Games like The Anacrusis
If The Anacrusis is your kind of game, the closest matches are WTF - Waifu Tactical Force, EXOMECHA and Wildgate — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, funny and intense. 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 The Anacrusis: Battle for survival against endless alien hordes with your friends! The Anacrusis is a first-person shooter that dynamically adjusts difficulty to you. Experience intense 1-4 player co-op action or play as the aliens and stop your friends in 1-8 player Versus mode. Full Steam Workshop support!
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WTF - Waifu Tactical Force
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Top pick for The Anacrusis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Anacrusis.
Multiplayer Anime Movement FPS. Wall-run, slide, pilot your mech, and run the map in PvP and PvE. Win matches, earn loot, build your Mother Base. Customize your guns and squad of anime operators. No sweats, just vibes.
EXOMECHA
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Anacrusis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Anacrusis.
EXOMECHA™ is a brand-new multiplayer shooter that takes place in OMECHA, an untouched planet with exotic environments. It offers you a breathtaking sci-fi gaming experience with its infantry, vehicular and mecha combat.
Wildgate
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with The Anacrusis.
Third-strongest match for The Anacrusis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Anacrusis.
Wildgate is a PvPvE multiplayer shooter that blends tactical ship-to-ship combat with fast-paced first-person action. Evade deadly environmental hazards, search for powerful weapons and ship upgrades, and be the first crew to escape with the Artifact... or the last crew left flying.
Splitgate
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Shares an intense mood with The Anacrusis.
Ranked #4 for The Anacrusis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Anacrusis.
Splitgate is a free-to-play, fast-paced multiplayer shooter that features player-controlled portals. This sci-fi shooter takes the FPS genre to a new dimension with its portal mechanics, delivering high-flying, multi-dimensional combat.
Midnight Ghost Hunt
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Anacrusis.
Ranked #5 for The Anacrusis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Anacrusis.
The chaotic multiplayer hide-and-seek game. Possess seemingly harmless objects as Ghosts or chase them down as Hunters before the clock strikes midnight!
Contagion
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Anacrusis.
Ranked #6 for The Anacrusis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Anacrusis.
Contagion isn't your average Zombie Shooter but instead takes a more realistic and different approach to the popular genre with unique characters, environments, weapons, items, and a built in system that makes every round completely unpredictable with resources, objectives, and paths ever changing.
Deceive Inc.
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Ranked #7 for The Anacrusis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Anacrusis.
Go undercover as the world’s greatest spies in this tense multiplayer game of subterfuge. Disguise as anyone, deploy an arsenal of high-tech gadgets or neutralize the competition. As long as you extract with the objective, no trick is too dirty when you work for DECEIVE INC.
Battlefield™ 2042
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with The Anacrusis.
Ranked #8 for The Anacrusis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Anacrusis.
Battlefield™ 2042 is a first-person shooter that marks the return to the iconic all-out warfare of the franchise.
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Sker Ritual
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Anacrusis.
Reviewers of The Anacrusis cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with The Anacrusis.
An intense round-based zombie survival FPS, play solo or co-op. Shoot your way through relentless waves of vicious horrors with high-octane objectives, upgrading steampunk weapons, collecting Celtic God powers, and surviving the onslaught of the Quiet Ones.
Portal
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Reviewers of The Anacrusis cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Anacrusis.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
Left 4 Dead
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Reviewers of The Anacrusis cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Anacrusis.
From Valve (the creators of Counter-Strike, Half-Life and more) comes Left 4 Dead, a co-op action horror game for the PC and Xbox 360 that casts up to four players in an epic struggle for survival against swarming zombie hordes and terrifying mutant monsters.
Back 4 Blood
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Reviewers of The Anacrusis cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Anacrusis.
Back 4 Blood is a thrilling cooperative first-person shooter from the creators of the critically acclaimed Left 4 Dead franchise. Experience the intense 4 player co-op narrative campaign, competitive multiplayer as human or Ridden, and frenetic gameplay that keeps you in the action.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Anacrusis at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under The Anacrusis on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Anacrusis.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~50% under The Anacrusis on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Anacrusis.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under The Anacrusis on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Anacrusis.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Anacrusis on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Anacrusis.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~50% under The Anacrusis on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Anacrusis.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under The Anacrusis on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Anacrusis.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~70% under The Anacrusis on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Anacrusis.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Anacrusis on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Anacrusis.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Anacrusis.
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?
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 The Anacrusis.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Anacrusis.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Anacrusis.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Anacrusis.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Anacrusis.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Anacrusis.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
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Frequently asked about The Anacrusis
- Is The Anacrusis verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The Anacrusis is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does The Anacrusis cost?
- The Anacrusis is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does The Anacrusis have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — The Anacrusis supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to The Anacrusis?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Anacrusis are WTF - Waifu Tactical Force, EXOMECHA, Wildgate.
- Who developed The Anacrusis?
- The Anacrusis was developed by Stray Bombay.
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