Games like Chickenauts
Below are 32 hand-picked alternatives to Chickenauts for fans of action, indie, early access, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Chickenauts also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, cheaper alternatives, free-to-play picks, more from SneakyBox. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About Chickenauts: Chickenauts is a companion based, action roguelite game where you battle evil Alien Chickens who've abducted your beloved flock. Free and mutate your chickens to defeat a myriad of foes, explore various spaceship environments and unravel secrets of the Chickens from outer space!
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Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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Loki's Revenge
Top pick for Chickenauts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Chickenauts.
Loki’s Revenge is a survivors-like roguelite where you play as Norse gods fighting Loki’s army of monsters! Level up to gain powerful upgrades and explore hand-crafted maps to find secrets. Build the ultimate overpowered god with permanent upgrades and master each god’s signature ability.
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Hover Point
Second-strongest match for Chickenauts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Chickenauts.
Hover Point is a physics-based rogue-lite bullet hell where movement is your weapon. Dodge chaotic swarms with auto-fire action, build your skill tree, and climb global leaderboards. Master the chaos solo or in co-op via mouse-only, keyboard-only, or controller-only playstyles.
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Compadrone: Land Wars
Third-strongest match for Chickenauts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Chickenauts.
In this fast-paced roguelite arena shooter with tower-defense twists, control a drone capable of wielding multiple weapons and fight hordes of alien warbots. Collect resources and XP to unlock new weapons, towers, abilities, and drones.
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Supre-Immune
Ranked #4 for Chickenauts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Chickenauts.
Join a roguelike action where cute immune cells battle viruses. Collect data in fast-paced combat, gain weapons and abilities through evolution, or level up to grow stronger. The fun of building your own super immune cell with different combinations each run is up to you!
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Arms of God
Ranked #5 for Chickenauts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Chickenauts.
Gear up for a battle through hell in this Roguelite Bullet Heaven Arena Autoshooter with Doom-inspired gore vibes, metal music, and a satisfying combat feel. Wield five weapons at once, upgrade and merge them to forge indestructible builds, and bring divine justice to a world on the brink of chaos.
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Mighty X Arms
Ranked #6 for Chickenauts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Chickenauts.
Mighty X Arms is a roguelike survivor inspired by Brotato, featuring collectible weapon-creatures called Arms. Build your loadout, upgrade them, and mow down enemy swarms to survive.
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BALL x PIT
Ranked #7 for Chickenauts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Chickenauts.
BALL x PIT is a brick-breaking, ball-fusing, base-building survival roguelite. Batter hordes of enemies with ricocheting balls and gather the riches of the pit to expand your homestead, generate resources and recruit unique heroes.
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Forecast Death
Ranked #8 for Chickenauts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Chickenauts.
Survive the chaos of a bullet-heaven action game. Tear through enemy hordes, stack wild ability combos, and endure cataclysms that rewrite the rules mid-fight. The pace ramps up every minute - either you grow stronger, or you get wiped out.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Chickenauts at current Steam store prices.
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POSTAL 2
Priced ~83% under Chickenauts on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Chickenauts.
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?
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Buckshot Roulette
Priced ~50% under Chickenauts on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Chickenauts.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
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The Test
Priced ~67% under Chickenauts on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chickenauts.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
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Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
Priced ~75% under Chickenauts on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chickenauts.
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.
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Blood and Bacon
Priced ~83% under Chickenauts on Steam right now. Shares Action with Chickenauts.
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.
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Crypt of the NecroDancer
Priced ~50% under Chickenauts on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Chickenauts.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
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Super Hexagon
Priced ~50% under Chickenauts on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Chickenauts.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
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Nodebuster
Priced ~50% under Chickenauts on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Chickenauts.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chickenauts.
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.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Chickenauts.
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.
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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Chickenauts.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chickenauts.
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?
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ENA: Dream BBQ
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chickenauts.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Chickenauts.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Chickenauts.
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.
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More from SneakyBox
Other recommendable Steam games by SneakyBox, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine - Master Crafted Edition
Another title from SneakyBox, the studio behind Chickenauts. Shares Action with Chickenauts.
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine returns. Enhanced for a new generation! Enjoy quality of life & graphical improvements that take the Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine experience to the next level.
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Centipede: Recharged
Another title from SneakyBox, the studio behind Chickenauts. Shares Action with Chickenauts.
Blast bugs and chase high scores in this glorious revival of an old-school classic, all while jamming to a heart-pounding original score by Megan McDuffee. Play solo or tag in a friend for local co-op across 30 unique challenges or the endless arcade mode.
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Goalkeeper VR Challenge
Another title from SneakyBox, the studio behind Chickenauts. Shares Action and Indie with Chickenauts.
Have you ever got frustrated with a goalkeeper? Think you could do better? Congratulations, this immersive virtual reality experience offers you a challenge. Protect the gate like a pro. You can choose a standard mode for a realistic feel, as well as many alternative-ones to goof around in.
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Asteroids: Recharged
Another title from SneakyBox, the studio behind Chickenauts. Shares Action with Chickenauts.
How long can you survive the depths of space in this fresh revival of the classic arcade shooter, all while grooving to an original score by Megan McDuffee. Pilot solo or recruit a friend for local co-op across 30 unique challenges or the endless arcade mode.
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Black Widow: Recharged
Another title from SneakyBox, the studio behind Chickenauts. Shares Action with Chickenauts.
Defend your spider web from an onslaught of bugs in this frenetic revival of the cult classic twin-stick shooter, all while jamming to an infectious original score by Megan McDuffee. Play solo or tag in a friend for local co-op across 30 unique challenges or the endless arcade mode.
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Breakout: Recharged
Another title from SneakyBox, the studio behind Chickenauts. Shares Action with Chickenauts.
The original brick breaker returns with its toughest challenge yet. Survive as long as you can in arcade or take on one of 50 challenges picking up game-changing power-ups along the way.
Frequently asked about Chickenauts
- Does Chickenauts run on Steam Deck?
- Chickenauts is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Chickenauts cost?
- Chickenauts is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Chickenauts?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Chickenauts are Loki's Revenge, Hover Point, Compadrone: Land Wars.
- Who developed Chickenauts?
- Chickenauts was developed by SneakyBox, Kautki Cave and published by Untold Tales, SneakyBox.
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 Chickenauts.
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