Games like forma.8
If forma.8 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Secrets of Rætikon, Dex and Iconoclasts — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its ambient soundtrack enhances immersion, beautiful alien landscapes captivate and atmospheric. 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 forma.8: forma.8 is a unique take on the proven Metroidvania action-adventure formula, with a striking visual style and a huge world to explore.
Players who liked forma.8 also play
Steam players who put hours into forma.8 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.
Secrets of Rætikon
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with forma.8.
Top pick for forma.8 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with forma.8.
Ruthless bird versus bird action. Wild animals and the artefacts of a mysterious ancient culture. A game full of challenge and discovery – unlike anything you've played before.
Dex
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with forma.8.
Second-strongest match for forma.8 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with forma.8.
Dex is a 2D, side-scrolling, open-world cyberpunk RPG with a focus on exploration and non-linear gameplay.
Iconoclasts
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with forma.8.
Third-strongest match for forma.8 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with forma.8.
Join renegade mechanic Robin and uncover the secrets of a dying planet. Explore a big world filled with intricate puzzles, interesting characters and menacing bosses in a beautiful platform adventure that tells a personal story about faith, purpose and the challenge of helping people.
Axiom Verge
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with forma.8.
Ranked #4 for forma.8 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with forma.8.
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
Gato Roboto
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for forma.8 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with forma.8.
Pounce inside of your cozy armored mech and set off on a dangerous trek through an alien underworld full of irritable creatures and treacherous obstacles in a valiant effort to save your stranded captain and his crashed spaceship.
Feudal Alloy
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with forma.8.
Ranked #6 for forma.8 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with forma.8.
Feudal Alloy is an epic action adventure with fish-controlled medieval robots! Explore an unusual medieval world with a fish-controlled robot, Attu. Improve your combat techniques and skills by smashing many kinds of mechanical creatures in a beautiful hand-drawn world.
Teslagrad
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with forma.8.
Ranked #7 for forma.8 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with forma.8.
A journey begins... A treacherous tower... Unravel its mysteries!Discover the secrets kept in the long abandoned Tesla Tower!Magnetism and other electromagnetic powers will help you explore a non-linear world of beautiful hand-drawn environments, in a steampunk-inspired vision of old Europe.
Smelter
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with forma.8.
Ranked #8 for forma.8 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with forma.8.
You are Eve, fresh out of Eden and armed with a living suit of armor, Smelter. Explore a dangerous new world, battle its bizarre denizens and expand your empire in a desperate journey to find Adam.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below forma.8 at current Steam store prices.
Miss Neko
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under forma.8 on Steam right now. Shares Action with forma.8.
Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)
QUICKERFLAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under forma.8 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with forma.8.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under forma.8 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with forma.8.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Gachi Heroes
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under forma.8 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with forma.8.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under forma.8 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with forma.8.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
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 and Adventure with forma.8.
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.
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 forma.8.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with forma.8.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with forma.8.
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!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with forma.8.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with forma.8.
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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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Iconoclasts
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with forma.8.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with forma.8.
Join renegade mechanic Robin and uncover the secrets of a dying planet. Explore a big world filled with intricate puzzles, interesting characters and menacing bosses in a beautiful platform adventure that tells a personal story about faith, purpose and the challenge of helping people.
Axiom Verge
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with forma.8.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with forma.8.
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
Gato Roboto
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with forma.8.
Pounce inside of your cozy armored mech and set off on a dangerous trek through an alien underworld full of irritable creatures and treacherous obstacles in a valiant effort to save your stranded captain and his crashed spaceship.
Frequently asked about forma.8
- How much does forma.8 cost?
- forma.8 is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to forma.8?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside forma.8 are Secrets of Rætikon, Dex, Iconoclasts.
- Who developed forma.8?
- forma.8 was developed by MixedBag Srl.
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 forma.8.
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