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Games like Sky Cannoneer

If Sky Cannoneer is your kind of game, the closest matches are Looney Landers, Dungeon Defenders and Mushroom Wars 2 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and retro. 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 Sky Cannoneer: Build up your fortifications, place your cannons, and fire at the enemy forces! Improve your Battle Haven with powerful upgrades while playing through a story campaign comprised of dozens of scenarios with unique mission types and multiple boss fights! Take to the sky and win!

2020ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Element Games, LLC
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Bite sized missions for easy replayPhased actions require quick planningRetro feel with modern polishChallengingContemplativeRetro

Players who liked Sky Cannoneer also play

Steam players who put hours into Sky Cannoneer 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. Looney Landers

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Sky Cannoneer.

    Top pick for Sky Cannoneer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Sky Cannoneer.

    Looney Landers is a fast-paced arcade party game for 1-2 players. Skydive into a whirlwind of chaos as you compete against friends, family, or the CPU to claim the top spot on the leaderboards in this score-chasing frenzy!

    2025ActionCasual9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Dungeon Defenders

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Sky Cannoneer.

    Second-strongest match for Sky Cannoneer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Sky Cannoneer.

    Create a hero from one of four classes to save Etheria in this 4-player coop Tower Defense Action-RPG. Includes Steam exclusive Portal gun & TF2 familiars!

    2011ActionStrategyIndie2.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Mushroom Wars 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Sky Cannoneer.

    Third-strongest match for Sky Cannoneer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Sky Cannoneer.

    In Mushroom Wars 2, enemy tribes of feisty mushroom creatures face off in short but fierce RTS battles. Step into the shoes of a fearless Mushroom Commander, choose a hero to lead your army, and take control of the battlefield in a variety of multiplayer modes or challenging story campaign.

    2017ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Dungeon Defenders: Awakened

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Sky Cannoneer.

    Ranked #4 for Sky Cannoneer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Sky Cannoneer.

    Dungeon Defenders: Awakened is co-op Tower Defense combined with epic Action RPG combat. You’re able to join forces with up to four players to take on a never-ending army of orcs, demons, and dragons! Are your defenses strong enough to save the world of Etheria?

    2020ActionStrategyIndie3.74 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Has-Been Heroes

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Sky Cannoneer.

    Ranked #5 for Sky Cannoneer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Sky Cannoneer.

    Has-Been Heroes is a challenging, lane-based roguelike game of strategy and action, featuring a band of heroes on a quest to escort the King's twin princesses to school!

    2017ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Rock of Ages

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Sky Cannoneer.

    Ranked #6 for Sky Cannoneer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Sky Cannoneer.

    A rock-solid combination of rock-rolling action, deep strategy, and captivating art and music from different ages of history, this is a game of crush or be crushed!

    2011ActionStrategyIndie2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Rock of Ages 2: Bigger & Boulder™

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Sky Cannoneer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Sky Cannoneer.

    The greatest rock-racing, tower defense, art history game is back! Like the title says, Bigger & Boulder cranks up the surrealism and gameplay with chaotic 4P multiplayer, new time periods, and improved graphics, physics, and destructibility powered by UE4 to be, well… BIGGER AND BOULDER.

    2017ActionStrategyIndie4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Prime World: Defenders

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Sky Cannoneer.

    Ranked #8 for Sky Cannoneer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sky Cannoneer.

    Fight off hordes of monstrous mutants created from a strange cataclysmic event in the new tower defense game, Prime World: Defenders. Join a group of exile treasure hunters who have ventured into the capital of an ancient empire, vast with mystery and danger.

    2013StrategyIndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Sky Cannoneer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sky Cannoneer.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Sky Cannoneer on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Sky Cannoneer.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under Sky Cannoneer on Steam right now. Shares Action with Sky Cannoneer.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Sky Cannoneer on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Sky Cannoneer.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Sky Cannoneer on Steam right now. Shares Action with Sky Cannoneer.

    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.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Sky Cannoneer on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Sky Cannoneer.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Sky Cannoneer on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sky Cannoneer.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Sky Cannoneer on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sky Cannoneer.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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 Sky Cannoneer.

    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 Sky Cannoneer.

    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 Sky Cannoneer.

    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 Sky Cannoneer.

    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 Sky Cannoneer.

    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. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

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

    A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  8. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

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

    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.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Sky Cannoneer

Does Sky Cannoneer run on Steam Deck?
Sky Cannoneer is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Sky Cannoneer cost?
Sky Cannoneer is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Sky Cannoneer have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Sky Cannoneer supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, PvP).
What games are most similar to Sky Cannoneer?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Sky Cannoneer are Looney Landers, Dungeon Defenders, Mushroom Wars 2.
Who developed Sky Cannoneer?
Sky Cannoneer was developed by Element Games, LLC.

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 Sky Cannoneer.

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