Games like Hardcoded
If Hardcoded is your kind of game, the closest matches are Stories of Somnia, Haiju and Herdles — 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 Hardcoded: A surreal 2D action-adventure platformer about a self-aware AI. Travel through unstable games, overcome obstacles, solve puzzles, fight enemies, and adapt to the Creator’s interference.
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Steam players who put hours into Hardcoded 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.
Stories of Somnia
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Top pick for Hardcoded fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hardcoded.
Stories of Somnia is an exploration-first JRPG with the bones of a Metroidvania. Use spells to grapple across gaps, change the rules of combat, and reshape the world around you. Collect memory-born companions called Dreamkin and uncover a story about grief, time, and the courage to rest.
Haiju
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Second-strongest match for Hardcoded fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hardcoded.
Gather the 36 Heavenly Wind Bells from across otherworldly landscapes drawn from Japanese mythology. Charge through enemies and glide over vast gaps in a high-speed action platformer charged with electric energy.
Herdles
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Third-strongest match for Hardcoded fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hardcoded.
An adorable open world platformer where you play as a magical dog. Zoom around a vibrant landscape, using an evolving arsenal of abilities to explore, solve challenges and discover secrets – one bark at a time!
Fire and Water: Spirits of the Forest
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Ranked #4 for Hardcoded fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hardcoded.
Embark on this two-player adventure in a colorful world to forge a strong bond with your friend, partner, or family. Overcome challenging puzzles. Unleash your unique playstyle using the diverse abilities of Fire, Water, and 5 other forest spirits.
BeatBo
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Ranked #5 for Hardcoded fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hardcoded.
BeatBo is a sidescroller rhythm platformer, where everything follows the beat of the music, with every level bringing a different and refreshing twist to rhythm platforming! Follow the music, unleash your abilities to the beat with Brio and Oliy to save Rhythm City!
Unsung Escape
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Ranked #6 for Hardcoded fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Hardcoded.
Unsung Escape is a vertical action-platformer where you outrun an ever-rising Void. Use Energy Orbs to gain movement abilities like double-jumps and dashes. No enemies—just pure platforming, exploration, and survival.
Screenbound
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Ranked #7 for Hardcoded fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hardcoded.
Screenbound lets you discover a dual reality through the Qboy! Navigate challenging puzzles and battle through multiple levels in a blend of 2D and 3D platforming that creates the world’s first '5D' platformer.
Daemon: Lost in Memory
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Ranked #8 for Hardcoded fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Hardcoded.
You are an anomaly. A single, sentient data bit trapped deep within a collapsing, corrupted memory space.
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Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Hardcoded.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hardcoded.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hardcoded.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hardcoded.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hardcoded.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hardcoded.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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Frequently asked about Hardcoded
- What games are most similar to Hardcoded?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hardcoded are Stories of Somnia, Haiju, Herdles.
- Who developed Hardcoded?
- Hardcoded was developed by Krokozavr , Diana Taptunova and published by KrokozavrGame.
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 Hardcoded.
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