Games like Zannon
If Zannon is your kind of game, the closest matches are Space Warden, Alien Space Bastards and Red Blue Cell — 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 Zannon: Zannon is our take on the classic shooters of the late 1980's and early 1990's. Blast your way through 10 challanging levels, collect awesome power-ups, battle numereous different enemies, base and gun platforms. - Love retro and you'll love Zannon.
Players who liked Zannon also play
Steam players who put hours into Zannon 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.
Space Warden
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Top pick for Zannon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Zannon.
Space Warden is top-down shooter in space where whole environment can be destroyed. Use lots of weapons which can burn, stun, damage, explode enemy ships, bases and terrain. Use turrets to defend your base and complete various missions.
Alien Space Bastards
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Second-strongest match for Zannon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Zannon.
Alien Space Bastards is a procedurally generated 3D arcade style shooter. The aliens are attacking in force and you must utilize all the weaponry you have to survive the onslaught and bring piece to the galaxy. Multiple power ups will assist you on your suicide mission, good luck and fight bravely!
Red Blue Cell
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Third-strongest match for Zannon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Zannon.
This is a retro barrage flying shooting game. Drive a space fighter plane, shuttle between planets and space stations, and use powerful firepower to destroy enemy space battleships! !
Astro Fighters
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Ranked #4 for Zannon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Zannon.
Astro Fighters is a tough old school vertical scrolling bullet hell shooter designed to test your skills with non-stop arcade style action. Fight against large bosses at the end of every level and compete for the high score across 4 difficulty modes to be the best fighter pilot in the game.
Beat Taurus
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Ranked #5 for Zannon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Zannon.
Unleash adrenaline-fueled chaos in this fast-paced top-down space shooter. Master the adaptive sountracks to trigger devastating Overdrive attacks and obliterate your enemies. Forge unique ships with deep module synergies, survive the bullet hell, and conquer the Taurus constellation!
Raiders 1941
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Ranked #6 for Zannon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Zannon.
A hardcore challenging Shoot 'Em Up set during WWII - battle, shoot, bomb and weave your way accross the European Theatre.
Akka Arrh
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Ranked #7 for Zannon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Zannon.
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!
Space War: Infinity
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Ranked #8 for Zannon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Zannon.
Vertical semi-procedural shmup with upgrades, real-time enemy waves, and infinite replayability. Level up your ship, unlock 20+ weapons, defeat 5 bosses, and survive endless bullet-hell combat.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Zannon at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~44% under Zannon on Steam right now. Shares Action with Zannon.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~50% under Zannon on Steam right now. Shares Action with Zannon.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~89% under Zannon on Steam right now. Shares Action with Zannon.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~67% under Zannon on Steam right now. Shares Action with Zannon.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~44% under Zannon on Steam right now. Shares Action with Zannon.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
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Priced ~44% under Zannon on Steam right now. Shares Action with Zannon.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~89% under Zannon on Steam right now. Shares Action with Zannon.
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.
Half-Life: Opposing Force
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Priced ~44% under Zannon on Steam right now. Shares Action with Zannon.
Return to the Black Mesa Research Facility as one of the military specialists assigned to eliminate Gordon Freeman. Experience an entirely new episode of single player action. Meet fierce alien opponents, and experiment with new weaponry. Named 'Game of the Year' by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Zannon.
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.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Zannon.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Peggle Extreme
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Peggle Extreme delivers fast-paced puzzle action that combines elements of pinball and pachinko to create a truly unique game experience. Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun, now exclusively themed with art and sounds from Half-Life: Episode 2, Portal, and Team Fortress 2.
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Zannon.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Zannon.
A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!
Waves
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Zannon.
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!
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More from JimJams Games
Other recommendable Steam games by JimJams Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Fungoids - Steam version
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Another title from JimJams Games, the studio behind Zannon. Shares Action with Zannon.
Fungoids is a classic styled, retro themed plant bomber, inspired by the games of the 1980's. Play in 2 modes, Classic, for the original experience, or Alpha for extended game play.
Solar Wind
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Another title from JimJams Games, the studio behind Zannon. Shares Action with Zannon.
Blast your way through a galaxy of planets in this fast paced, side scrolling shoot 'em up. Fight in deep space, fly through asteroid belts, and battle across moons as you take on the alien menace.
Firebird - Steam version
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Another title from JimJams Games, the studio behind Zannon. Shares Action with Zannon.
Love retro shooters? Firebird is a blend of some of our teams favourite games from the space invasion genre. Battle aliens, giant space birds, tractor beams, air burst weapons, robot terrorists and massive motherships in a fight for domination.
The Eye of Borrack
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Another title from JimJams Games, the studio behind Zannon.
The Eye of Borrack will take you back to yesteryear, with our take on the classic text adventure. You'll put the world of action games to one side, as you delve deeply into a rich, funny, imagination led text adventure.
Stranded 2
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Another title from JimJams Games, the studio behind Zannon.
Following a not highly unexpected crash landing (which seems to happen to you a lot), you find yourself stranded on a hostile alien world full of humour, mystery and quite a bit of walking - Your task is clear, find a way off of this planet and get home. - Should be simple!
Frequently asked about Zannon
- How much does Zannon cost?
- Zannon is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Zannon?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Zannon are Space Warden, Alien Space Bastards, Red Blue Cell.
- Who developed Zannon?
- Zannon was developed by JimJams 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 Zannon.
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