Games like MiCROBE
Below are 16 hand-picked alternatives to MiCROBE for fans of indie, casual, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in MiCROBE also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, free-to-play picks. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About MiCROBE: A short incremental game where you start as a microscopic organism and grow until you consume entire galaxies. Destroy enemies. Collect Mass. Upgrade 300+ skill nodes. Evolve from a microbe to planetary predator to something far beyond and discover what happens when there's nothing left to consume.
Players who liked MiCROBE also play
Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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Sporbs
Top pick for MiCROBE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with MiCROBE.
A relaxing incremental game where you harvest resources from alien organisms. Upgrade your extraction technology, discover unique abilities, manage resources, automate a factory and unlock new areas to maximise your yield.
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Planet No More
Second-strongest match for MiCROBE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with MiCROBE.
Planet No More is an arcade-incremental game where you build a fleet to dynamically shatter celestials. With every weapon and fleet upgrade, you'll advance deep into the galaxy, strategically shattering planets to their cores to unlock the next celestial.
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The Last Mothership
Third-strongest match for MiCROBE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with MiCROBE.
A short incremental game about harvesting planets to feed your mothership. Mine, manage resources, grow your fleet, and unlock upgrades to evolve your species. You are the devourer of worlds.
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Space Vampires
Ranked #4 for MiCROBE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with MiCROBE.
Build a vampire space station, trap humans, and farm blood in this incremental idler. Choose your path to the apocalypse and take revenge on humanity.
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Sunder Siege
Ranked #5 for MiCROBE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with MiCROBE.
A short incremental physics game. Swing a wrecking ball to smash monsters before they reach your home! Upgrade your ball and your home for more smashy goodness!
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Protect the Pit
Ranked #6 for MiCROBE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with MiCROBE.
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!
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No Blink Allowed
Ranked #7 for MiCROBE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with MiCROBE.
Train your timing skills to stop the clock close to zero, collect shards, and spend them on a massive skill tree in this short arcade-ish incremental game. Struggle with glitching displays, hidden timers, chaotic multi-stops, and other hazards as you improve your accuracy.
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Fleshborn
Ranked #8 for MiCROBE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with MiCROBE.
A short incremental game where you are tasked to clean a lab from fleshy growths using your flamethrower. Collect resources and spend them in a vast upgrade tree to unlock new abilities.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with MiCROBE.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with MiCROBE.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with MiCROBE.
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?
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ENA: Dream BBQ
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with MiCROBE.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with MiCROBE.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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The Looker
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with MiCROBE.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Our Life: Beginnings & Always
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with MiCROBE.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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Frequently asked about MiCROBE
- What games are most similar to MiCROBE?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside MiCROBE are Sporbs, Planet No More, The Last Mothership.
- Who developed MiCROBE?
- MiCROBE was developed by Virtual Void.
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 MiCROBE.
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