Games like Dog in the Machine
If Dog in the Machine is your kind of game, the closest matches are Zoominoes, Cyber Tile and Match! The 12 CZ Wars — 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 Dog in the Machine: Help an AutoDog escape a dystopian mecha-city in this turn-based tactical roguelite! Trigger devastating chain reactions on interactive combat grids, draft powerful synergies by crafting your own attacks, and plan your moves stress-free using a real-time preview timeline.
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Zoominoes
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Top pick for Dog in the Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dog in the Machine.
Build the ultimate Zoo in this number-go-up roguelike deckbuilder. Find powerful mythical animals, boost them with snacks, and even manipulate the board itself. Break the game by scoring millions (and more) with insane combos.
Cyber Tile
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Second-strongest match for Dog in the Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dog in the Machine.
Cyber Tile is a turn-based strategy game, mixing rogue-like gameplay with building your deck. Time your moves right, upgrade your skills, and combine them to prepare for challenging encounters with various enemies and the final boss!
Match! The 12 CZ Wars
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Third-strongest match for Dog in the Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dog in the Machine.
"Match! The 12 CZ Wars" is a roguelike strategy game blending match-3 and buff-building. Partner with 12 Zodiac Maidens to repel ancient primordial beasts. Navigate random events, battles, and upgrades. Carefully choose paths, manage resources, and empower your Maidens to secure victory.
Coinborne
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Ranked #4 for Dog in the Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dog in the Machine.
Coinborne is a unique Coinbuilder auto-battler. Here, everything is a coin. Clutch the chips of destiny as you traverse a crumbling wasteland. Collect, mint, and throw—amidst the clinking metal, will you tame the chaos with logic, or gamble everything on the brink of madness?
Husk Protocol
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Ranked #5 for Dog in the Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dog in the Machine.
ATTENTION! HUSK PROTOCOL INITIATED! Prepare to engage in a challenging deck-driven mecha game. Synergise between powerful Husks, utilise a dynamic deck and avoid detection from the city’s mainframe as you infiltrate the machine-driven brutopolis of Aeterna.
Dice Sorcerer
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Ranked #6 for Dog in the Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Dog in the Machine.
Your dice are your deck and your weapons in this turn-based roguelike deckbuilder: throw them to bounce between enemies, generate abilities, and unleash devastating synergies in this fantasy world, where you must defeat monsters on your journey to the Demon King's castle.
StrategySteam ↗Ramen://protocol
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Ranked #7 for Dog in the Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dog in the Machine.
Can a bowl change your fate? 🍜🃏 Ramen://protocol — a cyberpunk ramen roguelite deckbuilder. Earn money to upgrade your skills and toppings, and serve even more powerful bowls of ramen. An immersive yet casual strategic card game experience. Scalding steam tears through the Neo-Tokyo night.
Last Bullet
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Ranked #8 for Dog in the Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dog in the Machine.
Build the Ultimate Gun by creating a chain of super powerful bullets! Discover game-breaking combos with over 100+ bullets and trinkets and master infinite synergies in this highly replayable strategic shooter!
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Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dog in the Machine.
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?
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dog in the Machine.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Tails Noir: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dog in the Machine.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Hello Neighbor Alpha 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dog in the Machine.
Welcome to Alpha 2 of Hello Neighbor. Play against an advanced, self-learning AI in what eventually became Act 1 of Hello Neighbor - the stealth horror home invasion sim.
of the Devil
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dog in the Machine.
Immerse yourself in neon, smoke, and high-stakes legal gambles as a Defense Attorney with uniquely Killer insights in this episodic, diabolically stylish visual novel adventure game.
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dog in the Machine.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dog in the Machine.
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 Dog in the Machine
- What games are most similar to Dog in the Machine?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dog in the Machine are Zoominoes, Cyber Tile, Match! The 12 CZ Wars.
- Who developed Dog in the Machine?
- Dog in the Machine was developed by Studio Chahut and published by Goblinz Publishing.
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 Dog in the Machine.
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