Games like Minimalist Space War
If Minimalist Space War is your kind of game, the closest matches are Distant Space, PigShip and the Giant Wolf and Breaking Survivors — 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 Minimalist Space War: A minimalist retro space shooter. Challenging, fast, and fun game play
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Distant Space
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Top pick for Minimalist Space War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Minimalist Space War.
Distant Space are present the arcade game of cosmic fights in arcade style of the 80's, this is a game where you can control the spaceship and forced to destroy extraterrestrials, which are moving in the certain order.
PigShip and the Giant Wolf
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Second-strongest match for Minimalist Space War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Minimalist Space War.
Pig Ship and the Giant Wolf is a classic Shoot'em Up with a 8btis monochrome aesthetic. Cross the 6 worlds full of enemies and defeat the Giant Wolf to save your brothers.
Breaking Survivors
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Third-strongest match for Minimalist Space War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Casual with Minimalist Space War.
Brick-breaking gameplay meets Survivors-like mechanics. Use your balls to destroy bricks, level up and pick upgrades to hold your ground against waves of incoming bricks and try to high score in this roguelite brick breaking game.
Outer Terror
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Ranked #4 for Minimalist Space War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Minimalist Space War.
DON’T DIE as you assemble a ridiculous arsenal of weapons and desperately hold out against massive hordes of creatures pulled from a variety of classic horror genres reminiscent of 80s and 90s Golden Age comics and B-movies in this stylish action-packed arcade roguelite.
Distant Space 2
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Ranked #5 for Minimalist Space War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Minimalist Space War.
Distant Space 2 - is an indirect continuation of the first part, in which you will find more dynamic gameplay. Your task is to destroy enemy ships on each level to go to the next of 26 available. In addition to conventional ships, you will have to wait for the boss ships, the battle with which will not be easy.
Arcade Mayhem Juanito
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Ranked #6 for Minimalist Space War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Minimalist Space War.
Arcade Mayhem Juanito is a retro experience about arcade-hopping. Teleport into different video games, play with unique mechanics inspired by well-known arcade games, face stunningly animated bosses and join the fight against the clonocell invasion.
LUFTRAUSERS
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Ranked #7 for Minimalist Space War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Minimalist Space War.
The skies are aflame and the seas will overflow with wreckage in Vlambeer’s stylish arcade shooter LUFTRAUSERS! Take to the skies in customized fighter planes to battle battleships, submarines, and rival aces for glory, honor, and high scores.
Switch 'N' Shoot
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Ranked #8 for Minimalist Space War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Minimalist Space War.
Endless arcade action with just ONE button - Switch directions whenever you shoot!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Minimalist Space War at current Steam store prices.
Miss Neko
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Priced ~51% under Minimalist Space War on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Minimalist Space War.
Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)
QUICKERFLAK
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Priced ~51% under Minimalist Space War on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Minimalist Space War.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
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Priced ~51% under Minimalist Space War on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Minimalist Space War.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Gachi Heroes
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Priced ~51% under Minimalist Space War on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Minimalist Space War.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
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Priced ~51% under Minimalist Space War on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Minimalist Space War.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Minimalist Space War.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Minimalist Space War.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Minimalist Space War.
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 Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Minimalist Space War.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Minimalist Space War.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Minimalist Space War.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
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Frequently asked about Minimalist Space War
- How much does Minimalist Space War cost?
- Minimalist Space War is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Minimalist Space War?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Minimalist Space War are Distant Space, PigShip and the Giant Wolf, Breaking Survivors.
- Who developed Minimalist Space War?
- Minimalist Space War was developed by Henning Info.
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