Games like Dog in the Machine
If Dog in the Machine is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fire Burning City, CUEQUENCE and Terminal Warfare — 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: Train an AutoDog to escape a dystopian mecha-city in this tactical roguelite. Craft powerful modular attacks, plan every move with stress-free real-time previews, and unleash devastating chain reactions to outsmart hordes of killjoy robots!
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Steam players who put hours into Dog in the Machine 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.
Fire Burning City
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Top pick for Dog in the Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Dog in the Machine.
Turn-Based + Survivor-Like?Play as a agent in a burning cyberpunk city! Strategize grid-by-grid, unleash skills to clear waves of enemies, and survive escalating challenges. Uncover secrets behind the chaos with simple, tactical moves. Can you outsmart the flames?
StrategySteam ↗CUEQUENCE
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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.
CUEQUENCE is a single-player roguelite billiards card battler set in Q-LAND. Aim with precision, build your deck, unlock powerful cues, and use magical cards to control the table.
Terminal Warfare
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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.
Terminal Warfare is a cyberpunk deckbuilding roguelike where you breach corporate networks in turn-based hack battles. Queue exploit cards, manage bandwidth and trace, earn creds, build your deck, and craft cyberdeck upgrades to take down tougher AI defenses.
NeoRunners
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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.
NeoRunners is a playable cyberpunk comic and roguelite deckbuilder. Combine 🔥 Burn, ⚡ Volt, and 💧 Flow into explosive reactions, then build relationships that unlock new cards, modifications, services, and story paths.
Borrow or Rob
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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.
The Pantheon sends armies back from the future; humanity has never won. Now you fight backwards too. Two agents: one fights Phase 1 forward, the other refights it in reverse, where your past agent returns as a hologram to strike with you: the TEMPORAL PINCER. A retro future roguelike deckbuilder.
Cardstronaut
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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.
A unique spin on the deckbuilding genre, where you must play cards and use strategy and tactics to activate ceiling mounted flame throwers to defeat the aliens and find out the truth
Cybrogue
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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.
Cybrogue is a Deck Building Roguelike where moment to moment gameplay is chess-like focused on calculations ahead.
Husk Protocol
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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.
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.
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 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!
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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 Fire Burning City, CUEQUENCE, Terminal Warfare.
- 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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