Games like Joy Malignant
If Joy Malignant is your kind of game, the closest matches are Celestial Return, Isentroth and Aphantasia — 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 Joy Malignant: A surreal dice-based RPG in a cursed city of gut-wrenching suffering. Here, your choices shape your skills and your appearance. Survive the city's hellish trials, meet tortured characters, and develop your own unique identity. Every choice matters as your actions will literally shape you.
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Celestial Return
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Top pick for Joy Malignant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Joy Malignant.
Loot, bribe, gamble, survive. The dice will be your savior or your downfall in this story-driven RPG. Every roll matters when trying to uncover cosmic horrors and outwit megacorps. Pray your next roll won’t be your last.
Isentroth
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Second-strongest match for Joy Malignant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Joy Malignant.
Swear an oath and walk into the Isenmarch — a cold Norse frontier that does not explain itself. A Machine Game Master narrates your saga, answers the choices you make, and rolls the dice at your side. No two sagas are alike. What breaks first — your isen, or your troth?
Aphantasia
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Third-strongest match for Joy Malignant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Joy Malignant.
Aphantasia is an Indie RPG created in the RPG Maker engine with a surreal art style.
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
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Ranked #4 for Joy Malignant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Joy Malignant.
A dice-driven RPG, in a human and heartfelt sci-fi world. You are an escaped android, with a malfunctioning body, a price on your head and no memory of your past. Get a ship, find a crew, and take on contracts while you navigate across the Starward Belt.
Citizen Sleeper
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Ranked #5 for Joy Malignant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Joy Malignant.
Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.
人类动物园 Human Zoo
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Ranked #6 for Joy Malignant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Joy Malignant.
Beautiful teenagers, dreams, grotesque orgies. When no one in the world is awake anymore, is your sanity an alternative madness? A turn-based surrealist psychological horror game with beautiful L2D combat artwork and a deep, philosophical plot.
Vagrus - The Riven Realms
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Ranked #7 for Joy Malignant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Joy Malignant.
Embark on a perilous journey across a realm forsaken by the gods and devastated by an arcane cataclysm. Accompanied by a hardy crew, you must trade, fight, and explore your way to success as the leader of a traveling company in Vagrus, an award-winning turn-based post-apocalyptic fantasy RPG.
The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2
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Ranked #8 for Joy Malignant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Joy Malignant.
The Dream Machine is an award-winning point & click adventure game about exploring other people's dreams. It's built by hand using materials such as clay, cardboard and broccoli.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Joy Malignant at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~44% under Joy Malignant on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Joy Malignant.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~44% under Joy Malignant on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Joy Malignant.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
How to Fish
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Priced ~45% under Joy Malignant on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Joy Malignant.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~44% under Joy Malignant on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Joy Malignant.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~44% under Joy Malignant on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Joy Malignant.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~89% under Joy Malignant on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Joy Malignant.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~67% under Joy Malignant on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Joy Malignant.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~44% under Joy Malignant on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Joy Malignant.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Joy Malignant.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Joy Malignant.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Joy Malignant.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Joy Malignant.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Joy Malignant.
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 Adventure with Joy Malignant.
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 with Joy Malignant.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Joy Malignant.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Joy Malignant
- How much does Joy Malignant cost?
- Joy Malignant is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Joy Malignant?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Joy Malignant are Celestial Return, Isentroth, Aphantasia.
- Who developed Joy Malignant?
- Joy Malignant was developed by Petros Anastasiadis.
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 Joy Malignant.
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