Games like Space Gladiators
If Space Gladiators is your kind of game, the closest matches are Eyes in the Dark, Lost Potato and Iron Dungeon — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, 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 Space Gladiators: Ever dreamt of being a space potato? Now’s your chance! Space Gladiators is a 2D hand-drawn roguelite platformer following a bunch of captives fighting their way out of a planet prison. Defeat hordes of aliens in the gladiatorial arenas and earn your freedom!
Players who liked Space Gladiators also play
Steam players who put hours into Space Gladiators 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.
Eyes in the Dark
WHY THIS
Top pick for Space Gladiators fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Space Gladiators.
Fight with light against the dark in this "roguelight" platformer starring Victoria Bloom! Drive back the darkness that's overrun Bloom Manor and conquer swarms of creatures as you discover powerful new items to upgrade your arsenal. Are you ready to enter the ever-changing manor?
Lost Potato
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Space Gladiators.
Second-strongest match for Space Gladiators fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Space Gladiators.
Lost Potato is a minimalistic top-down roguelite where you can't damage enemies directly. Push them into spikes, reflect bullets and help a young potato find its way out of a jungle filled with man-eating tribes!
Iron Dungeon
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Space Gladiators fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Space Gladiators.
Iron Dungeon combines a twin-stick shooter, a 2d platformer and a roguelite. Explore a dangerous underground complex in search of dozens of weapons, gadgets and upgrades to find a way to the surface and find out if there is still life on Earth!
Space Gladiators: The Hole
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Space Gladiators fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Space Gladiators.
Ever dreamt of being a space potato? Now’s your chance! This is the prelude for Space Gladiators, a 2D hand-drawn roguelite platformer following a bunch of captives fighting their way out of a planet prison. Defeat hordes of aliens in the gladiatorial arenas and earn your freedom!
Shadow of the Depth
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Space Gladiators.
Ranked #5 for Space Gladiators fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Space Gladiators.
Shadow of the Depth is a top-down action Roguelite game. Delve into a dungeon world of light and shadow to eradicate the monsters that ravage your home. Be prepared to step into the abyss before you!
GoNNER
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Space Gladiators.
Ranked #6 for Space Gladiators fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Space Gladiators.
GoNNER is a tough as hell procedurally-generated 2D platformer with roguelike elements, following the largely misunderstood and altruistic Ikk on a journey to cheer up his only friend in this world - a giant landbound whale named Sally - by searching for just the right trinket in the deep and dark places nearby.
Dunjungle
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Space Gladiators.
Ranked #7 for Space Gladiators fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Space Gladiators.
A 2d action-packed roguelite about a monkey hero protecting the jungle from the rise of a corruptive power. Explore ever-changing dungeons, fight weird enemies and gear up with lots of weapons and relics you can combine for a new experience every run. Explore, fight, die, and repeat!
Noita
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Space Gladiators.
Ranked #8 for Space Gladiators fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Space Gladiators.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
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The Binding of Isaac
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Space Gladiators.
Reviewers of Space Gladiators cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Space Gladiators.
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Nuclear Throne
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Space Gladiators.
Reviewers of Space Gladiators cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Space Gladiators.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Space Gladiators.
Reviewers of Space Gladiators cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Space Gladiators.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Space Gladiators.
Reviewers of Space Gladiators cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Space Gladiators.
Then, there was fire. Re-experience the critically acclaimed, genre-defining game that started it all. Beautifully remastered, return to Lordran in stunning high-definition detail running at 60fps.
Dead Cells
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Space Gladiators.
Reviewers of Space Gladiators cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Space Gladiators.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
Blasphemous
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Space Gladiators.
Reviewers of Space Gladiators cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Space Gladiators.
Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Space Gladiators at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Space Gladiators on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Space Gladiators.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Space Gladiators on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Space Gladiators.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Space Gladiators on Steam right now. Shares Action with Space Gladiators.
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.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Space Gladiators on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Space Gladiators.
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?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Space Gladiators on Steam right now. Shares Action with Space Gladiators.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Space Gladiators on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Space Gladiators.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Space Gladiators on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Space Gladiators.
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...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Space Gladiators on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Space Gladiators.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Space Gladiators.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Space Gladiators.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Space Gladiators.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Space Gladiators.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Space Gladiators.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Space Gladiators.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Space Gladiators.
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.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Blobfish
Other recommendable Steam games by Blobfish, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Brotato
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Space Gladiators.
Another title from Blobfish, the studio behind Space Gladiators. Shares Action and Indie with Space Gladiators.
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.
Lost Potato
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Space Gladiators.
Another title from Blobfish, the studio behind Space Gladiators. Shares Action and Indie with Space Gladiators.
Lost Potato is a minimalistic top-down roguelite where you can't damage enemies directly. Push them into spikes, reflect bullets and help a young potato find its way out of a jungle filled with man-eating tribes!
Space Gladiators: The Hole
WHY THIS
Another title from Blobfish, the studio behind Space Gladiators. Shares Action and Indie with Space Gladiators.
Ever dreamt of being a space potato? Now’s your chance! This is the prelude for Space Gladiators, a 2D hand-drawn roguelite platformer following a bunch of captives fighting their way out of a planet prison. Defeat hordes of aliens in the gladiatorial arenas and earn your freedom!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Eyes in the Dark
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Space Gladiators.
Fight with light against the dark in this "roguelight" platformer starring Victoria Bloom! Drive back the darkness that's overrun Bloom Manor and conquer swarms of creatures as you discover powerful new items to upgrade your arsenal. Are you ready to enter the ever-changing manor?
Shadow of the Depth
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Space Gladiators.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Space Gladiators.
Shadow of the Depth is a top-down action Roguelite game. Delve into a dungeon world of light and shadow to eradicate the monsters that ravage your home. Be prepared to step into the abyss before you!
Dunjungle
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Space Gladiators.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Space Gladiators.
A 2d action-packed roguelite about a monkey hero protecting the jungle from the rise of a corruptive power. Explore ever-changing dungeons, fight weird enemies and gear up with lots of weapons and relics you can combine for a new experience every run. Explore, fight, die, and repeat!
Noita
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Space Gladiators.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Space Gladiators.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Frequently asked about Space Gladiators
- Does Space Gladiators run on Steam Deck?
- Space Gladiators 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 Space Gladiators cost?
- Space Gladiators is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Space Gladiators?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Space Gladiators are Eyes in the Dark, Lost Potato, Iron Dungeon.
- Who developed Space Gladiators?
- Space Gladiators was developed by Blobfish.
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 Space Gladiators.
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