Games like ICEwall
If ICEwall is your kind of game, the closest matches are Crush The Rebellion!, DoDonPachi Resurrection Reignite and Lober Lobe — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its boss pauses add tension, build variety feels endless 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 →About ICEwall: An action roguelike shoot 'em up. Draft power-ups between levels to become stronger and build crazy combos. Several player ships to unlock, multiple game modes; including Endless Mode and Arcade, leaderboards and achievement challenges!
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Steam players who put hours into ICEwall 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.
Crush The Rebellion!
WHY THIS
Top pick for ICEwall fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ICEwall.
The galactic empire is under siege from the rebel scum in all directions! Fight through endless waves of rebel ships using all of the weapons and resources at your disposal as you execute your sole orders: to Crush The Rebellion!
DoDonPachi Resurrection Reignite
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for ICEwall fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ICEwall.
CAVE's arcade bullet hell shooter returns as DoDonPachi Resurrection Reignite. New stages, a new character, new music, and other new elements set the stage for a new challenge.
Lober Lobe
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for ICEwall fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ICEwall.
Shoot psychic orbs, collect useful thoughts, upgrade your Probe with speed, maneuverability, satellites, resistance and suppress negative thoughts in this Brain centric, procedurally generated bullet hell shoot 'em up.
RESHOOTER
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for ICEwall fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with ICEwall.
RESHOOTER offers heart-pounding shoot-em-up action that elevates classic arcade gameplay to the next level. Dive into the retroflow with electrifying visuals, immersive audio, and captivating mechanics.
Nova Swarm
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for ICEwall fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ICEwall.
Pick a ship, dive into readable bullet chaos, take down huge angry bosses, grab the bonus core you probably should have left alone, and chase one cleaner run in Nova Swarm.
Breaking Survivors
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for ICEwall fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with ICEwall.
Brick-breaking gameplay meets Survivors-like mechanics. Use your balls to destroy bricks, level up and pick upgrades to hold your ground against waves of incoming bricks and try to high score in this roguelite brick breaking game.
Operation STEEL
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with ICEwall.
Ranked #7 for ICEwall fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ICEwall.
Operation STEEL is a roguelike shoot-em-up rendered in hand-drawn art. Blow up loads of enemies, destroy huge bosses, find weapons, and upgrade your load-out between levels. Combat the electronic legion across 20+ procedurally generated levels!
Waves
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for ICEwall fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ICEwall.
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!
Reviewers mention these as similar to ICEwall
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The Binding of Isaac
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with ICEwall.
Reviewers of ICEwall cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with ICEwall.
Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!
Space Invaders Extreme
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with ICEwall.
Reviewers of ICEwall cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with ICEwall.
The critically acclaimed update to the Space Invaders franchise has arrived to invade Steam with greatly improved graphics and audio! Packed with pulsing, vibrant visuals enhanced further by interactive sound. The invaders have evolved, the question is: can you keep up?
Space Aliens Invaders
WHY THIS
Reviewers of ICEwall cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with ICEwall.
modernized old time classic alien shooter game
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below ICEwall at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under ICEwall on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ICEwall.
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 ~44% under ICEwall on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with ICEwall.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under ICEwall on Steam right now. Shares Action with ICEwall.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under ICEwall on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ICEwall.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under ICEwall on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ICEwall.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under ICEwall on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with ICEwall.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under ICEwall on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with ICEwall.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under ICEwall on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with ICEwall.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with ICEwall.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with ICEwall.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with ICEwall.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with ICEwall.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with ICEwall.
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!
Peggle Extreme
WHY THIS
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.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Breaking Survivors
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with ICEwall.
Brick-breaking gameplay meets Survivors-like mechanics. Use your balls to destroy bricks, level up and pick upgrades to hold your ground against waves of incoming bricks and try to high score in this roguelite brick breaking game.
Operation STEEL
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with ICEwall.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with ICEwall.
Operation STEEL is a roguelike shoot-em-up rendered in hand-drawn art. Blow up loads of enemies, destroy huge bosses, find weapons, and upgrade your load-out between levels. Combat the electronic legion across 20+ procedurally generated levels!
Frequently asked about ICEwall
- Does ICEwall run on Steam Deck?
- ICEwall 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 ICEwall cost?
- ICEwall is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to ICEwall?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ICEwall are Crush The Rebellion!, DoDonPachi Resurrection Reignite, Lober Lobe.
- Who developed ICEwall?
- ICEwall was developed by Erlend Kirkeboe.
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 ICEwall.
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