Games like Nuclear Throne
If Nuclear Throne is your kind of game, the closest matches are M.O.O.D.S., Blazing Beaks and Enter the Gungeon — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its addictive rage quit loop, deaths are learning moments and short runs feel epic. 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 →Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic action roguelite developed by Vlambeer. Players navigate procedurally generated runs as mutant survivors, combining twin-stick shooting with a mutation system that grants temporary abilities and permanent unlocks across attempts. Short burst sessions reward skill expression over grinding, and players describe runs as feeling epic despite their brevity. The crown unlock system and secret paths encourage experimentation while speedrun challenges add longevity for those pursuing mastery. Local co-op supports up to four players. The game achieved a 97% positive rating from over 9,700 Steam reviews. Reviewers highlight that Vlambeer designed weapons to rarely feel useless, and players note deaths function as learning moments rather than punitive setbacks. Verified for Steam Deck at 11.99 USD.
About Nuclear Throne: Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
Players who liked Nuclear Throne also play
Steam players who put hours into Nuclear Throne 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.
M.O.O.D.S.
WHY THIS
Top pick for Nuclear Throne fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
Grab a gun and take down hostile robots corrupted by synthetic emotions! Combine weapon modifications and wreak havoc in this roguelite shooter. Let your emotions shape combat and alter boss fights! Fight alone or join up with up to 4 players!
Blazing Beaks
WHY THIS
Shares a brutal mood with Nuclear Throne.
Second-strongest match for Nuclear Throne fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
Roguelite - where too much greediness can be fatal. A colorful world with armed birds blazing their way through piles of mutants, monsters and creepy creatures. Lots of mysteries to unravel, secrets to discover and levels to explore.
Enter the Gungeon
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Nuclear Throne.
Third-strongest match for Nuclear Throne fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
Enter the Gungeon is a bullet hell dungeon crawler following a band of misfits seeking to shoot, loot, dodge roll and table-flip their way to personal absolution by reaching the legendary Gungeon’s ultimate treasure: the gun that can kill the past.
Bounty of One
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Nuclear Throne.
Ranked #4 for Nuclear Throne fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
Fallen hero of the Wild West, you’re wanted and in disgrace! Grab your guns, survive endless hordes of bounty hunters and fight to clear your name! Bounty of One is a fast-paced casual roguelite bullet hell for 1 to 4 players. Dash, Dodge, Shoot, Repeat!
NeuroVoider
WHY THIS
Shares twin stick shooting and an intense mood with Nuclear Throne.
Ranked #5 for Nuclear Throne fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
NeuroVoider is a twin-stick shooter RPG set in a cyber futuristic world about brains shooting around evil robots with nuclear rocket launchers. Battle through the horde of vigilant robots, boost your character with the smoking remains of your victims, and defeat the master NeuroVoider.
Risk of Rain (2013)
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Nuclear Throne.
Ranked #6 for Nuclear Throne fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
Risk of Rain is an action platformer with roguelike elements. With permanent death as a primary feature, players will have to play their best to get as far as possible. Fight on a mysterious planet with randomly spawning enemies and bosses, either alone or with 3 friends in online co-op.
Mega City Force
WHY THIS
Shares twin stick shooting and an intense mood with Nuclear Throne.
Ranked #7 for Nuclear Throne fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
Retrowave Action Roguelike featuring tough agents battling crime to the electrifying music of artists like Droid Bishop, Timecop1983, and more! Choose your agent and dive into hardcore action against enemies and bosses, utilizing a vast arsenal and special abilities that will define your playstyle
Neon Chrome
WHY THIS
Shares twin stick shooting and an intense mood with Nuclear Throne.
Ranked #8 for Nuclear Throne fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
A masterful combination of top-down shooter and endless replayability with procedural levels. Blast your way through walls & enemies with guns and cybernetic abilities. Install perks from cyber chambers and upgrade your character stats after each death. Can you stop the Overseer?
Reviewers mention these as similar to Nuclear Throne
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The Binding of Isaac
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Nuclear Throne cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!
Enter the Gungeon
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Nuclear Throne.
Reviewers of Nuclear Throne cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
Enter the Gungeon is a bullet hell dungeon crawler following a band of misfits seeking to shoot, loot, dodge roll and table-flip their way to personal absolution by reaching the legendary Gungeon’s ultimate treasure: the gun that can kill the past.
Hotline Miami
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Nuclear Throne cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
Furi
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Nuclear Throne.
