Games like Showgunners
If Showgunners is your kind of game, the closest matches are Gears Tactics, Capes and Hard West 2 — 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 Showgunners: As a contestant on a high stakes reality game show of the future, you must survive a dangerous urban environment packed with traps, confounding puzzles, and heavily armed psychopaths. Turn-based combat in hand crafted levels, built for entertainment.
Players who liked Showgunners also play
Steam players who put hours into Showgunners 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.
Gears Tactics
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Top pick for Showgunners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Gears Tactics is the fast-paced, turn-based strategy game from one of the most-acclaimed video game franchises – Gears of War. Outnumbered and fighting for survival, recruit and command your squad to hunt down an evil mastermind who makes monsters.
Capes
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Showgunners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Superheroes clash in this turn based strategy game. Recruit, train, and deploy your team in order to take back the city from the villains that hold it hostage.
Hard West 2
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Third-strongest match for Showgunners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Hard West 2 is a journey to the heart of darkness in the American West. Take control of a supernatural posse and catch the mysterious Ghost Train. Outsmart, outcheat and outgun your enemies in this turn-based tactics game set in a Wild West world where nothing is as it seems.
Jagged Alliance 3
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Ranked #4 for Showgunners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
The country of Grand Chien is thrown into chaos when the elected president goes missing and the paramilitary force known as “the Legion” seizes control. Hire mercs, meet interesting characters, and fight in tactically deep turn-based combat in this true successor to a beloved franchise.
Cyber Knights: Flashpoint
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Ranked #5 for Showgunners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Cyberpunk mercenaries RPG! Turn-based squad tactics with unique heist-planning strategy. Build your crew wisely; their stories will become interwoven with your own. Pull off heists with powerful cyberware, faction connections, multiclassing, weapon modding, stealth, hacking, and more!
Hard West
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Ranked #6 for Showgunners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
When a tragic turn of events sets one man down a path of supernatural chaos and revenge, he must brutally hunt down all those who wronged him. Fight and survive through 8 unique story-based scenarios, and try your hand at 40 individually designed turn-based combat missions
XCOM®: Chimera Squad
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Ranked #7 for Showgunners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
XCOM: Chimera Squad delivers an all-new story and turn-based tactical combat experience in the XCOM universe.
Into the Breach
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Ranked #8 for Showgunners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.
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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
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Reviewers of Showgunners cross-mention this title as a similar play.
The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear. A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.
Marvel's Midnight Suns
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Reviewers of Showgunners cross-mention this title as a similar play.
FIGHT AND STRATEGIZE LIKE A SUPER HERO IN THE DARKER CORNERS OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE. Play as The Hunter, a legendary demon slayer who must lead a team of Super Heroes and supernatural warriors facing apocalyptic threats.
XCOM®: Chimera Squad
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Reviewers of Showgunners cross-mention this title as a similar play.
XCOM: Chimera Squad delivers an all-new story and turn-based tactical combat experience in the XCOM universe.
The Hunger: Games Ensemble
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Reviewers of Showgunners cross-mention this title as a similar play.
A Collection Of Hilarious VR Games!
The Running Man
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Reviewers of Showgunners cross-mention this title as a similar play.
If you want to relax, this game is not for you, this game is made to make you rage. go through challenging and hard levels and run to the finish line. will you take the challenge?
Free alternatives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
The Lab
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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!
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
93, Kuindzhi
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
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More from Artificer
Other recommendable Steam games by Artificer, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Sumerian Six
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Another title from Artificer, the studio behind Showgunners.
Lead an unlikely team of commando scientists behind enemy lines to fight Nazis, uncover arcane mysteries, and wield experimental technology to turn the tide of WWII in this real-time tactical stealth adventure.
MINOS
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Another title from Artificer, the studio behind Showgunners.
Minos is a maze-building roguelite where you, the fabled Minotaur, must defend your sanctuary from bloodthirsty adventurers. Design and re-design deadly labyrinths, set traps, and turn every brave fool into your next victim.
MINOS: Home A-Labyrinth
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Another title from Artificer, the studio behind Showgunners.
A free MINOS spin-off inspired by everyone's favorite holiday film. Build festive traps, defend a snow-covered home from clumsy intruders, and unleash winter-grade mischief in this legally distinct seasonal homage.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Cyber Knights: Flashpoint
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box.
Cyberpunk mercenaries RPG! Turn-based squad tactics with unique heist-planning strategy. Build your crew wisely; their stories will become interwoven with your own. Pull off heists with powerful cyberware, faction connections, multiclassing, weapon modding, stealth, hacking, and more!
Into the Breach
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box.
Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.
Frequently asked about Showgunners
- Is Showgunners verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Showgunners 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 Showgunners cost?
- Showgunners is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Showgunners?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Showgunners are Gears Tactics, Capes, Hard West 2.
- Who developed Showgunners?
- Showgunners was developed by Artificer and published by Good Shepherd Entertainment.
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