Games like CtrlC
If CtrlC is your kind of game, the closest matches are Escape Sequence, Pretend Cars Racing 2 and Nightrunner — 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 CtrlC: CtrlC is an arcade game with the look of the 80s and the technology of today. You have to reach your goal, level by level. The coders among you know: Ctrl+C cancels a running program in the terminal. You might need that info sometime.
Players who liked CtrlC also play
Steam players who put hours into CtrlC 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.
Escape Sequence
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Top pick for CtrlC fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with CtrlC.
Escape Sequence is a synthwave highway racer where the traffic is a song and the wild drivers play it with you. Weave an ocean-side freeway at sunset, chain near-misses, outlive AI rivals who drive like you do — solo, LAN, or online with friends and public lobbies. Everything glows.
Pretend Cars Racing 2
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Second-strongest match for CtrlC fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Racing with CtrlC.
Experience fast-paced top-down retro racing: build your own tracks, climb global leaderboards, challenge friends in split-screen, and race through dynamic day-to-night transitions in multi-category events.
Nightrunner
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Third-strongest match for CtrlC fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with CtrlC.
Buckle up in this minimalist retro arcade high score chaser.
80's OVERDRIVE
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Ranked #4 for CtrlC fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Racing with CtrlC.
80's OVERDRIVE is a 2D pixelart racing game, designed to take you back in time to when 8 and 16 bit consoles and arcade games ruled the world. Compete against opponents in career mode to unlock new races, buy new cars and upgrade them with state-of-the-art technologies!
Incremental Retro Racing
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Ranked #5 for CtrlC fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Racing with CtrlC.
Earn more and more stars by driving faster and faster in Incremental Retro Racing. Accumulate and unlock 70+ vehicles, upgrades, track generation options, and more. Includes unlimited tracks and customizable CRT filter for that old school retro feel.
Razortron 2000
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Ranked #6 for CtrlC fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with CtrlC.
RAZORTRON 2000 is a retro top-down endless racing game. Try to beat your highscore, unlock new cars and climb your way to the top of the leaderboards on this love letter to coin eater arcade machines era!
Slipstream
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Ranked #7 for CtrlC fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with CtrlC.
Arcade-style racing game inspired by the spirit of the early 90s, with drifting mechanics and exotic tracks.
Super Night Riders
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Ranked #8 for CtrlC fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Racing with CtrlC.
A modern arcade racing game inspired by the retro classics.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with CtrlC.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with CtrlC.
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.
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with CtrlC.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with CtrlC.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with CtrlC.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with CtrlC.
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.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with CtrlC.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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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.
80's OVERDRIVE
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Racing with CtrlC.
80's OVERDRIVE is a 2D pixelart racing game, designed to take you back in time to when 8 and 16 bit consoles and arcade games ruled the world. Compete against opponents in career mode to unlock new races, buy new cars and upgrade them with state-of-the-art technologies!
Razortron 2000
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Casual with CtrlC.
RAZORTRON 2000 is a retro top-down endless racing game. Try to beat your highscore, unlock new cars and climb your way to the top of the leaderboards on this love letter to coin eater arcade machines era!
Slipstream
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Casual with CtrlC.
Arcade-style racing game inspired by the spirit of the early 90s, with drifting mechanics and exotic tracks.
Frequently asked about CtrlC
- What games are most similar to CtrlC?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside CtrlC are Escape Sequence, Pretend Cars Racing 2, Nightrunner.
- Who developed CtrlC?
- CtrlC was developed by Andarion Games GmbH.
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 CtrlC.
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