Games like Malicious Payload
If Malicious Payload is your kind of game, the closest matches are Deep Space Salvage Crew VR, Dark Invasion VR and ROBOCRACY — 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 Malicious Payload: Space pirates invaded your ship, they hacked your mainframe and gained controll of your robots. Your fellow robots turned into murdering robots. You need to find who responsible for this as a guard of your ship. Let him pay for what he done and get back what belongs to you.
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Deep Space Salvage Crew VR
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Top pick for Malicious Payload fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Malicious Payload.
A first-person procedural VR roguelike shooter, set in deep space. Find old wrecks adrift in space, board them and fight your way to the bridge to claim the salvage rights.
Dark Invasion VR
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Second-strongest match for Malicious Payload fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Malicious Payload.
In 1985, a peaceful life of a quiet industrial town have turned into a pure nightmare. Police started to receive phone calls about aggressive creatures attacking citizens.
ROBOCRACY
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Third-strongest match for Malicious Payload fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Malicious Payload.
Take on the challenge and face off against a rogue AI bent on enslaving humanity! Strap on your VR headset, step into the boots of a Galactic Ranger, and tear through waves of robots with explosive blasters, devastating shotguns, and an insane arsenal — just like classic arcade shooters!
Defender Of Falyndor
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Ranked #4 for Malicious Payload fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Malicious Payload.
Defender OF Falyndor is a First-Person Tower Defense game in Virtual Reality! Take control of your character, towers, and much more to protect Falyndor from waves of invasions to become the ultimate Defender of Falyndor!
Strike VR
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Ranked #5 for Malicious Payload fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Malicious Payload.
A fast action arcade game revamped into Virtual Reality. Shoot with your weapon, dodge bullets with your body, deflect bullets with your swords, and launch missiles and ultimate skills!
VirtualBuster
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Ranked #6 for Malicious Payload fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Malicious Payload.
"Virtual Buster is an action-adventure game where you take out robot criminals with swords and guns in a realistic virtual reality (VR) world. Players use special weapons and missions of varying difficulty to emerge as city heroes and demonstrate strategy."
ZERONE - First Encounter
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Ranked #7 for Malicious Payload fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Malicious Payload.
ZERONE is a PC-based high-quality VR game, and it is a Hyper FPS game that competes with the enemy units of the mechanic series.
System Critical: The Race Against Time
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Ranked #8 for Malicious Payload fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Malicious Payload.
Fun and challenging retro style run and gun platform shooter. Blast your arm cannon, use grenades, shields, and melee weapons, dodge projectiles and make your way through the carefully crafted levels. Discover secret areas and destroy objects while navigating obstacles and defeat bosses to progress
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Malicious Payload.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Malicious Payload.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Malicious Payload.
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 Action and Indie with Malicious Payload.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Malicious Payload.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Malicious Payload.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Malicious Payload.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Malicious Payload.
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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Frequently asked about Malicious Payload
- How much does Malicious Payload cost?
- Malicious Payload is listed on Steam at 0.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Malicious Payload?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Malicious Payload are Deep Space Salvage Crew VR, Dark Invasion VR, ROBOCRACY.
- Who developed Malicious Payload?
- Malicious Payload was developed by Last Howl.
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