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Games like Gimbal

If Gimbal is your kind of game, the closest matches are Galactic Asteroids Patrol, SpaceCraft Brawl and Chaos Party — 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.

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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.

2013ActionIndie14.99 USDWindowsby 8888888 LABS
Gimbal — Steam game cover
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Build ships from the framework upCustom servers easy to set upExperimentation encouraged in ship designAtmosphericChallengingContemplative

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.

  1. Galactic Asteroids Patrol

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Gimbal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gimbal.

    Modern, fast-paced, asteroid shooting frenzy!

    2020ActionIndieCasual5.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. SpaceCraft Brawl

    WHY THIS

    Shares ship customization with Gimbal.

    Second-strongest match 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!

    2026ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Chaos Party

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Gimbal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gimbal.

    Chaos Party is a fast-paced, friendship destroying party shooter set in a 2D universe. You are the equipment slot; Remnants will cling onto your sticky body. Each game provides a new opportunity to try synergies with over a hundred weapons. Have fun with friends online or offline!

    2020ActionIndieEarly Access8.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Starship Scarwolf

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Gimbal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gimbal.

    Starship Scarwolf is a 2D top-down omnidirectional shooter. As I'm a fan of vector scan games, I aimed to create an expression using only wireframe rendering. However, I couldn't achieve this with just dots and lines, so I also used fill and circle drawing functions.

    2025ActionIndie2.79 USDSteam ↗
  5. 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.

    2017ActionIndie7.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. 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.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. 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.

    2020ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Signs of Life

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Gimbal.

    Ranked #8 for Gimbal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gimbal.

    Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and hand-crafted content. You'll explore mysterious locations, Mine blocks for resources, and meet strange (and some familiar) creatures, some of which don't even want to kill you and eat your corpse.

    2014ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Gimbal at current Steam store prices.

  1. 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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. 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.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. 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.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. 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...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Gimbal on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gimbal.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gimbal.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. 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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Gimbal.

    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.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. 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.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Gimbal.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. 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.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. 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.

    2023SimulationFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

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 Galactic Asteroids Patrol, SpaceCraft Brawl, Chaos Party.
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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