Games like FUMES
If FUMES is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mad Metal, TRAIL OUT and Need for Speed™ Most Wanted — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its infinite world generation, tactical positioning matters and writing quality is exceptional. 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 →FUMES is a post-apocalyptic vehicle combat game developed by the FUMES team, released in 2025 with a $14.99 price tag. The game offers boss-fights, procedural generation, and vehicle customization across an infinite post-apocalyptic wasteland setting. Players engage in arcade-style combat while customizing their vehicles with weapons and upgrades. The gameplay supports short-burst sessions with medium-length campaigns, featuring normal difficulty in single-player mode. Reviewers highlight the atmospheric and immersive qualities of the world, while the infinite-world-generation and tactical-positioning-matters systems provide strategic depth. The game is marked as Playable on Steam Deck and currently holds a 97% positive rating from 1429 Steam reviews.
About FUMES: Arm your vehicle with deadly weapons and roam endless wastelands in this fast-paced single-player car combat game. Collect upgrades for your car to melt enemies and giant bosses in this bizarre world. Retro vibe. Retro cars. Retro gameplay!
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Mad Metal
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Top pick for FUMES fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with FUMES.
Mad Metal is a vehicle combat roguelite set in a dying America. Customize your vehicle, master precision car-to-car combat, and fight through dynamic arenas as a broken cop races to rescue his daughter and stop an AI-driven apocalypse.
TRAIL OUT
WHY THIS
Shares boss fights with FUMES.
Second-strongest match for FUMES fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with FUMES.
Welcome to the festival of explosive races, TRAIL OUT! Reckless racing around the world! Crashes, explosions, destruction, and screaming drivers!
Need for Speed™ Most Wanted
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for FUMES fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with FUMES.
The open-world action in Need for Speed Most Wanted gives you the freedom to drive your way. Hit jumps and shortcuts, switch cars, lie low or head for terrain that plays to your vehicle’s unique strengths. Fight your way past cops and rivals using skill, high-end car tech and tons of nitrous.
Mad Max
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Ranked #4 for FUMES fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with FUMES.
Play as Mad Max, a reluctant hero and survivor who wants nothing more than to leave the madness behind and find solace.
Tokyo Xtreme Racer
WHY THIS
Shares vehicle customization with FUMES.
Ranked #5 for FUMES fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Racing with FUMES.
The title of “fastest” never fades. Race through the sealed future Tokyo night highways in your customized car. Defeat rivals in “SP Battle,” where drivers clash by draining Spirit Points. A unique racing game where only the rules for victory matter.
FlatOut
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for FUMES fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Racing with FUMES.
Ram through pile-ups and smash through your windshield as you push racing to the edge! FlatOut™ delivers more heart-stopping thrills than any sane driver can handle!
Wreckfest 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for FUMES fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Early Access and Racing with FUMES.
Ready for mayhem? Wreckfest is back, offering the best in full-contact racing with unrivaled destruction! Witness head-to-head battles as you tear apart rival vehicles bit by bit. Powered by the enhanced physics engine, developed by the creators of Wreckfest & FlatOut!
Diesel Guns
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Ranked #8 for FUMES fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with FUMES.
"Diesel Guns"- is an Arcade Multiplayer Online Car Combat (AMOCC) game set to deliver the same thrill you remember from classic AMOCCs like „Twisted Metal“ and „Vigilante 8“.
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War Thunder
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Reviewers of FUMES cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with FUMES.
War Thunder is the most comprehensive free-to-play, cross-platform, MMO military game dedicated to aviation, armoured vehicles, and naval craft, from the early 20th century to the most advanced modern combat units. Join now and take part in major battles on land, in the air, and at sea.
Need for Speed™ Most Wanted
WHY THIS
Reviewers of FUMES cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with FUMES.
The open-world action in Need for Speed Most Wanted gives you the freedom to drive your way. Hit jumps and shortcuts, switch cars, lie low or head for terrain that plays to your vehicle’s unique strengths. Fight your way past cops and rivals using skill, high-end car tech and tons of nitrous.
World of Tanks
WHY THIS
Reviewers of FUMES cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with FUMES.
World of Tanks is a tactical action game with very different gameplay depending on the vehicle type and role. Aside from regular PvP, there are competitive and clan-based modes, special PvE and PvPvE events, and much more. Whether you play to dominate or just enjoy the ride, you'll fit right in.
SCP
WHY THIS
Reviewers of FUMES cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with FUMES.
Explore, craft, and survive in a post-apocalyptic world where SCP anomalies roam freely. Brace yourself for nightly assaults as SCP-049's twisted creations close in.
Rally Arcade Classics
WHY THIS
Shares vehicle customization with FUMES.
Reviewers of FUMES cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with FUMES.
Rev up your engines, it’s almost time to race back to the past with Rally Arcade Classics! Including 44 iconic cars from the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and 00’s, and 48 thrilling tracks to rev up their engines to the max while drifting every close turn, you will never run out of challenges to take upon.
Vigilantes
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with FUMES.
Reviewers of FUMES cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with FUMES.
Vigilantes is a combat focused, turn-based tactical RPG set in the crime riddled city of Reiker. The game offers hardcore squad-level combat in a gritty neo-noir setting, intel gathering through surveillance and interrogation, a detailed character system, base facilities, crafting, and more.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below FUMES at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~67% under FUMES on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with FUMES.
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
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Priced ~67% under FUMES on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with FUMES.
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.
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Priced ~53% under FUMES on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with FUMES.
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 FUMES on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with FUMES.
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 FUMES on Steam right now. Shares Action with FUMES.
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 FUMES on Steam right now. Shares Indie with FUMES.
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 FUMES on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with FUMES.
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 FUMES on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with FUMES.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with FUMES.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with FUMES.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with FUMES.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with FUMES.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with FUMES.
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]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with FUMES.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with FUMES.
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!
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Frequently asked about FUMES
- Does FUMES run on Steam Deck?
- FUMES 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 FUMES cost?
- FUMES is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to FUMES?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside FUMES are Mad Metal, TRAIL OUT, Need for Speed™ Most Wanted.
- Who developed FUMES?
- FUMES was developed by FUMES team.
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