Games like Paper Planet
If Paper Planet is your kind of game, the closest matches are Berzerk: Recharged, Voidigo and Mega City Force — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its missile barrages form nukes, atmospheric 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 Paper Planet: Paper Planet is a planet-defender, arcade roguelike with a doodley, Flash-inspired artstyle. Battle through waves of unique enemies and bosses. Combine items with strange and wacky effects for insanely overpowered runs. Play with 1-4 players, for some chaotic co-op fun!
Players who liked Paper Planet also play
Steam players who put hours into Paper Planet 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.
Berzerk: Recharged
WHY THIS
Top pick for Paper Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Paper Planet.
Blast your way through an endless maze inhabited by deadly robots and their invulnerable, menacing master Evil Otto. Tag in a friend in local co-op to help you survive this twin-stick revival of an arcade classic.
Voidigo
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Paper Planet.
Second-strongest match for Paper Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Paper Planet.
A vividly animated action roguelite focused on boss hunting. Unleash an array of diverse weapons and powerups to combat the corruption of the Void.
Mega City Force
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Paper Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Paper Planet.
Retrowave Action Roguelike featuring tough agents battling crime to the electrifying music of artists like Droid Bishop, Timecop1983, and more! Choose your agent and dive into hardcore action against enemies and bosses, utilizing a vast arsenal and special abilities that will define your playstyle
Devader
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Paper Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Paper Planet.
Devader is an intense 90's-style twin-stick shooter, complete with crazy old-school bosses, powerful strategic abilities and multiple endings. Upgrade your robot with nukes, shields, turrets and more to exterminate the relentless invaders.
Destropolis
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Paper Planet.
Ranked #5 for Paper Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Paper Planet.
Destropolis is a top-down shooter game with a fully destructible environment, hundreds of enemies and nuclear explosions. Fight a countless swarm of enemies. Tear them to pieces with bullets, lasers and explosions. Destroy as many of them as you can before they overwhelm you...
Steredenn: Binary Stars
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Paper Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Paper Planet.
Steredenn is a frenetic and chaotic space shooter, carved in big beautiful pixels, with insane boss battles. Embark in your ship and engage the fight against dreadful space pirates in a never-ending combat for your survival.
Rogue Star Rescue
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Paper Planet.
Ranked #7 for Paper Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Paper Planet.
Bullet Hell Insanity + Tower Defense Strategy. Rogue Star Rescue is a quirky new type of rogue-like shooter. Blast your way through diverse planets while rescuing your teammates and gathering traps for your defense strategy. Play solo or online to stop the Rogue Star before it annihilates everything!
Nuclear Throne
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Paper Planet fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Paper Planet.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
Reviewers mention these as similar to Paper Planet
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The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Paper Planet.
Reviewers of Paper Planet cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Paper Planet.
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is a randomly generated action RPG shooter with heavy Rogue-like elements. Following Isaac on his journey players will find bizarre treasures that change Isaac’s form giving him super human abilities and enabling him to fight off droves of mysterious creatures, discover secrets and fight his way to safety.
Hades
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Paper Planet cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Paper Planet.
Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Paper Planet.
Reviewers of Paper Planet cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Paper Planet.
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!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Paper Planet.
Reviewers of Paper Planet cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Paper Planet.
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.
TD Tower Defense
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Paper Planet cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Paper Planet.
Build your towers according to the enmey you are facing in the wave. Upgrade your turrets to increase range, damage or rewards. Each enemy wave will be random and increases in speed and damage resistance. How far can you go!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Paper Planet at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Paper Planet.
Priced ~67% under Paper Planet on Steam right now. Shares Action with Paper Planet.
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 ~53% under Paper Planet on Steam right now. Shares Action with Paper Planet.
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.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Paper Planet on Steam right now. Shares Action with Paper Planet.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Paper Planet on Steam right now. Shares Action with Paper Planet.
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.
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Paper Planet on Steam right now. Shares Action with Paper Planet.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~93% under Paper Planet on Steam right now. Shares Action with Paper Planet.
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 ~80% under Paper Planet on Steam right now. Shares Action with Paper Planet.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Paper Planet.
Priced ~67% under Paper Planet on Steam right now. Shares Action with Paper Planet.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Paper Planet.
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 Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Paper Planet.
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 with Paper Planet.
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.
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Paper Planet.
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!
An Arcade Full of Cats
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
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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.
Berzerk: Recharged
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Paper Planet.
Blast your way through an endless maze inhabited by deadly robots and their invulnerable, menacing master Evil Otto. Tag in a friend in local co-op to help you survive this twin-stick revival of an arcade classic.
Voidigo
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Paper Planet.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Paper Planet.
A vividly animated action roguelite focused on boss hunting. Unleash an array of diverse weapons and powerups to combat the corruption of the Void.
Mega City Force
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Paper Planet.
Retrowave Action Roguelike featuring tough agents battling crime to the electrifying music of artists like Droid Bishop, Timecop1983, and more! Choose your agent and dive into hardcore action against enemies and bosses, utilizing a vast arsenal and special abilities that will define your playstyle
Destropolis
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Paper Planet.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Paper Planet.
Destropolis is a top-down shooter game with a fully destructible environment, hundreds of enemies and nuclear explosions. Fight a countless swarm of enemies. Tear them to pieces with bullets, lasers and explosions. Destroy as many of them as you can before they overwhelm you...
Nuclear Throne
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Paper Planet.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
Frequently asked about Paper Planet
- Does Paper Planet run on Steam Deck?
- Paper Planet 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 Paper Planet cost?
- Paper Planet is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Paper Planet have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Paper Planet supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Paper Planet?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Paper Planet are Berzerk: Recharged, Voidigo, Mega City Force.
- Who developed Paper Planet?
- Paper Planet was developed by Doodlegames and published by 2 Left Thumbs.
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 Paper Planet.
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