Games like Kestrel
If Kestrel is your kind of game, the closest matches are Night Poetry, Toad On Fire and Moon Tower — 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 Kestrel: Shoot'em up with an emphasis on progression and growth through upgrades. Fly, shoot, die, upgrade, repeat.
Players who liked Kestrel also play
Steam players who put hours into Kestrel 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.
Night Poetry
WHY THIS
Top pick for Kestrel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Kestrel.
Night Poetry is a story-driven rogue-lite RPG with an existential and subjective narrative! Face waves of enemies, collect XP, and experience your evolution by obtaining various power-ups, while uncovering the consequences of an uncertain past in an ancient and mysterious city...
Toad On Fire
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Kestrel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Kestrel.
Smokey the toad is not your average amphibian. With a propane-fueled weed burner in hand, he charges into battle against a relentless force of hostile frogs in a race war that threatens to tear his world apart. It's up to him to emerge victorious and save his kind.
Moon Tower
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Kestrel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Kestrel.
Play as a mechanical being, defeat all enemies, and retrieve the crucial item. Moon Tower is a fast-paced game where you must constantly dodge enemies and eliminate them within each room. Gain different abilities to strengthen yourself and enhance your power.
Blue Sun Saga
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Kestrel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Kestrel.
Go on a quest to restore life to the world in this retro inspired shooter! You must be skillful and tactical as many will try to stop you! You are an exile after all which is a death sentence. But things may be as they seem on this journey.
DIVINE PEARL™: Survivors
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Kestrel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Kestrel.
DIVINE PEARL™: Survivors is a bullet heaven survival game set in a shonen anime world, unleash energy wave attacks and increase your power level on each new planet visited!
Don't Die, Collect Loot
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Kestrel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Kestrel.
It's time to become ridiculously powerful in an arcade roguelite RPG with no limits on your power! Guide your hero through infinite retro fantasy worlds, get loot, gain upgrades, and keep growing their power as you rip through hordes of enemies in the ultimate power fantasy!
Earl vs. the Mutants
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Kestrel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Kestrel.
Save humanity in a mutant-ridden apocalypse! Dive headfirst into Earl vs. the Mutants, a high-octane top-down survival action-roguelite set in the aftermath of a nuclear apocalypse.
Gunlocked
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Kestrel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Kestrel.
A twin stick shooter without the twin stick, Gunlocked is a sci-fi action roguelike about careful positioning and upgrade selection. Manage unique targeting systems across multiple weapons and upgrades, as you battle legions of alien ships, and then do it all over again!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Kestrel at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Kestrel on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Kestrel.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Kestrel on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kestrel.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Kestrel on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kestrel.
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 ~80% under Kestrel on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Kestrel.
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.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Kestrel on Steam right now. Shares Action with Kestrel.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Kestrel on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kestrel.
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!
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Kestrel on Steam right now. Shares Action with Kestrel.
Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Kestrel on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kestrel.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
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 and Adventure with Kestrel.
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.
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 Kestrel.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kestrel.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kestrel.
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!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Kestrel.
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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Frequently asked about Kestrel
- How much does Kestrel cost?
- Kestrel is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Kestrel?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Kestrel are Night Poetry, Toad On Fire, Moon Tower.
- Who developed Kestrel?
- Kestrel was developed by Nectarware.
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 Kestrel.
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