Games like Zone of Lacryma
If Zone of Lacryma is your kind of game, the closest matches are Nevultra, ∀stralbringer -Shaded Arkarium- and Broken Sky — 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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Steam players who put hours into Zone of Lacryma 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.
Nevultra
WHY THIS
Top pick for Zone of Lacryma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Zone of Lacryma.
Nevultra is an exciting shoot'em up that will take you back to the 8bit/16bit era. The protagonist, Nina, needs your help to reach her destination in deep space.
∀stralbringer -Shaded Arkarium-
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Zone of Lacryma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Zone of Lacryma.
Shoot 'em up has reached a new frontier! 2D bullet-hell sci-fi action shooter with mouse control and multiple buttons!
Broken Sky
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Zone of Lacryma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Zone of Lacryma.
Broken Sky is a fast paced dogfighting shooter featuring unlockable planes, explosive weapons, special abilities and Shoot 'em up madness. Responsive controls combined with super fast air combat will have you coming back for more in your bullet hell quest to defeat the alien takeover.
Space Dragons
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Zone of Lacryma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Zone of Lacryma.
Choose your spaceship and defeat the alien threat that comes from the Moon. Blast your way crushing, ripping apart and exploding hostile aliens that are taking control of powerful weapons and military technology from Earth. Find the entity that controls the threat and make it explode into blood.
Crush The Rebellion!
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Zone of Lacryma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Zone of Lacryma.
The galactic empire is under siege from the rebel scum in all directions! Fight through endless waves of rebel ships using all of the weapons and resources at your disposal as you execute your sole orders: to Crush The Rebellion!
Chronos Bound: How We Became Heroes
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Zone of Lacryma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Zone of Lacryma.
Pilot a lone ship through a collapsing orbital station in a modern 2.5D shoot ’em up. Block bullets with a 360° directional shield, destroy grotesque wreck-born enemies, defeat colossal bosses, and build new upgrade paths with every run — a love letter to classic shoot ’em ups.
Astebreed: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Zone of Lacryma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Zone of Lacryma.
Climb into the cockpit of an otherworldly war machine and fly into battle against a horrifying alien race bent on eradicating humanity to preserve their own civilization.
Graceful Explosion Machine
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Zone of Lacryma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Zone of Lacryma.
Skillfully pilot the Graceful Explosion Machine, a fighter ship armed with a ludicrously overpowered quad-weapon array! Lost in deep space, you'll shoot, dash and combo your way through jewel-hued uncharted planets, fighting an alien armada to find a way home.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Zone of Lacryma at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Zone of Lacryma on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Zone of Lacryma.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Zone of Lacryma on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Zone of Lacryma.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Zone of Lacryma on Steam right now. Shares Action with Zone of Lacryma.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Zone of Lacryma on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Zone of Lacryma.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Zone of Lacryma on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Zone of Lacryma.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under Zone of Lacryma on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Zone of Lacryma.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Zone of Lacryma on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Zone of Lacryma.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Zone of Lacryma on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Zone of Lacryma.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Zone of Lacryma.
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 Action and Indie with Zone of Lacryma.
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 Zone of Lacryma.
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 Action and Indie with Zone of Lacryma.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Zone of Lacryma.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Zone of Lacryma.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Zone of Lacryma.
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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More from oophok
Other recommendable Steam games by oophok, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
The Guilt and the Shadow
WHY THIS
Another title from oophok, the studio behind Zone of Lacryma. Shares Indie with Zone of Lacryma.
"unbearable... this place stinks... i need to get out of here. the boat is waiting for me."
4 Months of You
WHY THIS
Another title from oophok, the studio behind Zone of Lacryma. Shares Indie with Zone of Lacryma.
Some memories should be left in the past. A first-person psychological horror game where you explore a slow-paced atmospheric world with graphics inspired by the PS1 era.
Fork the Rich
WHY THIS
Another title from oophok, the studio behind Zone of Lacryma.
Billionaires should not exist. It's time to Fork the Rich!
Frequently asked about Zone of Lacryma
- How much does Zone of Lacryma cost?
- Zone of Lacryma is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Zone of Lacryma?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Zone of Lacryma are Nevultra, ∀stralbringer -Shaded Arkarium-, Broken Sky.
- Who developed Zone of Lacryma?
- Zone of Lacryma was developed by oophok.
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 Zone of Lacryma.
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