Games like The Burst
If The Burst is your kind of game, the closest matches are Frenzy Extinction, Drunk or Dead and Wadality — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, hypnotic and immersive. 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 The Burst: The Burst is a smashing high-speed VR shooter. Play as a spec ops operative to bring down the tyrannical warband leader and her goons. Restore order on a prison planet the best way you can - with violence.
Players who liked The Burst also play
Steam players who put hours into The Burst 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.
Frenzy Extinction
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Burst fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Burst.
The Frenzy Virus has mutated. Now, you and your team must defeat hordes of "The Ridden" in Frenzy Extinction! Survive waves of mutated monsters as your team upgrades their gear, powers up with custom abilities, and races to extract after defeating the boss.
Drunk or Dead
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Burst fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Burst.
Drunk or Dead is a fun party game. A virus has turned all sober people into zombies. Go bar hopping in the midst of the apocalypse! Drink in the company of survivors and finish off hordes of zombies! Set your own record!
Wadality
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Burst fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Burst.
Multiplayer VR Shooter platform with unique vertical gameplay! Here you can literally fly around using "flapping" locomotion!
Private Property
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Burst fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Burst.
Private Property - the brand new VR zombie shooter set at the end of the XIX century Montana provides endless hours of great fun! This coop multiplayer allows players to team up to jointly defend the Private Property from hordes of Zombies.
BIG SHOTS
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Burst fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Burst.
Gear up, team up, and exterminate! Become the ultimate mech pilot in BIG SHOTS, the action-packed VR roguelite where you’ll battle alien hordes, earn upgrades, and forge an unstoppable mech to reclaim Earth.
Out of Ammo: Death Drive
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Burst.
Ranked #6 for The Burst fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Burst.
Death Drive is the apocalyptic sequel to Out of Ammo, a hybrid VR Tower Defense / FPS strategy game. Embark on a wild road trip developed exclusively for VR. Build defenses, scavenge scrap and and kill undead zombie hordes using an arsenal of firearms, melee weapons and mounted defenses.
Grapple Tournament
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with The Burst.
Ranked #7 for The Burst fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Burst.
Grapple Tournament is a VR Grappling Hook Shooter with 3D movement freedom, fast-paced vertical combat and dual wieldable multifunctional weapons. Now Free-To-Play!
Hell Road VR
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with The Burst.
Ranked #8 for The Burst fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Burst.
Turn your motorcycle into a beast made for mass slaughter and equip yourself with an arsenal of varied weapons to make your way through the hordes of enemies that will cross your path! Throughout your experience, you will face increasingly intense challenges with Irene as your sole objective.
Reviewers mention these as similar to The Burst
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STRIDE
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Burst.
Reviewers of The Burst cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with The Burst.
STRIDE is a high-octane parkour adventure in virtual reality. Fight for your life as you hurtle through the rooftops of a futuristic metropolis. Step into the shoes of a master freerunner as you vault, swing, and shoot your way through this action-packed adventure. Multiplayer now available!
RAGE
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Burst.
Reviewers of The Burst cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Burst.
Powered by id’s revolutionary id Tech® 5 technology, RAGE is an intense first-person shooter with breakneck vehicle combat, an expansive world to explore, and jaw-dropping graphics!
Half-Life 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Burst.
Reviewers of The Burst cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Burst.
Reawakened from stasis in the occupied metropolis of City 17, Gordon Freeman is joined by Alyx Vance as he leads a desperate human resistance. Experience the landmark first-person shooter packed with immersive world-building, boundary-pushing physics, and exhilarating combat.
Borderlands 2
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Burst cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Burst.
The Ultimate Vault Hunter’s Upgrade lets you get the most out of the Borderlands 2 experience.
Half-Life: Alyx
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Burst.
Reviewers of The Burst cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with The Burst.
Half-Life: Alyx is Valve’s VR return to the Half-Life series. It’s the story of an impossible fight against a vicious alien race known as the Combine, set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2. Playing as Alyx Vance, you are humanity’s only chance for survival.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Burst at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under The Burst on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Burst.
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 ~69% under The Burst on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Burst.
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 ~56% under The Burst on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Burst.
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 ~50% under The Burst on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Burst.
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 ~72% under The Burst on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Burst.
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 ~61% under The Burst on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Burst.
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 ~50% under The Burst on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Burst.
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 ~69% under The Burst on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Burst.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Burst.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 The Burst.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Burst.
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.).
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Burst.
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 The Burst.
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!
93, Kuindzhi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Burst.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
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Frequently asked about The Burst
- Does The Burst work on Steam Deck?
- The Burst is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does The Burst cost?
- The Burst is listed on Steam at 15.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Burst?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Burst are Frenzy Extinction, Drunk or Dead, Wadality.
- Who developed The Burst?
- The Burst was developed by GoRapid Studio.
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 The Burst.
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