Games like Gimbal
If Gimbal is your kind of game, the closest matches are Strike Wings, Galactic Asteroids Patrol and Cosmara — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging 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.
Get personalized picks →About Gimbal: Gimbal is the multiplayer shooter with buildable vehicles. Customize your weaponry, engines, and accessories, and then take to the skies against other pilots in real time.
Players who liked Gimbal also play
Steam players who put hours into Gimbal 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.
Strike Wings
WHY THIS
Top pick for Gimbal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gimbal.
A top-down modernized retro space combat epic. Choose from over fifty warships and be part of massive fleet actions with hundreds of ships on the field. Fly for Earth's church-state or the Martian forge that armed it. Play solo, in split-screen co-op, or in max 24-pilot online attrition battles.
Galactic Asteroids Patrol
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Gimbal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gimbal.
Modern, fast-paced, asteroid shooting frenzy!
Cosmara
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Gimbal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Gimbal.
COSMARA is a unique blend between Tactical and Action gameplay. Create the perfect ship loadout for each mission and take to the void as you fight other player captains in PVP or take on the AI Armada in either solo or co-op.
ActionSteam ↗SpaceCraft Brawl
WHY THIS
Shares ship customization with Gimbal.
Ranked #4 for Gimbal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gimbal.
Build spacecrafts and fight with or against your friends! This game offers physics driven gameplay, with a variety of weapons and powerups. Slice your enemies in half with a laser beam, or erase them from existence with a black hole bomb!
Scrap Galaxy
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Gimbal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gimbal.
Scrap Galaxy is a local build-and-destroy deathmatch game for up to 4 players. It is a 2D top-down shooter taking place out in space in a galactic junkyard. In this setting, the players are trying to survive by constructing space ships.
Trailmakers
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Gimbal.
Ranked #6 for Gimbal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gimbal.
Build the ultimate vehicle and explore a vast open world filled with challenges and adventure. Play solo or team up with friends in multiplayer to conquer the toughest obstacles. With a thrilling campaign mode and endless creative possibilities, Trailmakers is the ultimate sandbox for adventurers.
Retrograde Arena
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Gimbal.
Ranked #7 for Gimbal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gimbal.
Retrograde Arena is a multiplayer twin stick shooter where bullets don’t kill. Use weapons, physics, and your Drone to push, pull, and blast your foes into deadly surroundings in this skill-based shooter action title that redefines physics-based action.
Space Engineers
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Gimbal.
Ranked #8 for Gimbal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gimbal.
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Gimbal at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Gimbal on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gimbal.
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 ~67% under Gimbal on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Gimbal.
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 ~53% under Gimbal on Steam right now. Shares Action with Gimbal.
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.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Gimbal on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Gimbal.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Gimbal on Steam right now. Shares Action with Gimbal.
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 ~58% under Gimbal on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gimbal.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Gimbal on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gimbal.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Gimbal on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Gimbal.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
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. Shares Indie with Gimbal.
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?
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 Gimbal.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Gimbal.
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.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Gimbal.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
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Frequently asked about Gimbal
- How much does Gimbal cost?
- Gimbal is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Gimbal have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Gimbal supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, LAN PvP).
- What games are most similar to Gimbal?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Gimbal are Strike Wings, Galactic Asteroids Patrol, Cosmara.
- Who developed Gimbal?
- Gimbal was developed by 8888888 LABS.
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 Gimbal.
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