Games like The Power Latch Kid
If The Power Latch Kid is your kind of game, the closest matches are Normal SHMUP, Waves and Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story — 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 The Power Latch Kid: Play as the Power Latch Kid in this classic arcade style twin-stick shump! Enjoy the complex gameplay experience of physics melding with shooting anarchy! How long can you stand to dwell within the crushing madness of the Amalgotron?
Players who liked The Power Latch Kid also play
Steam players who put hours into The Power Latch Kid 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.
Normal SHMUP
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Power Latch Kid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Power Latch Kid.
Normal SHMUP is a strange shoot em' up game based around classic gameplay. Fight the enemies and regain control of the world again.
Waves
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Power Latch Kid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Power Latch Kid.
Waves is an Arcade Twin-Stick Shooter that's all about High Scores. Build your combo and drop bombs in pursuit of Leaderboard dominance over seven game-modes!
Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Power Latch Kid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Power Latch Kid.
42 of the weirdest, trippiest, sheepiest games ever created. Enter the mind of Jeff Minter, the legendary creator of Attack of the Mutant Camels, Gridrunner, and Tempest 2000, in this interactive documentary from Digital Eclipse.
Post Void
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Power Latch Kid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Power Latch Kid.
Post Void is a hypnotic scramble of early first-person shooter design that values speed above all else. Keep your head full and reach the end; Kill what you can to see it mend; Get the high score or try again.
Duck Paradox
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Power Latch Kid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Power Latch Kid.
Shoot bouncing bullets in this roguelike precision platformer killing corrupted ducks while searching for Dr. Paraducks’ beloved pet throughout the multiverse! To return to safety you’ll need to tackle difficult-to-master trials, run after run, earning upgrades, while maintaining your sanity!
LUFTRAUSERS
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Power Latch Kid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Power Latch Kid.
The skies are aflame and the seas will overflow with wreckage in Vlambeer’s stylish arcade shooter LUFTRAUSERS! Take to the skies in customized fighter planes to battle battleships, submarines, and rival aces for glory, honor, and high scores.
NERVE
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Power Latch Kid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Power Latch Kid.
Hurtle through beautiful unforgiving worlds, where every frame is enthralling, every moment is exhilarating, every death is deserved, and every success is earned. RACE | DODGE | DIE | REPEAT
Akka Arrh
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Power Latch Kid fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Power Latch Kid.
Akka Arrh is a modern take on a scrapped project from the 1980s, providing players with a fast-paced, addictive, arcade shooter experience and psychedelic visuals. Protect your life rings as you chain together combos and go for a high score!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Power Latch Kid at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Power Latch Kid on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Power Latch Kid.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Power Latch Kid on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Power Latch Kid.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Power Latch Kid on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Power Latch Kid.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Power Latch Kid on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Power Latch Kid.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Power Latch Kid on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Power Latch Kid.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Power Latch Kid on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Power Latch Kid.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Power Latch Kid on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Power Latch Kid.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
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 with The Power Latch Kid.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Power Latch Kid.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Power Latch Kid.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Power Latch Kid.
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 Indie with The Power Latch Kid.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Power Latch Kid.
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.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Waves
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Power Latch Kid.
Waves is an Arcade Twin-Stick Shooter that's all about High Scores. Build your combo and drop bombs in pursuit of Leaderboard dominance over seven game-modes!
Post Void
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Power Latch Kid.
Post Void is a hypnotic scramble of early first-person shooter design that values speed above all else. Keep your head full and reach the end; Kill what you can to see it mend; Get the high score or try again.
Duck Paradox
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Power Latch Kid.
Shoot bouncing bullets in this roguelike precision platformer killing corrupted ducks while searching for Dr. Paraducks’ beloved pet throughout the multiverse! To return to safety you’ll need to tackle difficult-to-master trials, run after run, earning upgrades, while maintaining your sanity!
Frequently asked about The Power Latch Kid
- How much does The Power Latch Kid cost?
- The Power Latch Kid is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Power Latch Kid?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Power Latch Kid are Normal SHMUP, Waves, Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story.
- Who developed The Power Latch Kid?
- The Power Latch Kid was developed by Lazy Brain Games and published by Lazy Brain Games, Zebra Zine.
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