Games like Angel's Gear
If Angel's Gear is your kind of game, the closest matches are Zapling Bygone, Darxanadon and DOOMBLADE — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, bleak and dark. 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 Angel's Gear: Angel's Gear is a challenging horror-flavored Metroidvania set in a world tainted by a mechanical disease.
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Zapling Bygone
WHY THIS
Shares ability gating, boss fights and an atmospheric mood with Angel's Gear.
Top pick for Angel's Gear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Angel's Gear.
Zapling Bygone is a twisted metroidvania where you murder your foes and steal their abilities by wearing their skulls and absorbing their consciousness into your hive-mind.
Darxanadon
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Angel's Gear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Angel's Gear.
Explore a massive interconnected labyrinth of grottos, castles, and groves in this 2D retro-inspired Action RPG.
DOOMBLADE
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Angel's Gear.
Third-strongest match for Angel's Gear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Angel's Gear.
Deep underground, Gloom Girl discovers DOOMBLADE, a sentient weapon hellbent on escape after eons in chains. Together, “Doom and Gloom” embark on a vengeful quest to unlock the powerful abilities and destroy the Dread Lords once and for all in this 2D Action Metroidvania.
Big Fish
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Angel's Gear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Angel's Gear.
Explore an underwater dystopian graveyard of giant creatures that once swam the seas. Eat your way to the top of the food chain and grow into a powerful creature of the deep in order to restore an ancient technology and save the ocean from the sunken city's pollution.
Among the Waves
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Angel's Gear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Angel's Gear.
A 2.5D metroidvania with the freedom of an immersive sim. Every fight and every path can be approached differently: through combat, stealth, or using the world’s mechanics. The story unfolds in a world where Orthodox aesthetics meet Soviet brutalism and traditional woodcraft
Sutra Pilgrim
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Angel's Gear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Angel's Gear.
Set out on a journey through Sutra Pilgrim！ Hone your skills, gather powerful Artifacts, meet steadfast allies, and challenge fearsome Yaoguai Kings. Traverse a vast mythic world inspired by Journey to the West, seek the Sutra Pilgrim, and uncover the hidden truth behind this westbound journey.
Anzu Castle Gracula
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Angel's Gear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Angel's Gear.
Locked away in a lost corner of the world lies a ruin where the dead refuse to rest. Using your wits and your treacherous whip can you discover the secrets interred within this QBASIC action/adventure?
REDO!
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Angel's Gear.
Ranked #8 for Angel's Gear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Angel's Gear.
REDO! is a game about a girl trying to find another human in a dystopian world overrun by biomachines. It's a lonely and evocative game about exploring the unknown and overcoming obstacles to see what is left.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Angel's Gear
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EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Angel's Gear cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Angel's Gear.
It's a fight for the future of the planet between the Ravagers, a merciless swarm of alien invaders, and the Earth Defense Force (EDF) in this third-person shooter.Play as four different classes in over 80 missions with a range of 800 weapons at your disposal.Co-op play supported.
Trap Shrine
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Angel's Gear cross-mention this title as a similar play.
The Goddess was a Crossdresser?! The enshrined deity turned out to be a cross dressing Goddess that was sealed to... marry ME?! The cross dressing legend starts here!
Vomitoreum
WHY THIS
Shares boss fights and an atmospheric mood with Angel's Gear.
Reviewers of Angel's Gear cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Angel's Gear.
Vomitoreum is an FPS Metroidvania with a focus on atmosphere and horror, inspired by the paintings of Zdzisław Beksiński.
Dead Space
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Angel's Gear cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Angel's Gear.
The sci-fi survival-horror classic returns, completely rebuilt to offer an even more immersive experience — including visual, audio, and gameplay improvements — while staying faithful to the original game’s thrilling vision.
Shadows of the past
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Angel's Gear cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Angel's Gear.
Shadows of the past is a visual novel for adults only. In a small town, private detective Josh Wilson leads a quiet and measured life, solving small problems for the locals. But everything changes when Ellie shows up on his office doorstep....
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Angel's Gear at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Angel's Gear on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Angel's Gear.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Angel's Gear on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Angel's Gear.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Angel's Gear on Steam right now. Shares Action with Angel's Gear.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Angel's Gear on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Angel's Gear.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Angel's Gear on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Angel's Gear.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Angel's Gear on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Angel's Gear.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Angel's Gear on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Angel's Gear.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Angel's Gear on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Angel's Gear.
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.
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 Angel's Gear.
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 Angel's Gear.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 Angel's Gear.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Angel's Gear.
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 Angel's Gear.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Angel's Gear.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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More from Scumhead
Other recommendable Steam games by Scumhead, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Mohrta
WHY THIS
Shares boss fights and an atmospheric mood with Angel's Gear.
Another title from Scumhead, the studio behind Angel's Gear. Shares Action and Indie with Angel's Gear.
Mohrta is a nonlinear FPS adventure through the strange and otherworldly. Explore a vast selection of unique environments, slay an enormous cast of bizarre creatures, and upgrade your arsenal of multifaceted weapons.
Vomitoreum
WHY THIS
Shares boss fights and an atmospheric mood with Angel's Gear.
Another title from Scumhead, the studio behind Angel's Gear. Shares Action and Indie with Angel's Gear.
Vomitoreum is an FPS Metroidvania with a focus on atmosphere and horror, inspired by the paintings of Zdzisław Beksiński.
Darxanadon
WHY THIS
Another title from Scumhead, the studio behind Angel's Gear. Shares Action and Indie with Angel's Gear.
Explore a massive interconnected labyrinth of grottos, castles, and groves in this 2D retro-inspired Action RPG.
Loplight
WHY THIS
Another title from Scumhead, the studio behind Angel's Gear. Shares Action with Angel's Gear.
Loplight is a twin-stick shooter taking inspirations from Hermetic lore and old alchemical concepts. Explore the ruins of this world, find out who's responsible, and defeat the monstrous creatures blocking your path.
Frequently asked about Angel's Gear
- Does Angel's Gear run on Steam Deck?
- Angel's Gear 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 Angel's Gear cost?
- Angel's Gear is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Angel's Gear?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Angel's Gear are Zapling Bygone, Darxanadon, DOOMBLADE.
- Who developed Angel's Gear?
- Angel's Gear was developed by Scumhead.
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