Games like Selaco
If Selaco is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ion Fury, HEADCUTTER and Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its amazing gunplay and movement, tactical positioning matters and atmospheric. 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 →Selaco is a first-person action adventure developed by Altered Orbit Studios, released in 2024 at $24.99. The game blends retro-styled pixel graphics with sci-fi environments, featuring a female protagonist in a story-rich campaign. Core mechanics center on tactical gunplay with weapon upgrades, enemy adaptability that responds to player behavior, and interactive environments that reward exploration. Players describe the experience as atmospheric and immersive, with tactical positioning mattering significantly in combat encounters. The challenging solo campaign offers medium-length play sessions with a randomizer mode adding high replay value according to reviewers. Verified for Steam Deck, the game holds a 94% positive rating from over 4,000 Steam reviews.
About Selaco: Selaco is a brand new original shooter inspired by classics, featuring thrilling action set pieces, destructibility, smart enemies and a fleshed out story taking place within an immersive game world.
Players who liked Selaco also play
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Ion Fury
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Selaco.
Top pick for Selaco fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Selaco.
3D Realms, creators of Duke Nukem 3D, Prey, and Max Payne, team up with Voidpoint to bring back the legendary Build Engine, famous for classic shooters like Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, and Blood. Fast-paced FPS combat across huge, secret-packed levels. Ion Fury is the real deal!
HEADCUTTER
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Selaco fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Selaco.
HEADCUTTER is a sci-fi spaghetti western FPS with brutal combat, destructible environments, and lots of gore. Track targets as a space bounty hunter, explore maps with multiple routes, and use the crunchy gunplay to cut their heads off so you can get your money!
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Selaco.
Third-strongest match for Selaco fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Selaco.
Load up your Boltgun and unleash the awesome Space Marine arsenal to blast your way through an explosion of sprites, pixels and blood in a perfect blend of Warhammer 40,000, frenetic gameplay and the stylish visuals of 90’s retro shooters.
HROT
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Selaco.
Ranked #4 for Selaco fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Selaco.
HROT is a single-player retro FPS set in a small socialist country neighboring Soviet Union (Czechoslovakia) after an unspecified disaster in 1986. Those times were dark and terrifying and so is the game.
Project Warlock II
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Selaco.
Ranked #5 for Selaco fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Selaco.
Adrenaline-pumping gore retro funhouse that’s full of guns, magic, demons, vertical arenas, 3D visuals, 2D sprites, and heavy metal music. Inspired by FPS classics like Quake and Doom 64, Project Warlock II is the explosive boomer shooter sequel you were too shy to ask for.
STAR WARS™: Dark Forces Remaster
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Selaco.
Ranked #6 for Selaco fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Selaco.
The evil Empire is currently creating a doomsday army behind a veil of secrecy. However, they are no match for the Rebel Alliance's covert operations division. Your mission is to infiltrate the Empire and put an end to their plans for terror and domination.
Supplice
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Selaco.
Ranked #7 for Selaco fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Selaco.
Supplice is a stylish throwback shooter inspired by the mid-90s FPS glory days and the legendary Doom modding community. Mixing the retro stylings of 90s era shooters with colorful graphics and frantic gameplay, it creates an experience that's ever so familiar but also exciting and fresh.
BRUTAL JOHN 2
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Selaco.
Ranked #8 for Selaco fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Selaco.
Join BRUTAL JOHN and BRUTAL DOG in a ultraviolent old-school FPS set in a world overrun by crypto-mining technologies, where it’s up to you to destroy them and reclaim control. Prepare for an adrenaline ride that pays homage to the best shooters of the '90s.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Selaco
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Half-Life 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Selaco.
Reviewers of Selaco cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Selaco.
Reawakened from stasis in the occupied metropolis of City 17, Gordon Freeman is joined by Alyx Vance as he leads a desperate human resistance. Experience the landmark first-person shooter packed with immersive world-building, boundary-pushing physics, and exhilarating combat.
