Games like Cardiac Powder
If Cardiac Powder is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Hong Kong Massacre, Mr. Fast and RUINER — 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 Cardiac Powder: Cardiac Powder is a nervous twin stick shooter where you have a bomb in you, if you can’t maintain a certain heart rate, it will explode… So one thing to do is keep you in action by fighting your opponents!
Players who liked Cardiac Powder also play
Steam players who put hours into Cardiac Powder 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.
The Hong Kong Massacre
WHY THIS
Top pick for Cardiac Powder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cardiac Powder.
Blast your way through the streets of Hong Kong in a fast-paced, top-down shooter. Inspired by classic action movies, The Hong Kong Massacre places you at the center of a hard-boiled revenge story, filled with brutal, cinematic shootouts and vivid underworld locations.
Mr. Fast
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Cardiac Powder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cardiac Powder.
Mr. Fast is a top-down shooting game with a bullet time twist! Enemy's time moves more slowly than yours. You're fast enough and you can kill others with one shot.
RUINER
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Cardiac Powder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cardiac Powder.
RUINER is a brutal action shooter set in the year 2091 in the cyber metropolis Rengkok. A wired psychopath lashes out against a corrupt system to uncover the truth and retrieve his kidnapped brother under the guidance of a secretive hacker friend.
GARAGE: Bad Trip
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Cardiac Powder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cardiac Powder.
Drug dealer Butch slays hordes of living dead to save a girl. Garage is a bloody topdown shooter inspired by VHS era B-movies.
12 is Better Than 6
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Cardiac Powder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cardiac Powder.
12 is Better Than 6 is a dynamic top-down shooter with stealth elements, presented in a Wild West theme. The story puts you in the shoes of escaped slave fleeing to the United States in 1873.
Suit for Hire
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Cardiac Powder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cardiac Powder.
Suit for Hire is a challenging action shooter, tactically blend weapons and martial arts together to unleash beautifully crafted violence.
Esse Proxy
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Cardiac Powder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cardiac Powder.
Slick, stylish and brutal, 3D Cyberpunk Shooter. Located in a dystopian future, you'll experience the intertwined stories of three different characters, each with their own abilities, playstyles, strengths and weaknesses. Kill or die, learn and repeat before you unveil the secrets of Esse Proxy.
APE OUT
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Ranked #8 for Cardiac Powder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cardiac Powder.
APE OUT is a wildly intense and colorfully stylized smash ‘em up about primal escape, rhythmic violence, and frenetic jazz.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cardiac Powder at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Cardiac Powder on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Cardiac Powder.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Cardiac Powder on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cardiac Powder.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Cardiac Powder on Steam right now. Shares Action with Cardiac Powder.
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.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Cardiac Powder on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cardiac Powder.
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!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~67% under Cardiac Powder on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Cardiac Powder.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Cardiac Powder on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Cardiac Powder.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
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Priced ~67% under Cardiac Powder on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cardiac Powder.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cardiac Powder.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Cardiac Powder.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Cardiac Powder.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cardiac Powder.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Cardiac Powder.
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 Cardiac Powder.
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 Cardiac Powder.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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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.
RUINER
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Cardiac Powder.
RUINER is a brutal action shooter set in the year 2091 in the cyber metropolis Rengkok. A wired psychopath lashes out against a corrupt system to uncover the truth and retrieve his kidnapped brother under the guidance of a secretive hacker friend.
Suit for Hire
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Cardiac Powder.
Suit for Hire is a challenging action shooter, tactically blend weapons and martial arts together to unleash beautifully crafted violence.
Frequently asked about Cardiac Powder
- How much does Cardiac Powder cost?
- Cardiac Powder is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Cardiac Powder?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cardiac Powder are The Hong Kong Massacre, Mr. Fast, RUINER.
- Who developed Cardiac Powder?
- Cardiac Powder was developed by Edalbung.
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