Games like What's Outside
If What's Outside is your kind of game, the closest matches are Space War: Infinity, AstroWings: Space War and Blast'N Bounty — 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.
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Players who liked What's Outside also play
Steam players who put hours into What's Outside 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.
Space War: Infinity
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Top pick for What's Outside fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with What's Outside.
Vertical semi-procedural shmup with upgrades, real-time enemy waves, and infinite replayability. Level up your ship, unlock 20+ weapons, defeat 5 bosses, and survive endless bullet-hell combat.
AstroWings: Space War
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for What's Outside fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with What's Outside.
"Astro Wings: Space War" is a retro style, exciting and authentic bullet hell, space shooting game.This game brings you the thrill, urgency and fantastic experience of an authentic arcade shooting game.
Blast'N Bounty
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for What's Outside fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with What's Outside.
Blast’N Bounty is a vertical scrolling shoot’em up featuring 8 stages players can tackle in the order of their choosing. Cruise through a crazy solar system in a mix of pixel art and low poly 3D with action that’s easy to learn but tough to master!
Always Surrender
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Ranked #4 for What's Outside fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with What's Outside.
Battle a never ending swarm of enemies, but be sure to surrender before you die...
CoreShot
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Ranked #5 for What's Outside fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with What's Outside.
CoreShot is a classic arcade style space shooter, where you pilot the spacecraft HonestWing to destroy the cores of evil. As you soar through enemy spacecraft, psychic pyramids, and grim castles, you will be tested against enemies with a variety of attack styles and epic boss battles. Blast away
Shooting Blaster Big Bang Boom
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Ranked #6 for What's Outside fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with What's Outside.
Are you gonna shoot? YES! Are you gonna blast? YES! Are you gonna make a big bang? YES! Are you gonna make a big boom? YES! So what do you get? Shooting Blaster Big Bang Boom! Come have some fun, it's Good Time time!
COSMIC STRIKE - The Last Sub Sector
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Ranked #7 for What's Outside fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with What's Outside.
Unleash the fury of giant capital ship combat and conquer the stars!
Blasteroids
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Ranked #8 for What's Outside fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with What's Outside.
Blast your way through waves of space debris in order to reach what is waiting for you on the other side. Find your fighting style with multiple unlockable ships in this fast paced space adventure!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below What's Outside at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~86% under What's Outside on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with What's Outside.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~57% under What's Outside on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with What's Outside.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
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Priced ~46% under What's Outside on Steam right now. Shares Indie with What's Outside.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
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Priced ~72% under What's Outside on Steam right now. Shares Indie with What's Outside.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~79% under What's Outside on Steam right now. Shares Indie with What's Outside.
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
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Priced ~86% under What's Outside on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with What's Outside.
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.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
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Priced ~57% under What's Outside on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with What's Outside.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
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Priced ~43% under What's Outside on Steam right now. Shares Indie with What's Outside.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with What's Outside.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with What's Outside.
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 What's Outside.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with What's Outside.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with What's Outside.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with What's Outside.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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Frequently asked about What's Outside
- How much does What's Outside cost?
- What's Outside is listed on Steam at 6.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to What's Outside?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside What's Outside are Space War: Infinity, AstroWings: Space War, Blast'N Bounty.
- Who developed What's Outside?
- What's Outside was developed by Redcollarwolf and published by Redcollarwolf Arts.
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 What's Outside.
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