Games like Neural Goblins
If Neural Goblins is your kind of game, the closest matches are Idle Grid, AI Society and soul Interface — 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 Neural Goblins: Build a neural world inhabited by tiny brain goblins. Manage their nests, explore the mysterious Brain City, and discover how dopamine, GABA, memory, and focus work together in this cozy neural simulation game.
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Steam players who put hours into Neural Goblins 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.
Idle Grid
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Top pick for Neural Goblins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Neural Goblins.
Build and optimize your industrial empire in this grid-based idle game. Place factories, power plants, and research labs strategically to maximize efficiency through adjacency bonuses. Upgrade your buildings, manage power consumption, and watch your profits soar while you're away.
AI Society
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Neural Goblins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Neural Goblins.
Build your society powered by AI characters. Give your townsfolk unique personalities, hobbies, and traits; then watch them work, argue, form friendships, fight on their own, and more. Complete dungeons & play mini-games with your characters to win artifacts. Runs 100% locally on your machine.
soul Interface
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Neural Goblins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Neural Goblins.
You explore an alien machine, learn to operate it, create virtual organisms, and grow an artificial ecosystem inside it. You design species down to individual atoms and watch them fight for survival. You then send successful species to other players to leech energy from them and power your machine.
KN Tower - Build your skyscraper empire
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Ranked #4 for Neural Goblins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Neural Goblins.
Build, expand and manage your own skyscraper in this deep building and management simulation. Design every floor, optimize elevators, manage tenants, businesses and finances. Create a vibrant vertical metropolis.
X SPACE: Meditation Pod
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Ranked #5 for Neural Goblins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Neural Goblins.
Escape gravity and find absolute focus. X SPACE: Meditation Pod is an immersive Pomodoro timer combining low-poly sci-fi aesthetics with premium ASMR white noise. Set your timer, relax to deep-space sounds, and watch your digital sanctuary assemble itself. Stay focused to earn Steam drops!
Deisim
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Ranked #7 for Neural Goblins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Neural Goblins.
Live the experience of being a powerful god and create the world to see the growth of mankind.
Fish Game
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Ranked #8 for Neural Goblins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Neural Goblins.
Fish Game is a detailed and highly “sofishticated” freshwater aquarium simulator, lovingly crafted *by* enthusiasts *for* enthusiasts! Featuring fish with personalities and dynamic relationships, water quality modeling, and so much more! Made with support from our friends at Smarter Every Day!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Neural Goblins.
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.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Neural Goblins.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Neural Goblins.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Neural Goblins.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Neural Goblins.
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 with Neural Goblins.
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 Neural Goblins.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Neural Goblins
- What games are most similar to Neural Goblins?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Neural Goblins are Idle Grid, AI Society, soul Interface.
- Who developed Neural Goblins?
- Neural Goblins was developed by Grey Chan's Lab.
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 Neural Goblins.
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