Games like Metabolis
If Metabolis is your kind of game, the closest matches are Camping Keeper, Relaxation Massage Studio and Ancient Cities — 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 Metabolis: Build a city shaped by water. Bring clean water uphill, collect sewage, and treat it before it pollutes the river. Expand neighborhoods, trace problems through your pipes, and grow a thriving low-poly city.
Players who liked Metabolis also play
Steam players who put hours into Metabolis 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.
Camping Keeper
WHY THIS
Top pick for Metabolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Metabolis.
Build your campground from the ground up: tent sites, cabins, showers, pools, and the pipes and power lines behind them. Watch autonomous campers live, complain... and review you. Set prices, hire staff, and climb from a muddy one-star field to a five-star resort.
Relaxation Massage Studio
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Metabolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Metabolis.
Relaxation Massage Studio is a relaxing massage studio management sim. Use the character customization system with over a thousand appearance options and hundreds of presets to create customers. As your studio grows, you’ll unlock new interactions and shape your dream massage studio.
Ancient Cities
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Metabolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Metabolis.
Ancient Cities is a realistic, survival city builder in an immersive procedural environment. Lead the fate of your tribe through ancient times!
HEXAROMA: Village Builder
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Metabolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Metabolis.
HEXAROMA is a charming village builder set on a tiny island village where you start your Hexling colony! Place your buildings, and manage Hexling villagers on a hexagonal island. Plan your placements wisely, grow your settlement, optimize your colony and help your villagers thrive.
Noble Legacy
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Ranked #5 for Metabolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Metabolis.
Noble Legacy is a medieval city-builder in which you rule the lands as a Noble. Build your kingdom, manage your people, defend your realm, and master a deep economy, alone or with friends in co-op, every decision is yours. What kind of ruler will you be?
Wizdom Academy
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Ranked #6 for Metabolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Metabolis.
Headmaster, your academy awaits: Recruit young students and shape them into mighty wizards. Build, manage and customize your castle, manage your resources and send your squads in expedition to expand your school's prestige and influence.
Casino Resort Tower
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Ranked #7 for Metabolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Metabolis.
Build a towering casino resort and watch it come alive. Crowds flow, elevators jam, and tiny decisions create big stories as your tower grows upward, floor by floor. Build it. Break it. Fix it.
Foundation
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Ranked #8 for Metabolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Metabolis.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Metabolis.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 Metabolis.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Metabolis.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Metabolis.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Metabolis.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Metabolis.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Metabolis.
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.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Metabolis.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
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More from QUENCH FORGE
Other recommendable Steam games by QUENCH FORGE, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Ultimate Blacksmith Tycoon ~The Appraiser-Shopkeeper Conquers the Blacksmith Trade~
WHY THIS
Another title from QUENCH FORGE, the studio behind Metabolis. Shares Indie and Simulation with Metabolis.
An appraiser-shopkeeper conquers the blacksmith trade. Read materials, decode Modifiers, bend the rarity table. Craft gear (Artifact 1 in 1,270), arm adventurers across 79 jobs, and dispatch parties into dungeons of 1,270+ monsters. Compound-interest debt, a re-forging workshop, 80+ tech nodes.
FLOWORKS
WHY THIS
Another title from QUENCH FORGE, the studio behind Metabolis. Shares Indie and Simulation with Metabolis.
A node-graph automation × idle factory builder. Materials flow along the wires you draw and transform at each machine. Fix bottlenecks, optimize your layout, grow a trade empire, and rise to rule the robotics industry. Zero art assets — every visual and sound is generated in code.
OUTWORKS
WHY THIS
Another title from QUENCH FORGE, the studio behind Metabolis. Shares Indie and Simulation with Metabolis.
Build a towering 3D fortress and hold the line. Stack floors, raise walls, and place turrets by altitude to survive escalating swarms of ground and flying machines closing on your core — then watch one collapsing tower take everything with it. A lean, neon, code-built base-defense roguelite.
Frequently asked about Metabolis
- What games are most similar to Metabolis?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Metabolis are Camping Keeper, Relaxation Massage Studio, Ancient Cities.
- Who developed Metabolis?
- Metabolis was developed by QUENCH FORGE.
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 Metabolis.
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