Games like VXE
If VXE is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ninja Noboken Episode 2, Among the Waves and Zombies & Bullets — 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 VXE: You are the virus. Slide, dash, and delete hostile processes in a violent ballet of pixel art and display shattering action. Customize circuit boards, summon hordes of digital familiars, and achieve ascension in this crunchy love letter to 90s shareware and modern bullet heavens.
Players who liked VXE also play
Steam players who put hours into VXE 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.
Ninja Noboken Episode 2
WHY THIS
Top pick for VXE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with VXE.
A brutal 2.5D ninja action game built by a solo developer. Fast combat, precision platforming, and intense boss fights inspired by classic hardcore ninja games.
Among the Waves
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for VXE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with VXE.
Carry the Divine Child. Bend the laws of physics and uncover the mystery of the Doors of Birth. The fate of a world where artificial intelligence has learned to believe lies in your hands.
Zombies & Bullets
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for VXE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with VXE.
Zombies & Bullets is a 3D top-down action shooter game where you must help the soldiers Jacob and Erin face armies of zombies in varied levels full of challenges. Prove your skills and become the warrior of the zombie apocalypse!
BLOODY HELL 2
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Ranked #4 for VXE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with VXE.
Pulverize demons as a small Angel wielding a GIANT DEMONIC HAMMER! Explore Hell's deepest layers, and uncover the truth of how Heaven fell in this Bullet-Hell Metroidvania. Will you succeed, or die in the chaotic depths of BLOODY HELL 2?
Frontier Hunter: Erza’s Wheel of Fortune
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Ranked #5 for VXE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with VXE.
This is an anime-style Metroidvania game with an RPG progression system, numerous weapons for switching, and an emphasis on equipment building. It offers three switchable characters, smooth gameplay, impactful combat feedback, and anime-style story scenes.
Trinity Fusion
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Ranked #6 for VXE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with VXE.
Three fractured realities. One collapsing multiverse. Fast, fluid combat in a dark sci-fi Roguevania where each run begins in a separate universe — then lets you fuse your parallel selves, powers, and worlds to create brutal, ever-evolving builds.
JUMP KING QUEST
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Ranked #7 for VXE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with VXE.
Plunge into high-stakes punishment platforming in JUMP KING QUEST! Explore alone or fall together in dynamic online climbing action as you fight your way upwards on an unhinged quest to The Smoking Hot Babe at The Top. In this world, every ledge is a battlefield…
Slavania
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Ranked #8 for VXE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with VXE.
Fantasy metroidvania with a moral choice and hunting the bosses who are not going to patiently wait for you in their lair. Study the monsters. Track'em. Kill'em. Exploration of the vast interconnected fairytale world, an acrobatic combat system and weird locals are what awaits you.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with VXE.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 Adventure with VXE.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with VXE.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with VXE.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with VXE.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
The Lab
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with VXE.
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.
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Frequently asked about VXE
- What games are most similar to VXE?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside VXE are Ninja Noboken Episode 2, Among the Waves, Zombies & Bullets.
- Who developed VXE?
- VXE was developed by NerveQuake Software Inc..
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 VXE.
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