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Games like It’s Just 45 Seconds

If It’s Just 45 Seconds is your kind of game, the closest matches are TIC.EXE, PegPot and Deck of Potential — 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 It’s Just 45 Seconds: You are the cursor, and enemies can grab, punch, and throw you. Protect Bit in intense 45-second rounds, buy cards, and shape your deck in an action roguelite where every attempt brings a new plan and bosses change the rules.

ActionStrategyIndieWindowsby AA Games
It’s Just 45 Seconds — Steam game cover

Players who liked It’s Just 45 Seconds also play

Steam players who put hours into It’s Just 45 Seconds 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. TIC.EXE

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for It’s Just 45 Seconds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with It’s Just 45 Seconds.

    Three in a row is not a win — it is a discharge. A tactical grid roguelite: fight hostile processes on a shifting board, build an engine out of 30 modules, and clear eight sectors before the machine answers its own launch request.

    2027StrategyIndieSteam ↗
  2. PegPot

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for It’s Just 45 Seconds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with It’s Just 45 Seconds.

    Survive 9 increasingly difficult rounds by clearing all red pegs and clearing the score requirement. Each new round will have more red pegs and higher score requirements. Use your 9 initial balls to clear them out!

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation2.00 USDSteam ↗
  3. Deck of Potential

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for It’s Just 45 Seconds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with It’s Just 45 Seconds.

    Deck of Potential combines roguelike deckbuilder with bullet heaven. Collect cards, fuse them, and slap on sticker upgrades to beat thousands of monsters. Take down dungeon bosses, unlock new cards, characters, and discover fusion recipes to build the ultimate auto-firing deck.

    2026ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  4. Horus: Desert Survivor

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for It’s Just 45 Seconds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with It’s Just 45 Seconds.

    Survive the sands of mythological Egypt in Horus: Desert Survivor, a survivor-like action game with deckbuilding. Build divine weapons, fight corrupted gods and mythical beasts, cleanse the fallen, and unleash godlike power.

    2026ActionStrategyFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Cards of Action

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for It’s Just 45 Seconds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with It’s Just 45 Seconds.

    Cards of Action is a roguelike deckbuilder with real-time, survivor-like combat! Craft a deck of hyper-synergistic cards to grow all-powerful, and make split-second decisions on how to play your cards so you can obliterate the hordes of evil stick figures coming your way.

    ActionStrategySteam ↗
  6. Pin-Crawl

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for It’s Just 45 Seconds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with It’s Just 45 Seconds.

    Pin-Crawl is a dungeon crawling pinball rogue-lite! Bop, bash and dash your way through a dungeon of weird and wacky foes as you collect abilities and upgrades on your way to defeating the Evil Sorceress!

    2027ActionSteam ↗
  7. Deck Delve

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for It’s Just 45 Seconds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with It’s Just 45 Seconds.

    Deck Delve is a twin-stick roguelike deckbuilder where your abilities are cards played in real-time. Make split-second combat decisions and master the flow of your deck to survive!

    2026ActionIndieEarly AccessSteam ↗
  8. Timeless

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for It’s Just 45 Seconds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with It’s Just 45 Seconds.

    A fast-paced roguelite where your clock IS your life! Every hit steals seconds, so bend time to your will and fight your way back to everyone you lost before it all runs out!

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗

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 with It’s Just 45 Seconds.

    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. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with It’s Just 45 Seconds.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with It’s Just 45 Seconds.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with It’s Just 45 Seconds.

    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 ↗
  5. 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 It’s Just 45 Seconds.

    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 ↗
  6. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with It’s Just 45 Seconds.

    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. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with It’s Just 45 Seconds.

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

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with It’s Just 45 Seconds.

    Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about It’s Just 45 Seconds

What games are most similar to It’s Just 45 Seconds?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside It’s Just 45 Seconds are TIC.EXE, PegPot, Deck of Potential.
Who developed It’s Just 45 Seconds?
It’s Just 45 Seconds was developed by AA 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 It’s Just 45 Seconds.

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