Games like KARNAL
If KARNAL is your kind of game, the closest matches are Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem, DUSK and CULTIC — 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 KARNAL: A short atmospheric FPS experience. Escape confinement, return to your wife, and kill anything that stands in your path.
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Steam players who put hours into KARNAL 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.
Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem
WHY THIS
Top pick for KARNAL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with KARNAL.
Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem is a new stand-alone expansion to the world of the classic FPS series. Join the fight against Notorious Mental on a journey through the wild lands of Russia, and find your way through this lost chapter of Sam Stone's adventures.
DUSK
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for KARNAL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with KARNAL.
Battle through an onslaught of mystical backwater cultists, possessed militants & even darker forces as you attempt to discover just what lurks beneath the Earth in this retro FPS inspired by the '90s legends.
CULTIC
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for KARNAL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with KARNAL.
Death is only the beginning. Crawl from your grave and gear up to fight your way through the ranks of a mysterious and twisted cult. You, your guns, and your dynamite will have to shoot, slide, blast, duck, dodge, and maybe throw a gib or two to survive in this old-school-inspired shooter.
STAR WARS™: Dark Forces Remaster
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for KARNAL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with KARNAL.
The evil Empire is currently creating a doomsday army behind a veil of secrecy. However, they are no match for the Rebel Alliance's covert operations division. Your mission is to infiltrate the Empire and put an end to their plans for terror and domination.
Anomalous
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for KARNAL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with KARNAL.
A SHORT and sweet pixelated low fidelity 90s throwback hyper-fast action shooter. Survive and fight through a city overrun with manufactured monstrosities, biomass horrors, and a military authority trying to purge everything living. Heavy metal / techno soundtrack featuring BOD Music
WRATH: Aeon of Ruin
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for KARNAL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with KARNAL.
Blast, slice and shred through your enemies in this hardcore FPS inspired by the icons of the '90s, powered by the legendary Quake-1 Tech. Taking place in a realm left to rot, take up arms, unearth long-forgotten secrets and hunt down the Guardians of the Old World.
REVEREND
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for KARNAL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with KARNAL.
A retro first-person shooter inspired by Blood, Duke Nukem 3D, and Rise of the Triad. REVEREND is a dark, twisted tale with religious undertones, terrifying creature designs and one hell of a personality.
DEAD TRASH
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for KARNAL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with KARNAL.
Years into a brutal lockdown, a once-thriving city lies in ruins, abandoned by its government and overrun by vicious, mindless infected. Grab your hammer, collect your nerves and enter the mayhem.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below KARNAL at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under KARNAL on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with KARNAL.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under KARNAL on Steam right now. Shares Indie with KARNAL.
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.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under KARNAL on Steam right now. Shares Action with KARNAL.
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.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under KARNAL on Steam right now. Shares Indie with KARNAL.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under KARNAL on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with KARNAL.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under KARNAL on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with KARNAL.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under KARNAL on Steam right now. Shares Indie with KARNAL.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
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 KARNAL.
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 KARNAL.
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 KARNAL.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with KARNAL.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 KARNAL.
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. Shares Indie with KARNAL.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with KARNAL.
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.).
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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.
DUSK
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with KARNAL.
Battle through an onslaught of mystical backwater cultists, possessed militants & even darker forces as you attempt to discover just what lurks beneath the Earth in this retro FPS inspired by the '90s legends.
CULTIC
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with KARNAL.
Death is only the beginning. Crawl from your grave and gear up to fight your way through the ranks of a mysterious and twisted cult. You, your guns, and your dynamite will have to shoot, slide, blast, duck, dodge, and maybe throw a gib or two to survive in this old-school-inspired shooter.
STAR WARS™: Dark Forces Remaster
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with KARNAL.
The evil Empire is currently creating a doomsday army behind a veil of secrecy. However, they are no match for the Rebel Alliance's covert operations division. Your mission is to infiltrate the Empire and put an end to their plans for terror and domination.
WRATH: Aeon of Ruin
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with KARNAL.
Blast, slice and shred through your enemies in this hardcore FPS inspired by the icons of the '90s, powered by the legendary Quake-1 Tech. Taking place in a realm left to rot, take up arms, unearth long-forgotten secrets and hunt down the Guardians of the Old World.
Frequently asked about KARNAL
- How much does KARNAL cost?
- KARNAL is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to KARNAL?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside KARNAL are Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem, DUSK, CULTIC.
- Who developed KARNAL?
- KARNAL was developed by George Horia Andrei.
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 KARNAL.
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