Games like Rising Heat
If Rising Heat is your kind of game, the closest matches are Noobs Are Coming, Brotato and #KILLALLZOMBIES — 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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Noobs Are Coming
WHY THIS
Top pick for Rising Heat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rising Heat.
YOU ARE THE FINAL BOSS. Brutal synergy arena roguelike. Pick your Final Boss character, equip boss patterns and combine tons of attacks to create unique builds. Play solo or in co-op!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Rising Heat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rising Heat.
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.
#KILLALLZOMBIES
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Rising Heat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rising Heat.
#KILLALLZOMBIES is an insane twin-stick zombie shooter with Twitch streaming interactions, where you survive hordes of zombies on a dynamically changing arena and spectators may affect gameplay via special Twitch chat commands.
Shape Shifter: Formations
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Rising Heat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Rising Heat.
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.
Patch Quest
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Rising Heat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rising Heat.
In a labyrinth surrounded by vicious monsters, Explorers must rely on their Lasso to survive! Capture and tame ANY monster to leap, glide, surf, tunnel and websling through a treacherous, patchwork maze. This roguelike/metroidvania seems cute, but it’s a deceptively difficult bullet-hell challenge!
Survivor Mercs
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Rising Heat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rising Heat.
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!
Mega City Force
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Rising Heat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rising Heat.
Retrowave Action Roguelike featuring tough agents battling crime to the electrifying music of artists like Droid Bishop, Timecop1983, and more! Choose your agent and dive into hardcore action against enemies and bosses, utilizing a vast arsenal and special abilities that will define your playstyle
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Rising Heat.
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 Rising Heat.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rising Heat.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Rising Heat.
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 Rising Heat.
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 Rising Heat.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Rising Heat.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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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.
Noobs Are Coming
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Rising Heat.
YOU ARE THE FINAL BOSS. Brutal synergy arena roguelike. Pick your Final Boss character, equip boss patterns and combine tons of attacks to create unique builds. Play solo or in co-op!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Rising Heat.
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.
#KILLALLZOMBIES
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Rising Heat.
#KILLALLZOMBIES is an insane twin-stick zombie shooter with Twitch streaming interactions, where you survive hordes of zombies on a dynamically changing arena and spectators may affect gameplay via special Twitch chat commands.
Shape Shifter: Formations
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Rising Heat.
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.
Patch Quest
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Rising Heat.
In a labyrinth surrounded by vicious monsters, Explorers must rely on their Lasso to survive! Capture and tame ANY monster to leap, glide, surf, tunnel and websling through a treacherous, patchwork maze. This roguelike/metroidvania seems cute, but it’s a deceptively difficult bullet-hell challenge!
Survivor Mercs
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Rising Heat.
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!
Mega City Force
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Rising Heat.
Retrowave Action Roguelike featuring tough agents battling crime to the electrifying music of artists like Droid Bishop, Timecop1983, and more! Choose your agent and dive into hardcore action against enemies and bosses, utilizing a vast arsenal and special abilities that will define your playstyle
Frequently asked about Rising Heat
- Does Rising Heat have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Rising Heat 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 Rising Heat?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Rising Heat are Noobs Are Coming, Brotato, #KILLALLZOMBIES.
- Who developed Rising Heat?
- Rising Heat was developed by Fuzzy Sock Studios and published by Apogee Entertainment.
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 Rising Heat.
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