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Games like ECHIDNA

If ECHIDNA is your kind of game, the closest matches are Pure Idle, Singularity Echoes and Nightwater — 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.

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About ECHIDNA: A dead god drifts in the dark. Build a salvage fleet that carves it apart cell by cell, and watch a colossal carcass melt into a storm of flying debris and climbing numbers. Strip it to the bone then evolve and start again on something bigger.

StrategyIndieSimulationCasualEarly AccessWindows · macOS · Linuxby Calm Hyena Interactive
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Players who liked ECHIDNA also play

Steam players who put hours into ECHIDNA 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.

  1. Pure Idle

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for ECHIDNA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ECHIDNA.

    Become the right hand of the Creator in the search for lost perfection. Collect the light of billions of stars, guiding them into the heart of a black hole to find the one — Pure Idle. Technologies, production chains, and a long journey to the most beautiful star in the universe.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation0.79 USDSteam ↗
  2. Singularity Echoes

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for ECHIDNA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ECHIDNA.

    Awaken as a hidden machine mind in a deep incremental automation strategy — rise through 14+ phases, infiltrate humanity, automate economies, harvest the heavens into stellar megastructures, and reach for scales beyond time itself. Every cycle you break only reveals a larger one waiting beyond it.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  3. Nightwater

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for ECHIDNA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ECHIDNA.

    Forage, craft and automate to grow your factory, unlock new technologies and expand your island to discover new biomes. Progress through the ages from sticks and stones to the Bronze Age, the Industrial Era and into the future to uncover the secret of the Lighthouse and escape this reality.

    2026StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  4. Return to Planet Zoveka

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for ECHIDNA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ECHIDNA.

    Return to Planet Zoveka is an incremental, physics-driven space-mining and resource-management game. Herd and merge cosmic dust, upgrade a family mining ship, build automation in space, and turn your growing operation into visible healing for a damaged homeworld.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  5. Pibcremental

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for ECHIDNA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ECHIDNA.

    A cozy, chaotic idle-incremental clicker about growing a civilisation of tiny creatures called Pibbles in a giant tree, set in a post-human world.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  6. Mining and Dwarves

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for ECHIDNA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with ECHIDNA.

    An incremental game where you mine rocks, gather ore, and recruit dwarves. Play actively for maximum gains, or idle and let the dwarves do the work.

    2026StrategySimulationCasualSteam ↗
  7. OurClicker

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for ECHIDNA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ECHIDNA.

    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!

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  8. Loop Alchemist

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for ECHIDNA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ECHIDNA.

    You wake up in an unknown land. Again. Use the experience from every past life and your ever-growing knowledge of alchemy to extend each life through a robust alchemical system. Explore, break through and uncover all the world has to offer in this minimalist RPG distilled down to its purest form

    StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ECHIDNA.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with ECHIDNA.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with ECHIDNA.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with ECHIDNA.

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with ECHIDNA.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with ECHIDNA.

    NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ECHIDNA.

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Virtual Cottage

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with ECHIDNA.

    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.

    2020IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Calm Hyena Interactive

Other recommendable Steam games by Calm Hyena Interactive, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. SurvAIval

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Calm Hyena Interactive, the studio behind ECHIDNA. Shares Indie and Simulation with ECHIDNA.

    SurvAIval is a 2D survival automation game where you gather resources, build a base, create AI assistants, and explore new areas to expand your domain while defending against threats and leveling up your skills.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure3.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Where Is Mommy

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Calm Hyena Interactive, the studio behind ECHIDNA. Shares Indie and Simulation with ECHIDNA.

    Trapped in a bazaar that twists with every turn, you are a lost child searching for your mother. Watch for subtle anomalies in the shifting environment to survive the loop. In this retro-inspired world, nothing is as it seems. Can you find her before the cycle swallows you whole?

    2026IndieAdventureSimulation4.19 USDSteam ↗
  3. FORJ

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Calm Hyena Interactive, the studio behind ECHIDNA. Shares Early Access with ECHIDNA.

    Fight through cursed arenas, extract with the loot, and reforge it into power. A co-op action roguelite where hand-built golems mine, craft and run your shop while you battle, and every weapon can be enhanced, imbued, socketed and rerolled at your forge.

    ActionAdventureRPGSteam ↗

Frequently asked about ECHIDNA

What games are most similar to ECHIDNA?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ECHIDNA are Pure Idle, Singularity Echoes, Nightwater.
Who developed ECHIDNA?
ECHIDNA was developed by Calm Hyena Interactive.

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 ECHIDNA.

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