Games like Heli-Cats
If Heli-Cats is your kind of game, the closest matches are Astral Gunners, Rutabaga Desert Storm and Twin Cobra — 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.
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Players who liked Heli-Cats also play
Steam players who put hours into Heli-Cats 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.
Astral Gunners
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Top pick for Heli-Cats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Heli-Cats.
Get ready to push your skills to the limit against an endless sea of bullets and evil robots in Astral Gunners. Choose from five different gunners to master in this horizontal shooter. With the ability to dodge, reflect, delete, and convert bullets you are more powerful than you might believe.
Rutabaga Desert Storm
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Heli-Cats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heli-Cats.
Lead the vegetable revolution alone or with a friend in the side-scrolling shoot ‘em up Rutabaga Desert Storm! Take down wave after wave of enemies, dodge their projectiles, and grab power-ups to boost your destruction! Can you defeat the oppressive humans and free the proletariat vegetable masses?
Twin Cobra
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Heli-Cats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Heli-Cats.
Blast battalions of tanks into smoking craters and conquer air and sea from the sky's fastest attack chopper! Toaplan's coin-op shooter Twin Cobra flies to PC with fresh features and quality-of-life updates!
Zero Wing
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Heli-Cats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Heli-Cats.
Defend the galaxy from vicious space pirates! Seize your foes and fire them back at their allies for devastating destruction in Toaplan's legendary horizontal arcade shooter, now on PC with all-new features and quality-of-life bonuses!
Shoot 1UP DX
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Ranked #5 for Heli-Cats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heli-Cats.
Why play shoot 'em ups one ship at a time? Launch them all at once! Unleash an entire armada of ships in Shoot 1UP!
Revolgear Zero
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Heli-Cats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Heli-Cats.
Shizuku and Akane...two pilots bound by rivalry and friendship battle to save their world from malevolent cosmic forces! A classic arcade style shmup with deeply satisfying fast paced combat, wide variety of load-out combos, and even local co-op!
Steredenn: Binary Stars
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Ranked #7 for Heli-Cats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heli-Cats.
Steredenn is a frenetic and chaotic space shooter, carved in big beautiful pixels, with insane boss battles. Embark in your ship and engage the fight against dreadful space pirates in a never-ending combat for your survival.
1993 Space Machine
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Ranked #8 for Heli-Cats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heli-Cats.
Space shooters never die. 1993 is a testament to that. 1993 is a classic shoot em up celebrating games like Gradius, R-Type and Life Force.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Heli-Cats at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Heli-Cats on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heli-Cats.
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
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Priced ~67% under Heli-Cats on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Heli-Cats.
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.
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Priced ~53% under Heli-Cats on Steam right now. Shares Action with Heli-Cats.
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.
PEAK
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Priced ~47% under Heli-Cats on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Heli-Cats.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~70% under Heli-Cats on Steam right now. Shares Action with Heli-Cats.
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
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Priced ~58% under Heli-Cats on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heli-Cats.
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!
Inscryption
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Priced ~47% under Heli-Cats on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heli-Cats.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~67% under Heli-Cats on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heli-Cats.
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.
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 with Heli-Cats.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Heli-Cats.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Heli-Cats.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Heli-Cats.
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.).
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Heli-Cats.
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 Heli-Cats.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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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.
Twin Cobra
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Heli-Cats.
Blast battalions of tanks into smoking craters and conquer air and sea from the sky's fastest attack chopper! Toaplan's coin-op shooter Twin Cobra flies to PC with fresh features and quality-of-life updates!
Zero Wing
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Heli-Cats.
Defend the galaxy from vicious space pirates! Seize your foes and fire them back at their allies for devastating destruction in Toaplan's legendary horizontal arcade shooter, now on PC with all-new features and quality-of-life bonuses!
Revolgear Zero
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Heli-Cats.
Shizuku and Akane...two pilots bound by rivalry and friendship battle to save their world from malevolent cosmic forces! A classic arcade style shmup with deeply satisfying fast paced combat, wide variety of load-out combos, and even local co-op!
1993 Space Machine
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Heli-Cats.
Space shooters never die. 1993 is a testament to that. 1993 is a classic shoot em up celebrating games like Gradius, R-Type and Life Force.
Frequently asked about Heli-Cats
- How much does Heli-Cats cost?
- Heli-Cats is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Heli-Cats have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Heli-Cats supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Heli-Cats?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Heli-Cats are Astral Gunners, Rutabaga Desert Storm, Twin Cobra.
- Who developed Heli-Cats?
- Heli-Cats was developed by DrearyWeary.
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 Heli-Cats.
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