Games like CONTINGENCY
If CONTINGENCY is your kind of game, the closest matches are Caveblazers, Catacomb Kids and Legend of Dungeon — 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 CONTINGENCY: Surviving is the least of your worries. After your cargo ship crashes on a foreign planet, not only will you have to find a way to eat, you'll have to survive the terrors of your fear and stress. Roguelite platforming gameplay will keep you frequently choosing weapon and suit upgrades to best defeat your many demons.
Players who liked CONTINGENCY also play
Steam players who put hours into CONTINGENCY 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.
Caveblazers
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Top pick for CONTINGENCY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with CONTINGENCY.
Caveblazers is a challenging and brutal roguelike platformer. Journey into a mysterious cave, fighting orcs and goblins with an abundance of weapons and magical items! Make friends along the way, then watch in despair as they are crushed in to a bloody pulp under a troll's fist.
Catacomb Kids
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Second-strongest match for CONTINGENCY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with CONTINGENCY.
Catacomb Kids is a brutal platformer roguelike that pits you against the deadly Catacombs aided only by magic, steel, and your quick reflexes. Traverse procedurally generated dungeons and hack, slash, burn, and blast your way through hordes of things that want to kill you.
Legend of Dungeon
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Third-strongest match for CONTINGENCY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with CONTINGENCY.
Legend of Dungeon is a randomly generated action RPG Beat'em'up with heavy Rogue-like elements, striking visuals, and dynamic music.
Rogue Legacy 2
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Ranked #4 for CONTINGENCY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with CONTINGENCY.
Rogue Legacy 2 is what you'd get if you mashed Rogue Legacy and a sequel together. Every time you die, your children will succeed you, and each child is unique. Your daughter might be a Colourblind Archer, and your son could be a Pacifistic Chef. Either way, one of them is getting conscripted.
Teleglitch: Die More Edition
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Ranked #5 for CONTINGENCY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with CONTINGENCY.
In a cold, dark future dominated by mega-corporations, a small lonely planet on the edge of habitable space is the site of a shadowy research facility specializing in necrotic tissue reactivation. You are a scientist who has suddenly awoken to the realization that you are the lone survivor.
Fallback
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Ranked #6 for CONTINGENCY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with CONTINGENCY.
Lead the rebellion in an epic rogue-like adventure. Guide your jet-pack equipped post-apocalyptic volunteers through a labyrinthine underground complex by jumping, dodging, and battling against robot minions (and masters) to get to the surface — and bring life back to the scorched Earth.
Dunjungle
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Ranked #7 for CONTINGENCY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with CONTINGENCY.
A 2d action-packed roguelite about a monkey hero protecting the jungle from the rise of a corruptive power. Explore ever-changing dungeons, fight weird enemies and gear up with lots of weapons and relics you can combine for a new experience every run. Explore, fight, die, and repeat!
Delver
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Ranked #8 for CONTINGENCY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with CONTINGENCY.
Delve into the shifting dungeons on your hunt for the Yithidian orb, but getting it might just be the easy part. Delver is a single player first-person action roguelike dungeon crawler, just like you wished they used to make.
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Caveblazers
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with CONTINGENCY.
Caveblazers is a challenging and brutal roguelike platformer. Journey into a mysterious cave, fighting orcs and goblins with an abundance of weapons and magical items! Make friends along the way, then watch in despair as they are crushed in to a bloody pulp under a troll's fist.
Catacomb Kids
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with CONTINGENCY.
Catacomb Kids is a brutal platformer roguelike that pits you against the deadly Catacombs aided only by magic, steel, and your quick reflexes. Traverse procedurally generated dungeons and hack, slash, burn, and blast your way through hordes of things that want to kill you.
Rogue Legacy 2
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Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with CONTINGENCY.
Rogue Legacy 2 is what you'd get if you mashed Rogue Legacy and a sequel together. Every time you die, your children will succeed you, and each child is unique. Your daughter might be a Colourblind Archer, and your son could be a Pacifistic Chef. Either way, one of them is getting conscripted.
Dunjungle
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with CONTINGENCY.
A 2d action-packed roguelite about a monkey hero protecting the jungle from the rise of a corruptive power. Explore ever-changing dungeons, fight weird enemies and gear up with lots of weapons and relics you can combine for a new experience every run. Explore, fight, die, and repeat!
Frequently asked about CONTINGENCY
- Is CONTINGENCY free to play?
- Yes — CONTINGENCY is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to CONTINGENCY?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside CONTINGENCY are Caveblazers, Catacomb Kids, Legend of Dungeon.
- Who developed CONTINGENCY?
- CONTINGENCY was developed by Matthew Prater.
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 CONTINGENCY.
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