Games like Run Dude
If Run Dude is your kind of game, the closest matches are Gutwhale, NOT A HERO and TowerClimb — 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.
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Steam players who put hours into Run Dude 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.
Gutwhale
WHY THIS
Top pick for Run Dude fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Run Dude.
Gutwhale is a roguelite about managing the space between you and your ammo, while fighting your way through a digestive system!
NOT A HERO
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Run Dude fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Run Dude.
Professional assassin turned amateur campaign manager Steve is charged with cleaning up the city by an anthropomorphic rabbit and mayoral candidate from the future named BunnyLord.
TowerClimb
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Run Dude fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Run Dude.
TowerClimb is a difficult and rewarding procedurally generated platformer with roguelike elements. Enormous and mysterious towers of ancient unknown origin stand above humanity, extending to the heavens. Struggle forward as a weak human, driven by an iron will to reach the top.
Blasphemous
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Run Dude fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Run Dude.
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.
Valfaris
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Run Dude fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Run Dude.
Set in a far corner of space, Valfaris is a heavy metal infused 2D action-platformer and the next game from the team behind Unity Awards finalist, Slain: Back From Hell. Brutal combat. Deadly enemies. Stunning pixel art. Savage soundtrack. Get ready to rip the galaxy a new wormhole.
Nidhogg 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Run Dude fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Run Dude.
The rules are simple. Reach the other side and kill anyone that stands in your way. Deftly parry and rend their throats, riddle their bowels with arrows, or squish their brains between your toes. The wurm cares not for chivalry.
Turbo Overkill
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Run Dude fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Run Dude.
Enter Paradise as Johnny Turbo—half-metal, half-human, all-murder machine. Clean up the streets with a chainsaw leg, 15+ weapons and your hovercar as you battle the rogue AI Syn, rival bounty hunters and cyberpunks aplenty. Apogee’s most outrageous FPS since Duke Nukem 3D. Good hunting, Sir!
BUTCHER
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Run Dude fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Run Dude.
BUTCHER is a fast-paced, blood-soaked 2D shooter where carnage is the only way forward. Become a ruthless cyborg tasked with eradicating humanity, leaving nothing but blood, guts, and destruction in your wake. There's no such thing as too much violence in this grim, retro-styled gorefest.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Run Dude at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Run Dude on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Run Dude.
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?
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Run Dude on Steam right now. Shares Action with Run Dude.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Run Dude on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Run Dude.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Run Dude on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Run Dude.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Run Dude on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Run Dude.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Run Dude on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Run Dude.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
TYRONE vs COPS
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Run Dude on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Run Dude.
Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Run Dude.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Run Dude.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Run Dude.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Run Dude.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
We Become What We Behold [Fan-Made Port]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Run Dude.
a game about news cycles, vicious cycles, infinite cycles
Floating Point
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Run Dude.
Floating Point is a peaceful, free game about using a grappling hook to swing yourself gracefully through randomly generated spaces. The only objective is to collect points, and the only thing that increases your points is swinging swiftly, smoothly and elegantly without hitting anything.
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Run Dude.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
![We Become What We Behold [Fan-Made Port] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1103210/header.jpg?t=1563495717)
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More from Skull Box Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Skull Box Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Seven Bullets Zombie Apocalypse
WHY THIS
Another title from Skull Box Games, the studio behind Run Dude. Shares Action with Run Dude.
Oldschool infinite runner. Try to survive with your trusty rifle and remaining 7 bullets in a clip, in a world after the zombie apocalypse.
Blacksmith Run
WHY THIS
Another title from Skull Box Games, the studio behind Run Dude. Shares Indie with Run Dude.
Go with the brave blacksmith on his journey for the Hammer of Gods. To get the legendary tool, you have to overcome 20 hardcore levels filled with deadly traps!
Only One Rectangle
WHY THIS
Another title from Skull Box Games, the studio behind Run Dude. Shares Action and Indie with Run Dude.
Platformer with a variety of disorienting gameplay for an interesting gaming experience. A lot of colors, invisible painted platforms, traps, various puzzles.
Another road
WHY THIS
Another title from Skull Box Games, the studio behind Run Dude. Shares Indie with Run Dude.
This is an epic humorous adventure. You play as crazy men in underpants who ride a disgusting cart and try to deliver goods. COOL, YEAH?
Castle survival
WHY THIS
Another title from Skull Box Games, the studio behind Run Dude. Shares Indie with Run Dude.
Castle survival is a game where you need to destroy an enemy castle with your army.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Blasphemous
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Run Dude.
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.
Valfaris
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Run Dude.
Set in a far corner of space, Valfaris is a heavy metal infused 2D action-platformer and the next game from the team behind Unity Awards finalist, Slain: Back From Hell. Brutal combat. Deadly enemies. Stunning pixel art. Savage soundtrack. Get ready to rip the galaxy a new wormhole.
Turbo Overkill
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Run Dude.
Enter Paradise as Johnny Turbo—half-metal, half-human, all-murder machine. Clean up the streets with a chainsaw leg, 15+ weapons and your hovercar as you battle the rogue AI Syn, rival bounty hunters and cyberpunks aplenty. Apogee’s most outrageous FPS since Duke Nukem 3D. Good hunting, Sir!
Frequently asked about Run Dude
- How much does Run Dude cost?
- Run Dude is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Run Dude?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Run Dude are Gutwhale, NOT A HERO, TowerClimb.
- Who developed Run Dude?
- Run Dude was developed by Skull Box Games.
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