Games like Earl vs. the Mutants
If Earl vs. the Mutants is your kind of game, the closest matches are No Space For All, Dragon Kings and TROUBLE JUICE — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chaotic but balanced combat, challenging and competitive. 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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No Space For All
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Top pick for Earl vs. the Mutants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Earl vs. the Mutants.
A fleet to defeat, a weapon to collect, and one life to decide everything in the roguelike shooter No Space For All. Let the universe know your second name!
Dragon Kings
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Earl vs. the Mutants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Earl vs. the Mutants.
Dragon Kings is a top down action rogue-lite shooter. Power up weapons and drones and annihilate hoards of dragons and dinosaurs.
TROUBLE JUICE
WHY THIS
Shares twin stick shooting and a whimsical mood with Earl vs. the Mutants.
Third-strongest match for Earl vs. the Mutants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Earl vs. the Mutants.
Trouble Juice is a Side Scrolling Shooter Roguelike set in a TV show tournament that is broadcasted across the universe. Use your character's special abilities, and unlock prizes in the Achievement Bingo. Become the ultimate champion and earn your place in the galaxy's hall of fame!
Shape Shifter: Formations
WHY THIS
Shares meta progression and an intense mood with Earl vs. the Mutants.
Ranked #4 for Earl vs. the Mutants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Earl vs. the Mutants.
Shape Shifter: Formations is an action twin-stick shooter with rogue-lite elements, where you must destroy hordes of geometric enemies alone or with a friend. Select your ship and combine a large variety of weapons, abilities and infinitely stacking upgrades to craft your own unique build.
Her Name Was Fire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Earl vs. the Mutants.
Ranked #5 for Earl vs. the Mutants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Earl vs. the Mutants.
Her Name Was Fire is a Tarotpunk twin stick roguelike where you progressively unlock spells and upgrades to defeat hordes of void creatures. Survive the 5 stages of grief and vanquish the Major Allegories.
Crafty Survivors
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Earl vs. the Mutants.
Ranked #6 for Earl vs. the Mutants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Earl vs. the Mutants.
All heroes got corrupted! Unlock a diverse cast of crafty professionals, use their unique skills, create your own builds and defend your home by eliminating hordes of monsters. Gather materials, rebuild your village and craft your way to the origin of this malignous curse!
Destropolis
WHY THIS
Shares weapon upgrades and an intense mood with Earl vs. the Mutants.
Ranked #7 for Earl vs. the Mutants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Earl vs. the Mutants.
Destropolis is a top-down shooter game with a fully destructible environment, hundreds of enemies and nuclear explosions. Fight a countless swarm of enemies. Tear them to pieces with bullets, lasers and explosions. Destroy as many of them as you can before they overwhelm you...
Peace Data
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Earl vs. the Mutants.
Ranked #8 for Earl vs. the Mutants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Earl vs. the Mutants.
Peace Data — hard "Roguelike" game, in which you have to play for Bitard, saving Rusland from the tyranny of the authorities that destroyed the opposition and led the country to ruin, making slaves of citizens.
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Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Earl vs. the Mutants.
Reviewers of Earl vs. the Mutants cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Earl vs. the Mutants.
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!
Deep Rock Galactic
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Earl vs. the Mutants.
Reviewers of Earl vs. the Mutants cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Earl vs. the Mutants.
Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player co-op FPS featuring dwarven space miners, procedurally-generated destructible environments, and endless hordes of alien monsters. Explore cave systems, mine for minerals, and work together to survive!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Earl vs. the Mutants.
Reviewers of Earl vs. the Mutants cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Earl vs. the Mutants.
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.
20 Minutes Till Dawn
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Earl vs. the Mutants.
Reviewers of Earl vs. the Mutants cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Earl vs. the Mutants.
20 Minutes Till Dawn is a survival roguelite where endless hordes of creatures lurk from the dark. Craft an array of overpowering builds and eradicate waves of Lovecraftian nightmares. Will you be able to survive the night?
Farmageddon
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Earl vs. the Mutants cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Earl vs. the Mutants.
