Games like INSPIRE
If INSPIRE is your kind of game, the closest matches are ANOMONAUT, Starcom: Unknown Space and Sharded World — 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 INSPIRE: INSPIRE is a Stylized Top-Down Shooter set in the near future. Customize your arsenal, soar through the skies with your jetpack, and shoot your way through an alien invasion alongside your transformable backpack companion.
Players who liked INSPIRE also play
Steam players who put hours into INSPIRE 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.
Starcom: Unknown Space
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for INSPIRE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with INSPIRE.
Starcom: Unknown Space is an action RPG of space exploration and adventure. Build your own starship while discovering an epic story in a universe of strange mysteries, alien factions and uncharted worlds.
Sharded World
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for INSPIRE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with INSPIRE.
Sharded World is a reversed bullet hell, rogue-lite, ARPG game combining simple gameplay and great rpg progression. Each level has its own unique features and challenges. Upgradable characters, weapons and orbs. Challenges, daily quests, and leaderboards. Fight, get stronger and defeat the Lich!
ROGUE SHIFT
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for INSPIRE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with INSPIRE.
ROGUE SHIFT is a high-intensity top-down shooter, set on a harsh planet that will test your will to survive. To stay alive, you will pit yourself against hordes of relentless enemies in an unforgiving, hostile environment.
Alien Shooter
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for INSPIRE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with INSPIRE.
The endless darkness and the somber, long passages of a military complex have become the abode of evil, thousands of blood-thirsty creatures fill its offices, storehouses and mysterious laboratories. About 1,000 monsters on each map, showing up to 100 monsters simultaneously on one playing screen.
Ares Virus2
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for INSPIRE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with INSPIRE.
The "Ares Virus" series of games is widely acclaimed for its unique combat and individual style of painting. Now that the sequel is back, it will give you an unprecedented experience.
Shadowgrounds Survivor
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for INSPIRE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with INSPIRE.
Surviving is only half the game. The award-winning atmosphere and gameplay mechanics of the original Shadowgrounds make a triumphant return in this spin off/sequel armed with a slick new feature set! Shadowgrounds Survivor tells the story of the last remaining humans on Jupiter's moon Ganymede, where the alien onslaught is in full force.
Killsquad
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for INSPIRE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with INSPIRE.
Hack and slash? Check. Twin-stick-shooter? Check. 4 player coop to slay hordes of aliens & bosses with your friends? Check. Skills, upgrades, weapons, gears, talismans and more to make you stronger? Check. Wake up, bounty hunter. We have a mission for you. Time to clean up the scum of the galaxy.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below INSPIRE at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under INSPIRE on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with INSPIRE.
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 INSPIRE on Steam right now. Shares Action with INSPIRE.
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.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under INSPIRE on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with INSPIRE.
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 INSPIRE on Steam right now. Shares Action with INSPIRE.
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 INSPIRE on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with INSPIRE.
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.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under INSPIRE on Steam right now. Shares Action with INSPIRE.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under INSPIRE on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with INSPIRE.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~78% under INSPIRE on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and RPG with INSPIRE.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 INSPIRE.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with INSPIRE.
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 Adventure with INSPIRE.
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 Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with INSPIRE.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with INSPIRE.
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.).
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with INSPIRE.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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Frequently asked about INSPIRE
- Does INSPIRE work on Steam Deck?
- INSPIRE is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does INSPIRE cost?
- INSPIRE is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to INSPIRE?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside INSPIRE are ANOMONAUT, Starcom: Unknown Space, Sharded World.
- Who developed INSPIRE?
- INSPIRE was developed by Nick Housmans and published by Husman Games.
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 INSPIRE.
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