Games like Primordial Pain
If Primordial Pain is your kind of game, the closest matches are Animalistic, Graveyard Spells and Anime Girls VS Soldiers — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Primordial Pain: Primordial Pain is a brutally unforgiving, fast paced arena shooter with one key mechanic: Pain. Perform an elegant dance on the fine line between maximum power and certain death.
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Animalistic
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Top pick for Primordial Pain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Primordial Pain.
Animalistic is a fast-paced, ultraviolent, and stylish indie FPS game where you brutally clear room after room of creepy humanoid animals. Featuring a story-mode and endless wave mode!
Graveyard Spells
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Primordial Pain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Primordial Pain.
FAST FPS inspired by 90s games You play as a vampire who will have to survive waves of enemies, with a cemetery as a backdrop. Fight by casting spells.
Anime Girls VS Soldiers
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Primordial Pain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Primordial Pain.
This game basically anime soldiers fight game. Very very dark story(NONE) and some losses(NONE) Oh Anime Girls very upset now and soldiers to. Cover yourself because they are very very angry. You have to be in life and you have to take high score.
AMID EVIL
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Primordial Pain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Primordial Pain.
A retro FPS for the ages! Once branded a HERETIC. Now YOU have been chosen as our champion! Reclaim our sacred weapons. Take back our ancient lands. If you can stand... AMID EVIL.
UBERSLAUGHTER
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Ranked #6 for Primordial Pain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Primordial Pain.
DOPAMINE - NON STOP KILLING - BLOOD - BUNNY HOPPING - HIGH SKILL CEILING - MORE BLOOD - NO HAND HOLDING - STOCK TRADING - EVEN MORE BLOOD - ODDLY SENSUAL
LOOK UP AND GO
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Ranked #7 for Primordial Pain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Primordial Pain.
Wishlist this fast paced, fps, score attack where every run is a risk. Use your points to bet on your own survival or make other players' runs harder. Get combos by stabbing, shooting, and doing tricks. Ascend the tower. Climb the leader board. Wishlist now.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Primordial Pain at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Primordial Pain on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Primordial Pain.
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?
The Test
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Priced ~60% under Primordial Pain on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Primordial Pain.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~70% under Primordial Pain on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Primordial Pain.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~80% under Primordial Pain on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Primordial Pain.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Primordial Pain on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Primordial Pain.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Primordial Pain on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Primordial Pain.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Primordial Pain on Steam right now. Shares Action with Primordial Pain.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
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Priced ~80% under Primordial Pain on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Primordial Pain.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
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 with Primordial Pain.
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 Primordial Pain.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Primordial Pain.
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 Primordial Pain.
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]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Primordial Pain.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Primordial Pain.
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!
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Casual with Primordial Pain.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
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Other recommendable Steam games by Jan Malitschek, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
BETON BRUTAL
WHY THIS
Another title from Jan Malitschek, the studio behind Primordial Pain. Shares Indie and Casual with Primordial Pain.
Climb a massive overgrown concrete tower while constantly at risk of falling and losing precious progress. BETON BRUTAL offers a fluid and responsive first person parkour experience through tranquil brutalist architecture.
The Heilwald Loophole
WHY THIS
Another title from Jan Malitschek, the studio behind Primordial Pain. Shares Indie and Casual with Primordial Pain.
The Heilwald Klinikum used to be one of the most renowned medical facilities in Germany. That all changed when that curious loophole appeared...
Trials of Argolis
WHY THIS
Another title from Jan Malitschek, the studio behind Primordial Pain. Shares Action and Indie with Primordial Pain.
Every year daring warriors and fighters from all across the land travel to the province of Argolis to partake in a sacred trial of strength and endurance.
Frequently asked about Primordial Pain
- Does Primordial Pain run on Steam Deck?
- Primordial Pain is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Primordial Pain cost?
- Primordial Pain is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Primordial Pain?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Primordial Pain are Animalistic, Graveyard Spells, Anime Girls VS Soldiers.
- Who developed Primordial Pain?
- Primordial Pain was developed by Jan Malitschek.
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 Primordial Pain.
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