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Games like Screen Survivors

If Screen Survivors is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mine or Burn, Loop Tower and Swarm Survivor: Endless Siege — 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 Screen Survivors: An idle survivor-like that sits in the corner of your screen.

2026StrategySimulationCasualWindowsby atomco
Screen Survivors — Steam game cover

Players who liked Screen Survivors also play

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.

  1. Mine or Burn

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Screen Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Screen Survivors.

    Start with a basic mining ship and snowball into an asteroid-crushing powerhouse in this incremental bullet hell roguelite. Mine asteroids, battle rival miners, stack upgrades, create powerful builds, and survive escalating threats across dangerous star systems.

    2026ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  2. Loop Tower

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match 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!

    IndieSimulationRPGSteam ↗
  3. Swarm Survivor: Endless Siege

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Screen Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Screen Survivors.

    Swarm Survivors: Endless Siege is a light roguelike bullet-hell idle shooter. You play as the last survivor of the Swarm, fighting to stay alive under the endless siege of alien fleets. Build overwhelming power and face wave after wave of relentless challenges.

    2026StrategyIndieRPG4.24 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. HUDDLE BATTLE

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Screen Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Screen Survivors.

    HUDDLE BATTLE is a bullet heaven where you raze swarms of enemies, harvest their souls, and use them to summon your huddle. Your characters may attack automatically, but you would be a fool to underestimate its challenge ⚔️

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  5. Rejected Draft

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 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.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  6. Aleef: Desktop Pet Collector

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 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.

    2026StrategyIndieRPGSteam ↗
  7. Loot Frog

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Screen Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Screen Survivors.

    Loot Frog is an incremental action bullet hell about breaking pots, collecting gems, and fighting an evil cult. Upgrade your gear, unlock new abilities, explore diverse biomes, and push deeper into increasingly chaotic battles.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  8. Soul Reaper: Endless Harvest

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 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.

    2026ActionStrategySimulationSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. 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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Screen Survivors.

    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 ↗
  3. 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!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

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

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. 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.

    2020IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 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.

    2016ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. 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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. 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.

    2018IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗

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 Mine or Burn, Loop Tower, Swarm Survivor: Endless Siege.
Who developed Screen Survivors?
Screen Survivors was developed by atomco.

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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