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Games like Massive Effect

If Massive Effect is your kind of game, the closest matches are NOXE, Bounce your Bullets! and Ranphon — 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.

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About Massive Effect: Space shooter with multiple game modes. Destroy enemies, get experience and increase your level.

2019ActionIndieCasual0.99 USDWindowsby NORSKA
Massive Effect — Steam game cover

Players who liked Massive Effect also play

Steam players who put hours into Massive Effect 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.

  1. NOXE

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Massive Effect fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Massive Effect.

    NOXE is a 2D arena shooter that puts your reflexes, strategy, and survival skills to the test. 100 unique Steam achievements will decorate your profile — add NOXE to your wishlist so you don't miss it!

    2026ActionIndieCasual1.19 USDSteam ↗
  2. Bounce your Bullets!

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Massive Effect fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Massive Effect.

    A small game where you cannot stop moving forward. Your bullets get stronger and stronger after they bounce enough times. Bounce your Bullets! is a casual yet increasingly difficult colorful shmup where you survive for as long as possible against growing waves of enemies.

    2022ActionIndieCasual2.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Ranphon

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Massive Effect fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Massive Effect.

    Ranphon is a side-scrolling space shooter where you control a small ship called Phon in a vast and frantic space full of hostile spaceships.

    2023ActionIndieCasual0.49 USDSteam ↗
  4. Meteor Storm

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Massive Effect fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Massive Effect.

    Welcome back to 1996! This shared screen space shooter is the perfect 4-player competitive game for some casual fun!

    2021ActionIndieCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Royal Odyssey

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Massive Effect fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Massive Effect.

    Royal Odyssey is a retro-style arcade space shooter where you pilot Prince Zayven’s ship through a deadly asteroid storm, blasting your way to survival.

    ActionIndieCasualSteam ↗
  6. Speglar

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Massive Effect fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Massive Effect.

    Frantic 4-player laser ricocheting top-down shooter. Keep it casual and enjoy the chaos, or master the surprisingly deep mechanics to obliterate your enemies. Duke it out locally in free-for-all or 2v2.

    2024ActionIndieCasual3.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. I, AI

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Massive Effect fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Massive Effect.

    Classic scrolling shooter with modern graphics. You are self-aware AI. You were created on space military station developing weapons. Now your goal is to break out of the lab and win your freedom.

    2020ActionIndieCasual3.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. DoDonPachi Resurrection Reignite

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Massive Effect fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Massive Effect.

    CAVE's arcade bullet hell shooter returns as DoDonPachi Resurrection Reignite. New stages, a new character, new music, and other new elements set the stage for a new challenge.

    ActionIndieSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Massive Effect at current Steam store prices.

  1. UBERMOSH

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Massive Effect on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Massive Effect.

    UBERMOSH is an arcade game about cutting bullets with a sword, in a gun-filled cyberpunk mosh pit.

    2015ActionIndie0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Miss Neko

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Massive Effect on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Massive Effect.

    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:)

    2019ActionCasual0.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. QUICKERFLAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Massive Effect on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Massive Effect.

    QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Save Jesus

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Massive Effect on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Massive Effect.

    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!

    2016IndieCasual0.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Barro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Massive Effect on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Massive Effect.

    Choose your little car and race!

    2018IndieCasualRacing0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Gachi Heroes

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Massive Effect on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Massive Effect.

    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?

    2018ActionIndieAdventure0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Trip to Vinelands

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Massive Effect on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Massive Effect.

    Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.

    2016ActionIndie0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. TTV2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Massive Effect on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Massive Effect.

    TTV2 is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame, sequel to Trip to Vinelands.

    2017ActionIndie0.49 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Massive Effect.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Massive Effect.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Massive Effect.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 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 Massive Effect.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Massive Effect.

    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.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Massive Effect.

    A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Massive Effect.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Massive Effect.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

More from NORSKA

Other recommendable Steam games by NORSKA, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Armored Train

    WHY THIS

    Another title from NORSKA, the studio behind Massive Effect. Shares Indie with Massive Effect.

    Armored Train is a procedurally generated adventure. Feel yourself in the role of an armored train engineer in an unfriendly, evil and not forgiving world. Improve your armored train, engage in trade and fighting, learn the history of this gloomy world.

    2018StrategyIndieAdventure0.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Deep Dungeon: Gym

    WHY THIS

    Another title from NORSKA, the studio behind Massive Effect. Shares Action and Indie with Massive Effect.

    Your grandfather left you an old, abandoned gym. Can you become new Dungeon Master? Prove your strength, destroy hordes of evil men in enemy gyms

    2019ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Underneath

    WHY THIS

    Another title from NORSKA, the studio behind Massive Effect. Shares Action and Indie with Massive Effect.

    Underneath is a rouge-like beat ’em up deeply focused on fast but tactical gameplay with a huge variety of possible ways to beat the game. Build your build, master your style of playing and enjoy the pain again and again.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure3.99 USDSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Massive Effect

How much does Massive Effect cost?
Massive Effect is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Massive Effect?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Massive Effect are NOXE, Bounce your Bullets!, Ranphon.
Who developed Massive Effect?
Massive Effect was developed by NORSKA.

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 Massive Effect.

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