Games like Shorted
If Shorted is your kind of game, the closest matches are Index 1391, A Bun Above and Laurus — 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 Shorted: SHORTED is a puzzle roguelike deckbuilder about tracing same-color Packets into scoring shapes. Tune your deck, combine rule-bending Patches, and break through six hostile Firewalls.
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Steam players who put hours into Shorted 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.
Index 1391
WHY THIS
Top pick for Shorted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Shorted.
In this techno-gothic roguelike deckbuilder, journey to the heart of a twisted Sanctum to destroy the VIRUS infecting your faith. Wield sacred cards to defeat corrupted foes, build a powerful deck, and equip rule-altering Doctrines that reshape the rules of combat.
StrategySteam ↗A Bun Above
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Shorted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shorted.
Stack it. Don't drop it. Cash in on synergy. A physics-stacking burger roguelike where neighbouring ingredients chain effects into each other — the taller and tidier your build, the bigger the score. Draft a deck, pick from 8 cooks, work the shift.
Laurus
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Shorted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shorted.
Rig the machine until it pays out wrong. Draw symbols from your bag across five reels, chain paylines, and slot circuit-board artifacts into combos the house never accounted for. A roguelike deckbuilder about the arithmetic of very bad odds.
My Snake Likes Apples
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Shorted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shorted.
A short, minimalist incremental game about raising a foolish snake and helping it go the distance.
Facelet
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Shorted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shorted.
Facelet is a roguelike deckbuilder played on a scrambled puzzle cube. Twist layers to line up colors, cash them in, and build a deck that scores a cube nobody would ever finish. Spend your winnings on Algorithms, Mods, stickers and Tools, then take the bigger cube into the next Depth.
Dataminers
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Shorted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shorted.
Get inside the mind of an ethical hacker and race against the firewall as you collect data, hack terminals and bring enemies down from the inside. Dataminers is a casual logic game, where you climb and clear towers full of data mines.
First Age
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Shorted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Shorted.
A turn-based strategy card game set in the Neolithic Age. Sacrifice villagers, tame mammoths, and build powerful card synergies to lead your tribe through the threat of the Dark Ages. Will your people stand the test of time?
Gambeat
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Shorted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shorted.
Start with pawns, end with clowns. Build a roster of evolving pieces, stack game-breaking stickers, and chain together absurd high scores in this chess roguelike deckbuilder.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shorted.
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 Shorted.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shorted.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shorted.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shorted.
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.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shorted.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shorted.
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 Shorted
- What games are most similar to Shorted?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shorted are Index 1391, A Bun Above, Laurus.
- Who developed Shorted?
- Shorted was developed by Makikata 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 Shorted.
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