Games like Deadlink
If Deadlink is your kind of game, the closest matches are Deadlink: Prologue, Overdrive Escape and Turbo Overkill — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its cyberpunk aesthetic is immersive, atmospheric and challenging. 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 →Deadlink is a solo-only cyberpunk arena shooter that blends first-person gunplay with roguelite progression, released in 2023 by Gruby Entertainment at $24.99 USD. Players choose from four distinct classes, each offering unique abilities that can reset their cooldowns on successful kills, while managing armor regeneration and gadget synergies to survive escalating encounters. Reviewers describe the movement as fluid and punchy, noting that weapon upgrades can drastically alter playstyle across runs. The game features boss scaling and a resource loop that rewards tactical decision-making in short, challenging bursts suitable for Steam Deck play. Players highlight the cyberpunk aesthetic as immersive, and the 91% positive rating from nearly 2000 Steam reviews reflects appreciation for its intense, atmospheric action.
About Deadlink: Get ready to put a sizable dent in the profits of megacorporations in Deadlink, a guns-blazing cyberpunk FPS with roguelite elements. Your mission is to conduct covert ops while piloting a humanoid combat shell. And no, "covert" doesn’t mean "quiet."
Players who liked Deadlink also play
Steam players who put hours into Deadlink 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.
Deadlink: Prologue
WHY THIS
Top pick for Deadlink fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlink.
Upload into the Prologue of Deadlink, a guns-blazing cyberpunk FPS with roguelite elements. Your mission is to infiltrate the turf of Tora Heavy Industries while piloting an armed humanoid combat shell. Don’t hesitate to go loud, agent!
Overdrive Escape
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Deadlink fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlink.
Miami City. 2054. The Ichido Corporation creates biological robots (replicants). A revolution begins, and the replicants help you escape from the corporation, as you are not human either, having been grown in a test tube as a weapon for future use.
Turbo Overkill
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Deadlink.
Third-strongest match for Deadlink fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlink.
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!
REAVER
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Deadlink.
Ranked #4 for Deadlink fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlink.
REAVER is an ultra-fast-paced FPS that endows you with the mobility and weapon mechanics to reave through arenas of killer machines with grace and efficiency. Push the boundaries of speed and style in this next-gen movement-shooter.
SPRAWL
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Deadlink.
Ranked #5 for Deadlink fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlink.
SPRAWL is a hardcore retro FPS set in an endless cyberpunk megalopolis. Escape the walled city and take on the militarized government of the sprawl. Fueled by the blood of your enemies and a mysterious voice in your head, make your way towards the spire to topple whatever lays within.
Ziggurat
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Deadlink.
Ranked #6 for Deadlink fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlink.
Dungeon-Crawling First Person Shooting at its finest! Fast-paced combat! Dozens of perks, spells and enemies! Level ups! Random Dungeons! Traps! Badass bosses! Carrots!
Boomerang X
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Deadlink.
Ranked #7 for Deadlink fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlink.
Harness the power of a mystical boomerang to fling yourself through the air in this acrobatic arena shooter. Slice, fly, and blast through swarms of evil creatures on an abandoned island with a cryptic past. Stay agile or meet your doom.
Voidborn
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Deadlink.
Ranked #8 for Deadlink fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlink.
Slay demons and demigods in this fast-paced roguelite FPS. Create devastating weapon builds as you journey through massive dark fantasy environments on your quest to avenge god. Challenge the demigods, face inevitable death, and rise stronger with every rebirth.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Deadlink
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Quake
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Deadlink.
Reviewers of Deadlink cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Deadlink.
Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. With Quake (Enhanced), experience the authentic, updated, and visually enhanced version of the original.
Roboquest
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Deadlink.
Reviewers of Deadlink cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlink.
Roboquest is a fast FPS Roguelite in a scorched futureworld. You're a rebooted Guardian, ready to kick some metal ass! Fight with your buddy or by yourself and annihilate hordes of deadly bots in ever-changing environments.
Risk of Rain 2
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Deadlink.
Reviewers of Deadlink cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlink.
Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.
DOOM Eternal
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Deadlink cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Deadlink.
Hell’s armies have invaded Earth. Become the Slayer in an epic single-player campaign to conquer demons across dimensions and stop the final destruction of humanity. The only thing they fear... is you.
ULTRAKILL
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Deadlink.
Reviewers of Deadlink cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlink.
ULTRAKILL is a fast-paced ultra-violent retro FPS that combines the skill-based style scoring of character action games with the unadulterated carnage inspired by the best shooters of the '90s. Rip apart your foes with varied destructive weaponry and shower in their blood to regain your health.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Deadlink at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Deadlink on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Deadlink.
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 Deadlink on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlink.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Deadlink on Steam right now. Shares Action with Deadlink.
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 Deadlink on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlink.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Deadlink on Steam right now. Shares Action with Deadlink.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlink.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Deadlink.
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.).
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlink.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlink.
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!
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
of the Devil
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Deadlink.
Immerse yourself in neon, smoke, and high-stakes legal gambles as a Defense Attorney with uniquely Killer insights in this episodic, diabolically stylish visual novel adventure game.
I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlink.
A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Turbo Overkill
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Deadlink.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlink.
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!
Ziggurat
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Deadlink.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlink.
Dungeon-Crawling First Person Shooting at its finest! Fast-paced combat! Dozens of perks, spells and enemies! Level ups! Random Dungeons! Traps! Badass bosses! Carrots!
Boomerang X
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Deadlink.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlink.
Harness the power of a mystical boomerang to fling yourself through the air in this acrobatic arena shooter. Slice, fly, and blast through swarms of evil creatures on an abandoned island with a cryptic past. Stay agile or meet your doom.
Frequently asked about Deadlink
- Does Deadlink run on Steam Deck?
- Deadlink is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Deadlink cost?
- Deadlink is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Deadlink?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Deadlink are Deadlink: Prologue, Overdrive Escape, Turbo Overkill.
- Who developed Deadlink?
- Deadlink was developed by Gruby Entertainment and published by SuperGG.com.
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