Games like Brain Damage
If Brain Damage is your kind of game, the closest matches are Astrum Vanguard, XenoTechArena and Gunstorm — 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 Brain Damage: Challenge your skills and push your limits in Brain Damage, the intense 2D action roguelite shooter with wave-based gameplay. With each upgrade, brain damage increases, making the game more challenging as you progress. Push the game to its limits. Can you break the game before it breaks you?
Players who liked Brain Damage also play
Steam players who put hours into Brain Damage 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.
Astrum Vanguard
WHY THIS
Top pick for Brain Damage fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Brain Damage.
In Astrum Vanguard, a 2D horde-survival with bullet hell components, you pilot and upgrade your spaceship to defeat countless alien creatures. Survive the endless onslaught in the cosmic battlefield!
XenoTechArena
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Brain Damage fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Brain Damage.
Don't kill your enemies — make them collide!! Unleash devastating chain reactions and wipe out endless hordes in this one-man-army Roguelike arena shooter. Fuse classes, collect upgrades, and build a one-of-a-kind ultimate warrior with limitless combinations.
Gunstorm
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Brain Damage fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Brain Damage.
Gunstorm is a space shooter loaded with playability. Wave after wave of alien craft attack your agile ship. Use the mouse to control your ship at the speed of thought in a perfectly balanced game that starts easy and gradually gets more difficult.
Roboom
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Brain Damage fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Brain Damage.
You should simply try out Roboom. We have quite a long description below, you can read if you like, but experiencing Roboom yourself or as Co-op is the best.
Shape Shifter: Formations
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Brain Damage fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Brain Damage.
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.
Bloodshed
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Brain Damage fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Brain Damage.
Bloodshed is a Roguelite Survivors FPS; an exhilarating fusion of Roguelite elements merged with retro-styled visuals and first-person “Survivors-like” frenetic combat action!
Time Wasters
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Brain Damage fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Brain Damage.
Time Wasters is a space shooter bullet heaven roguelite. Equip and upgrade weapons, destroy swarms of enemies, and collect Time & Space Cubes to bend the timeline to your advantage.
Pesticide Not Required
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Brain Damage fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Brain Damage.
Mow down countless crops and corrupt critters while crafting game-breaking builds! Pesticide Not Required is an action roguelite bullet heaven game with farming sim elements that offers a myriad of stats and special character traits to create wildly diverse run possibilities.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Brain Damage at current Steam store prices.
Miss Neko
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Brain Damage on Steam right now. Shares Action with Brain Damage.
Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)
QUICKERFLAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Brain Damage on Steam right now. Shares Action with Brain Damage.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Gachi Heroes
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Brain Damage on Steam right now. Shares Action with Brain Damage.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Brain Damage on Steam right now. Shares Action with Brain Damage.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
Shotgun Legend
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Priced ~51% under Brain Damage on Steam right now. Shares Action with Brain Damage.
Eugene must battle aliens and the undead in search of a truck rim, as it seems to be his ticket home.
Love wish
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Priced ~51% under Brain Damage on Steam right now. Shares Action with Brain Damage.
Love Wish is an easy, fun and challenging jigsaw puzzle.♪(^∇^*) Put the pieces together to restore the full picture of the girls. Collect their photos and animations and remember this wonderful moment❤
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 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 with Brain Damage.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Brain Damage.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Brain Damage.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Brain Damage.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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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.
Shape Shifter: Formations
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Brain Damage.
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.
Bloodshed
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Brain Damage.
Bloodshed is a Roguelite Survivors FPS; an exhilarating fusion of Roguelite elements merged with retro-styled visuals and first-person “Survivors-like” frenetic combat action!
Time Wasters
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Brain Damage.
Time Wasters is a space shooter bullet heaven roguelite. Equip and upgrade weapons, destroy swarms of enemies, and collect Time & Space Cubes to bend the timeline to your advantage.
Frequently asked about Brain Damage
- How much does Brain Damage cost?
- Brain Damage is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Brain Damage?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Brain Damage are Astrum Vanguard, XenoTechArena, Gunstorm.
- Who developed Brain Damage?
- Brain Damage was developed by Gearloose.
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 Brain Damage.
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