Games like Anomalies
If Anomalies is your kind of game, the closest matches are Kaiju, ENCYCLE and Squash Ball — 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 Anomalies: Are you looking for something completely different? An oddity? An enigma? Or perhaps .. an Anomaly? Anomalies may be a game, then again it may not. One user described it as "A million musical leeches, waiting to suck the serotonin from my brain." And that's just the beginning...
Players who liked Anomalies also play
Steam players who put hours into Anomalies 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.
Squash Ball
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Anomalies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Anomalies.
Welcome to Squash Ball, the ultimate idle clicker sandbox game with physics, themes, clicking stats, and a leveling system. Perfect for casual gamers and those who love to fidget with items digitally. With its colorful design and addicting gameplay, it's easy to pick up and hard to put down.
Bonk'd Audio Visualizer
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Anomalies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Anomalies.
Lightweight 3D audio visualizer with a minimalist, modern design.
Conductor: Creative Joy Engine
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Anomalies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anomalies.
Conductor is an audiovisual experience creation engine that encourages you to craft, save, and share funky environments with its vibrantly creative tool-set alongside all of your favorite media.
Scooter Slayer
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Anomalies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Anomalies.
Scooter Slayer is a musical racing rhythm arcade game that turns your or built-in songs into a unique track, the shape of which, as well as the speed of your car, will depend on the selected song.
Intraquartz
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Anomalies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anomalies.
INTRAQUARTZ is a multidimensional experimental maze puzzler where you control a microscopic mining rover inside extraterrestrial crystals.
Go Up
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Anomalies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Anomalies.
An atmospheric and esoteric exploration into darkness and creation. Unearth mysterious minigames and ascertain new methods of ascending ever upwards. In order for the number to go up, so must you!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Anomalies at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Anomalies on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Anomalies.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Anomalies on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anomalies.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Anomalies on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Anomalies.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Anomalies on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Anomalies.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Anomalies on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Anomalies.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Anomalies on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Anomalies.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Anomalies on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anomalies.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Anomalies on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anomalies.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
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.
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 Indie with Anomalies.
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 and Simulation with Anomalies.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Anomalies.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anomalies.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Anomalies.
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 Anomalies.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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More from Schmidt Workshops
Other recommendable Steam games by Schmidt Workshops, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Islands of the Caliph
WHY THIS
Another title from Schmidt Workshops, the studio behind Anomalies. Shares Indie with Anomalies.
Islands of the Caliph is an old-school inspired action RPG based on Middle Eastern folklore and Islamic spiritual tradition. A KEYBOARD ONLY 1980s style Dungeon Crawler with an open world.
Star Explorers
WHY THIS
Another title from Schmidt Workshops, the studio behind Anomalies. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anomalies.
Planets, aliens, resources, upgrades, caves, mapping & documenting star systems ... seek a new home for the human race. An all-inclusive (admittedly janky) procedural space-sim made by solo developer Schmidt Workshops.
Cyclopean: The Great Abyss
WHY THIS
Another title from Schmidt Workshops, the studio behind Anomalies. Shares Indie with Anomalies.
Cyclopean: The Great Abyss is a small scale, mechanics driven CRPG/Roguelike in a retro, monochromatic style, that takes place in the underworld of H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands.
Rocket Blasters
WHY THIS
Another title from Schmidt Workshops, the studio behind Anomalies. Shares Indie and Casual with Anomalies.
Rocket Blasters is a fast paced, action packed shoot-em-up set during the invasion of the Dread Pizza Armada. Its hand-drawn art gives it a unique style. Blowing stuff up has never been so fun!
Paradox Vector
WHY THIS
Another title from Schmidt Workshops, the studio behind Anomalies. Shares Indie with Anomalies.
Explore impossible mazes while battling the Ancient Ones and their bio-mechanical servitors in this retro first-person, Lovecraft inspired shooter. Paradox Vector's graphics are inspired by the old-school vector graphics games of the early 1980's.
Aberration Analyst
WHY THIS
Another title from Schmidt Workshops, the studio behind Anomalies. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anomalies.
Work strange hours ... analyze incomplete and unreliable information ... save the world from monsters, and shut down their means of access in this experimental, point-and-click supernatural strategy simulator.
Frequently asked about Anomalies
- Does Anomalies run on Steam Deck?
- Anomalies is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Anomalies cost?
- Anomalies is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Anomalies?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Anomalies are Kaiju, ENCYCLE, Squash Ball.
- Who developed Anomalies?
- Anomalies was developed by Schmidt Workshops.
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 Anomalies.
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