Games like Moon Dancer
If Moon Dancer is your kind of game, the closest matches are RagingBlasters, Switch 'N' Shoot and Swarmlake — 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 Moon Dancer: Moon Dancer is a vertically scrolling shmup featuring an exhilarating lock-on laser.
Players who liked Moon Dancer also play
Steam players who put hours into Moon Dancer 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.
RagingBlasters
WHY THIS
Top pick for Moon Dancer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Moon Dancer.
Raging Blasters is a vertical scroll shmup featuring high speed scrolling and the exhilaration of destruction.
Switch 'N' Shoot
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Moon Dancer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Moon Dancer.
Endless arcade action with just ONE button - Switch directions whenever you shoot!
Swarmlake
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Moon Dancer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Moon Dancer.
Swarmlake is an ultra-intense first-person shooter ballet about fighting a record-breaking swarm.
LUFTRAUSERS
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Moon Dancer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Moon Dancer.
The skies are aflame and the seas will overflow with wreckage in Vlambeer’s stylish arcade shooter LUFTRAUSERS! Take to the skies in customized fighter planes to battle battleships, submarines, and rival aces for glory, honor, and high scores.
Mushihimesama
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Moon Dancer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Moon Dancer.
Battle huge "Koju" bugs in CAVE's beautiful fantasy shooter, Mushihimesama. Experience the thrill of bullet hell from the masters of the genre as you evade visually stunning shot patterns with thousands of bullets.
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Moon Dancer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Moon Dancer.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Space War: Infinity
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Moon Dancer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Moon Dancer.
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.
BLUE REVOLVER
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Moon Dancer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Moon Dancer.
Fight, fly, flourish! BLUE REVOLVER is a manic arcade-style shoot-em-up built for newcomers and psychos alike. Powerful special weapons cut through tough areas, while an adaptive difficulty system tailors the game to your skill level as you evade and counter a maniac environmental force!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Moon Dancer at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Moon Dancer on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Moon Dancer.
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 Moon Dancer on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Moon Dancer.
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 Moon Dancer on Steam right now. Shares Action with Moon Dancer.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Moon Dancer on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Moon Dancer.
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 Moon Dancer on Steam right now. Shares Action with Moon Dancer.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Moon Dancer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Moon Dancer.
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 Moon Dancer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Moon Dancer.
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 Moon Dancer on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Moon Dancer.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Moon Dancer.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Moon Dancer.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Moon Dancer.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Moon Dancer.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Moon Dancer.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Moon Dancer.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Moon Dancer.
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.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from TERARIN GAMES
Other recommendable Steam games by TERARIN GAMES, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
RagingBlasters
WHY THIS
Another title from TERARIN GAMES, the studio behind Moon Dancer. Shares Action and Indie with Moon Dancer.
Raging Blasters is a vertical scroll shmup featuring high speed scrolling and the exhilaration of destruction.
MissileDancer
WHY THIS
Another title from TERARIN GAMES, the studio behind Moon Dancer. Shares Action and Indie with Moon Dancer.
Vertical Scroll Shooting Game with Lock-on Missile
GeminiArms
WHY THIS
Another title from TERARIN GAMES, the studio behind Moon Dancer. Shares Action and Indie with Moon Dancer.
GeminiArms is a side scrolling 2D shoot'em up.
Terra Flame
WHY THIS
Another title from TERARIN GAMES, the studio behind Moon Dancer. Shares Action and Indie with Moon Dancer.
Terra Flame is a horizontal shmup inspired by the 90's. The feature is that you can switch between three types of weapons in real time.
Missile Dancer 2
WHY THIS
Another title from TERARIN GAMES, the studio behind Moon Dancer. Shares Action and Indie with Moon Dancer.
Missile Dancer 2 is a new sprite scaler shmup that combines rail shooter and caravan STG.
Crystal Breaker
WHY THIS
Another title from TERARIN GAMES, the studio behind Moon Dancer. Shares Action and Indie with Moon Dancer.
Shoot the enemy at close range! Crystal Breaker is a vertically scrolling shmup that focuses on close range attack.
Raging Blasters 2
WHY THIS
Another title from TERARIN GAMES, the studio behind Moon Dancer. Shares Action and Indie with Moon Dancer.
The sequel to the speed-and-destruction shmup "Raging Blasters" is here! It's called "Raging Blasters 2." This is an arcade-style vertical scrolling shmup in which players control a fighter jet and battle various enemies in outer space.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
RagingBlasters
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Moon Dancer.
Raging Blasters is a vertical scroll shmup featuring high speed scrolling and the exhilaration of destruction.
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Moon Dancer.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
BLUE REVOLVER
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Moon Dancer.
Fight, fly, flourish! BLUE REVOLVER is a manic arcade-style shoot-em-up built for newcomers and psychos alike. Powerful special weapons cut through tough areas, while an adaptive difficulty system tailors the game to your skill level as you evade and counter a maniac environmental force!
Frequently asked about Moon Dancer
- Is Moon Dancer verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Moon Dancer 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 Moon Dancer cost?
- Moon Dancer is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Moon Dancer?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Moon Dancer are RagingBlasters, Switch 'N' Shoot, Swarmlake.
- Who developed Moon Dancer?
- Moon Dancer was developed by TERARIN 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 Moon Dancer.
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