Games like Red Horizon
If Red Horizon is your kind of game, the closest matches are PigShip and the Giant Wolf, LUFTRAUSERS and Syder Arcade — 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 Red Horizon: Red Horizon is an addictive space shmup game. Heavily influenced by the classics of the past, Red Horizon takes a modern spin on the genre combining it with some subtle Rogue-like elements to provide players with a unique experience every time they play.
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Steam players who put hours into Red Horizon 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.
PigShip and the Giant Wolf
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Top pick for Red Horizon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Red Horizon.
Pig Ship and the Giant Wolf is a classic Shoot'em Up with a 8btis monochrome aesthetic. Cross the 6 worlds full of enemies and defeat the Giant Wolf to save your brothers.
LUFTRAUSERS
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Second-strongest match for Red Horizon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Red Horizon.
The skies are aflame and the seas will overflow with wreckage in Vlambeer’s stylish arcade shooter LUFTRAUSERS! Take to the skies in customized fighter planes to battle battleships, submarines, and rival aces for glory, honor, and high scores.
Syder Arcade
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Third-strongest match for Red Horizon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Red Horizon.
Killing zombies never gets old, but sometimes you just need a break. Get back to some serious old-school gaming with Syder Arcade! Syder Arcade is a love letter to Amiga games of the ‘90s, no coins, no upgrade grinding, just your tenacity and a motherload of alien invaders.
Distant Space
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Ranked #4 for Red Horizon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Red Horizon.
Distant Space are present the arcade game of cosmic fights in arcade style of the 80's, this is a game where you can control the spaceship and forced to destroy extraterrestrials, which are moving in the certain order.
Super Hydorah
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Ranked #5 for Red Horizon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Red Horizon.
Super Hydorah is a nonlinear horizontal shoot’ em up designed to offer a challenging experience, sublimating the richness of traditional shmup classics. Face the menace of the Meroptians aboard the Delta Lance, alone or with your friends in this game with direct action and nostalgic art.
ZeroRanger
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Ranked #6 for Red Horizon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Red Horizon.
This is the story of a fighter who wanted to become...
BLUE REVOLVER
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Ranked #7 for Red Horizon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Red Horizon.
Fight, fly, flourish! BLUE REVOLVER is a manic arcade-style shoot-em-up built for newcomers and psychos alike. Powerful special weapons cut through tough areas, while an adaptive difficulty system tailors the game to your skill level as you evade and counter a maniac environmental force!
Ikaruga
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Ranked #8 for Red Horizon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Red Horizon.
Shoot! Dodge! and... Get Hit!? "Ikaruga" is a vertical shoot 'em up that features an unique polarity-switching gameplay. Switch the ship's polarity and "get hit and absorb" enemy bullets! Achieve High Score with the chain bonus!
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Super Hydorah
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Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Red Horizon.
Super Hydorah is a nonlinear horizontal shoot’ em up designed to offer a challenging experience, sublimating the richness of traditional shmup classics. Face the menace of the Meroptians aboard the Delta Lance, alone or with your friends in this game with direct action and nostalgic art.
BLUE REVOLVER
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Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Red Horizon.
Fight, fly, flourish! BLUE REVOLVER is a manic arcade-style shoot-em-up built for newcomers and psychos alike. Powerful special weapons cut through tough areas, while an adaptive difficulty system tailors the game to your skill level as you evade and counter a maniac environmental force!
Ikaruga
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Red Horizon.
Shoot! Dodge! and... Get Hit!? "Ikaruga" is a vertical shoot 'em up that features an unique polarity-switching gameplay. Switch the ship's polarity and "get hit and absorb" enemy bullets! Achieve High Score with the chain bonus!
Frequently asked about Red Horizon
- Is Red Horizon free to play?
- Yes — Red Horizon 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 Red Horizon?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Red Horizon are PigShip and the Giant Wolf, LUFTRAUSERS, Syder Arcade.
- Who developed Red Horizon?
- Red Horizon was developed by Allen Games.
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 Red Horizon.
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