Games like Burnt Out
If Burnt Out is your kind of game, the closest matches are Open Headcount: A Corporate-Hell Roguelike, Line Go Up and Slimestronauts: Burst Strike — 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 Burnt Out: A chain-reaction roguelike set in a corporate fever dream. Smash a keycap, watch the combo cascade across the hex grid, and build a broken enough loadout to dismantle the org chart, before the company terminates you.
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Steam players who put hours into Burnt Out 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.
Open Headcount: A Corporate-Hell Roguelike
WHY THIS
Top pick for Burnt Out fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Burnt Out.
A corporate-hell roguelike auto-battler. Hire a disposable worker, build game-breaking combos out of office junk, and send them up the corporate ladder through the circles of Limbo Corp. When they burn out, open a new headcount. The only way out is up.
Line Go Up
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Burnt Out fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Burnt Out.
Play as a CEO where you buy companies & hire executives to build out your deck, then test your luck in the free market. Bad gambles may push you to make tough choices in the events that pop up along the way. You will get fired if you fail to meet expectations, so make that line go up!
Slimestronauts: Burst Strike
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Burnt Out fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Burnt Out.
Slimestronauts: Burst Strike needs you to keep cool under pressure to match 4 colors in a row to burst Replinodules - just like the good old days! Unlike the good old days; there are Powerups, Environmental Hazards, Enemies, Multiple game modes, and the option to Customize your own Game Mode!
The Completionist: 1980-1989
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Burnt Out fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Burnt Out.
Run a scrappy pop culture magazine through the 1980s. Hire writers, editors, and researchers. Manage a Kanban board. Prestige through Volumes. Try not to go broke. Strategic idle sim. Commodore 64 aesthetic. No micro-transactions.
Bingo Betty
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Ranked #5 for Burnt Out fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Burnt Out.
The Bingo Roguelike! Collect items, abuse powerful effects, and break Betty out of Hell by chaining bingos across hundreds of unique and customizable cards! Or craft the perfect loadout and rise through the ranks in Bingo Brawl, a competitive bingo TCG!
Jade scratch gamble
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Ranked #6 for Burnt Out fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Burnt Out.
Set in the 1980s and 1990s, you discover jadeite rough stones and the traditional art of jade carving, then open your own jade shop. Will you build a fortune by trading and crafting jade, or lose everything chasing the dream of the next “imperial green” treasure? The choice is yours.
StrategySteam ↗Music Manager
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Ranked #7 for Burnt Out fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Burnt Out.
Sign artists, develop talent, release music and steer careers through tours, festivals and changing trends in a detailed music industry management sim set from 1952 to 2026.
DEBTMASTER
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Burnt Out fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Burnt Out.
You're drowning in debt and the interest never stops. Grind every hustle you can find -- card games, crypto mining, gig deliveries, content farming, and more -- while stacking upgrades from a pool of 1,000+. Automate with bots. Pay off your debt or drown trying. A roguelite capitalism satire.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Burnt Out.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Burnt Out.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Burnt Out.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Burnt Out.
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.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Burnt Out.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Burnt Out.
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Frequently asked about Burnt Out
- What games are most similar to Burnt Out?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Burnt Out are Open Headcount: A Corporate-Hell Roguelike, Line Go Up, Slimestronauts: Burst Strike.
- Who developed Burnt Out?
- Burnt Out was developed by Bacayne and published by Yesternow Games.
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 Burnt Out.
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