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Games like Humans Are Useless

If Humans Are Useless is your kind of game, the closest matches are Invaders from the Third Dimension, Zarlor Mercenary and Neon Invaders — picked from the ranked list below. 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.

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About Humans Are Useless: A gang of nine aliens from another galaxy that were put to community service, want to clean the universe from what they think is the worst garbage: humans! Help them in this arcade game!

2022ActionIndieCasual0.99 USDWindowsby BCL studio
Humans Are Useless — Steam game cover

Players who liked Humans Are Useless also play

Steam players who put hours into Humans Are Useless 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.

  1. Invaders from the Third Dimension

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Humans Are Useless fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Humans Are Useless.

    A retro space shooter with a twist - now you can rotate your ship and aim diagonally at enemies, adding a whole new dimension to the shoot 'em up genre.

    2023ActionIndieCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Zarlor Mercenary

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Humans Are Useless fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Humans Are Useless.

    Top-down shooter action for the Atari Lynx handheld console. WANTED: Hot gun for hire. Travel to several exotic and dangerous places. Discover several exotic and dangerous aliens and kill them. Kill lots. For cash. Buy more weapons and kill again.

    2022Action4.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Neon Invaders

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Humans Are Useless fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Casual with Humans Are Useless.

    Neon Invaders will take you back to your gaming roots with its constant action and relentlessly brutal enemies. Absorb enemy shots of the same colour to trigger a flurry of fire to decimate the alien invaders. Dodge and Match your way to victory through 40 levels and 5 difficulty settings.

    2022ActionCasual2.49 USDSteam ↗
  4. Retro Wars

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Humans Are Useless fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Casual with Humans Are Useless.

    Take on an entire army in this 80s inspired retro top down vertical scrolling shooter. Be a one man war machine or take a friend into battle for some fun 2 player local co-op.

    2021ActionCasual1.39 USDSteam ↗
  5. Lost In Space

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Humans Are Useless fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Casual with Humans Are Useless.

    Connor loves his job as a researcher, but his office space-base is under attack! Your boss has trusted you to vanquish the alien menace by killing as many as possible, and now you can do so on PC!

    2026ActionFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  6. Boing Bang Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Humans Are Useless fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Humans Are Useless.

    Boing Bang Adventure is a 2D arcade game in the style of the classic arcade game "Pang" Face almost 50 levels, in 8 different world in single player or in local co-op!

    2023ActionIndieAdventure5.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Historical Invaders

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Humans Are Useless fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Humans Are Useless.

    The most wicked men that ever lived on earth. Authoritarians, dictators, and tyrants, from Hitler to Stalin, they are all back. Historical Invaders it's a fixed shooter game where you are the chosen one to annihilate the demons of our past and save mankind.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Topspace

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Humans Are Useless fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Humans Are Useless.

    A topdown bullet hell game where you control a spaceship and fight waves of asteroids and enemy spaceships.

    2023ActionIndieCasual2.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Humans Are Useless at current Steam store prices.

  1. UBERMOSH

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Humans Are Useless on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Humans Are Useless.

    UBERMOSH is an arcade game about cutting bullets with a sword, in a gun-filled cyberpunk mosh pit.

    2015ActionIndie0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Miss Neko

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Humans Are Useless on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Humans Are Useless.

    Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)

    2019ActionCasual0.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. QUICKERFLAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Humans Are Useless on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Humans Are Useless.

    QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Save Jesus

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Humans Are Useless on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Humans Are Useless.

    Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!

    2016IndieCasual0.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Barro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Humans Are Useless on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Humans Are Useless.

    Choose your little car and race!

    2018IndieCasualRacing0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Gachi Heroes

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Humans Are Useless on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Humans Are Useless.

    Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?

    2018ActionIndieAdventure0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Trip to Vinelands

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Humans Are Useless on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Humans Are Useless.

    Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.

    2016ActionIndie0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. TTV2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Humans Are Useless on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Humans Are Useless.

    TTV2 is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame, sequel to Trip to Vinelands.

    2017ActionIndie0.49 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Humans Are Useless.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Humans Are Useless.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Humans Are Useless.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Humans Are Useless.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Humans Are Useless.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 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 Humans Are Useless.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Humans Are Useless.

    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.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Humans Are Useless.

    A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Humans Are Useless

How much does Humans Are Useless cost?
Humans Are Useless is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Humans Are Useless?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Humans Are Useless are Invaders from the Third Dimension, Zarlor Mercenary, Neon Invaders.
Who developed Humans Are Useless?
Humans Are Useless was developed by BCL 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 Humans Are Useless.

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