Games like Paper Plane
If Paper Plane is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Galaxy Rider, Rasant and Retrowave Universe — 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 Paper Plane: "Paper Plane" is a retro style 2D shooting game with high difficulty. Graphics drawn mostly by Office Excel and sound FX made by the author's mouth.
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The Galaxy Rider
WHY THIS
Top pick for Paper Plane fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Paper Plane.
Welcome to The Galaxy Rider! Cruise the cosmos as a space taxi driver! Your mission? Get rich while carrying passengers between planets. Ready for an out-of-this-world ride?
Rasant
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Paper Plane fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Paper Plane.
With your ship, face several exciting space battles, full of shots and powerful enemies. Customize your spaceship by making it more and more powerful and get ready for a space trip that will make your adrenaline skyrocket!
Retrowave Universe
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Paper Plane fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Paper Plane.
Let the Retrowave be with you!
星界远航 Stellar Realm Voyage
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Ranked #4 for Paper Plane fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Paper Plane.
A high degree of freedom space shooting game for building spacecraft. Modular editing, building a spaceship like "building blocks". Order, branching, and inheritance of weapons, constructing weapon systems like true 'magic'. Physics based motion systems, diverse, shield, energy systems, and more.
Asteroids Belt: Try to Survive!
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Paper Plane fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Paper Plane.
Asteroids Belt is an arcade game where you have to fly through the asteroid belt in a spaceship, destroying them along the way.
ASTRO ACE
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Ranked #6 for Paper Plane fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Paper Plane.
ASTRO ACE is a retro-style addictive arcade space shooter. From the distant universe, an evil alien fleet is invading the solar system. You will have to ride a powerful spaceship and fight against endless waves of enemies.
Wolf Commando
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Paper Plane fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Paper Plane.
An explosive 80s-inspired top-down military shooter where skill, guts, and firepower decide everything. Choose your route and fight for the highest score.
ActionSteam ↗Redline Protocol
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Paper Plane fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Paper Plane.
Redline Protocol is a fast modern-retro helicopter combat game built around low-altitude attacks, tactical objectives, wrap-around battlefields, and escalating chaos.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Paper Plane at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Paper Plane on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Paper Plane.
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?
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Paper Plane on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Paper Plane.
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.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Paper Plane on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Paper Plane.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
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Priced ~50% under Paper Plane on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Paper Plane.
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
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Priced ~50% under Paper Plane on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Paper Plane.
"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!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Paper Plane on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Paper Plane.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
Bejeweled® 3
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Paper Plane on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Paper Plane.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
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 Paper Plane.
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.
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 Paper Plane.
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 Paper Plane.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Paper Plane.
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 and Indie with Paper Plane.
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.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Paper Plane.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Paper Plane.
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!
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Frequently asked about Paper Plane
- How much does Paper Plane cost?
- Paper Plane is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Paper Plane?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Paper Plane are The Galaxy Rider, Rasant, Retrowave Universe.
- Who developed Paper Plane?
- Paper Plane was developed by Headbang Studio.
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 Paper Plane.
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