Games like Anomalous
If Anomalous is your kind of game, the closest matches are WRATH: Aeon of Ruin, BRUTAL JOHN 2 and Dread Templar — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, dark and hypnotic. 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 Anomalous: A SHORT and sweet pixelated low fidelity 90s throwback hyper-fast action shooter. Survive and fight through a city overrun with manufactured monstrosities, biomass horrors, and a military authority trying to purge everything living. Heavy metal / techno soundtrack featuring BOD Music
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WRATH: Aeon of Ruin
WHY THIS
Shares weapon variety and an atmospheric mood with Anomalous.
Top pick for Anomalous fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Anomalous.
Blast, slice and shred through your enemies in this hardcore FPS inspired by the icons of the '90s, powered by the legendary Quake-1 Tech. Taking place in a realm left to rot, take up arms, unearth long-forgotten secrets and hunt down the Guardians of the Old World.
BRUTAL JOHN 2
WHY THIS
Shares secret hunting, weapon variety and a dark mood with Anomalous.
Second-strongest match for Anomalous fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Anomalous.
Join BRUTAL JOHN and BRUTAL DOG in a ultraviolent old-school FPS set in a world overrun by crypto-mining technologies, where it’s up to you to destroy them and reclaim control. Prepare for an adrenaline ride that pays homage to the best shooters of the '90s.
Dread Templar
WHY THIS
Shares secret hunting and an atmospheric mood with Anomalous.
Third-strongest match for Anomalous fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Anomalous.
Dread Templar is a fast-paced hardcore old-school FPS, combining classic 90s shooter and modern FPS elements. Unlock and combine dozens of weapon upgrades and skills, embrace the Dread Force and obliterate hordes of fiendish enemies. Become the scariest thing in hell and get your revenge!
CULTIC
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Anomalous.
Ranked #4 for Anomalous fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Anomalous.
Death is only the beginning. Crawl from your grave and gear up to fight your way through the ranks of a mysterious and twisted cult. You, your guns, and your dynamite will have to shoot, slide, blast, duck, dodge, and maybe throw a gib or two to survive in this old-school-inspired shooter.
Turbo Overkill
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Anomalous fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Anomalous.
Enter Paradise as Johnny Turbo—half-metal, half-human, all-murder machine. Clean up the streets with a chainsaw leg, 15+ weapons and your hovercar as you battle the rogue AI Syn, rival bounty hunters and cyberpunks aplenty. Apogee’s most outrageous FPS since Duke Nukem 3D. Good hunting, Sir!
Prodeus
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Anomalous fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Anomalous.
Prodeus is a first-person shooter of old, re-imagined using modern rendering techniques and technology. Experience the quality you’d expect from a modern AAA game, designed with retro aesthetics and gameplay that invoke the tech-imposed limits of older hardware.
Ion Fury
WHY THIS
Shares secret hunting, weapon variety and an atmospheric mood with Anomalous.
Ranked #7 for Anomalous fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Anomalous.
3D Realms, creators of Duke Nukem 3D, Prey, and Max Payne, team up with Voidpoint to bring back the legendary Build Engine, famous for classic shooters like Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, and Blood. Fast-paced FPS combat across huge, secret-packed levels. Ion Fury is the real deal!
HROT
WHY THIS
Shares enemy variety and an atmospheric mood with Anomalous.
Ranked #8 for Anomalous fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Anomalous.
HROT is a single-player retro FPS set in a small socialist country neighboring Soviet Union (Czechoslovakia) after an unspecified disaster in 1986. Those times were dark and terrifying and so is the game.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Anomalous
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Quake
WHY THIS
Shares secret hunting and an atmospheric mood with Anomalous.
Reviewers of Anomalous cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Anomalous.
Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. With Quake (Enhanced), experience the authentic, updated, and visually enhanced version of the original.
Half-Life 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Anomalous.
Reviewers of Anomalous cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Anomalous.
Reawakened from stasis in the occupied metropolis of City 17, Gordon Freeman is joined by Alyx Vance as he leads a desperate human resistance. Experience the landmark first-person shooter packed with immersive world-building, boundary-pushing physics, and exhilarating combat.
Killing Floor
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Anomalous.
Reviewers of Anomalous cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Anomalous.
6-player co-op survival horror at its finest! Free updates, free special events and a ridiculous amount of fun!
DOOM
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Anomalous.
Reviewers of Anomalous cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Anomalous.
Now includes all three premium DLC packs (Unto the Evil, Hell Followed, and Bloodfall), maps, modes, and weapons, as well as all feature updates including Arcade Mode, Photo Mode, and the latest Update 6.66, which brings further multiplayer improvements as well as revamps multiplayer progression.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Anomalous at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Anomalous on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Anomalous.
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 ~44% under Anomalous on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Anomalous.
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 ~50% under Anomalous on Steam right now. Shares Action with Anomalous.
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 ~44% under Anomalous on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Anomalous.
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 ~44% under Anomalous on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Anomalous.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under Anomalous on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Anomalous.
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 ~67% under Anomalous on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Anomalous.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Anomalous on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Anomalous.
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 Anomalous.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Anomalous.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Anomalous.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Anomalous.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Anomalous.
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 Anomalous.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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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.
WRATH: Aeon of Ruin
WHY THIS
Shares weapon variety and an atmospheric mood with Anomalous.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Anomalous.
Blast, slice and shred through your enemies in this hardcore FPS inspired by the icons of the '90s, powered by the legendary Quake-1 Tech. Taking place in a realm left to rot, take up arms, unearth long-forgotten secrets and hunt down the Guardians of the Old World.
BRUTAL JOHN 2
WHY THIS
Shares secret hunting, weapon variety and a dark mood with Anomalous.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Anomalous.
Join BRUTAL JOHN and BRUTAL DOG in a ultraviolent old-school FPS set in a world overrun by crypto-mining technologies, where it’s up to you to destroy them and reclaim control. Prepare for an adrenaline ride that pays homage to the best shooters of the '90s.
CULTIC
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Anomalous.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Anomalous.
Death is only the beginning. Crawl from your grave and gear up to fight your way through the ranks of a mysterious and twisted cult. You, your guns, and your dynamite will have to shoot, slide, blast, duck, dodge, and maybe throw a gib or two to survive in this old-school-inspired shooter.
Turbo Overkill
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Anomalous.
Enter Paradise as Johnny Turbo—half-metal, half-human, all-murder machine. Clean up the streets with a chainsaw leg, 15+ weapons and your hovercar as you battle the rogue AI Syn, rival bounty hunters and cyberpunks aplenty. Apogee’s most outrageous FPS since Duke Nukem 3D. Good hunting, Sir!
Frequently asked about Anomalous
- Does Anomalous run on Steam Deck?
- Anomalous is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Anomalous cost?
- Anomalous is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Anomalous?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Anomalous are WRATH: Aeon of Ruin, BRUTAL JOHN 2, Dread Templar.
- Who developed Anomalous?
- Anomalous was developed by Byron Dunwoody.
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