Games like Super Catboy
If Super Catboy is your kind of game, the closest matches are PostBear Tales, Slayer Cat and Blazing Chrome — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its anthropomorphic cast with personality, catchy retro soundtrack and challenging. 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 Super Catboy: Super Catboy is an action-packed platformer created in a high-bit pixel art style, combining the best elements of the golden 16-bit platformer era of the 90s with some ‘pawsome’ new mechanics! And let’s not forget; there’s plenty of CAT CONTENT!
Players who liked Super Catboy also play
Steam players who put hours into Super Catboy 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.
PostBear Tales
WHY THIS
Top pick for Super Catboy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Super Catboy.
You are a bear, a PostBear, the best one! And you have an important mission, deliver a King's letter to the neighbor kingdom!
Slayer Cat
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Super Catboy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Super Catboy.
Slayer Cat is a classic action shooter game that combines hand-drawn drawings with classic gameplay. Inspired by games like Contra, Doom, and Cuphead. Play as The Slayer Cat as you traverse strange places on an enemy planet, and discover and discover the mysteries of this place!
Blazing Chrome
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Super Catboy.
Third-strongest match for Super Catboy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Super Catboy.
In Blazing Chrome, bring your best pal and kick some metal butts to free the humankind while enjoying a classic run’n’gun, fully loaded with action and exciting fights!
CrushBorgs
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Super Catboy.
Ranked #4 for Super Catboy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Super Catboy.
"Run and Gun" oldschool single-player platformer with NES aesthetics, including an authentic 8-bit chiptune.
Jet Gunner: Refueled
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Super Catboy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Super Catboy.
Jet Gunner is reloaded, remade and refueled for a new explosive 8-bit adventure. Relive the past glory days where VHS was king, phones didn't have screens and you'd have to blow into a cartridge to get your gaming fix.
Iron Meat
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Super Catboy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Super Catboy.
Iron Meat is a run-and-gun arcade shooter that immerses players in an apocalyptic future overrun by "The Meat," an iron-ravenous mass mutating everything in its path. Blast your way through retro-inspired stages and bosses to uncover the shocking horrors behind secret experiments on the Moon.
Guns of Fury
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Super Catboy.
Ranked #7 for Super Catboy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Super Catboy.
Guns of Fury is a retro-inspired action platformer that combines the run & gun and Metroidvania genres. Explore a vast interconnected world, gain new abilities and weapons, battle epic bosses and stop the plans of an evil corporation before it’s too late!
Contra: Operation Galuga
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Super Catboy.
Ranked #8 for Super Catboy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Super Catboy.
The legendary Contra series returns! This reimagining of the classic run-'n'-gun action game from the ‘80s features new stages, new enemies, new play mechanics, and co-op combat for up to 4 players!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Super Catboy
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Mega Man X Legacy Collection
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Super Catboy.
Reviewers of Super Catboy cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Super Catboy.
Mega Man X Legacy Collection includes the legendary 16-bit titles and the series’ exciting foray into the 32-bit era: Mega Man X, Mega Man X2, Mega Man X3, and Mega Man X4. Test your skills in the new X Challenge mode, which pits players against two deadly bosses at once.
SUPER MARKET
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Super Catboy cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Super Catboy.
SUPER MARKET is a fun, silly game about shopping with superpowers, throwing items at friends, and racing to be the first to finish your shopping while the world around is gets crazier and crazier.
Mega Man Legacy Collection
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Super Catboy.
Reviewers of Super Catboy cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Super Catboy.
Mega Man Legacy Collection is a celebration of the 8-bit history of Capcom’s iconic Blue Bomber featuring faithful reproductions of the series’ origins with the original six Mega Man games.
METAL SLUG
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Super Catboy.
Reviewers of Super Catboy cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Super Catboy.
“METAL SLUG ”, the very first title in SNK’s legendary 2D run & gun action shooting game series where all began, returns to the missions on the Steam gaming platform!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Portal Power
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Super Catboy.
Reviewers of Super Catboy cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Super Catboy.
Shredder and the Kraang have spread chaos and evil across dimensions, and it's up to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to stop them!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Super Catboy.
Reviewers of Super Catboy cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Super Catboy.
Join the Turtle brothers straight from the sewers and slide into this new adventure of shell-shocking proportions!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Super Catboy at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Super Catboy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Super Catboy.
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 ~50% under Super Catboy on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Super Catboy.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Super Catboy on Steam right now. Shares Action with Super Catboy.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Super Catboy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Super Catboy.
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 ~50% under Super Catboy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Super Catboy.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Super Catboy on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Super Catboy.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Super Catboy on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Super Catboy.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Super Catboy on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Super Catboy.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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 Super Catboy.
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 and Adventure with Super Catboy.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Super Catboy.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Super Catboy.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Super Catboy.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Super Catboy.
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 Super Catboy.
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.
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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.
Blazing Chrome
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Super Catboy.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Super Catboy.
In Blazing Chrome, bring your best pal and kick some metal butts to free the humankind while enjoying a classic run’n’gun, fully loaded with action and exciting fights!
Iron Meat
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Super Catboy.
Iron Meat is a run-and-gun arcade shooter that immerses players in an apocalyptic future overrun by "The Meat," an iron-ravenous mass mutating everything in its path. Blast your way through retro-inspired stages and bosses to uncover the shocking horrors behind secret experiments on the Moon.
Guns of Fury
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Super Catboy.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Super Catboy.
Guns of Fury is a retro-inspired action platformer that combines the run & gun and Metroidvania genres. Explore a vast interconnected world, gain new abilities and weapons, battle epic bosses and stop the plans of an evil corporation before it’s too late!
Contra: Operation Galuga
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Super Catboy.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Super Catboy.
The legendary Contra series returns! This reimagining of the classic run-'n'-gun action game from the ‘80s features new stages, new enemies, new play mechanics, and co-op combat for up to 4 players!
Frequently asked about Super Catboy
- Is Super Catboy verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Super Catboy 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 Super Catboy cost?
- Super Catboy is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Super Catboy?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Super Catboy are PostBear Tales, Slayer Cat, Blazing Chrome.
- Who developed Super Catboy?
- Super Catboy was developed by Pixelpogo and published by Assemble Entertainment.
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 Super Catboy.
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