Games like Protocol: Assimilation
If Protocol: Assimilation is your kind of game, the closest matches are POPAPOM, Rockblaze and Cat-Astrophy — 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 Protocol: Assimilation: Awaken your inner speedrunner in this challenging 2D platformer. Strategically combine routes, abilities, and artifacts, choose which obstacles to destroy, and execute every action with precision to maximize your wealth and endure until the end. Die, repeat, and evolve in pursuit of the perfect run.

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Steam players who put hours into Protocol: Assimilation 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.
POPAPOM
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Top pick for Protocol: Assimilation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Protocol: Assimilation.
A fast-paced action platformer roguelite with frantic combat, hundreds of modifying items, and dangerously charismatic monsters in the best arcade arena style. It’s time to make a POPAPOM!
Rockblaze
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Protocol: Assimilation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Protocol: Assimilation.
Rockblaze is a 2.5D physics-based puzzle platformer. Move with thrusters or weapon recoil as you pilot your ship through a simulated futuristic prison. Upgrade your ship, experiment with builds, learn from failure, and uncover the secrets of the simulation.
Cat-Astrophy
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Protocol: Assimilation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Protocol: Assimilation.
Cat-Astrophy is a fast-paced Action Roguelite that combines frantic combat, precision platforming and unique builds across procedurally generated planets. Every run offers new ways to play, death is permanent. Can you survive the cat-astrophe?
CyberSushi
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Ranked #4 for Protocol: Assimilation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Protocol: Assimilation.
CyberSushi is a fast arcade roguelite where tiny cybernetic sushi heroes race through collapsing dimensions. Chain streaks to trigger WASABI, fill Sushi Surge, stack wild Sushi Hacks, build your roster, and chase one more impossible run.
Super Moncat
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Ranked #5 for Protocol: Assimilation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Protocol: Assimilation.
Fly, dodge, and score points — this is a real test of reaction and concentration, where every new record feels like a big victory over the ruthless cosmos.
Stellar Orbit
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Ranked #6 for Protocol: Assimilation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Protocol: Assimilation.
Mine deeper than your fuel can carry you, while solar flares scramble your instruments. Strip an ore belt with the same guns that fight the pirate swarm, race your fuel home, and push each run deeper toward a dying star. A top-down mining-survival score chase.
Snake: Gridbreaker
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Ranked #7 for Protocol: Assimilation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Protocol: Assimilation.
There is no tutorial. And there won't be. I believe in you. I couldn't escape the Grid. Maybe you can. You are snake who eats apples. j/k You want to escape the grid loop. BUT the LOOP wants to keep You in.
Poko Poko Field
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Ranked #8 for Protocol: Assimilation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Protocol: Assimilation.
'Poko Poko Field' is a roguelite action game where the fluffy Pomeranian "Watapoko" conquers islands scattered across the world through knockback battles. Combine skills, build your strategy, and set out on an adventure to become the strongest across the islands.
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 Action with Protocol: Assimilation.
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 Action and Indie with Protocol: Assimilation.
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 Protocol: Assimilation.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Protocol: Assimilation.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Protocol: Assimilation.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Protocol: Assimilation.
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.
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Frequently asked about Protocol: Assimilation
- What games are most similar to Protocol: Assimilation?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Protocol: Assimilation are POPAPOM, Rockblaze, Cat-Astrophy.
- Who developed Protocol: Assimilation?
- Protocol: Assimilation was developed by Lodi Gaming.
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 Protocol: Assimilation.
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