In this Action Roguelike, defend your farm from waves of enemies attacking with live vegetables. Dodge, catch, and use their own projectiles against them to survive. Uncover the conspiracy driving their revenge—a secret they don't even know themselves.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Earl vs. the Mutants at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Earl vs. the Mutants on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Earl vs. the Mutants.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Earl vs. the Mutants on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Earl vs. the Mutants.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Earl vs. the Mutants on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Earl vs. the Mutants.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Earl vs. the Mutants on Steam right now. Shares Action with Earl vs. the Mutants.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Earl vs. the Mutants on Steam right now. Shares Action with Earl vs. the Mutants.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
TYRONE vs COPS
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Earl vs. the Mutants on Steam right now. Shares Action with Earl vs. the Mutants.
Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.
Orbt XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Earl vs. the Mutants on Steam right now. Shares Action with Earl vs. the Mutants.
Defy gravity in Orbt XL! A fast-paced, addictive, 'just-one-more-round' arcade score chaser. Stay in orbit, dodge obstacles, and rack up points, the closer you are to the black hole, the higher your score! Easy to learn, tough to master, and perfect for quick play sessions while waiting in queue.
Landlord of the Woods
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Earl vs. the Mutants on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Earl vs. the Mutants.
You're 25, you feel like all of your peers are ahead of you in life so you apply for a new job to try to find some sort of meaning. Your new career is filled with physics-based puzzles, hand drawn art & a cute little story.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Earl vs. the Mutants.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Earl vs. the Mutants.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Earl vs. the Mutants.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Earl vs. the Mutants.
A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!
Waves
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Earl vs. the Mutants.
Waves is an Arcade Twin-Stick Shooter that's all about High Scores. Build your combo and drop bombs in pursuit of Leaderboard dominance over seven game-modes!
Wires And Whiskers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Earl vs. the Mutants.
Wires and Whiskers is a local co-op action-puzzle game where two players control a lab-engineered gerbil and its magnetic exosuit. Work together to fight mutated enemies, solve magnetic puzzles, and survive in a ruined, post-apocalyptic trench world.
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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.
TROUBLE JUICE
WHY THIS
Shares twin stick shooting and a whimsical mood with Earl vs. the Mutants.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Earl vs. the Mutants.
Trouble Juice is a Side Scrolling Shooter Roguelike set in a TV show tournament that is broadcasted across the universe. Use your character's special abilities, and unlock prizes in the Achievement Bingo. Become the ultimate champion and earn your place in the galaxy's hall of fame!
Shape Shifter: Formations
WHY THIS
Shares meta progression and an intense mood with Earl vs. the Mutants.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and RPG with Earl vs. the Mutants.
Shape Shifter: Formations is an action twin-stick shooter with rogue-lite elements, where you must destroy hordes of geometric enemies alone or with a friend. Select your ship and combine a large variety of weapons, abilities and infinitely stacking upgrades to craft your own unique build.
Crafty Survivors
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Earl vs. the Mutants.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Earl vs. the Mutants.
All heroes got corrupted! Unlock a diverse cast of crafty professionals, use their unique skills, create your own builds and defend your home by eliminating hordes of monsters. Gather materials, rebuild your village and craft your way to the origin of this malignous curse!
Destropolis
WHY THIS
Shares weapon upgrades and an intense mood with Earl vs. the Mutants.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and RPG with Earl vs. the Mutants.
Destropolis is a top-down shooter game with a fully destructible environment, hundreds of enemies and nuclear explosions. Fight a countless swarm of enemies. Tear them to pieces with bullets, lasers and explosions. Destroy as many of them as you can before they overwhelm you...
Frequently asked about Earl vs. the Mutants
- Is Earl vs. the Mutants verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Earl vs. the Mutants 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 Earl vs. the Mutants cost?
- Earl vs. the Mutants is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Earl vs. the Mutants?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Earl vs. the Mutants are No Space For All, Dragon Kings, TROUBLE JUICE.
- Who developed Earl vs. the Mutants?
- Earl vs. the Mutants was developed by Falling State Inc..
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