Games like Alien Frontier
If Alien Frontier is your kind of game, the closest matches are Risk of Rain 2, Returnal™ and Peace Data — 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 Alien Frontier: Alien Frontier is an open world, third-person shooter roguelite. Explore, search, and mine resources in the deadly alien wilderness... assuming you can survive combat with hordes of bloodthirsty aliens. Collect loot and upgrades to become the most dangerous (and wealthy) prospector in the galaxy!
Players who liked Alien Frontier also play
Steam players who put hours into Alien Frontier 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.
Risk of Rain 2
WHY THIS
Top pick for Alien Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Alien Frontier.
Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.
Returnal™
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Alien Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Alien Frontier.
BREAK THE CYCLE Fight to survive as this award-winning third-person shooter brings Selene’s story to PC. Take on roguelike challenges. Engage enemies in bullet hell-fuelled clashes. Share your journey through Returnal™ with another player.
Peace Data
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Alien Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Alien Frontier.
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.
Toroom
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Alien Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Alien Frontier.
Toroom is a dungeon crawler roguelike-like top-down shooter, where the protagonist just wants to come back to his bedroom after waking up in a world of fantasy. Fight your way through multiple biomes, clear rooms full of enemies, get as much loot as possible and defeat the bosses in your way.
Void Scrappers
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Alien Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Alien Frontier.
Blast hordes of alien ships into junk. Collect the scrap to upgrade your ship into an unstoppable force of destruction. Unlock new characters and weapons and upgrade your stats between runs.
I Hate Running Backwards
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Alien Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Alien Frontier.
I Hate Running Backwards is a never-ending adrenaline packed shoot'em down roguelite that puts the emphasis on destruction and fighting never ending waves of enemies while time traveling through procedurally generated worlds!
Neon Abyss
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Alien Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Alien Frontier.
Neon Abyss is a frantic, roguelite action-platformer where you run ‘n’ gun your way into the Abyss. Featuring unlimited item synergies and a unique dungeon evolution system, each run diversifies the experience and every choice alters the ruleset.
Overture
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Alien Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Alien Frontier.
Overture is an action-adventure roguelike which draws heavy inspiration from hits such as Diablo, Realm of The Mad God, Zelda, and The Binding of Isaac. Explore vast randomly generated dungeons and slay hordes of cunning enemies!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Alien Frontier at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Alien Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Action with Alien Frontier.
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 ~56% under Alien Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Action with Alien Frontier.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Alien Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Alien Frontier.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Alien Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Action with Alien Frontier.
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.
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Alien Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Alien Frontier.
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...
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Alien Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Alien Frontier.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~94% under Alien Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Alien Frontier.
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 ~81% under Alien Frontier on Steam right now. Shares Action with Alien Frontier.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Alien Frontier.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Alien Frontier.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Alien Frontier.
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!
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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 Alien Frontier.
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 Alien Frontier.
A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!
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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.
Void Scrappers
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Alien Frontier.
Blast hordes of alien ships into junk. Collect the scrap to upgrade your ship into an unstoppable force of destruction. Unlock new characters and weapons and upgrade your stats between runs.
I Hate Running Backwards
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Alien Frontier.
I Hate Running Backwards is a never-ending adrenaline packed shoot'em down roguelite that puts the emphasis on destruction and fighting never ending waves of enemies while time traveling through procedurally generated worlds!
Neon Abyss
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Alien Frontier.
Neon Abyss is a frantic, roguelite action-platformer where you run ‘n’ gun your way into the Abyss. Featuring unlimited item synergies and a unique dungeon evolution system, each run diversifies the experience and every choice alters the ruleset.
Frequently asked about Alien Frontier
- How much does Alien Frontier cost?
- Alien Frontier is listed on Steam at 15.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Alien Frontier?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Alien Frontier are Risk of Rain 2, Returnal™, Peace Data.
- Who developed Alien Frontier?
- Alien Frontier was developed by After Hours Games.
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 Alien Frontier.
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