Games like EMPTY SHELL
If EMPTY SHELL is your kind of game, the closest matches are EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE, Blade of the Netherworld and Nuclear Throne — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its dash grants invulnerability frames, monochrome visuals enhance horror and muffled audio creates tension. 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 EMPTY SHELL: EMPTY SHELL will throw you in a dark industrial environment, a secret facility on a Japanese island. Each volunteer has signed a contract for a "recovery operation" without being privy to too many details. A tense roguelite survival horror with a top down perspective.
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Steam players who put hours into EMPTY SHELL 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.
EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with EMPTY SHELL.
Top pick for EMPTY SHELL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL.
EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE will throw you in a dark industrial environment, a secret facility on a japanese island. Each volunteer has signed a contract for a "recovery operation" without being privy to too many details. A tense roguelite survival horror with a top down perspective.
Blade of the Netherworld
WHY THIS
Shares weapon variety, inventory management and an atmospheric mood with EMPTY SHELL.
Second-strongest match for EMPTY SHELL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL.
Blade of the Netherworld is a fast-paced 2D Roguelite platformer. Don divine masks as a Yin-Yang Enforcer, slashing through the underworld to defeat gods, demons, and spirits. Combine a variety of items, master combat skills, and create limitless, high-speed carnage with a free-form action system.
Nuclear Throne
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with EMPTY SHELL.
Third-strongest match for EMPTY SHELL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
bit Dungeon II
WHY THIS
Shares weapon variety with EMPTY SHELL.
Ranked #4 for EMPTY SHELL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL.
bitDungeon II is fast action-adventure game with a giant overworld to explore. You are a spirit in an undead world of demons. Your "loved one's " grave has been desecrated. Fight through these corrupted lands, and bring peace to her soul.
KLETKA
WHY THIS
Shares inventory management and an atmospheric mood with EMPTY SHELL.
Ranked #5 for EMPTY SHELL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL.
KLETKA is a co-op (up to 6 players) horror game about going down in an elevator that is trying to eat you. Feed the elevator, explore deadly floors and descend deeper.
Blazing Beaks
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation with EMPTY SHELL.
Ranked #6 for EMPTY SHELL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL.
Roguelite - where too much greediness can be fatal. A colorful world with armed birds blazing their way through piles of mutants, monsters and creepy creatures. Lots of mysteries to unravel, secrets to discover and levels to explore.
Army of Ruin
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with EMPTY SHELL.
Ranked #7 for EMPTY SHELL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL.
Wreak havoc on countless foes with mighty weapons and deadly spells! Enhance your skills and face even greater dangers! Army of Ruin is an auto-shooter where you become the Bullet Hell.
Power of Ten
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with EMPTY SHELL.
Ranked #8 for EMPTY SHELL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL.
Fly a star-fighter against a bloodthirsty armada. Gather weapons, resources, and upgrades to help you push back the relentless assault while protecting the galaxies' civilians!
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Hotline Miami
WHY THIS
Reviewers of EMPTY SHELL cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL.
Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
Teleglitch: Die More Edition
WHY THIS
Shares inventory management, procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with EMPTY SHELL.
Reviewers of EMPTY SHELL cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL.
In a cold, dark future dominated by mega-corporations, a small lonely planet on the edge of habitable space is the site of a shadowy research facility specializing in necrotic tissue reactivation. You are a scientist who has suddenly awoken to the realization that you are the lone survivor.
Darkwood
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with EMPTY SHELL.
Reviewers of EMPTY SHELL cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with EMPTY SHELL.
Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.
The Thing from Nowhere
WHY THIS
Reviewers of EMPTY SHELL cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with EMPTY SHELL.
Travel to a remote town in Alaska and uncover the truth behind reported sightings of a mythical creature from ancient Inuit folklore. A Choose Your Own Adventure mystery set in the 1950s, inspired by classic monster movies and Amiga's "It Came from the Desert".
Resident Evil 4
WHY THIS
Shares inventory management and an atmospheric mood with EMPTY SHELL.
Reviewers of EMPTY SHELL cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with EMPTY SHELL.
