Games like Awesomenauts
If Awesomenauts is your kind of game, the closest matches are Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine, Space Viking Raiders and Cobalt — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, competitive and intense. 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 →Awesomenauts is a 2D multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) developed by Ronimo Games and published by Atari. Released in 2012, the game combines platforming action with team-based strategy, featuring physics-based movement that creates momentum-driven combat. Players select from a roster of distinct characters and experiment with specialized builds through character specialization. The game includes matchmaking queues for competitive play and offers massive length with short, snappy match sessions. It received a Metacritic score of 78 and maintains an 84% positive rating from nearly 7,000 Steam reviews. The game is playable on Steam Deck and supports online co-op multiplayer. Players describe the experience as challenging, competitive, intense, and nostalgic, highlighting the variety of characters that enable deep build experimentation and noting that the physics system makes combat unpredictable and skill-based, with running away proving to be a viable and rewarding strategy.
About Awesomenauts: Use your power, show your might! Play this Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) game! AWESOMENAUTS combines 2D platforming with team-based strategy and hero based action. Whether you are a new recruit or an intergalactic legend, play AWESOMENAUTS!
Players who liked Awesomenauts also play
Steam players who put hours into Awesomenauts 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.
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine
WHY THIS
Top pick for Awesomenauts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Awesomenauts.
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine is a single player or co-op heist game. Assemble a crack team of thieves, case the joint, and pull off the perfect heist.
Space Viking Raiders
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Awesomenauts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Awesomenauts.
Co-op action role-playing comedy in a sci-fi multiverse. 3-5 hour campaign, 1-4 players online! Badass abilities will have you wreck havoc with physics and mass destruction. The best vikings use their limited energy to efficiently wipe out hordes of enemies. PvE MOBA-style hack-and-cast!
Cobalt
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Awesomenauts.
Third-strongest match for Awesomenauts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Awesomenauts.
Forget everything you’ve learned about combat. Cobalt’s slo-mo mechanic lets you perform moves that other games can’t comprehend. Discover the secrets of a distant colony in a cosmic campaign, take on challenges and rule the leaderboards, or face off against others in local and online multiplayer.
AirMech
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Awesomenauts.
Ranked #4 for Awesomenauts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Awesomenauts.
AirMech® Strike is a fast paced Action-RTS game that can be played solo, coop, or competitively online. Earn Kudos and Experience in battle and unlock a wide collection of AirMechs and Units while you practice the perfect strategy to emerge victorious!
Broforce
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Awesomenauts.
Ranked #5 for Awesomenauts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Awesomenauts.
Broforce is an action-packed side-scrolling run ‘n’ gun ode to freedom, putting you in control of an under-funded, overpowered paramilitary organization dealing exclusively in excessive force.
Worbital
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Awesomenauts.
Ranked #6 for Awesomenauts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Awesomenauts.
With the shifting gravity on your side, aim your cannons, blast your enemies and enjoy the fireworks. Worbital is a real-time strategic artillery game in space, peppered with a heavy dose of cosmic chaos. The goal: be the last civilization standing!
BattleBlock Theater®
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Awesomenauts.
Ranked #7 for Awesomenauts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Awesomenauts.
Welcome to BattleBlock Theater! You’ve got no where to go but up...on stage. Play single player or co-op to free your friends and save Hatty Hattington! Jump, solve and battle your way through a mysterious theater inhabited by highly technological felines.
Spelunky 2
WHY THIS
Shares physics based movement and an intense mood with Awesomenauts.
Ranked #8 for Awesomenauts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Awesomenauts.
Spelunky 2 builds upon the unique, randomized challenges that made the original a roguelike classic, offering a huge adventure designed to satisfy players old and new. Meet the next generation of explorers as they find themselves on the Moon, searching for treasure and missing family.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Awesomenauts
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DeadLock
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Awesomenauts cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Awesomenauts.
