Games like The Cleaner
If The Cleaner is your kind of game, the closest matches are NEXT FLOOR, Maximum Action and Better Than Dead — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and dark. 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.
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Steam players who put hours into The Cleaner 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.
NEXT FLOOR
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Cleaner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Cleaner.
NEXT FLOOR is a score attack, fast-paced, difficult, gory fps, with a simple objective, reach the highest floor you can. Take all your stress out on enemies and make the most creative kills to get as many points as possible, however, higher the floor, more difficult it will be. How far can you go?
Maximum Action
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Cleaner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Cleaner.
MAXIMUM Action is a brutal and satisfying physics-based first person shooter influenced by Hong Kong cinema, heroic slow motion bloodshed, and old-school FPS ACTION.
Better Than Dead
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Cleaner.
Third-strongest match for The Cleaner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Cleaner.
A brutal bodycam revenge FPS set in Hong Kong. Slide into bullet time, fight up close, take down your kidnappers, and record every second of your revenge.
Trepang2
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Cleaner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Cleaner.
Become the ultimate badass in Trepang2: A gory, action-packed FPS set in the near future. Unleash all hell on your enemies, dodge bullets and leave a trail of destruction in this hardcore and frenetic shooter.
BRUTALISTICK VR
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with The Cleaner.
Ranked #5 for The Cleaner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Cleaner.
The golden age of violent flash games now in your VR headset. Fully physics based combat with melee and firearms featuring copious amounts of blood, gore and destruction.
STANDBOX
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Cleaner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Cleaner.
STANDBOX is a single-player physics sandbox about bullying a ragdoll. Shoot him, push him, watch him get back up until he doesn't.
SUPERHOT VR
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with The Cleaner.
Ranked #7 for The Cleaner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Cleaner.
Lose track of what’s real. Commit yourself, body and mind. Confront the evocative, elegantly brutal world of SUPERHOT VR. Enemies pouring into the room from all sides, dozens of bullets coursing through the air... Wait. Something seems different in here...
The Hong Kong Massacre
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Cleaner.
Ranked #8 for The Cleaner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Cleaner.
Blast your way through the streets of Hong Kong in a fast-paced, top-down shooter. Inspired by classic action movies, The Hong Kong Massacre places you at the center of a hard-boiled revenge story, filled with brutal, cinematic shootouts and vivid underworld locations.
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Max Payne
WHY THIS
Shares bullet time combat and an atmospheric mood with The Cleaner.
Reviewers of The Cleaner cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Cleaner.
Max Payne is a man with nothing to lose in the violent, cold urban night. A fugitive undercover cop framed for murder, hunted by cops and the mob, Max is a man with his back against the wall, fighting a battle he cannot hope to win. Prepare for pain…
SUPERHOT
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Cleaner.
Reviewers of The Cleaner cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with The Cleaner.
SUPERHOT is the smash-hit FPS where time moves only when you move. No regenerating health bars. No conveniently placed ammo drops. It's you, alone, outnumbered and outgunned. Snatch weapons from fallen enemies to shoot, slice and dodge through a truly cinematic hurricane of slow-motion bullets.
Hotline Miami
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with The Cleaner.
Reviewers of The Cleaner cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with The Cleaner.
Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Cleaner.
Reviewers of The Cleaner cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Cleaner.
Then, there was fire. Re-experience the critically acclaimed, genre-defining game that started it all. Beautifully remastered, return to Lordran in stunning high-definition detail running at 60fps.
I wanna be The Cat
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Cleaner.
Reviewers of The Cleaner cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with The Cleaner.
I wanna be the Cat is a challenging roguelite platformer inspired by I wanna be the Guy fangames.Fight against famous videogame characters turned into cats and try to claim "THE CAT" as the ultimate title.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Cleaner at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Cleaner on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Cleaner.
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 The Cleaner on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Cleaner.
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 The Cleaner on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Cleaner.
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 The Cleaner on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Cleaner.
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 The Cleaner on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Cleaner.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under The Cleaner on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Cleaner.
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 The Cleaner on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Cleaner.
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 The Cleaner on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Cleaner.
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 The Cleaner.
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 with The Cleaner.
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 The Cleaner.
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 The Cleaner.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Cleaner.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Cleaner.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Cleaner.
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.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Cleaner.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Frequently asked about The Cleaner
- How much does The Cleaner cost?
- The Cleaner is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Cleaner?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Cleaner are NEXT FLOOR, Maximum Action, Better Than Dead.
- Who developed The Cleaner?
- The Cleaner was developed by Dystopia Corp.
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 The Cleaner.
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