Games like Scientific Shutdown
If Scientific Shutdown is your kind of game, the closest matches are Meteor Storm, Rescue bomber and Inverse Ninjas VS. The Public Domain — 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 Scientific Shutdown: Scientific Shutdown is a top-down arcade shooter in which you find yourself kidnapped by Dr Hans Trottelstein, the mad scientist, to test the deadliness of his latest batch of rock monsters. With help from up to three friends, how many simulated environments can YOU survive?
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Steam players who put hours into Scientific Shutdown 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.
Meteor Storm
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Top pick for Scientific Shutdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Scientific Shutdown.
Welcome back to 1996! This shared screen space shooter is the perfect 4-player competitive game for some casual fun!
Rescue bomber
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Second-strongest match for Scientific Shutdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Scientific Shutdown.
Experience an upgraded version of Bomberman-like with more game modes and challenging levels! Play casually a VS mode with computer or your friends or try to complete intense story mode.
Inverse Ninjas VS. The Public Domain
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Third-strongest match for Scientific Shutdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Scientific Shutdown.
The iconic stuck-it-to-the-man party game receives an EPIC FREE STORY MODE UPDATE! Rise to the challenge of the evil Shogun Han Gorou!
Tank Quest
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Ranked #4 for Scientific Shutdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Scientific Shutdown.
The Tank Lord has taken over the land. Assemble a team or tread solo to defeat his evil forces and take back what is rightfully ours. Take control of a cute animal in a tank and blast through your enemies with your bullets and bombs!
GunDeck[100]
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Ranked #5 for Scientific Shutdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Scientific Shutdown.
GunDeck[100] is a lightning-fast twin-stick shooter where you’ll build your arsenal from randomly-dealt cards. Weapons fire in a rainbow of elements with unique effects. Dart and dodge to survive the fireworks unleashed against you, and retaliate with your own display! Can YOU survive to wave 100?
GoobnBalloonsDX
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Ranked #6 for Scientific Shutdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Scientific Shutdown.
Fight off waves of evil balloons and save the galaxy - solo or co-op! Travel between worlds in an extensive story mode, save your friends, and recruit them to challenge dastardly bosses in this arcade shoot ‘em up adventure!
Circuit Breakers
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Ranked #8 for Scientific Shutdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Scientific Shutdown.
Talented and ferocious weapon experts needed to eliminate a dangerous mechanical menace that threatens the existence of humanity. Up to six positions available. Benefits include traveling the world to eliminate robots.
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Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Scientific Shutdown at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~58% under Scientific Shutdown on Steam right now. Shares Action with Scientific Shutdown.
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.
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Priced ~42% under Scientific Shutdown on Steam right now. Shares Action with Scientific Shutdown.
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.
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~63% under Scientific Shutdown on Steam right now. Shares Action with Scientific Shutdown.
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
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Priced ~92% under Scientific Shutdown on Steam right now. Shares Action with Scientific Shutdown.
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
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Priced ~75% under Scientific Shutdown on Steam right now. Shares Action with Scientific Shutdown.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~58% under Scientific Shutdown on Steam right now. Shares Action with Scientific Shutdown.
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
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Priced ~58% under Scientific Shutdown on Steam right now. Shares Action with Scientific Shutdown.
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.
ROUNDS
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Priced ~50% under Scientific Shutdown on Steam right now. Shares Action with Scientific Shutdown.
Rounds is a 1v1 rogue-lite shooter where each round gets more intense. The losing player of each round unlocks clever upgrades to create a better build to counter their opponent.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Scientific Shutdown.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Scientific Shutdown.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Scientific Shutdown.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Scientific Shutdown.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Frequently asked about Scientific Shutdown
- How much does Scientific Shutdown cost?
- Scientific Shutdown is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Scientific Shutdown have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Scientific Shutdown 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 Scientific Shutdown?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Scientific Shutdown are Meteor Storm, Rescue bomber, Inverse Ninjas VS. The Public Domain.
- Who developed Scientific Shutdown?
- Scientific Shutdown was developed by Define Logic Studios.
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 Scientific Shutdown.
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