Games like Cleared Hot
If Cleared Hot is your kind of game, the closest matches are Reflex Unit: Strike Ops, Strike Force Damocles and Last Drone War — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its customizable difficulty settings, humorous story and dialogue and funny. 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 →Cleared Hot is a nostalgic helicopter action game developed by Not Knowing Corporation and published by MicroProse Software. Set in a military context with 1980s inspiration, the game blends arcade-style shooting with light tactical elements. Players navigate mission objectives, manage weapon customization, and perform rope and magnet pickups during intense top-down helicopter combat. Reviewers note the humorous story and dialogue, alongside a variety of helicopters that offer distinct gameplay experiences. The game accommodates different skill levels through customizable difficulty settings. Currently in Early Access at 14.99 USD, Cleared Hot has earned praise from players, achieving a strong 97% positive rating from over 2,500 Steam reviews. The game is fully verified for Steam Deck play.
About Cleared Hot: CLEARED HOT is a nostalgic helicopter shooter with satisfying physics and light tactical elements. Shoot, dodge, move your squad around the battlefield, and pick up almost anything with your rope and magnet.
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Reflex Unit: Strike Ops
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Cleared Hot.
Top pick for Cleared Hot fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cleared Hot.
Tactical Vehicle Action! Featuring diverse missions; stage daring rescues, manage resources, assault enemy bases and fight back against a sinister enemy. Strategic single and multiplayer gameplay, balance your vehicles speed, firepower, fuel and load capacity to overcome challenging missions.
Strike Force Damocles
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Cleared Hot fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Cleared Hot.
Pilot an attack helicopter and complete objectives in open world maps. Use your environment for cover, avoid enemy radars and find the weak spots in your enemy's defenses. Look for hidden supplies to keep yourself armed and fueled. Inspired by '90s top-down helicopter games.
Last Drone War
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Cleared Hot fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Early Access with Cleared Hot.
You lose the war! Pilot FPV drones, helicopters, and fighter jets to unleash devastating firepower - and become a true ACE of modern warfare.
Tiny Combat Arena
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Cleared Hot.
Ranked #4 for Cleared Hot fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Early Access with Cleared Hot.
Tiny Combat Arena is an approachable combat flight simulator sporting a stylized look and various game modes. Dogfight your way in the Arena and in Quick Action or craft your own scenarios and take part in a vast war with objectives and friendly armies to support.
Gravitators
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Cleared Hot.
Ranked #5 for Cleared Hot fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cleared Hot.
Gravitators is a twin stick shooter game where you pilot ships and complete mission objectives to secure the future of humankind. Defend the Earth and travel through the galaxy to repel a relentless alien invasion.
Extraction Force
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Ranked #6 for Cleared Hot fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cleared Hot.
Search for nuclear launch codes in this vehicle based combat game by bulldozing your way through enemy territory from the ground or raining destructive missiles down from the sky. Once located, recover the stolen codes using the jeep and return to base before its too late!
Metal Thunder
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Cleared Hot.
Ranked #7 for Cleared Hot fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cleared Hot.
Command the legendary gunship in a high-octane action-roguelite! Engage insurgents with devastating firepower in ever-changing missions. Upgrade your arsenal, adapt to dynamic challenges, and survive relentless waves of enemies. Every run offers new tactics and chaos as you dominate the skies.
SKYRAID
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Cleared Hot fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cleared Hot.
Squad up with your friends in this 6 vs 6 game of aerial conquest! Pilot cute parodies of iconic war planes ranging from early props to modern multirole jets. Become the top dog leveraging a huge array of equipment to tip the scales in your favor and rule the skies!
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Counter-Strike 2
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Reviewers of Cleared Hot cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Cleared Hot.
For over two decades, Counter-Strike has offered an elite competitive experience, one shaped by millions of players from across the globe. And now the next chapter in the CS story is about to begin. This is Counter-Strike 2.
Urban Strife
WHY THIS
Shares tactical positioning with Cleared Hot.
Reviewers of Cleared Hot cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Early Access with Cleared Hot.
Old school TBS, post-apoc survival and RPG. Recruit deranged locals in your militia, ally local factions and fight those you hate. Haul loot back and rebuild your shelter, doctor your wounds, and fix your guns. People need feeding, booze needs brewing and there is an end of the world to enjoy.
Stealth Assault: Urban Strike
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Cleared Hot cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Cleared Hot.
Great shooting game, prevent the insurgency crysis on the planet! We will see you on the frontline!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cleared Hot at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Cleared Hot on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cleared Hot.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Cleared Hot on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Cleared Hot.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Cleared Hot on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with Cleared Hot.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
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Priced ~47% under Cleared Hot on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Cleared Hot.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Cleared Hot on Steam right now. Shares Action with Cleared Hot.
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.
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~58% under Cleared Hot on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cleared Hot.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Cleared Hot on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cleared Hot.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Cleared Hot on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cleared Hot.
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.
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STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Cleared Hot.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Cleared Hot.
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.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Cleared Hot.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Cleared Hot.
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!
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Cleared Hot.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Cleared Hot.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Cleared Hot.
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 and Indie with Cleared Hot.
A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!
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Frequently asked about Cleared Hot
- Is Cleared Hot verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Cleared Hot is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Cleared Hot cost?
- Cleared Hot is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Cleared Hot?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cleared Hot are Reflex Unit: Strike Ops, Strike Force Damocles, Last Drone War.
- Who developed Cleared Hot?
- Cleared Hot was developed by Not Knowing Corporation and published by MicroProse Software.
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