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Games like Pogo Rocket

If Pogo Rocket is your kind of game, the closest matches are SPASE DEFENSE, Crimson Glaive Sigma and Atomic Hazard — 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.

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About Pogo Rocket: Pogo sticks and Rockets, how could it go wrong? In this space-themed 2D platformer, you control an experimental rocket ship and must stop aliens from taking the Earth's resources. Play through a variety of levels with dangerous obstacles and save the world!

2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDWindowsby Big Boy Games
Pogo Rocket — Steam game cover

Players who liked Pogo Rocket also play

Steam players who put hours into Pogo Rocket 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.

  1. SPASE DEFENSE

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Pogo Rocket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pogo Rocket.

    Stranded on a far flung planet, hold out for rescue against alien foes with a variety of guns, lasers, and explosives.

    2024ActionIndie5.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Crimson Glaive Sigma

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Pogo Rocket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pogo Rocket.

    Enjoy this 2D metroidvania-like bullet hell platformer. Jump, dodge and traverse using your jet pack. Find weapons and abilities. Fight bosses and escape an old space station drifting through the cosmos. You are alone, with nothing but a space suit and a gun. Just keep going! Persevere and triumph!

    2021ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Atomic Hazard

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Pogo Rocket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pogo Rocket.

    Atomic Hazard is a action puzle platformer. Take advantage of your environment in physics-based movement and combat.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Star Legion

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Pogo Rocket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pogo Rocket.

    Star Legion is a local co-op top-down shooter where you battle rogue machines in intense missions. Craft gear, survive hostile incursions, and reclaim sectors to spread the glory of the intergalactic Roman Empire.

    2025ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Space Dragons

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Pogo Rocket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pogo Rocket.

    Choose your spaceship and defeat the alien threat that comes from the Moon. Blast your way crushing, ripping apart and exploding hostile aliens that are taking control of powerful weapons and military technology from Earth. Find the entity that controls the threat and make it explode into blood.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Robonauts

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Pogo Rocket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pogo Rocket.

    Shoot through storms of weird and funny creatures, jump between planets by switching gravity, and relive the childhood fun of your very first arcade shooters - alone or with a friend in co-op!

    2021ActionIndieAdventure3.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Goodboy Galaxy

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Pogo Rocket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pogo Rocket.

    A vibrant sci-fi platform adventure game where you help Maxwell the dog explore unfamiliar worlds, make strange new friends and contend with mysterious forces - by jumping, shooting, slicing, shrinking, warping and drilling.

    2024IndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Heavenly Bodies

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Pogo Rocket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pogo Rocket.

    Wrangle the hands and arms of a 1970s space cosmonaut and push, pull and twist your way through an increasingly precarious range of physically simulated stellar scenarios, where without gravity, nothing is still, nothing is secure, and nothing is simple.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Pogo Rocket at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Pogo Rocket on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pogo Rocket.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Pogo Rocket on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Pogo Rocket.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under Pogo Rocket on Steam right now. Shares Action with Pogo Rocket.

    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.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Pogo Rocket on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pogo Rocket.

    An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Pogo Rocket on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pogo Rocket.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~90% under Pogo Rocket on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Pogo Rocket.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Pogo Rocket on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Pogo Rocket.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Pogo Rocket on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Pogo Rocket.

    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.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. 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 Pogo Rocket.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pogo Rocket.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pogo Rocket.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. 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 Pogo Rocket.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Pogo Rocket.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pogo Rocket.

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Pogo Rocket.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Steam Engine Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.

    2023SimulationFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Pogo Rocket

How much does Pogo Rocket cost?
Pogo Rocket is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Pogo Rocket have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Pogo Rocket supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
What games are most similar to Pogo Rocket?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Pogo Rocket are SPASE DEFENSE, Crimson Glaive Sigma, Atomic Hazard.
Who developed Pogo Rocket?
Pogo Rocket was developed by Big Boy 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 Pogo Rocket.

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