Games like Hookscrap
If Hookscrap is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mach K9, HyperParasite and Heat Signature — 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 Hookscrap: Fight as the owner of Hookscrap in a thrilling 2D rogue-like. Unleash the power of your Harpoon, by launching ships & asteroids at enemies. Upgrade your ship with loot from your foes, and become even stronger. Explore 5 unique levels in a randomly generated map & take down the fearsome SC Judgement!
Players who liked Hookscrap also play
Steam players who put hours into Hookscrap 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.
Mach K9
WHY THIS
Top pick for Hookscrap fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Hookscrap.
Physics roguelite. Smash aliens out of the arena to defeat them. Choose upgrades after each wave, and complete every wave to win. Unlock additional upgrades as you play.
HyperParasite
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Hookscrap fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hookscrap.
A rogue-lite twin-stick shooter/brawler that never plays the same twice. Collect and control 60 different characters as the body-snatching alien Parasite with a grudge against humanity. Fight to the top of the food chain: possess the President, push the Big Red Button and one-up the human race.
Heat Signature
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Hookscrap fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hookscrap.
Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.
CRYPTARK
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Hookscrap fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hookscrap.
Cryptark is a 2D sci-fi shooter where you take on the role of a heavily armed privateer seeking to earn government contracts by boarding deadly alien space-hulks. It's up to you to strategize a plan of attack, pick an equipment loadout, and destroy the central core to be victorious.
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Hookscrap fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Hookscrap.
DEEP ROCK GALACTIC: SURVIVOR is a single player survivor-like auto-shooter. Take on hordes of lethal aliens, mine riches, and unlock powerful upgrades to survive, as you wield the full arsenal of Deep Rock Galactic. It's one dwarf against all of Planet Hoxxes!
Rogue Spirit
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Hookscrap fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hookscrap.
Rogue Spirit is a 3D rogue-lite action game with light stealth elements. Play as the Ghost of the Prince of the Kingdom of Midra, possess enemy characters and absorb their unique skills to fight the evil presence that has corrupted your land.
Transcendence
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Hookscrap fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hookscrap.
Explore the farthest reaches of Human Space in this open-world space adventure. Compelled to journey to the Galactic Core by a mysterious hyperintelligence, you must fight your way through dozens of star systems teeming with clashing empires, expansionist AIs, and fearsome xenophobes.
RymdResa
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Hookscrap fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hookscrap.
A relaxed roguelike space odyssey in a procedurally generated universe! Travel through a lonely and mysterious cosmos. Customize your ship, explore and survive!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Hookscrap at current Steam store prices.
Miss Neko
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Hookscrap on Steam right now. Shares Action with Hookscrap.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Hookscrap on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Hookscrap.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Hookscrap on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hookscrap.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Hookscrap on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Hookscrap.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Hookscrap on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Hookscrap.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Hookscrap.
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.
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 Hookscrap.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hookscrap.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hookscrap.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hookscrap.
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 Hookscrap.
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.
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
HyperParasite
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Hookscrap.
A rogue-lite twin-stick shooter/brawler that never plays the same twice. Collect and control 60 different characters as the body-snatching alien Parasite with a grudge against humanity. Fight to the top of the food chain: possess the President, push the Big Red Button and one-up the human race.
CRYPTARK
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Hookscrap.
Cryptark is a 2D sci-fi shooter where you take on the role of a heavily armed privateer seeking to earn government contracts by boarding deadly alien space-hulks. It's up to you to strategize a plan of attack, pick an equipment loadout, and destroy the central core to be victorious.
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Hookscrap.
DEEP ROCK GALACTIC: SURVIVOR is a single player survivor-like auto-shooter. Take on hordes of lethal aliens, mine riches, and unlock powerful upgrades to survive, as you wield the full arsenal of Deep Rock Galactic. It's one dwarf against all of Planet Hoxxes!
Rogue Spirit
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Hookscrap.
Rogue Spirit is a 3D rogue-lite action game with light stealth elements. Play as the Ghost of the Prince of the Kingdom of Midra, possess enemy characters and absorb their unique skills to fight the evil presence that has corrupted your land.
Frequently asked about Hookscrap
- How much does Hookscrap cost?
- Hookscrap is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Hookscrap?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hookscrap are Mach K9, HyperParasite, Heat Signature.
- Who developed Hookscrap?
- Hookscrap was developed by Surprise Studios.
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 Hookscrap.
For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.