Games like Nuts & Bolts
If Nuts & Bolts is your kind of game, the closest matches are Josh Journey: Darkness Totems, EMBER and KAON : Fragmented Core — 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 Nuts & Bolts: An action-horror game where you fight off against various robots as part of your job. Time your attacks properly, chain together combos, flee when necessary, and complete your mission.
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Josh Journey: Darkness Totems
WHY THIS
Top pick for Nuts & Bolts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nuts & Bolts.
Josh Journey: Darkness Totems is a hand drawn beat’em up game about four brave heroes, that use their skills to defeat the Nightmare Monsters using special combo attacks in a co-op gameplay.
EMBER
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Nuts & Bolts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nuts & Bolts.
EMBER is a dark cinematic 2.5D platformer. Descend through a beautiful and merciless world of ancient ruins, forgotten rituals, and creatures born from grief. Every path demands sacrifice, every mistake brings death, and sorrow alone walks beside you. Observe, endure, and rise again.
KAON : Fragmented Core
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Nuts & Bolts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Nuts & Bolts.
KAON: Fragmented Core is a 2D action-platformer with a metroidvania feel. You play as Kaon, an android awakened in a world where no one lives anymore, neither humans nor animals. Mostly what’s left is plants, ruins, and robots, a good chunk of them turned hostile
ActionSteam ↗Duels of Fortune
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Nuts & Bolts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nuts & Bolts.
A crazy, explosive fighting game with an expressive combo system and a diverse character roster! Play as superhumans, skeletons, aliens, and even stick figures! Battle dangerous foes, take part in lots of exciting singleplayer modes, throw your opponents into the sun, and so much more!
The Sickle Family
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Ranked #5 for Nuts & Bolts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Nuts & Bolts.
The Sickle Family is a haunting adventure game about dogs, exploring how inaction, even when everything seems normal, can lead to deep trauma and heartbreak. It tells a real-life story of grief, loss, and the hidden consequences of everyday moments.
Tilebreaker
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Ranked #6 for Nuts & Bolts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nuts & Bolts.
Destroy blocks through 20 levels and 5 unique bosses with different mechanics. Do it in the best possible time!
Ra Ra BOOM
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Nuts & Bolts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nuts & Bolts.
Grab friends or family for a colorful co-op brawler. Easy to pick up and full of frantic fun, Ra Ra BOOM has you bashing bots, blasting baddies, and laughing together in 4-player local co-op. It’s got retro roots with a modern arcade spirit.
Generic Fighter Maybe
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Nuts & Bolts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nuts & Bolts.
A classic arcade-style 2D Fighting Game, wrapped up in a goofy, full-of-energy, stylized presentation that mixes great animation and zany battle moves with simplistic doodles!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Nuts & Bolts.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Nuts & Bolts.
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 Nuts & Bolts.
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 Nuts & Bolts.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Nuts & Bolts.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Nuts & Bolts.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Nuts & Bolts.
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 Nuts & Bolts
- What games are most similar to Nuts & Bolts?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Nuts & Bolts are Josh Journey: Darkness Totems, EMBER, KAON : Fragmented Core.
- Who developed Nuts & Bolts?
- Nuts & Bolts was developed by DaleGoforPro.
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 Nuts & Bolts.
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