Games like Dormant
If Dormant is your kind of game, the closest matches are Factory Time, Feed The Vessel and Meme Farm — 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 Dormant: Sci-fi idle game. You are SERO, an AI awakened in an abandoned datacenter. Rebuild your system, explore the network and uncover what happened. 2 possible endings.
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Steam players who put hours into Dormant 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.
Factory Time
WHY THIS
Top pick for Dormant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dormant.
A factory automation incremental game at the end of the universe. Start crafting by hand, automate production, and build the Chronoforge to escape.
Feed The Vessel
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Dormant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dormant.
A Short Active Incremental game where you keep a hungry god fed across hundreds of light-years of empty space. Grow clones in vats, butcher and burn them for meat, blood, and ichor, upgrade your ship's stations, push the engine into overdrive, and reach the other side.
Meme Farm
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Dormant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dormant.
Turn one humble Like button into the internet’s biggest meme empire. Click, automate, unlock absurd towers, and grow your numbers beyond reason. Climb the leaderboards, crush your friends’ scores, and prove once and for all who is the ultimate Meme Lord.
Restoration: Chronicles of Survival
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Dormant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dormant.
Rebuild a fallen kingdom in a cozy idle-RPG. An economy that earns while you sleep, a hero who raids for loot and gear, and endless prestige. No energy limits. No ads. No pay-to-win.
OurClicker
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Ranked #5 for Dormant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dormant.
From the creators of OurLife and OurCoven, OurClicker is a brand new clicker game that puts you in charge of an up-and-coming Game Development Studio where all you do is... CLICK!
Necromancer Idle: The Endless Drain
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Dormant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dormant.
Defeat The Necromancer and free the world from his evil! An Idle/Incremental inspired by RPGs and Roguelites: choose between Soldier, Ranger or Mage, die and rise again keeping your innate experience, automate your actions and reincarnate until you end the curse that drains your life.
Mors: Idle Reaper
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Dormant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dormant.
A dark idle RPG where every Hunt is a gamble. Gather resources, forge your build, risk your reward bank against brutal bosses, claim rare loot, and rebirth stronger. At Level 1000, Amo awaits.
Knightfall Idle
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Dormant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dormant.
Knightfall Idle is a medieval idle RPG made by Gibber. Gather, process, trade, and fight across 10 skills while your kingdom runs in the background. Join a Fief, raid bandit camps, compete in seasonal leagues, or stay in the permanent realm. 450+ passive tree nodes. Free to play.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dormant at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Dormant on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dormant.
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 Dormant on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dormant.
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
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Priced ~70% under Dormant on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dormant.
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.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Dormant on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dormant.
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 Dormant on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dormant.
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?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Dormant on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dormant.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Dormant on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dormant.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dormant.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dormant.
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 Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dormant.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dormant.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dormant.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dormant.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dormant.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
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Frequently asked about Dormant
- How much does Dormant cost?
- Dormant is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dormant?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dormant are Factory Time, Feed The Vessel, Meme Farm.
- Who developed Dormant?
- Dormant was developed by Moon Root.
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 Dormant.
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