Games like Redshirt
If Redshirt is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rotted - A Brain Rot Simulator, Age Of GoldFarmers and A Serene Trip — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, comedic and contemplative. 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.
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Rotted - A Brain Rot Simulator
WHY THIS
Top pick for Redshirt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Redshirt.
The economy is gone, but your bills aren't. Scroll the feed to earn your survival from Potatron, a rogue potato AI harvesting your attention to build a robot army. Swat roaches, fight your dying battery, and stack quirky powerups in this addictive dark-comedy survival roguelite. Free demo live now.
Age Of GoldFarmers
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Redshirt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Redshirt.
Age of Gold Farmers is a black comedy sim about a NEET youth surviving on in-game currency. After failing at life, he discovers "gold farming." Grind for items, track market prices, and grow your channel—all while dodging your parents' glares and managing your health.
A Serene Trip
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Redshirt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Redshirt.
A fantasy sci-fi strategy visual novel, A Serene Trip takes you on a treacherous journey across space. You will need all of your wits and careful management of Adelaide's skills to survive to see your home again.
G.O.P.O.T.A 2
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Ranked #4 for Redshirt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Redshirt.
Don't you keep the kid's word?!
Reigns
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Redshirt.
Ranked #5 for Redshirt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Redshirt.
Sit on the throne as a benevolent (or malevolent) medieval monarch of the modern age and swipe your royal controller either left or right to impose your will upon the kingdom.
60 Parsecs!
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Redshirt.
Ranked #6 for Redshirt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Redshirt.
60 Parsecs! is an Atomic Space Age adventure of scavenge and survival. Keep your crew alive and ready for action. Make difficult choices, face soup shortages and other horrors of outer space. And maybe reach your destination. Or not.
PowerSimulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Redshirt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Redshirt.
Do you want to be a upright official or corrupt officials？Choose your choice,Reaching the pinnacle of power.
G.O.P.O.T.A
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Redshirt.
Ranked #8 for Redshirt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Redshirt.
And you're a chubby guy?
Reviewers mention these as similar to Redshirt
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Magical Diary: Horse Hall
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Redshirt cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Redshirt.
You have been invited to attend a magical school. You can make new friends, learn spells, face exams, run for class office, and try to find a date for the May Day Ball.
Papers, Please
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Redshirt cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Redshirt.
Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.
Long Live The Queen
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Redshirt.
Reviewers of Redshirt cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Redshirt.
Rule the world or die trying!Being a Princess is not an easy job. Being a Queen is even harder. Especially when you're only fourteen years old, and the reason you've inherited the throne is that your royal mother has just met an untimely end.Now power is up for grabs.
Princess Maker 2 Refine
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Redshirt.
Reviewers of Redshirt cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Redshirt.
Princess Maker 2 Refine is a life simulation game which you play as a father of a girl, who had descended from the star. You have 8 years to raise your daughter from age 10 to 18 – your daughter will grow into her adulthood through various experiences.
The Sims™ 4
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Redshirt.
Reviewers of Redshirt cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Redshirt.
Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.
Kudos 2
WHY THIS
Shares career progression and a contemplative mood with Redshirt.
Reviewers of Redshirt cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Redshirt.
Kudos is a turn-based game that puts you in control of a single character and manages their life from age 20 to 30. You get to pick their friends, their job, and how they spend their free time, but there is a catch! You can only choose to do one thing each day, or two at the weekends.
Space Quest™ Collection
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Redshirt.
Reviewers of Redshirt cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Experience a blast from the past with the complete, completely twisted Space Quest Collection.
The Sims™ Legacy Collection
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Redshirt.
Reviewers of Redshirt cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Redshirt.
The original game you know and love. For Windows 10/11. Create a neighborhood of Sims and guide their lives through careers and romance. Or create chaos with open-ended gameplay that lets you shape their destinies.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Redshirt at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Redshirt on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Redshirt.
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
Priced ~50% under Redshirt on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Redshirt.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Redshirt on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Redshirt.
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 ~50% under Redshirt on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Redshirt.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Redshirt on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Redshirt.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Redshirt on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Redshirt.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Redshirt on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Redshirt.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Redshirt on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Redshirt.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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.
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 Indie with Redshirt.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Redshirt.
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 Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Redshirt.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Redshirt.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Redshirt.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Redshirt.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Frequently asked about Redshirt
- How much does Redshirt cost?
- Redshirt is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Redshirt?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Redshirt are Rotted - A Brain Rot Simulator, Age Of GoldFarmers, A Serene Trip.
- Who developed Redshirt?
- Redshirt was developed by The Tiniest Shark and published by Positech.
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