Reviewers of Nuclear Throne cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
The jailer is the key, kill him and you’ll be free. Fight your way free in this ultra-responsive, fast-paced sword-fighting and dual-stick shooting game.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Nuclear Throne cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Nuclear Throne.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Smash
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Nuclear Throne cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Nuclear Throne.
Click on the mouse left button to destroy the glass pyramids & push away the obstacles. Stay focused and concentrate on the path destroy every pyramid and push away obstacles coming in the path.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Nuclear Throne.
Reviewers of Nuclear Throne cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
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!
KILL KNIGHT
WHY THIS
Shares twin stick shooting and a brutal mood with Nuclear Throne.
Reviewers of Nuclear Throne cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Nuclear Throne.
KILL KNIGHT is an ultra-responsive arcade-inspired isometric action shooter. Condemned to eternal sufferance, deep within the voids of an eldritch arena, you must wield an arsenal of devastating weaponry to obliterate swarms of otherworldly horrors - and MASTER THE DEMON WITHIN.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Nuclear Throne at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Nuclear Throne on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Nuclear Throne.
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
Shares a brutal mood with Nuclear Throne.
Priced ~58% under Nuclear Throne on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
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 ~42% under Nuclear Throne on Steam right now. Shares Action with Nuclear Throne.
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.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Nuclear Throne on Steam right now. Shares Action with Nuclear Throne.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under Nuclear Throne on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Nuclear Throne.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Nuclear Throne on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Nuclear Throne.
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 ~58% under Nuclear Throne on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Nuclear Throne.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Nuclear Throne on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Nuclear Throne.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 Nuclear Throne.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Nuclear Throne.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Nuclear Throne.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Vlambeer
Other recommendable Steam games by Vlambeer, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
LUFTRAUSERS
WHY THIS
Another title from Vlambeer, the studio behind Nuclear Throne. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
The skies are aflame and the seas will overflow with wreckage in Vlambeer’s stylish arcade shooter LUFTRAUSERS! Take to the skies in customized fighter planes to battle battleships, submarines, and rival aces for glory, honor, and high scores.
Serious Sam: The Random Encounter
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Nuclear Throne.
Another title from Vlambeer, the studio behind Nuclear Throne. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
Choose your weapons and take aim at the most random Serious Sam adventure yet!
Super Crate Box
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Nuclear Throne.
Another title from Vlambeer, the studio behind Nuclear Throne. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
Vlambeer's SUPER CRATE BOX is coming to bring back the glory of the golden arcade age, when all that really mattered was getting on that high score list. Grab your baseball cap and loosen your pants, it's time to fight endless hordes of enemies and collect every weapon crate you can.
GUN GODZ
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Nuclear Throne.
Another title from Vlambeer, the studio behind Nuclear Throne. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
GUN GODZ is a first person shooter about gun, gangster rap and the rich culture of Venus. Featuring a fully Venusian soundtrack by Jukio 'KOZILEK' Kallio and a single English track with rap lyrics by Adam 'Doseone' Kidd.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Blazing Beaks
WHY THIS
Shares a brutal mood with Nuclear Throne.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
Roguelite - where too much greediness can be fatal. A colorful world with armed birds blazing their way through piles of mutants, monsters and creepy creatures. Lots of mysteries to unravel, secrets to discover and levels to explore.
Enter the Gungeon
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Nuclear Throne.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
Enter the Gungeon is a bullet hell dungeon crawler following a band of misfits seeking to shoot, loot, dodge roll and table-flip their way to personal absolution by reaching the legendary Gungeon’s ultimate treasure: the gun that can kill the past.
Bounty of One
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Nuclear Throne.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
Fallen hero of the Wild West, you’re wanted and in disgrace! Grab your guns, survive endless hordes of bounty hunters and fight to clear your name! Bounty of One is a fast-paced casual roguelite bullet hell for 1 to 4 players. Dash, Dodge, Shoot, Repeat!
Mega City Force
WHY THIS
Shares twin stick shooting and an intense mood with Nuclear Throne.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Nuclear Throne.
Retrowave Action Roguelike featuring tough agents battling crime to the electrifying music of artists like Droid Bishop, Timecop1983, and more! Choose your agent and dive into hardcore action against enemies and bosses, utilizing a vast arsenal and special abilities that will define your playstyle
Frequently asked about Nuclear Throne
- Is Nuclear Throne verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Nuclear Throne 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 Nuclear Throne cost?
- Nuclear Throne is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Nuclear Throne have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Nuclear Throne supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Nuclear Throne?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Nuclear Throne are M.O.O.D.S., Blazing Beaks, Enter the Gungeon.
- Who developed Nuclear Throne?
- Nuclear Throne was developed by Vlambeer.
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