Steam Deck games like BALL x PIT
Below are 16 Steam Deck-friendly games similar to BALL x PIT (14 Verified, the rest Playable), ranked by player overlap. Every pick has Valve's compat stamp — Verified means full controller support and default settings just work; Playable means a small first-launch tweak (control remap or text size) gets you there. imho.run pulls compat status straight from Valve's own endpoint, refreshed daily.
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Ranked picks
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Megabonk
Deck Verified alternative to BALL x PIT — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with BALL x PIT.
Smash your way through endless waves of enemies and grow absurdly powerful! Grab loot, level up, unlock characters and upgrade to create unique and crazy builds as you fend off hordes of creatures!
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Monsters are Coming!
Deck Verified alternative to BALL x PIT — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with BALL x PIT.
Beware, Monsters are Coming! In this Tower-Survivor rogue-lite, you protect an ever-moving city from unrelenting hordes. Gather resources, fortify defences, and survive for as long as you can. Will you reach the Ark?
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Deadly Days: Roadtrip
Deck Verified alternative to BALL x PIT — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with BALL x PIT.
Loot, shoot, and mow down zombie hordes in this bullet heaven fever dream. Hit the road, decide when to extract, organize your backpack into game-breaking builds – and get that sweet inventory management kick when new loot fits just right.
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Vampire Survivors
Deck Verified alternative to BALL x PIT — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with BALL x PIT.
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!
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Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor
Deck Verified alternative to BALL x PIT — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with BALL x PIT.
DEEP ROCK GALACTIC: SURVIVOR is a single player survivor-like auto-shooter. Take on hordes of lethal aliens, mine riches, and unlock powerful upgrades to survive, as you wield the full arsenal of Deep Rock Galactic. It's one dwarf against all of Planet Hoxxes!
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Noobs Are Coming
Deck Verified alternative to BALL x PIT — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with BALL x PIT.
YOU ARE THE FINAL BOSS. Brutal synergy arena roguelike. Pick your Final Boss character, equip boss patterns and combine tons of attacks to create unique builds. Play solo or in co-op!
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TerraTech Legion
Deck Verified alternative to BALL x PIT — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with BALL x PIT.
TerraTech Legion, a chaotic Bullet Heaven Builder. Build the ultimate battle vehicle block by block and survive waves of robotic foes, ramming them at speed and shooting infinite projectiles.
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Gunlocked 2
Deck Verified alternative to BALL x PIT — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with BALL x PIT.
Movement is your weapon. A sci-fi action roguelike and shmup combined, in Gunlocked 2 you'll pilot and upgrade a state-of-the-art warship against endless waves of deadly aliens. Deep customization, branching paths, and tons of unlockables offer endless replayability!
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Brotato
Deck Verified alternative to BALL x PIT — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with BALL x PIT.
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.
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Risk of Rain 2
Deck Playable alternative to BALL x PIT — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with BALL x PIT.
Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.
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The Binding of Isaac
Deck Playable alternative to BALL x PIT — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with BALL x PIT.
Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!
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Cult of the Lamb
Deck Verified alternative to BALL x PIT — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with BALL x PIT.
Start your own cult in a land of false prophets, venturing out into diverse and mysterious regions to build a loyal community of woodland Followers and spread your Word to become the one true cult.
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Rogue Legacy
Deck Verified alternative to BALL x PIT — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with BALL x PIT.
Rogue Legacy is a genealogical rogue-"LITE" where anyone can be a hero. Each time you die, your child will succeed you. Every child is unique. One child might be colorblind, another might be a dwarf with vertigo. But that's OK, because no one is perfect, and you don't have to be to succeed.
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Dead Cells
Deck Verified alternative to BALL x PIT — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with BALL x PIT.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
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Risk of Rain Returns
Deck Verified alternative to BALL x PIT — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with BALL x PIT.
Carefully designed, beautifully remastered, and loaded with new ways to play—Risk of Rain is back and better than ever! Dive into the iconic roguelike full of unique loot combinations, enhanced with new Survivors, overhauled multiplayer, fan favorite content from Risk of Rain 2, and more!
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Halls of Torment
Deck Verified alternative to BALL x PIT — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with BALL x PIT.
Slay hordes of terrifying monsters in this horde survival roguelite. Descend into the Halls of Torment where the Lords of the underworld await you. Treasures, magical trinkets, and a growing cast of heroes will grant you the power to vanquish these horrors from beyond. How long can you survive?