Games like UpGun
If UpGun is your kind of game, the closest matches are Quack Attack, New Warfare and Impulse — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its funny, intense and lighthearted. 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 →UpGun is a free-to-play card-based ability FPS released in 2021, featuring small-scale arena battles with luck-based upgrades and mutators that keep matches unpredictable. Players customize robots as their characters and engage in fast-paced combat punctuated by slow-motion ability activations. Reviewers describe the experience as funny, intense, and lighthearted, with players particularly highlighting chaotic fun in small lobbies with friends. The game rewards participants with items regardless of whether they win or lose, and robot customization lets players stand out visually. UpGun holds an 83% positive rating from 2,486 Steam reviews and is marked as playable on Steam Deck.
About UpGun: Face your friends in UpGun! Use each round to accumulate skills and overtake your opponents in this crazy deathmatch!
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Quack Attack
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Top pick for UpGun fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with UpGun.
🚀 Join the Cubic Chaos! Get ready for a wild ride in this 4v4 FPS arena on a cube planet. Choose your animal, collect ducks, and let limbs fly in this cartoon mayhem. With collectible weapons, multiplayer and voice chat, it's a fun carnage at its finest! 🦆💣🎮
New Warfare
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Second-strongest match for UpGun fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with UpGun.
New Warfare is a modern/sci-fi competitive stylised multiplayer first person shooter with multiple game modes. Use extremely fast arcade movements to annihilate your enemies !
Impulse
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Third-strongest match for UpGun fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with UpGun.
Impulse is a fast-paced voxel style multiplayer arena shooter focused on momentum. Wall run across maps, carry speed into slides and jumps, grapple onto the environment or other players, and use your weapons and abilities to gain an advantage
Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 4
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Ranked #4 for UpGun fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with UpGun.
War erupts on the Korean Peninsula as North Korea launches an invasion that threatens to destabilize the world in Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 4.
Cheese Pull
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Ranked #5 for UpGun fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with UpGun.
Cheese Pull is a fast-paced online multiplayer 3D platform shooter with physics-based swinging movement, and lots of cheese. Swing fast, shoot hard, splash chaos everywhere, and be the last Cheeb standing on the plate!
Redmatch 2
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Shares an intense mood with UpGun.
Ranked #6 for UpGun fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with UpGun.
A free fast-paced online multiplayer FPS with grapple hooks where you upgrade your stats with kills!
ASSAULT SECTOR
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Ranked #7 for UpGun fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with UpGun.
Inspired by old school shooters we grew up with. Built around the PULSE wallhack, expect intense PvP. A throwback to a simpler time. No FOMO or microtransactions. This is our love letter to FPS players who feel ignored.
The Team Seven
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Ranked #8 for UpGun fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with UpGun.
Fully Destructible Environments: No wall is safe. Tear down cover, create custom sightlines, and rewrite the map layout to outsmart your enemies.
Reviewers mention these as similar to UpGun
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Ravenfield
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Reviewers of UpGun cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with UpGun.
Fight upon the Ravenfield together with your Blue allies! Take down those pesky Reds using helicopters, tanks, guns, and active ragdoll physics!
Legend Of Mercy 神医魔导
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Reviewers of UpGun cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Experience the story of a doctor who performs miracles, and beautiful girls from another world; this is their adventure. With an epic view of the world, compelling stories, high-quality images, and over thirteen chapters telling a long, but thought out, story.
ROUNDS
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Shares a funny mood with UpGun.
Reviewers of UpGun cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with UpGun.
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.
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Other recommendable Steam games by MaxEstLa, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
EverStopped
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Another title from MaxEstLa, the studio behind UpGun. Shares Action and Casual with UpGun.
STAND UP SOLDIER! Resume training! Become the best on this FPS Runner game demanding reflexes and precision!
project BLARI
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Another title from MaxEstLa, the studio behind UpGun. Shares Action with UpGun.
Try to survive in this semi open horror game inspired by the ps1 graphic era.
Blood Rush
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Shares an intense mood with UpGun.
Another title from MaxEstLa, the studio behind UpGun. Shares Action with UpGun.
BLOOD RUSH is a fast paced, skill based FPS, mixed with roguelites elements. Upgrade yourself, buy unique guns, drain miracles from relics and destroy anyone or anything standing on your way!
Frequently asked about UpGun
- Does UpGun run on Steam Deck?
- UpGun is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- Is UpGun free to play?
- Yes — UpGun is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- Does UpGun have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — UpGun supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, LAN PvP).
- What games are most similar to UpGun?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside UpGun are Quack Attack, New Warfare, Impulse.
- Who developed UpGun?
- UpGun was developed by MaxEstLa, Zino and published by MaxEstLa.
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 UpGun.
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