In DeadLock, the player must connect the processor and the resources it needs in the appropriate order to prevent 'DeadLock' from occurring. More and more targets need to be scheduled, and new kinds of resources emerge. It's up to the player to efficiently schedule without generating 'Deadlock'.
Dota 2
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Awesomenauts cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Awesomenauts.
Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.
Battlerite
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Awesomenauts.
Reviewers of Awesomenauts cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Awesomenauts.
BATTLERITE is an action-packed team arena brawler. Experience the unique combination of top-down shooter meets fast-paced fighting game and challenge friends and foes in a battle of reaction. The Arena awaits!
Legendary Heroes
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Awesomenauts cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Awesomenauts.
Legendary Heroes is a real-time RPG/strategy game with MOBA elements. Protect your towers and crush your opponents!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Awesomenauts at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Awesomenauts on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Awesomenauts.
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 ~50% under Awesomenauts on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Awesomenauts.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Awesomenauts on Steam right now. Shares Action with Awesomenauts.
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 ~50% under Awesomenauts on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Awesomenauts.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Awesomenauts on Steam right now. Shares Action with Awesomenauts.
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 Awesomenauts.
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 Awesomenauts.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Awesomenauts.
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 Awesomenauts.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Awesomenauts.
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 Awesomenauts.
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.).
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More from Ronimo Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Ronimo Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Blightbound
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Awesomenauts.
Another title from Ronimo Games, the studio behind Awesomenauts. Shares Action and Indie with Awesomenauts.
Blightbound is a multiplayer dungeon crawler that tasks three heroes to venture down from their mountain refuge to face the abominations of the Blight - a mysterious and corrupting fog that enshrouds the land.
Swords and Soldiers HD
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Awesomenauts.
Another title from Ronimo Games, the studio behind Awesomenauts. Shares Action and Strategy with Awesomenauts.
Rewrite history as you take control of the brutal Vikings, the devious Aztecs or the crafty Chinese in their global quest to win the favour of the Gods! Swords & Soldiers is a side-scrolling strategy game that lets you control an entire army and lets you wield devastating magical abilities.
Swords and Soldiers 2 Shawarmageddon
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Awesomenauts.
Another title from Ronimo Games, the studio behind Awesomenauts. Shares Action and Strategy with Awesomenauts.
Take command of mighty Vikings, sly Persians or brutish Demons! Destroy your opponent’s base while defending your own in this action-packed side-scrolling RTS!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Cobalt
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Awesomenauts.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Awesomenauts.
Forget everything you’ve learned about combat. Cobalt’s slo-mo mechanic lets you perform moves that other games can’t comprehend. Discover the secrets of a distant colony in a cosmic campaign, take on challenges and rule the leaderboards, or face off against others in local and online multiplayer.
Worbital
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Awesomenauts.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with Awesomenauts.
With the shifting gravity on your side, aim your cannons, blast your enemies and enjoy the fireworks. Worbital is a real-time strategic artillery game in space, peppered with a heavy dose of cosmic chaos. The goal: be the last civilization standing!
BattleBlock Theater®
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Awesomenauts.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Awesomenauts.
Welcome to BattleBlock Theater! You’ve got no where to go but up...on stage. Play single player or co-op to free your friends and save Hatty Hattington! Jump, solve and battle your way through a mysterious theater inhabited by highly technological felines.
Spelunky 2
WHY THIS
Shares physics based movement and an intense mood with Awesomenauts.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Awesomenauts.
Spelunky 2 builds upon the unique, randomized challenges that made the original a roguelike classic, offering a huge adventure designed to satisfy players old and new. Meet the next generation of explorers as they find themselves on the Moon, searching for treasure and missing family.
Frequently asked about Awesomenauts
- Does Awesomenauts run on Steam Deck?
- Awesomenauts 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 Awesomenauts cost?
- Awesomenauts is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Awesomenauts have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Awesomenauts supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Awesomenauts?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Awesomenauts are Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine, Space Viking Raiders, Cobalt.
- Who developed Awesomenauts?
- Awesomenauts was developed by Ronimo Games and published by Atari.
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 Awesomenauts.
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