Tom Daly, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Little Aviary
WHY THIS
Another title from Tom Daly, the studio behind Screen Survivors. Shares Simulation and Casual with Screen Survivors.
Little Aviary is a relaxing idle bird collector that sits at the bottom of your screen! Hatch unique birds, sell them, decorate, then watch them fly around your screen and perch on top of your other windows!
Tranquil Isle
WHY THIS
Another title from Tom Daly, the studio behind Screen Survivors. Shares Strategy and Casual with Screen Survivors.
Tranquil Isle is a lo-fi strategic townbuilder. Create cozy little settlements on the sun-kissed shores of your very own island paradise.
Protect the Pit
WHY THIS
Another title from Tom Daly, the studio behind Screen Survivors. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Screen Survivors.
A short incremental clicker game that blends the strategy of tower defense with the depth of sprawling upgrade trees. Build your own winding mazes to repel the oncoming hordes!
Frequently asked about Screen Survivors
- What games are most similar to Screen Survivors?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Screen Survivors are Loop Tower, Mine or Burn, Aleef: Desktop Pet Collector.
- Who developed Screen Survivors?
- Screen Survivors was developed by Tom Daly.
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 Screen Survivors.
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