Similar games
Games like Bacteria
Sometimes You · 2016 · 57 % positive of 407
24 games that play like Bacteria and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: SquareCells, Hexcells and Energy Cycle.
Player tags
At a glance
What games like Bacteria have in common
- The tags they share most often with Bacteria: Puzzle (22 of 24), Casual (22) and Indie (20).
- They came out between 2006 and 2026, 11 of them after Bacteria (2016).
- Best rated by Steam players: Scalak (97 % positive of 1,006).
By gameplay
Plays like Bacteria
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
SquareCells
90 % positive of 1,180
Shared: Puzzle · Casual · Indie
Hexcells
96 % positive of 5,721
Shared: Puzzle · Casual · Indie
Energy Cycle
68 % positive of 292
Shared: Puzzle · Casual · Indie
CrossCells
83 % positive of 836
Shared: Puzzle · Casual · Indie
Splice
87 % positive of 586
Shared: Puzzle · Casual · Indie
Hexcells Plus
94 % positive of 2,683
Shared: Puzzle · Casual · Indie
Hexcells Infinite
97 % positive of 4,440
Shared: Puzzle · Casual · Indie
Gridworld
84 % positive of 224
Bombe
96 % positive of 326
Shared: Puzzle · Casual
Tenrow
81 % positive of 169
Shared: Puzzle · Casual · Indie
LYNE
95 % positive of 8,180
Shared: Puzzle · Casual · Indie
Zen of Sudoku
89 % positive of 338
Shared: Puzzle · Casual · Indie
More matches
- Hade89 % positive of 331Shared: Puzzle · Casual · Indie
- Scalak97 % positive of 1,006Shared: Puzzle · Casual · Indie
- Understand90 % positive of 738Shared: Puzzle · Casual · Indie
- Growth92 % positive of 270Shared: Puzzle · Casual · Indie
- Energy Balance68 % positive of 316Shared: Puzzle · Casual · Indie
- Line Path96 % positive of 158Shared: Puzzle · Casual
- Strata87 % positive of 355Shared: Puzzle · Casual · Indie
- Turn on the light95 % positive of 176Shared: Puzzle · Casual · Indie
- Wayout 2: Hex86 % positive of 420Shared: Puzzle · Casual · Indie
- Simultree87 % positive of 148
- LineWay92 % positive of 535Shared: Puzzle · Casual · Indie
- Pepper's Puzzles95 % positive of 178Shared: Puzzle · Casual · Indie
By look
Looks like Bacteria
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
Minutescape
77 % positive of 249
Break the Game
73 % positive of 660
Gravity Wars
56 % positive of 292
To The Core
93 % positive of 4,678
TeraBlaster
69 % positive of 1,035
Crossroad OS
98 % positive of 265
Loop-Loop DX
98 % positive of 434
CALENDULA
76 % positive of 359
Temp Zero
94 % positive of 163
Afterbeat (Project Arrhythmia)
95 % positive of 2,401
Return.
90 % positive of 957
Square Brawl
78 % positive of 187
More matches
- gravilon59 % positive of 1,248
- SELF77 % positive of 261
- 1000 Amps78 % positive of 336
- Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice71 % positive of 602
- Cheap Golf83 % positive of 198
- RFLEX91 % positive of 218
- qomp96 % positive of 483
- Will Glow the Wisp84 % positive of 1,107
- BIT.TRIP BEAT80 % positive of 864
- Beatblock97 % positive of 1,414
- Picayune Dreams98 % positive of 3,219
- No Players Online83 % positive of 697
How these matches work
Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.