Games like Thermal Runaway
If Thermal Runaway is your kind of game, the closest matches are Galatria, Retro Wave and Sabotris — 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 Thermal Runaway: A hot spark runs the traces of a circuit board. Bounce it off reflecting switches and collect all the loose particles on each board without running into other sparks or out of time.
Players who liked Thermal Runaway also play
Steam players who put hours into Thermal Runaway 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.
Galatria
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Top pick for Thermal Runaway fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Thermal Runaway.
A fast, retro 3D arcade shoot-'em-up. Pilot your fighter across scrolling battlefields, thread floating island labyrinths where one wrong move is fatal, and blast through relentless waves and screen-filling bosses. Inspired by the 80's and 90's Arcade Games of the Times.
Retro Wave
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Second-strongest match for Thermal Runaway fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Thermal Runaway.
Retro Wave is an endless runner in which you have to avoid various obstacles in order to achieve the highest possible score. Compete with other players worldwide on a global leaderboard and become number 1.
Sabotris
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Third-strongest match for Thermal Runaway fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Thermal Runaway.
Sabotris is a strategic, competitive, 3D block stacking game, but with a twist: you can sabotage your opponents, but be careful; you can also end up sabotaging yourself! Choose to play either by yourself to beat your own high score, against your friends or other players, or even against computer AI!
Neon Bricks
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Ranked #4 for Thermal Runaway fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Thermal Runaway.
Neon Bricks is a arcade style game where you can't drop the ball. To reach your goal you need to destroy all the bricks.
Neon Blast
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Ranked #5 for Thermal Runaway fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Thermal Runaway.
Neon Blast - A head-scratching puzzle game
The Curse of Eclipse
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Ranked #6 for Thermal Runaway fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Thermal Runaway.
This is an adventure and puzzle game inspired by old school games of 1980s like Atic Atac from ZX Spectrum. You walk in a cursed house avoiding enemies and finding keys and magical scrolls. The game is playable with 3rd person, 1st person and top down views. Created by a solo developer.
Radon Break
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Ranked #7 for Thermal Runaway fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Thermal Runaway.
Radon Blast is a classic Brick Breaker style game. Break bricks by using the ball. Get items like speed, ball splitter and paddle resize to make the game more challenging. Some specials like gun, power ball or block wall helps you while playing your game.
Greedy Maze
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Ranked #8 for Thermal Runaway fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Thermal Runaway.
Casual next level maze game with 150 levels, in 5 different maze categories, with 3 full customizable modes and 12 color themes for anyone who like solving mazes. Main idea was to add some new features like moving walls and 3D weave type of maze.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Thermal Runaway.
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?
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Thermal Runaway.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Thermal Runaway.
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.
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Thermal Runaway.
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!
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Thermal Runaway.
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.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Thermal Runaway.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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More from Chilling Moose Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Chilling Moose Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Dutch's Chickens
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Another title from Chilling Moose Games, the studio behind Thermal Runaway. Shares Indie and Casual with Thermal Runaway.
Explore, discover secrets, gain awesome abilities and use them to find all your lost chickens!
Ruby's Realms
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Another title from Chilling Moose Games, the studio behind Thermal Runaway. Shares Indie and Casual with Thermal Runaway.
Ruby's Realms is a platformer blending metroidvania exploration with level-based challenges in mysterious cursed realms. Leap across precarious platforms, blast cultists and possessed monsters with magic flames. Collect upgrade points and buy upgrades from your friend, Skully.
Hop & Pop!
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Another title from Chilling Moose Games, the studio behind Thermal Runaway. Shares Indie and Casual with Thermal Runaway.
Relax, Hop & Pop! and battle bugs in this froggy survivor game!
Dead Lasso: Temple Of Shadows
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Another title from Chilling Moose Games, the studio behind Thermal Runaway. Shares Indie and Casual with Thermal Runaway.
Dodge enemies, solve environmental puzzles, and chain your growing moveset in true Metroidvania style as you unravel the temple’s deadly mysteries.
Froggy Works
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Another title from Chilling Moose Games, the studio behind Thermal Runaway. Shares Indie with Thermal Runaway.
Froggy Works is a desktop companion farming game you can play actively, or let it do its own thing in the background or on the side of the screen as an idler. Build your farm, hire frogs, decorate and fully customize your island with a ton of different decorative tiles and structures!
SYSCALL: RING ZERO
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Another title from Chilling Moose Games, the studio behind Thermal Runaway. Shares Indie and Casual with Thermal Runaway.
Reverse-engineer a private 1990s BBS. Read disassembly, patch broken checks, optimize a nine-core rack, and write assembly firmware that locks onto live scope traces. With 200+ puzzles, full controller support and offline play, you can refine your assembly skills on all your devices!
Frequently asked about Thermal Runaway
- What games are most similar to Thermal Runaway?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Thermal Runaway are Galatria, Retro Wave, Sabotris.
- Who developed Thermal Runaway?
- Thermal Runaway was developed by Chilling Moose Games and published by This Is Neat, Chilling Moose Games.
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