Games like Haywire
If Haywire is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hover Attack, Oddment and Terra Earth — 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 Haywire: Haywire is a randomly generated action/platformer game, set inside the world’s first fully automated department store. When the robotic staff suddenly go haywire, it’s up to you to stop the AI that powers them. Take control of a rogue ex-cop, armed with only your gun, your wit, and a few grenades.
Players who liked Haywire also play
Steam players who put hours into Haywire 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.
Hover Attack
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Top pick for Haywire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Haywire.
Hover Attack, the definitive version of the robot action game that became a huge hit in 1984 and was ported to various consoles, is now available on STEAM with a port of the original game and an Ultimate Evolution version that dramatically evolves the gameplay with enhanced graphics and sound!
Oddment
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Second-strongest match for Haywire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Haywire.
Oddment is a roguelite focused on mining and exploration, set on a moon orbiting a distant earth-like planet nestled within a dangerous corner of space.
Terra Earth
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Third-strongest match for Haywire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Haywire.
Terra Earth is a 2D platformer with a mostly NES-faithful pixel art style. You can visit the six stages in any order, and the order in which you complete stages affects how the story plays out. That's basically it; it's not that complicated, so give it a shot if it seems interesting to you.
Super Roboy
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Ranked #4 for Haywire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Haywire.
Delve into the world of Super Roboy, a hand-drawn Metroidvania in a post-apocalyptic setting! Learn enemy skills, explore an interconnected world, battle mutants and robots, and uncover the emotional story of a young robot searching for his father.
CrushBorgs
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Ranked #5 for Haywire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Haywire.
"Run and Gun" oldschool single-player platformer with NES aesthetics, including an authentic 8-bit chiptune.
Mega Man Legacy Collection
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Haywire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Haywire.
Mega Man Legacy Collection is a celebration of the 8-bit history of Capcom’s iconic Blue Bomber featuring faithful reproductions of the series’ origins with the original six Mega Man games.
Berserk Boy
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Haywire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Haywire.
BERSERK BOY is a high speed action packed Platformer, with Metroidvania elements. Packed with vibrant and stylish pixel art. Go Berserk! as you change into different forms and use the power of Lightning, Fire, Ice, Air, and Earth to save the planet!
30XX
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Ranked #8 for Haywire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Haywire.
Jump, shoot, and slash your way through 30XX, the roguelike action platformer you can play with a friend! Explore lush, ever-changing worlds that mix precise platforming with fevered combat. Destroy fearsome Guardians. Master unique Powers. Rediscover the thousand years we've lost.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Haywire at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Haywire on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Haywire.
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
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Priced ~50% under Haywire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Haywire.
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
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Priced ~67% under Haywire on Steam right now. Shares Action with Haywire.
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
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Priced ~67% under Haywire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Haywire.
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
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Priced ~67% under Haywire on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Haywire.
"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
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Priced ~67% under Haywire on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Haywire.
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
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Priced ~67% under Haywire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Haywire.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Haywire.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Haywire.
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.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Haywire.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Haywire.
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.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Haywire.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Haywire.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Haywire.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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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.
Super Roboy
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Haywire.
Delve into the world of Super Roboy, a hand-drawn Metroidvania in a post-apocalyptic setting! Learn enemy skills, explore an interconnected world, battle mutants and robots, and uncover the emotional story of a young robot searching for his father.
Mega Man Legacy Collection
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Haywire.
Mega Man Legacy Collection is a celebration of the 8-bit history of Capcom’s iconic Blue Bomber featuring faithful reproductions of the series’ origins with the original six Mega Man games.
Berserk Boy
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Haywire.
BERSERK BOY is a high speed action packed Platformer, with Metroidvania elements. Packed with vibrant and stylish pixel art. Go Berserk! as you change into different forms and use the power of Lightning, Fire, Ice, Air, and Earth to save the planet!
Frequently asked about Haywire
- How much does Haywire cost?
- Haywire is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Haywire?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Haywire are Hover Attack, Oddment, Terra Earth.
- Who developed Haywire?
- Haywire was developed by Bitwise Games.
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 Haywire.
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