Games like Severed Steel
If Severed Steel is your kind of game, the closest matches are Echo Point Nova, TIME STRIKE and The Rewind Factory — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its fluid controls, headshots and hypnotic soundtrack. 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 →Severed Steel is a 2021 single-player FPS that combines bullet-time mechanics with an extensive parkour system. Players navigate fully destructible environments while building combos and chasing high scores in roguelike runs. Reviewers highlight the fluid controls and stylish action, with players describing the experience as both hypnotic and intense. The game features a score-attack mode and roguelike progression that encourages replayability, with critical headshots and stylish movement chains forming the core gameplay loop. Available for $24.99, the title runs Verified on Steam Deck and presents a challenging medium-length experience for solo players. The game holds a 96% positive rating from 4535 Steam reviews.
About Severed Steel: An intense single-player FPS featuring a stylish movement system, completely destructible levels, and an acclaimed OST.
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Echo Point Nova
WHY THIS
Shares destructible environments and a hypnotic mood with Severed Steel.
Top pick for Severed Steel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Severed Steel.
Echo Point Nova is an open-world FPS that offers unparalleled freedom and thrilling speed. Designed for both singleplayer and coop. From the creators of Severed Steel.
TIME STRIKE
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Severed Steel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Severed Steel.
TIME STRIKE is a single-player FPS that gives you maximum control: stop time to dodge projectiles, rip down walls, line up a headshot, and flip flying debris into hapless enemies. CONTROL TIME. CONTROL SPACE.
The Rewind Factory
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Severed Steel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Severed Steel.
A software update fails and you end up in a test track. The only way out: complete the test track. You can rewind through time, wall run, dash, slide and slow down time to complete the test chambers as fast a possible. Can you beat the fastest time in this FPS movement based game?
Warstride Challenges
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Severed Steel.
Ranked #4 for Severed Steel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Severed Steel.
Blast hordes of demons at lightning speed in bloody gunfights, and race against the clock to overcome everything that comes your way! Die and retry to get the highest score in increasingly intense trials. Create and share your own runs, enjoying hundreds of levels created by the community.
Boomerang X
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with Severed Steel.
Ranked #5 for Severed Steel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Severed Steel.
Harness the power of a mystical boomerang to fling yourself through the air in this acrobatic arena shooter. Slice, fly, and blast through swarms of evil creatures on an abandoned island with a cryptic past. Stay agile or meet your doom.
Pistol Whip
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Severed Steel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Severed Steel.
Enter: the ultimate action hero. Pistol Whip is a physical action-rhythm game where film-inspired gunplay and blood-pumping beats collide. Blast, duck and dodge your way through fever dream Scenes, build unique rhythms in a ballet of bullets and claim glory on the leaderboards. Includes mod support!
My Friend Pedro
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Severed Steel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Severed Steel.
My Friend Pedro is a violent ballet about friendship, imagination, and one man’s struggle to obliterate anyone in his path at the behest of a sentient banana.
Clustertruck
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Severed Steel.
Ranked #8 for Severed Steel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Severed Steel.
Clustertruck is a chaotic physics based truckformer. Jump your way through insane levels in a game of "the floor is lava" on top of speeding trucks driven by terrible drivers.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Severed Steel
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ULTRAKILL
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with Severed Steel.
Reviewers of Severed Steel cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Severed Steel.
ULTRAKILL is a fast-paced ultra-violent retro FPS that combines the skill-based style scoring of character action games with the unadulterated carnage inspired by the best shooters of the '90s. Rip apart your foes with varied destructive weaponry and shower in their blood to regain your health.
Mirror's Edge™
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Severed Steel cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Severed Steel.
In a city where information is heavily monitored, couriers called Runners transport sensitive data. In this seemingly utopian paradise, a crime has been committed, & you are being hunted. You are a Runner called Faith and this innovative first-person action-adventure is your story.
SUPERHOT
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with Severed Steel.
Reviewers of Severed Steel cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Severed Steel.
SUPERHOT is the smash-hit FPS where time moves only when you move. No regenerating health bars. No conveniently placed ammo drops. It's you, alone, outnumbered and outgunned. Snatch weapons from fallen enemies to shoot, slice and dodge through a truly cinematic hurricane of slow-motion bullets.
Ghostrunner
WHY THIS
Shares wall running with Severed Steel.
Reviewers of Severed Steel cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Severed Steel.
Ghostrunner offers a unique single-player experience: fast-paced, violent combat, and an original setting that blends science fiction with post-apocalyptic themes. It tells the story of a world that has already ended and its inhabitants who fight to survive.
Trepang2
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Severed Steel.
Reviewers of Severed Steel cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Severed Steel.
Become the ultimate badass in Trepang2: A gory, action-packed FPS set in the near future. Unleash all hell on your enemies, dodge bullets and leave a trail of destruction in this hardcore and frenetic shooter.
Max Payne
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Severed Steel cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Severed Steel.
Max Payne is a man with nothing to lose in the violent, cold urban night. A fugitive undercover cop framed for murder, hunted by cops and the mob, Max is a man with his back against the wall, fighting a battle he cannot hope to win. Prepare for pain…
Titanfall - The Final Hours
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Severed Steel cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Severed Steel.
Written over the past four years, journalist Geoff Keighley ("The Final Hours of Portal 2") chronicles the making of TITANFALL from Respawn Entertainment. This longform app features never-before-seen photos, video and concept art from early development versions of the game.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Severed Steel at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Severed Steel on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Severed Steel.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Severed Steel on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Severed Steel.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Severed Steel on Steam right now. Shares Action with Severed Steel.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Severed Steel on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Severed Steel.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Severed Steel on Steam right now. Shares Action with Severed Steel.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
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 Severed Steel.
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 Severed Steel.
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 Severed Steel.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Severed Steel.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Severed Steel.
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 Severed Steel.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Severed Steel.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Severed Steel.
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.).
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Echo Point Nova
WHY THIS
Shares destructible environments and a hypnotic mood with Severed Steel.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Severed Steel.
Echo Point Nova is an open-world FPS that offers unparalleled freedom and thrilling speed. Designed for both singleplayer and coop. From the creators of Severed Steel.
Boomerang X
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with Severed Steel.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Severed Steel.
Harness the power of a mystical boomerang to fling yourself through the air in this acrobatic arena shooter. Slice, fly, and blast through swarms of evil creatures on an abandoned island with a cryptic past. Stay agile or meet your doom.
My Friend Pedro
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Severed Steel.
My Friend Pedro is a violent ballet about friendship, imagination, and one man’s struggle to obliterate anyone in his path at the behest of a sentient banana.
Frequently asked about Severed Steel
- Is Severed Steel verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Severed Steel 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 Severed Steel cost?
- Severed Steel is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Severed Steel?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Severed Steel are Echo Point Nova, TIME STRIKE, The Rewind Factory.
- Who developed Severed Steel?
- Severed Steel was developed by Greylock Studio.
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 Severed Steel.
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