Games like Influence
If Influence is your kind of game, the closest matches are FEED THE AI, Dark Web: Vigilante and Mini WW2 Simulator: Gear and War — 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 Influence: You are the unseen force steering humanity toward the light of reason — or the abyss of fear. Every tap reshapes a civilization, and dozens of endings remember your choice. All the while, Fjord — your desktop pet — perches on your window and taps in your place.
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FEED THE AI
WHY THIS
Top pick for Influence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Influence.
Feed the AI. Collect data. Unlock upgrades. Watch the algorithm grow beyond your control. An active incremental where you feed an evolving AI with data and shape what it becomes. Will it save the world… or take it over?
Dark Web: Vigilante
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Second-strongest match for Influence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Influence.
You are Vigilantus, a genius hacker and former member of Runyan. Immerse yourself in a world run by corrupt corporations, politicians, and greedy pharmaceutical companies. Uncover dark political secrets. Battle systemic injustice. Redistribute wealth to the poor. Destroy entire corporations.
Mini WW2 Simulator: Gear and War
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Influence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Influence.
A WW2 god-simulation game where you observe or influence nations’ military development and the course of war. Customize WWII unit loadouts, edit formations, and deploy infantry, artillery, and armored forces to shape the outcome of battles.
咕噜咕噜海洋馆
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Ranked #4 for Influence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Influence.
欢迎来到这片蔚蓝的摸鱼天堂！在这里，你可以购买可爱的海洋萌物——养Q弹发光的水母、逗气鼓鼓的河豚、有趣的寄居蟹，甚至照顾坏笑的鲨鱼！每天喂食、摸摸头、治疗感冒打喷嚏，看着它们茁壮成长~ 还能帮你赚取贝壳币，通过在商店购买的装饰品，来装饰你的海洋牧场，打造属于你一个人的梦幻海底牧场，快来成为最会摸鱼……啊不，最会经营的海洋大亨吧！(๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧
MiniMap Kingdom
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Influence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Influence.
Build your own kingdom on unlimited Map!
Plant Budz 98
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Influence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Influence.
Raise a pet on a retro desktop. Then play as them across 4 completely different games.
Loafing Town
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Ranked #7 for Influence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Influence.
A relaxing and humorous idle god simulator that stays at the bottom of your screen or on a second monitor while you do other things. With physics-based dragging interactions, it feels just like playing with desk toys.
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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 Influence.
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 and Simulation with Influence.
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 and Simulation with Influence.
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 Influence.
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 Influence.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Influence.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Influence.
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!
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- What games are most similar to Influence?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Influence are FEED THE AI, Dark Web: Vigilante, Mini WW2 Simulator: Gear and War.
- Who developed Influence?
- Influence was developed by RISE'S.
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 Influence.
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