Games like Matris
If Matris is your kind of game, the closest matches are Tumblestone, Gigachess and Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its custom levels extend replayability, hypnotic soundtrack enhances focus and chill. 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 Matris: Matris is an easy to play but challenging logic puzzle game for everyone - casual and hardcore gamers.Relax in Puzzle Mode or fight for the High Score in Combo Mode and Time Attack. Play custom levels or create your own thanks to Level Editor.
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Steam players who put hours into Matris 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.
Tumblestone
WHY THIS
Top pick for Matris fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Matris.
Tumblestone is the first original action-puzzle game of the past fifteen years -- completely reinventing the genre into a deep and cerebral puzzle solving experience that you won't forget.
Gigachess
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Matris.
Second-strongest match for Matris fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Matris.
Gigachess is a hero defense puzzler on a chess board. Command your party of Knights, Rooks & Bishops against the relentless Pawn onslaught!
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Matris fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Matris.
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine is a single player or co-op heist game. Assemble a crack team of thieves, case the joint, and pull off the perfect heist.
ISLANDERS: New Shores
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with Matris.
Ranked #4 for Matris fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Matris.
Welcome to ISLANDERS: New Shores. Build your island retreat in a calm, minimalist world with exciting new features that keep the classic charm while inspiring fresh creativity.
Mini Motorways
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with Matris.
Ranked #5 for Matris fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Matris.
Mini Motorways is a strategy simulation game about designing the road map for a growing city. Build a traffic network, one road at a time, to create a bustling metropolis. Redesign your roads and place your motorways to get everyone where they need to go. How long can you keep the city moving?
I, Zombie
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Matris.
Ranked #6 for Matris fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Matris.
Quite a different zombie game - this time YOU are the zombie! Command your infested comrades, fight your way to freedom and let the zombie kind dominate the world! Oh, and you're able to create your own scenarios!
MouseCraft
WHY THIS
Shares level editor and a contemplative mood with Matris.
Ranked #7 for Matris fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Matris.
Ever wondered what a cross between Tetris and Lemmings would look like? Well, wonder no more, 'cause... MouseCraft is here! MouseCraft is an A to B puzzle game where players help Schrödinger, the crazy cat scientist, in completing his mysterious, mice-powered invention.
Kombine
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Matris.
Ranked #8 for Matris fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Matris.
Kombine is a minimalist puzzle game played on a grid. The goal is to remove all of the blocks that have borders by matching three or more of the same blocks together.
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Chime Sharp
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with Matris.
Reviewers of Matris cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Casual with Matris.
Chime was a much-loved music puzzle game on Xbox Live Arcade, PC and PS3. What happens if you file away the rusty edges? New music + new modes + new visuals = CHIME SHARP.
Puyo Puyo™Tetris®
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Matris cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Casual with Matris.
Two puzzle game juggernauts collide as global phenomenon Tetris® and SEGA’s famous Puyo Puyo™ combine in a super mash-up of ferocious competition, adorable looks, and addictive puzzle fun!
ANIME TETRIS
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Matris cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Matris.
The legendary game "Tetris" in a unique performance and atmosphere
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Matris at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Matris on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Matris.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Matris on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Matris.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Matris on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Matris.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Matris on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Matris.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Matris on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Matris.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Matris on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Matris.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Matris on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Matris.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Matris on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Matris.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Sprout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Matris.
Embark on a casual, botanical-puzzle-adventure. Make friends, learn new skills, solve puzzles, and become the mighty oak that you were always meant to be.
Learn to Fly 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Matris.
Build your spaceship from scratch, earn funds and invest them into building a bigger, better spaceship as you try and fly your way up to space!
Transformice
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Matris.
Transformice is an MMO platformer about dozens of mice running to bring back the cheese! Will the almighty Shaman help you or just ruin everything? Millions of levels, hectic physics, skill trees, and more importantly... hats!
BEEP
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Matris.
A combination of platforming with a gravity gun, BEEP is an amazing physics-platformer. Despite its friendly art style, this is a hardcore platformer in the truest sense.
In Sink: A Co-Op Escape Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Matris.
Play an early version of the first level for free! Work together to solve the puzzles and escape a desert island in this multiplayer co-op adventure. Success requires more than just you and your partner thinking alike - you'll have to communicate and stay In Sink to overcome the challenges ahead.
Picross Touch
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Matris.
Find the hidden image in this fun and addictive logic puzzle game. All puzzles have unique solutions, ensuring 100% logically solvable puzzle grids.
Lines X Free
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Matris.
Beautiful & relaxing Numberlink puzzles.
Sigils of Elohim
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Matris.
Sigils of Elohim is a free mini-game prelude to Croteam’s upcoming first-person puzzler The Talos Principle that challenges players to solve dozens of challenging sigil puzzles under the watchful eye of Elohim.
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Tumblestone
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Matris.
Tumblestone is the first original action-puzzle game of the past fifteen years -- completely reinventing the genre into a deep and cerebral puzzle solving experience that you won't forget.
ISLANDERS: New Shores
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with Matris.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Matris.
Welcome to ISLANDERS: New Shores. Build your island retreat in a calm, minimalist world with exciting new features that keep the classic charm while inspiring fresh creativity.
Mini Motorways
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with Matris.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Casual with Matris.
Mini Motorways is a strategy simulation game about designing the road map for a growing city. Build a traffic network, one road at a time, to create a bustling metropolis. Redesign your roads and place your motorways to get everyone where they need to go. How long can you keep the city moving?
I, Zombie
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Matris.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Matris.
Quite a different zombie game - this time YOU are the zombie! Command your infested comrades, fight your way to freedom and let the zombie kind dominate the world! Oh, and you're able to create your own scenarios!
Frequently asked about Matris
- How much does Matris cost?
- Matris is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Matris?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Matris are Tumblestone, Gigachess, Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine.
- Who developed Matris?
- Matris was developed by Leaghorn.
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 Matris.
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