Games like Survivor Mercs
If Survivor Mercs is your kind of game, the closest matches are Nuclear Throne, Battle Planet - Judgement Day and Blazing Beaks — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging 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 →About Survivor Mercs: Purge the billionaires' robot army with your Merc squad! Fast-paced twin-stick action, frantic horde survival, tactical squad-building & tons of loot! Exploit game-breaking synergies to beat the M.E.G.A. Corp. bosses in ever-changing operations. Lock, load, and loot, Commander!
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Nuclear Throne
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Survivor Mercs.
Top pick for Survivor Mercs fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Survivor Mercs.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
Battle Planet - Judgement Day
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Survivor Mercs.
Second-strongest match for Survivor Mercs fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Survivor Mercs.
Battle Planet - Judgement Day is a planetary rogue-lite top-down shooter. You are one of the universe's 3 most wanted criminals on the run, fighting your way through hordes of aliens, military and police units. There is only one way to reclaim your freedom - destroy them all...
Blazing Beaks
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Survivor Mercs.
Third-strongest match for Survivor Mercs fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Survivor Mercs.
Roguelite - where too much greediness can be fatal. A colorful world with armed birds blazing their way through piles of mutants, monsters and creepy creatures. Lots of mysteries to unravel, secrets to discover and levels to explore.
Destropolis
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Survivor Mercs.
Ranked #4 for Survivor Mercs fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Survivor Mercs.
Destropolis is a top-down shooter game with a fully destructible environment, hundreds of enemies and nuclear explosions. Fight a countless swarm of enemies. Tear them to pieces with bullets, lasers and explosions. Destroy as many of them as you can before they overwhelm you...
Shape Shifter: Formations
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Survivor Mercs.
Ranked #5 for Survivor Mercs fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Survivor Mercs.
Shape Shifter: Formations is an action twin-stick shooter with rogue-lite elements, where you must destroy hordes of geometric enemies alone or with a friend. Select your ship and combine a large variety of weapons, abilities and infinitely stacking upgrades to craft your own unique build.
FatalZone
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Survivor Mercs.
Ranked #6 for Survivor Mercs fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Survivor Mercs.
FatalZone is an auto shooter with roguelike and RPG elements set in a savage world of zombies. Exterminate zombie hordes, collect resources, upgrade your camp, and level up mercenaries. Humanity must survive at any cost!
Serious Sam: Tormental
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Survivor Mercs.
Ranked #7 for Survivor Mercs fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Survivor Mercs.
Serious Sam: Tormental is a 3D rogue-lite top-down shooter where you blast your way through the tormented mind of demigod of destruction Mental, as he imagines worlds and monsters that stand on your path towards his inner ego. Let the showdown begin!
Rift Loopers
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Survivor Mercs.
Ranked #8 for Survivor Mercs fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Survivor Mercs.
Survive the horrors of the multiverse, alone or with your comrades, as you battle against an onslaught of insectoid like creatures. Combine abilities in different ways each loop to overcome and return safely to your universe.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Survivor Mercs
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Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Survivor Mercs.
Reviewers of Survivor Mercs cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Survivor Mercs.
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!
Yet Another Zombie Survivors
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Survivor Mercs cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Survivor Mercs.
The Horde is coming but you're ready to fight it! Assemble your team and decide upon their enhancements to find the most efficient synergies against thousands of the undead. Survive. Then evolve. Then break all the limits in this deceivingly simple but addictive bullet heaven game.
Boneraiser Minions
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Survivor Mercs.
Reviewers of Survivor Mercs cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Survivor Mercs.
Amass an army of undead to fight endless waves of heroes intent to end your boneraising ways! In this gothic auto-battler rogue-lite Survivor-like, use the bones of slain heroes to raise your minions, collect relics and spells, and unlock meta upgrades, all to survive King Gigald's crusade!
Halls of Torment
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Survivor Mercs.
Reviewers of Survivor Mercs cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Survivor Mercs.
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?
Death Must Die
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Survivor Mercs.
Reviewers of Survivor Mercs cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Survivor Mercs.
Descend the nether in search of Death himself! Choose from God-given powers to slay his hordes of minions. Unlock new heroes, collect powerful items and create game-breaking synergies in this roguelite hack and slash survivors game.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Survivor Mercs at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Survivor Mercs on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Survivor Mercs.
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 a challenging mood with Survivor Mercs.
Priced ~50% under Survivor Mercs on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Survivor Mercs.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Survivor Mercs on Steam right now. Shares Action with Survivor Mercs.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Survivor Mercs on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Survivor Mercs.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Survivor Mercs on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Survivor Mercs.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Survivor Mercs on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Survivor Mercs.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Survivor Mercs on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Survivor Mercs.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Survivor Mercs on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Survivor Mercs.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Survivor Mercs.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Survivor Mercs.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Survivor Mercs.
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 Survivor Mercs.
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!
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Survivor Mercs.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
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 Survivor Mercs.
A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!
Khimera: Destroy All Monster Girls
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Survivor Mercs.
Play as Chelshia the chimera in this platforming beat-em-up adventure into the wonderful world of monster girls!
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Nuclear Throne
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Survivor Mercs.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Survivor Mercs.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
Battle Planet - Judgement Day
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Survivor Mercs.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Survivor Mercs.
Battle Planet - Judgement Day is a planetary rogue-lite top-down shooter. You are one of the universe's 3 most wanted criminals on the run, fighting your way through hordes of aliens, military and police units. There is only one way to reclaim your freedom - destroy them all...
Blazing Beaks
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Survivor Mercs.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Survivor Mercs.
Roguelite - where too much greediness can be fatal. A colorful world with armed birds blazing their way through piles of mutants, monsters and creepy creatures. Lots of mysteries to unravel, secrets to discover and levels to explore.
Destropolis
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Survivor Mercs.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Survivor Mercs.
Destropolis is a top-down shooter game with a fully destructible environment, hundreds of enemies and nuclear explosions. Fight a countless swarm of enemies. Tear them to pieces with bullets, lasers and explosions. Destroy as many of them as you can before they overwhelm you...
Shape Shifter: Formations
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Survivor Mercs.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and RPG with Survivor Mercs.
Shape Shifter: Formations is an action twin-stick shooter with rogue-lite elements, where you must destroy hordes of geometric enemies alone or with a friend. Select your ship and combine a large variety of weapons, abilities and infinitely stacking upgrades to craft your own unique build.
Serious Sam: Tormental
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Survivor Mercs.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Survivor Mercs.
Serious Sam: Tormental is a 3D rogue-lite top-down shooter where you blast your way through the tormented mind of demigod of destruction Mental, as he imagines worlds and monsters that stand on your path towards his inner ego. Let the showdown begin!
Frequently asked about Survivor Mercs
- Is Survivor Mercs verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Survivor Mercs 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 Survivor Mercs cost?
- Survivor Mercs is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Survivor Mercs have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Survivor Mercs supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Survivor Mercs?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Survivor Mercs are Nuclear Throne, Battle Planet - Judgement Day, Blazing Beaks.
- Who developed Survivor Mercs?
- Survivor Mercs was developed by Wolpertinger Games and published by Wandering Wizard.
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 Survivor Mercs.
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