Games like Metal War
If Metal War is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Last Camp, Ice Fighter and FALL — 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 Metal War: This is a fast-paced top-down shooting and tower defense game. You need to customize and upgrade your chariot, build defensive structures to protect your base, explore the world and destroy all enemies! Don't forget to come back and defend when the enemy attacks! Can you make it to the end?
Players who liked Metal War also play
Steam players who put hours into Metal War 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 Last Camp
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Top pick for Metal War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Metal War.
This is a top-down survival-building game blending farming, tower defense, and micromanagement, requiring you to fend off zombie hordes, grow crops, and strategically deploy traps to defend your homestead.
Ice Fighter
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Metal War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Metal War.
Ice Fighter is a fast-paced Tower Defense-like game where you battle enemies, scavenge for resources, manage upgrades, and build defenses. Melt enemies during the night and gather resources during the day.
FALL
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Metal War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Metal War.
In the past, the world was almost invaded by zombies.You will play the commander of the remaining survivor camp, searching for hope for the last surviving companions, forming and assigning your special police squad to explore this post-apocalyptic world filled with zombies!
DOTFI
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Ranked #4 for Metal War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Metal War.
Do you have what it takes to defend what is yours? This is not a typical tower defense game where the troops do all the work. This is a hybrid FPS/TPS tower defense game which you take over the control to defend your island.
Desperate Place
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Ranked #5 for Metal War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Metal War.
Desperate Place is a strategic tower defense game where you play as a crew member who wakes up early on a damaged colonization starship. Stranded on an unknown planet, you must gather resources, repair the ship, and defend against alien monsters to survive and escape.
Armed to the Gears
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Ranked #6 for Metal War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Metal War.
Control a fully armed Mech and fight through cyberpunk cities, military bases and industrial ruins. Capture and defend territories, build turrets and structures, and wage war against powerful enemies!
Astro Looter: Survivor
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Ranked #7 for Metal War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Metal War.
Explore alien planets to mine resources, kill alien insects, build defense turrets, and survive waves of insect attacks across the galactic frontier. Astro Looter combines elements of survival, roguelike, and tower defense in a top-down shooter.
No Escape from Madness
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Ranked #8 for Metal War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Metal War.
No Escape from Madness is a thrilling shooting adventure game that blends Lovecraftian elements with extraction gameplay. You will guide the self-sacrificing infantry operators into the Sector where The Elder One is poised to descend.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Metal War at current Steam store prices.
Miss Neko
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Priced ~51% under Metal War on Steam right now. Shares Action with Metal War.
Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)
QUICKERFLAK
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Priced ~51% under Metal War on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Metal War.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
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Priced ~51% under Metal War on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Metal War.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Gachi Heroes
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Priced ~51% under Metal War on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Metal War.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
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Priced ~51% under Metal War on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Metal War.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Metal War.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Metal War.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Metal War.
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.).
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Metal War.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Metal War.
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
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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!
Outpath: First Journey
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Metal War.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Metal War.
A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!
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Frequently asked about Metal War
- How much does Metal War cost?
- Metal War is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Metal War?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Metal War are The Last Camp, Ice Fighter, FALL.
- Who developed Metal War?
- Metal War was developed by ZihanSong.
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 Metal War.
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