Games like My Nuclear Octopus
If My Nuclear Octopus is your kind of game, the closest matches are Nevultra, Holua's Arcades and Nova Swarm — 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 My Nuclear Octopus: My Nuclear Octopus is a psychedelic retro arcade game for fans of pure out-and-out arcade blasters that takes two minutes to learn and hours to master! It's an overload of sight and sound for you to lose yourself in. Can you make it to the top of the leaderboard?
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Steam players who put hours into My Nuclear Octopus 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.
Nevultra
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Top pick for My Nuclear Octopus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with My Nuclear Octopus.
Nevultra is an exciting shoot'em up that will take you back to the 8bit/16bit era. The protagonist, Nina, needs your help to reach her destination in deep space.
Holua's Arcades
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for My Nuclear Octopus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with My Nuclear Octopus.
Master the golden age of the arcade! Holua’s Arcades packs four pixel-perfect challenges into one digital cabinet. Dominate a brutal 90s beat 'em up, survive a cosmic bullet hell, execute a stealthy ninja heist, and conquer a co-op precision platformer. Climb the global leaderboards today!
Nova Swarm
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Third-strongest match for My Nuclear Octopus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with My Nuclear Octopus.
Pick a ship, dive into readable bullet chaos, take down huge angry bosses, grab the bonus core you probably should have left alone, and chase one cleaner run in Nova Swarm.
Space Moth: Lunar Edition
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Ranked #4 for My Nuclear Octopus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with My Nuclear Octopus.
1CC Games’ first shoot ’em up returns with totally overhauled visuals, all-new enemies and attacks, a deeper scoring system, remixed soundtrack and fresh player powers. Space Moth: Lunar Edition is the ultimate version of the beloved cult classic.
Galactoids - Galactic Invaders
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Ranked #5 for My Nuclear Octopus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with My Nuclear Octopus.
Battle swarms of Galactic Invaders in this action-packed retro-inspired arcade shoot em up. May the Nerd be with you.
Black Widow: Recharged
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Ranked #6 for My Nuclear Octopus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with My Nuclear Octopus.
Defend your spider web from an onslaught of bugs in this frenetic revival of the cult classic twin-stick shooter, all while jamming to an infectious original score by Megan McDuffee. Play solo or tag in a friend for local co-op across 30 unique challenges or the endless arcade mode.
Centipede: Recharged
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Ranked #7 for My Nuclear Octopus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with My Nuclear Octopus.
Blast bugs and chase high scores in this glorious revival of an old-school classic, all while jamming to a heart-pounding original score by Megan McDuffee. Play solo or tag in a friend for local co-op across 30 unique challenges or the endless arcade mode.
RagingBlasters
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Ranked #8 for My Nuclear Octopus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with My Nuclear Octopus.
Raging Blasters is a vertical scroll shmup featuring high speed scrolling and the exhilaration of destruction.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below My Nuclear Octopus at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~50% under My Nuclear Octopus on Steam right now. Shares Action with My Nuclear Octopus.
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
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Priced ~50% under My Nuclear Octopus on Steam right now. Shares Action with My Nuclear Octopus.
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.
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~50% under My Nuclear Octopus on Steam right now. Shares Action with My Nuclear Octopus.
"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
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Priced ~50% under My Nuclear Octopus on Steam right now. Shares Action with My Nuclear Octopus.
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!
TYRONE vs COPS
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Priced ~50% under My Nuclear Octopus on Steam right now. Shares Action with My Nuclear Octopus.
Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.
Orbt XL
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Priced ~50% under My Nuclear Octopus on Steam right now. Shares Action with My Nuclear Octopus.
Defy gravity in Orbt XL! A fast-paced, addictive, 'just-one-more-round' arcade score chaser. Stay in orbit, dodge obstacles, and rack up points, the closer you are to the black hole, the higher your score! Easy to learn, tough to master, and perfect for quick play sessions while waiting in queue.
Toree 2
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Priced ~50% under My Nuclear Octopus on Steam right now. Shares Action with My Nuclear Octopus.
A bite-sized 3D Platformer sequel with more focus on the things people enjoyed in the first game like fast gameplay, flow focused levels and cute costumes (two this time).
UBERMOSH Vol.5
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Priced ~50% under My Nuclear Octopus on Steam right now. Shares Action with My Nuclear Octopus.
The fifth volume of the arcade series UBERMOSH.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with My Nuclear Octopus.
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 with My Nuclear Octopus.
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 with My Nuclear Octopus.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with My Nuclear Octopus.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with My Nuclear Octopus.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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More from Tea Monster Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Tea Monster Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Axe Throw VR
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Another title from Tea Monster Games, the studio behind My Nuclear Octopus. Shares Action with My Nuclear Octopus.
You've got a VR headset and some cool motion controllers, but what can you really do with them? Throw some virtual axes! In Axe Throw, a virtual axe throwing range becomes your playground.. or you can see how long you can fend off a zombie apocalypse in survival mode!
Paper Jam!
WHY THIS
Another title from Tea Monster Games, the studio behind My Nuclear Octopus.
If you love word games and VR, you'll love playing Paper Jam! Can you make enough words before the timer runs out? Can you solve anagrams to unlock the story of the robots in career mode? How about a quick game, just for the high score?
RC Rush
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Another title from Tea Monster Games, the studio behind My Nuclear Octopus. Shares Action with My Nuclear Octopus.
RC Rush is an exciting arcade racing game featuring radio controlled trucks. Unlock trucks in grand prix cups, win races in campaign mode to unlock campaign events, compete in head to head battles to unlock even more trucks and level up your way to becoming the ultimate RC champion!
Jack Dragon and the Stone of Peace
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Another title from Tea Monster Games, the studio behind My Nuclear Octopus. Shares Action with My Nuclear Octopus.
Jack Dragon is a retro game love letter to 80 and 90s arcade games. Avoid nasties, jump on platforms, glide around the screen and collect gems! Sounds easy, right?
Die for the Economy!
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Another title from Tea Monster Games, the studio behind My Nuclear Octopus. Shares Action with My Nuclear Octopus.
Blast evil robots in a retro psychedelic maze of an office, as you bring down the security servers and make your way home. Die for the Economy! is a retro arcade survival game featuring beautiful, chunky pixel art graphics with a psychedelic slant harking back to the old 8-bit game systems.
MNOZ - My Nuclear Octopus 2
WHY THIS
Another title from Tea Monster Games, the studio behind My Nuclear Octopus. Shares Action with My Nuclear Octopus.
Everyone's favourite nuclear octopus is back to save the world once again, in MNOZ, the explosive sequel to the hit game My Nuclear Octopus. MNOZ is a psychedelic retro arcade game for fans of pure out-and-out arcade blasters - an overload of sight and sound. Chase those high scores!
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Frequently asked about My Nuclear Octopus
- How much does My Nuclear Octopus cost?
- My Nuclear Octopus is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to My Nuclear Octopus?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside My Nuclear Octopus are Nevultra, Holua's Arcades, Nova Swarm.
- Who developed My Nuclear Octopus?
- My Nuclear Octopus was developed by Tea Monster Games, PsychicParrot and published by Tea Monster Games.
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