Games like Factor Zoo
If Factor Zoo is your kind of game, the closest matches are Chess Brain, Hexcells and Hexcells Infinite — 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 Factor Zoo: Factor Zoo is a strategy puzzle game blending Sudoku and betting. Pick 5 lucky cells before each round, then solve the board with Sudoku techniques. Revealed numbers form hands—pairs, straights, or five of a kind—to earn multiplier rewards.
Players who liked Factor Zoo also play
Steam players who put hours into Factor Zoo 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.
Chess Brain
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Top pick for Factor Zoo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factor Zoo.
Chess Brain is a chess puzzle game. Draw the correct path and don't let the King get killed by the opposite pieces! Every second all the pieces will move!
Hexcells Infinite
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Third-strongest match for Factor Zoo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factor Zoo.
Hexcells Infinite is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.
Linelith
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Ranked #4 for Factor Zoo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factor Zoo.
Solve puzzles embedded in rocks and crystals as you explore a colorful, serene alien asteroid. Discover a few clever twists as you progress in this short and sweet puzzle experience.
Pictopix
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Ranked #5 for Factor Zoo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factor Zoo.
Pictopix is a puzzle game where you use logic to color squares on grids in order to reveal pictures.
Polimines 2
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Ranked #6 for Factor Zoo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factor Zoo.
Polimines 2 is the sequel to Polimines, a challenging logic game that combines Nonograms and Minesweeper mechanics. All levels are designed by hand so that guessing is never necessary.
Polimines
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Ranked #7 for Factor Zoo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factor Zoo.
Polimines is a challenging logic game that brings together mechanics from Nonograms and Minesweeper. Solve increasingly difficult hand-designed levels in this puzzle game where guessing is never required.
Isotiles - Isometric Puzzle Game
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Ranked #8 for Factor Zoo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factor Zoo.
Isotiles is an isometric puzzle game played on a grid. The goal of the game is to turn all of the blue tiles red and then reach the exit tile. There are 50 levels to play through with increasing difficulty and added obstacles.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Factor Zoo.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Factor Zoo.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Factor Zoo.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Factor Zoo.
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.
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Factor Zoo.
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!
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Factor Zoo.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Factor Zoo.
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.
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More from G-Yao
Other recommendable Steam games by G-Yao, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Sign It
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Another title from G-Yao, the studio behind Factor Zoo. Shares Indie and Casual with Factor Zoo.
Monteririo, a city steeped in violence and vice, welcomes a young examining magistrate. An appointment from the Crown has effectively exiled you to this southern outpost, a thousand leagues from home. Tell me—is there truly a way back to the North for you?
(Debt Feeds Debt
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Another title from G-Yao, the studio behind Factor Zoo. Shares Strategy and Casual with Factor Zoo.
A turn-based bond card strategy game. Buy bonds, fulfill orders, build FEVER combos, and push progress to 100 before decay—and the demonic contract—catch up.
Unregistered Scene
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Another title from G-Yao, the studio behind Factor Zoo. Shares Indie with Factor Zoo.
Unregistered Scene is a Minesweeper-style anomaly deduction game. As Agent 03, an insurance company agent, investigate scenes where records no longer match reality. Work with a mysterious assistant to identify anomalies and uncover hidden rules.
Misplaced
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Another title from G-Yao, the studio behind Factor Zoo. Shares Indie and Casual with Factor Zoo.
Misplaced is an archival deduction game. Draw documents from a disordered case file and use the clues on each filing slot to determine where they belong. Once every document is correctly filed, begin verification, connect the clues, and uncover the truth.
Chief Bubble Officer
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Another title from G-Yao, the studio behind Factor Zoo. Shares Strategy and Indie with Factor Zoo.
Chief Bubble Officer is a turn-based number strategy game about dressing up financial reports. Draw number cards and place them into different reports, combine numbers, raise scores, find the best moves under ever-changing rules, and trigger chain bonuses.
Frequently asked about Factor Zoo
- What games are most similar to Factor Zoo?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Factor Zoo are Chess Brain, Hexcells, Hexcells Infinite.
- Who developed Factor Zoo?
- Factor Zoo was developed by G-Yao.
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 Factor Zoo.
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