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Games like Last Year's Model

If Last Year's Model is your kind of game, the closest matches are IRON SHADOW : Survival Protocol, AIgent and Elsie — 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.

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About Last Year's Model: In Last Year's Model, you design the levels. But as the difficulty rises and the timer ticks down, you may find that you quickly become the architect of your own misfortune.

2026ActionIndieWindows · macOSby Mawberry Games
Last Year's Model — Steam game cover

Players who liked Last Year's Model also play

Steam players who put hours into Last Year's Model 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.

  1. IRON SHADOW : Survival Protocol

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Last Year's Model fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Last Year's Model.

    Jump. Dash. Survive. A Survivor-Like With Platforming where you battle massive enemy hordes and create devastating builds.

    ActionIndieSteam ↗
  2. AIgent

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Last Year's Model fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Last Year's Model.

    AIgent is 1982 style gameplay in a 1982 alternate timeline. Speedrunning 2D hand-drawn pixel art platformer where you need to destroy the satellite on each level by shooting, headshooting or knifing the enemies and collecting their elevator access codes.

    ActionSteam ↗
  3. Elsie

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Last Year's Model fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Last Year's Model.

    Elsie is a technicolour, hyperkinetic, rogue-like action-platformer filled with procedurally generated levels, an army of robots to blast through, and a wide scope of items & weaponry to make each run unique. Master countless magitek weapons and abilities in order to embrace the chaos.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. CrushBorgs

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Last Year's Model fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Last Year's Model.

    "Run and Gun" oldschool single-player platformer with NES aesthetics, including an authentic 8-bit chiptune.

    2022ActionIndie4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. CYBERMATRIX

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Last Year's Model fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Last Year's Model.

    CYBERMATRIX is a fast paced game about movement. A place where the style of your moves really matters.

    2026ActionIndie12.00 USDSteam ↗
  6. On Rusty Trails

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Last Year's Model fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Last Year's Model.

    Conformity is everything in this lightning-fast platformer - get ready to shift your friendships each and every second!

    2016Indie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. ION Shift

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Last Year's Model fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Last Year's Model.

    ION Shift delivers fast, high-stakes gameplay with precision controls and a unique sandbox-style approach to combat arenas. The campaign progressively challenges the player through evolving level design, tight mechanics, and a focus on player-driven mastery.

    2024ActionIndie3.59 USDSteam ↗
  8. iZBOT

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Last Year's Model fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Last Year's Model.

    iZBOT is fast paced, double jumping, wall sliding, edge of your seat platformer that delivers delicious bite sized challenging platforming levels while always keeping you in the action.

    2015ActionIndie1.19 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Last Year's Model.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Last Year's Model.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Last Year's Model.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Last Year's Model.

    Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.

    2016ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Last Year's Model.

    The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Last Year's Model.

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Last Year's Model.

    USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.

    2025IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Floating Point

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Last Year's Model.

    Floating Point is a peaceful, free game about using a grappling hook to swing yourself gracefully through randomly generated spaces. The only objective is to collect points, and the only thing that increases your points is swinging swiftly, smoothly and elegantly without hitting anything.

    2014IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Last Year's Model

What games are most similar to Last Year's Model?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Last Year's Model are IRON SHADOW : Survival Protocol, AIgent, Elsie.
Who developed Last Year's Model?
Last Year's Model was developed by Mawberry 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 Last Year's Model.

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