Beyond Citadel
WHY THIS
Shares weapon upgrades and an atmospheric mood with Selaco.
Reviewers of Selaco cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Selaco.
Beyond Citadel is an anime style retro throwback shooter inspired by the classics of the 90's, with realistic gunplay mechanics, anime violence and fast paced combat. Fight your way through the heavily armed mechanical fortress and discover the secret that lies beneath.
Trepang2
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Selaco cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Selaco.
Become the ultimate badass in Trepang2: A gory, action-packed FPS set in the near future. Unleash all hell on your enemies, dodge bullets and leave a trail of destruction in this hardcore and frenetic shooter.
Turbo Overkill
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Selaco.
Reviewers of Selaco cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Selaco.
Enter Paradise as Johnny Turbo—half-metal, half-human, all-murder machine. Clean up the streets with a chainsaw leg, 15+ weapons and your hovercar as you battle the rogue AI Syn, rival bounty hunters and cyberpunks aplenty. Apogee’s most outrageous FPS since Duke Nukem 3D. Good hunting, Sir!
Half-Life
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Selaco.
Reviewers of Selaco cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Selaco.
Named Game of the Year by over 50 publications, Valve's debut title blends action and adventure with award-winning technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players must think to survive. Also includes an exciting multiplayer mode that allows you to play against friends and enemies around the world.
Prodeus
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Selaco cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Selaco.
Prodeus is a first-person shooter of old, re-imagined using modern rendering techniques and technology. Experience the quality you’d expect from a modern AAA game, designed with retro aesthetics and gameplay that invoke the tech-imposed limits of older hardware.
Gloomwood
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Selaco.
Reviewers of Selaco cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Selaco.
Trapped in a dark, Victorian city consumed by an ancient curse, you must plan your survival and daring escape using nothing but stealth, an arsenal of eccentric weapons, and your wit in this haunting adventure inspired by the immersive sims and survival horror greats of the late 90s and early 2000s.
Duke Nukem Forever
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Selaco cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Selaco.
The King arrives with an arsenal of over-the-top weapons, giant explosions and pure unadulterated fun!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Selaco at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Selaco on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Selaco.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Selaco on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Selaco.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Selaco on Steam right now. Shares Action with Selaco.
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 Selaco on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Selaco.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Selaco on Steam right now. Shares Action with Selaco.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Selaco.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Selaco.
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 Selaco.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Selaco.
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 Selaco.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Selaco.
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.).
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Selaco.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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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.
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Selaco.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Selaco.
Load up your Boltgun and unleash the awesome Space Marine arsenal to blast your way through an explosion of sprites, pixels and blood in a perfect blend of Warhammer 40,000, frenetic gameplay and the stylish visuals of 90’s retro shooters.
Project Warlock II
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Selaco.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Selaco.
Adrenaline-pumping gore retro funhouse that’s full of guns, magic, demons, vertical arenas, 3D visuals, 2D sprites, and heavy metal music. Inspired by FPS classics like Quake and Doom 64, Project Warlock II is the explosive boomer shooter sequel you were too shy to ask for.
STAR WARS™: Dark Forces Remaster
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Selaco.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Selaco.
The evil Empire is currently creating a doomsday army behind a veil of secrecy. However, they are no match for the Rebel Alliance's covert operations division. Your mission is to infiltrate the Empire and put an end to their plans for terror and domination.
BRUTAL JOHN 2
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Selaco.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Selaco.
Join BRUTAL JOHN and BRUTAL DOG in a ultraviolent old-school FPS set in a world overrun by crypto-mining technologies, where it’s up to you to destroy them and reclaim control. Prepare for an adrenaline ride that pays homage to the best shooters of the '90s.
Frequently asked about Selaco
- Is Selaco verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Selaco is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Selaco cost?
- Selaco is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Selaco?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Selaco are Ion Fury, HEADCUTTER, Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun.
- Who developed Selaco?
- Selaco was developed by Altered Orbit Studios.
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