Games like Ex-Zodiac
If Ex-Zodiac is your kind of game, the closest matches are Whisker Squadron: Survivor, Railgunners and Space Yugoslav 2D — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its colorful low poly visuals, score attack replayability and atmospheric. 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 Ex-Zodiac: A fast-paced low-poly 3D rail shooter heavily inspired by classics of the early 90's. Join protagonist Kyuu as she fights to free the worlds of the Sanzaru Star System, overrun by the intergalactic terrorist organization known as Zodiac.
Players who liked Ex-Zodiac also play
Steam players who put hours into Ex-Zodiac 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.
Whisker Squadron: Survivor
WHY THIS
Shares on rails shooting and an atmospheric mood with Ex-Zodiac.
Top pick for Ex-Zodiac fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ex-Zodiac.
A smooth roguelite shooter from the creators of RACE THE SUN, featuring a voiced cast of feline pilots in a dramatic showdown against corporate-powered robots called The Swarm. Features a 3-act campaign with branching paths, epic bosses, and a wide arsenal of pilots, ships, and weapons.
Railgunners
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Ex-Zodiac fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ex-Zodiac.
Railgunners is a shooter built to highly customizable difficulty levels. Fight your way through hundreds of enemy ships, and help humanity fight back against the alien invasion!
Space Yugoslav 2D
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Ex-Zodiac fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ex-Zodiac.
Horizontal old school 2D shooter where you play as a bounty hunter named Nada. Survive another night at your very risky job, save the space non-alignment colonies from police raid and get back home at one piece alive! 7 levels, loads of new-retro-feel SHMUP fun!
Liquid Space Dimension
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Ex-Zodiac fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ex-Zodiac.
Fly and fight through the vibrant universe of Liquid Space Dimension in this retro-inspired action shooter! As Sid Seaburn, pilot of the Star Drifter, master a wide range mechanics like drifting, laser beams, and torpedoes to get the highest score possible and stop the evil general Ra-Baba!
Star Trapper FX
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Ex-Zodiac fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ex-Zodiac.
Pseudo 3D spaceship shooter
Space Warpster
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Ex-Zodiac fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ex-Zodiac.
A fast-paced retro arcade shooter inspired by classic 1980s side-scrolling space combat. Weave through organic obstacles, survive relentless enemy waves, and defeat powerful end-level bosses in a pure, skill-driven singleplayer experience.
Missile Dancer 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Ex-Zodiac fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ex-Zodiac.
Missile Dancer 2 is a new sprite scaler shmup that combines rail shooter and caravan STG.
Wild Blue Skies
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Ex-Zodiac fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ex-Zodiac.
Wild Blue Skies reimagines the classic on-rail adventures of the '90s. Join Bowie Stray and the Blue Bombers as they soar through the skies on a mission to save the world in this action-packed, nostalgic journey!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Ex-Zodiac at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Ex-Zodiac on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ex-Zodiac.
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 ~58% under Ex-Zodiac on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Ex-Zodiac.
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 ~42% under Ex-Zodiac on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with Ex-Zodiac.
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.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Ex-Zodiac on Steam right now. Shares Action with Ex-Zodiac.
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 ~48% under Ex-Zodiac on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ex-Zodiac.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Ex-Zodiac on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ex-Zodiac.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Ex-Zodiac on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ex-Zodiac.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Ex-Zodiac on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Ex-Zodiac.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Ex-Zodiac.
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.
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 Ex-Zodiac.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ex-Zodiac.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ex-Zodiac.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ex-Zodiac.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Ex-Zodiac.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Frequently asked about Ex-Zodiac
- Does Ex-Zodiac run on Steam Deck?
- Ex-Zodiac 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 Ex-Zodiac cost?
- Ex-Zodiac is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Ex-Zodiac?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ex-Zodiac are Whisker Squadron: Survivor, Railgunners, Space Yugoslav 2D.
- Who developed Ex-Zodiac?
- Ex-Zodiac was developed by MNKY and published by Pixeljam.
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 Ex-Zodiac.
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