Survival is just the beginning. Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors, tracks the president's kidnapped daughter to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below EMPTY SHELL at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under EMPTY SHELL on Steam right now. Shares Indie with EMPTY SHELL.
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 ~58% under EMPTY SHELL on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under EMPTY SHELL on Steam right now. Shares Action with EMPTY SHELL.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under EMPTY SHELL on Steam right now. Shares Action with EMPTY SHELL.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under EMPTY SHELL on Steam right now. Shares Indie with EMPTY SHELL.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under EMPTY SHELL on Steam right now. Shares Indie with EMPTY SHELL.
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 ~58% under EMPTY SHELL on Steam right now. Shares Indie with EMPTY SHELL.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under EMPTY SHELL on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL.
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?
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 EMPTY SHELL.
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 and Adventure with EMPTY SHELL.
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 EMPTY SHELL.
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 and Adventure with EMPTY SHELL.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 EMPTY SHELL.
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 EMPTY SHELL.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with EMPTY SHELL.
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.).
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with EMPTY SHELL.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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More from CC ARTS
Other recommendable Steam games by CC ARTS, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
GROOD
WHY THIS
Another title from CC ARTS, the studio behind EMPTY SHELL. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL.
GROOD is an indie 2.5D Shoot 'em up made with spare robot parts and Heavy Metal🤘🏻. The gameplay blends classic Shoot 'em up mechanics with modern low poly graphics, particles, shaders, and a hardcore soundtrack. Annihilate an army of machines, and afterward, annihilate their bosses—go all the way to confirm that your battle paid off.
STHELL
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with EMPTY SHELL.
Another title from CC ARTS, the studio behind EMPTY SHELL. Shares Action with EMPTY SHELL.
STHELL is a fast-paced, roguelite arena shooter that takes you to a forgotten swamp that was a test site of Kiratron Industries. Take on hordes of machines left to rust for years. It's a battle you probably won't win, but make a stand and your resilience will be etched in their memory chips forever.
EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with EMPTY SHELL.
Another title from CC ARTS, the studio behind EMPTY SHELL. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL.
EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE will throw you in a dark industrial environment, a secret facility on a japanese island. Each volunteer has signed a contract for a "recovery operation" without being privy to too many details. A tense roguelite survival horror with a top down perspective.
EMPTY SHELL 2
WHY THIS
Another title from CC ARTS, the studio behind EMPTY SHELL. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL.
Take on the roles of expendable volunteers sent to a forsaken facility on a remote Japanese island. Recover lost data, scavenge for resources, manage your inventory, and endure unspeakable cosmic horrors. In this top-down extraction survival horror, every expedition is a journey back from madness.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Nuclear Throne
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with EMPTY SHELL.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
KLETKA
WHY THIS
Shares inventory management and an atmospheric mood with EMPTY SHELL.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL.
KLETKA is a co-op (up to 6 players) horror game about going down in an elevator that is trying to eat you. Feed the elevator, explore deadly floors and descend deeper.
Blazing Beaks
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation with EMPTY SHELL.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL.
Roguelite - where too much greediness can be fatal. A colorful world with armed birds blazing their way through piles of mutants, monsters and creepy creatures. Lots of mysteries to unravel, secrets to discover and levels to explore.
Army of Ruin
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with EMPTY SHELL.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL.
Wreak havoc on countless foes with mighty weapons and deadly spells! Enhance your skills and face even greater dangers! Army of Ruin is an auto-shooter where you become the Bullet Hell.
Power of Ten
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with EMPTY SHELL.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL.
Fly a star-fighter against a bloodthirsty armada. Gather weapons, resources, and upgrades to help you push back the relentless assault while protecting the galaxies' civilians!
Frequently asked about EMPTY SHELL
- Is EMPTY SHELL verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — EMPTY SHELL is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does EMPTY SHELL cost?
- EMPTY SHELL is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to EMPTY SHELL?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside EMPTY SHELL are EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE, Blade of the Netherworld, Nuclear Throne.
- Who developed EMPTY SHELL?
- EMPTY SHELL was developed by CC ARTS and published by Hyperstrange.
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