Games like Gatekeeper
If Gatekeeper is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hellcome, Gatekeeper: Infinity and Roboom — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 →Gatekeeper is a top-down action roguelike from Gravity Lagoon, published by HypeTrain Digital. Players collect artifacts to shape their runs, with difficulty-scaling across long sessions. The game features a ban-system and triad-system alongside guardian variety that offers distinct playstyles. Reviewers highlight the deep atmosphere and sound design, describing it as atmospheric and contemplative. Build-crafting lets players tailor their approach through artifact collection. Online co-op supports up to four players, with players describing the multiplayer as consistently fun. Released in 2025 at 14.99 USD, it runs verified on Steam Deck and holds an 85% positive rating from 1447 Steam reviews.
About Gatekeeper: Gatekeeper is a fast-paced rogue-like. Go on a quest to chase down Chaos and reclaim the stolen Heart of Time, fighting your way through relentless enemy forces. Play solo or in 4-player co-op and become the next Gatekeeper!
Players who liked Gatekeeper also play
Steam players who put hours into Gatekeeper 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.
Gatekeeper: Infinity
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Gatekeeper.
Second-strongest match for Gatekeeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gatekeeper.
Prologue version of the game Gatekeeper. Gatekeeper: Infinity is a fast-paced rogue-lite shooter where you'll search for the stolen Heart of the Universe and battle machine enemies! Play solo or join forces with friends in co-op mode.
Roboom
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Gatekeeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gatekeeper.
You should simply try out Roboom. We have quite a long description below, you can read if you like, but experiencing Roboom yourself or as Co-op is the best.
Reality Core
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Gatekeeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gatekeeper.
Blast through chaotic dungeons and unleash powerful weapons as you journey through the multiverse in search of a way home. Dodge, loot, and survive against deadly foes, extracting hard-won treasures to repair your ship and make it back!
HyperFeat
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Gatekeeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gatekeeper.
A top down 2D space shooter bullethell with roguelike elements awaits you. Dodge, weave and shoot your way through waves of enemies while gaining upgrades trying to survive as long as possible.
The Spell Brigade
WHY THIS
Shares difficulty scaling and a challenging mood with Gatekeeper.
Ranked #6 for Gatekeeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gatekeeper.
Survivors-like with ONLINE CO-OP for 1-4 players. Team up with your wizard friends to slay hordes of dark creatures. Complete team-based objectives, unlock new upgrades and create overpowered spell synergies. Friend nor foe is safe in this friendly fire bullet hell!
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor
WHY THIS
Shares difficulty scaling and an atmospheric mood with Gatekeeper.
Ranked #7 for Gatekeeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Gatekeeper.
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!
Gacha Fever
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Gatekeeper.
Ranked #8 for Gatekeeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gatekeeper.
Gacha Fever is a suvivors like in a cute and colorful universe. You will fight waves of monsters with various weapons, from the machine gun to the magical girl wand and the Bubble Tea Canon ! Just be careful of the area !
Reviewers mention these as similar to Gatekeeper
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Risk of Rain 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Gatekeeper.
Reviewers of Gatekeeper cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Gatekeeper.
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.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Gatekeeper.
Reviewers of Gatekeeper cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Gatekeeper.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Rain World
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Gatekeeper.
Reviewers of Gatekeeper cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Gatekeeper.
You are a nomadic slugcat, both predator and prey in a broken ecosystem. Grab your spear and brave the industrial wastes, hunting enough food to survive, but be wary— other, bigger creatures have the same plan... and slugcats look delicious.
Hades
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Gatekeeper.
Reviewers of Gatekeeper cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Gatekeeper.
Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Gatekeeper.
Reviewers of Gatekeeper cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Gatekeeper.
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!
The Shape of Things
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Gatekeeper cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Gatekeeper.
Experience a relaxing atmosphere from the comfort of your cozy room by solving small 3D puzzles inside collectible gachapons, and find the original shape of things inspired by Rubik’s style.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Gatekeeper at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Gatekeeper on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gatekeeper.
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
Shares an immersive mood with Gatekeeper.
Priced ~67% under Gatekeeper on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Gatekeeper.
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 ~53% under Gatekeeper on Steam right now. Shares Action with Gatekeeper.
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 ~47% under Gatekeeper on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Gatekeeper.
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 Gatekeeper on Steam right now. Shares Action with Gatekeeper.
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 ~58% under Gatekeeper on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gatekeeper.
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 Gatekeeper on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gatekeeper.
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 Gatekeeper on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gatekeeper.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Gatekeeper.
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 Gatekeeper.
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.).
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Gatekeeper.
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!
I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Gatekeeper.
A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!
South Scrimshaw, Part One
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gatekeeper.
South Scrimshaw is the story of a newborn whale in a vast alien ocean. It is a richly illustrated experimental visual novel, written in the style of a nature documentary.
Wheelchair Wizards
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Gatekeeper.
Wheelchair Wizards is a 4 player party game where you battle your friends while upgrading your wizard.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Gatekeeper: Infinity
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Gatekeeper.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Gatekeeper.
Prologue version of the game Gatekeeper. Gatekeeper: Infinity is a fast-paced rogue-lite shooter where you'll search for the stolen Heart of the Universe and battle machine enemies! Play solo or join forces with friends in co-op mode.
The Spell Brigade
WHY THIS
Shares difficulty scaling and a challenging mood with Gatekeeper.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Gatekeeper.
Survivors-like with ONLINE CO-OP for 1-4 players. Team up with your wizard friends to slay hordes of dark creatures. Complete team-based objectives, unlock new upgrades and create overpowered spell synergies. Friend nor foe is safe in this friendly fire bullet hell!
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor
WHY THIS
Shares difficulty scaling and an atmospheric mood with Gatekeeper.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Gatekeeper.
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!
Gacha Fever
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Gatekeeper.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Gatekeeper.
Gacha Fever is a suvivors like in a cute and colorful universe. You will fight waves of monsters with various weapons, from the machine gun to the magical girl wand and the Bubble Tea Canon ! Just be careful of the area !
Frequently asked about Gatekeeper
- Is Gatekeeper verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Gatekeeper is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Gatekeeper cost?
- Gatekeeper is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Gatekeeper have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Gatekeeper supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Gatekeeper?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Gatekeeper are Hellcome, Gatekeeper: Infinity, Roboom.
- Who developed Gatekeeper?
- Gatekeeper was developed by Gravity Lagoon and published by HypeTrain Digital.
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