Games like Physical Layer
If Physical Layer is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cosmo Player Z, PolyBoost and Crystal Breaker — 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 Physical Layer: Physical Layer is a stylish, top-down shooter with cute, gun-toting characters. Utilize three powerful abilities to overcome a total of 240 stages, filled with a variety of enemies and challenges.
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Cosmo Player Z
WHY THIS
Top pick for Physical Layer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Physical Layer.
A Sci-Fi action game for a single player bringing you to fight rebellions, level up your character and choose new skills, dress up your character in the epic space wars.
PolyBoost
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Physical Layer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Physical Layer.
Do you like a challenge? We offer you one! 100 handcrafted levels where you can prove your skills. Will you be the fastest? Test your skills against all other players with our global leaderboards.
Crystal Breaker
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Physical Layer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Physical Layer.
Shoot the enemy at close range! Crystal Breaker is a vertically scrolling shmup that focuses on close range attack.
Haneda Girl
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Physical Layer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Physical Layer.
Haneda Girl is an action-platformer game with brutal and frantic action. Clean stages swapping between two playable characters. Bullets or Slashes, your choice, but be creative. A wide variety of ways to solve each encounter are at your disposal. Dance the waltz of destruction, end the threat.
CosmoDreamer
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Physical Layer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Physical Layer.
From the popular free game "Outside" comes a dreamy and cute barrage shmups. The visuals are colorful, cute and fantastic, and the game features active gameplay.
Gel-Tank
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Physical Layer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Physical Layer.
Casual but profound! Simple, authentic 16-bit 2D style that will satisfy everyone from beginners to experts The action shooter is here! Dive into the soft and hard world of the ultimate 16-bit world, down to the resolution! Ugh!
COGEN: Sword of Rewind / COGEN: 大鳥こはくと刻の剣
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Physical Layer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Physical Layer.
Rewind, rethink, redo. COGEN is a brand-new kind of 2D action game where there's no time for death.
Vox Machinae
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Physical Layer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Physical Layer.
Strap yourself into the cockpit of a robot seven times taller than a Tyrannosaurus Rex and prepare to do battle in Vox Machinae: the ultimate giant robot combat action-simulator for both VR and standard screens.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Physical Layer at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Physical Layer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Physical Layer.
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 ~44% under Physical Layer on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Physical Layer.
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 ~50% under Physical Layer on Steam right now. Shares Action with Physical Layer.
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 ~44% under Physical Layer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Physical Layer.
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 ~44% under Physical Layer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Physical Layer.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under Physical Layer on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Physical Layer.
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 ~67% under Physical Layer on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Physical Layer.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Physical Layer on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Physical Layer.
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.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Physical Layer.
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 with Physical Layer.
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 Physical Layer.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Physical Layer.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Physical Layer.
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 Physical Layer.
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 Physical Layer.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Cosmo Player Z
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Physical Layer.
A Sci-Fi action game for a single player bringing you to fight rebellions, level up your character and choose new skills, dress up your character in the epic space wars.
COGEN: Sword of Rewind / COGEN: 大鳥こはくと刻の剣
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Physical Layer.
Rewind, rethink, redo. COGEN is a brand-new kind of 2D action game where there's no time for death.
Vox Machinae
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Physical Layer.
Strap yourself into the cockpit of a robot seven times taller than a Tyrannosaurus Rex and prepare to do battle in Vox Machinae: the ultimate giant robot combat action-simulator for both VR and standard screens.
Frequently asked about Physical Layer
- How much does Physical Layer cost?
- Physical Layer is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Physical Layer?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Physical Layer are Cosmo Player Z, PolyBoost, Crystal Breaker.
- Who developed Physical Layer?
- Physical Layer was developed by RaStar Studio and published by Phoenixx Inc..
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 Physical Layer.
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