Games like ANVIL
If ANVIL is your kind of game, the closest matches are Killsquad, SYNTHETIK 2 and Temtem: Swarm — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its tactical positioning matters, writing quality is exceptional 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 ANVIL: Take on the role of a Vault Breaker in search of alien artifacts called “Vaults” and fight against monsters and powerful bosses. You can strengthen your Breakers to explore far-away galaxies that no one has ever reached!
Players who liked ANVIL also play
Steam players who put hours into ANVIL 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.
Killsquad
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with ANVIL.
Top pick for ANVIL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with ANVIL.
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.
SYNTHETIK 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with ANVIL.
Second-strongest match for ANVIL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with ANVIL.
SYNTHETIK 2 is a unrelenting tactical-shooter rogue-lite. Play alone or with friends. Loot powerful tech. Experience the next level in gun-play. Upgrade your androids to rival the machine gods!
Temtem: Swarm
WHY THIS
Shares roguelite progression and a challenging mood with ANVIL.
Third-strongest match for ANVIL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with ANVIL.
Can you Survive the Swarm? Unlock mighty abilities and upgrades, find and collect Tems to evolve and become stronger, discover overpowered strategies, and battle massive bosses in this survivor-like bullet heaven! Play solo or online co-op with up to 3 players, building the wildest synergies.
Section 13
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with ANVIL.
Ranked #4 for ANVIL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with ANVIL.
Unravel a thrilling sci-fi mystery in this action-packed twin-stick roguelite shooter. Select your load-out, stack up temporary and persistent upgrades, and delve into the depths of a subterranean base, either alone or in a group of up to 3 players.
The Spell Brigade
WHY THIS
Shares roguelite progression and a challenging mood with ANVIL.
Ranked #5 for ANVIL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with ANVIL.
Survivors-like with ONLINE CO-OP for 1-4 players. Team up with your wizard friends to slay hordes of dark creatures. Complete team-based objectives, unlock new upgrades and create overpowered spell synergies. Friend nor foe is safe in this friendly fire bullet hell!
SYNTHETIK: Legion Rising
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for ANVIL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with ANVIL.
SYNTHETIK is an unforgiving tactical shooter rogue-lite where freedom and experimentation is key. Fight in a world overrun by the Machine Legion and their Gods. Experience the next level in gun-play and dive into unparalleled build options and Android upgrades. Can you defeat the Heart of Armageddon?
Survivors of the Dawn
WHY THIS
Shares roguelite progression and a challenging mood with ANVIL.
Ranked #7 for ANVIL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with ANVIL.
A roguelite horde-survival bullet heaven with QUINTILLIONS of bullets over QUINTILLIONS of hordes. Mix weapons with items, modify, control chaos at terminals and break through tightening waves.
Neon Chrome
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with ANVIL.
Ranked #8 for ANVIL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with ANVIL.
A masterful combination of top-down shooter and endless replayability with procedural levels. Blast your way through walls & enemies with guns and cybernetic abilities. Install perks from cyber chambers and upgrade your character stats after each death. Can you stop the Overseer?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below ANVIL at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under ANVIL on Steam right now. Shares Action with ANVIL.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under ANVIL on Steam right now. Shares Action with ANVIL.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under ANVIL on Steam right now. Shares Action with ANVIL.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under ANVIL on Steam right now. Shares Action with ANVIL.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under ANVIL on Steam right now. Shares Action with ANVIL.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under ANVIL on Steam right now. Shares Action with ANVIL.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with ANVIL.
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 with ANVIL.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with ANVIL.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with ANVIL.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with ANVIL.
A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Temtem: Swarm
WHY THIS
Shares roguelite progression and a challenging mood with ANVIL.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with ANVIL.
Can you Survive the Swarm? Unlock mighty abilities and upgrades, find and collect Tems to evolve and become stronger, discover overpowered strategies, and battle massive bosses in this survivor-like bullet heaven! Play solo or online co-op with up to 3 players, building the wildest synergies.
Section 13
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with ANVIL.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with ANVIL.
Unravel a thrilling sci-fi mystery in this action-packed twin-stick roguelite shooter. Select your load-out, stack up temporary and persistent upgrades, and delve into the depths of a subterranean base, either alone or in a group of up to 3 players.
The Spell Brigade
WHY THIS
Shares roguelite progression and a challenging mood with ANVIL.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with ANVIL.
Survivors-like with ONLINE CO-OP for 1-4 players. Team up with your wizard friends to slay hordes of dark creatures. Complete team-based objectives, unlock new upgrades and create overpowered spell synergies. Friend nor foe is safe in this friendly fire bullet hell!
Frequently asked about ANVIL
- Does ANVIL run on Steam Deck?
- ANVIL 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 ANVIL cost?
- ANVIL is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does ANVIL have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — ANVIL supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to ANVIL?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ANVIL are Killsquad, SYNTHETIK 2, Temtem: Swarm.
- Who developed ANVIL?
- ANVIL was developed by ACTION SQUARE.
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 ANVIL.
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