Games like Kinetype
If Kinetype is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Carcass, Warp to Sector One and Keyboard Warriors — 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 Kinetype: KINETYPE is a minimalist, terminal, ASCII, roguelite where your keyboard is the interface for survival. Navigate procedural terminal grids by typing commands to move and survive. Extract to bank Bytes for permanent upgrades, or lose your streak to the system. The terminal is yours to command.
Players who liked Kinetype also play
Steam players who put hours into Kinetype 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.
The Carcass
WHY THIS
Top pick for Kinetype fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Kinetype.
A typing-driven Lovecraftian colony sim. You wake inside the corpse of a dead god, adrift in space. Carve a roguelike colony from procedurally generated anatomy — negotiate with rival alien factions, evolve occult mutations, find your ending. The carcass remembers.
Warp to Sector One
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Kinetype fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Early Access with Kinetype.
Trade, fight, and explore a procedurally generated galaxy in this deep space trading game inspired by 80's sci-fi computer screens and early text based space games. Command fleets, negotiate with alien factions, colonize planets, and forge your legacy across five unique career paths.
Keyboard Warriors
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Kinetype fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Use your keyboard to unleash a torrent of gunfire and destruction, cutting your way through huge hordes of enemies. Customise and upgrade your mech with new weapons and abilities, make builds that complement your loadout and typing style as you lay waste to the wasteland in a world left in ruins.
Nybble
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Ranked #4 for Kinetype fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Early Access with Kinetype.
Your deck is your code. Build branching, looping programs from cards to hit byte targets and outwit rival hackers. A programming-themed roguelike deckbuilder with a heat-driven mastery climb, runaway combos, and a final boss who's been watching you the whole time.
Everburning Dark 长夜余烬
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Kinetype fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Kinetype.
Everburning Dark blends 2048-style roguelike merge combat, unlimited AI-driven storytelling, and companion AI bonding. Build with relics and skills, talk freely to reshape each run, and uncover the folk-horror truth of a dying dynasty.
Chinese Newcomer
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Ranked #6 for Kinetype fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Kinetype.
"Chinese Newcomer" blends deck-building with career simulation. Players choose one of three cards to collect, manage stamina. Use "Legacy Points" to grant Five-Elements talents to descendants, rectifying past regrets. Make choices along paths and embarking on a multi-generational journey.
Turnout
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Ranked #7 for Kinetype fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Kinetype.
A 1v1 strategy horror game where a train rapidly approaches your location. Guess the numbers, rely on your luck, or strategize to not end up as roadkill, remove the <entities> before they remove you from the game.
Cell Command
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Kinetype fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Kinetype.
TURN-BASED TACTICS meets SNAKE: A new roguelike in the Genome Guardian universe. SPLICE DNA to create new units, enhance their genetics, and take on the Abyss virus once more in a variety of different modes & match types.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Kinetype at current Steam store prices.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under Kinetype on Steam right now.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~84% under Kinetype on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Kinetype.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under Kinetype on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Kinetype.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Nodebuster
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Priced ~52% under Kinetype on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Casual with Kinetype.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
Peggle Deluxe
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Priced ~84% under Kinetype on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Kinetype.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~84% under Kinetype on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Casual with Kinetype.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Superflight
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Kinetype on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Kinetype.
Superflight is an intense, easy to learn wingsuit game with an infinite number of beautiful procedurally generated maps. A great game to relax for half an hour and chase your latest highscore!
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.
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?
Iron Snout
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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.
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.
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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!
Peggle Extreme
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Kinetype.
Peggle Extreme delivers fast-paced puzzle action that combines elements of pinball and pachinko to create a truly unique game experience. Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun, now exclusively themed with art and sounds from Half-Life: Episode 2, Portal, and Team Fortress 2.
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Kinetype.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
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Frequently asked about Kinetype
- How much does Kinetype cost?
- Kinetype is listed on Steam at 6.29 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Kinetype?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Kinetype are The Carcass, Warp to Sector One, Keyboard Warriors.
- Who developed Kinetype?
- Kinetype was developed by Morlytic.
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