Games like Pulstar
If Pulstar is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rainbow Laser Disco Dungeon, Cerberus: Orbital watch and Xatrom Command — 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 Pulstar: Pulstar is a fast paced arcade game that brings back the basic of its genre. No nonsense, just kill as long as you can to gain the highest score as possible! This concept gives Pulstar the challenge and high replay value real fans of this genre need!
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Steam players who put hours into Pulstar 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.
Rainbow Laser Disco Dungeon
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Top pick for Pulstar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pulstar.
It is the year 2084. Earth is ruled by evil robots. All music has been outlawed. Dancing is strictly forbidden. Still, in the underground, the beat goes on. Rainbow Laser Disco Dungeon: Half twin stick shooter, half rhythm game, half dungeon crawler. 150% groovy!
Cerberus: Orbital watch
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Second-strongest match for Pulstar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pulstar.
Get ready for classic top down space shooter gameplay! In near future scientists detected allien signals, you need to find out their nature.
Xatrom Command
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Third-strongest match for Pulstar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pulstar.
Team up and shoot down waves of invading aliens. Single player or multiplayer top-down shooting action
DEFLEKT
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Ranked #4 for Pulstar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pulstar.
Deflect, don't dodge. DEFLEKT is a neon arena shooter where every bullet fired at you is a weapon you can steal - catch it and send it back. Fight through 15 handcrafted arenas and 15 unique bosses, solo or in local co-op and versus, with three switchable soundtracks that match your mood.
Nex Machina
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Ranked #5 for Pulstar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pulstar.
Nex Machina is an intense arcade style twin-stick shooter from Housemarque. Taking hints from both Robotron and Smash TV, Nex Machina focuses on pure action, voxel destruction and competition in the distant, cablepunk themed future.
Bartlow's Dread Machine
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Ranked #6 for Pulstar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Pulstar.
An artifact from the past returns in Bartlow's Dread Machine, a game from the dawn of the Electric Age. Dread Machine is a dual stick arcade shooter with single player and couch co-op modes, six scintillating game worlds and a cast of improbable monsters and characters.
Assault Android Cactus+
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Ranked #7 for Pulstar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pulstar.
Assault Android Cactus is an intense arcade style twin stick shooter - pick from one of nine unique synthetic heroines and blast your way through overwhelming robots hordes to save the ship from its own workforce. Supports single player and local co-op game modes.
Alien Breed: Impact
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Ranked #8 for Pulstar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Pulstar.
Experience the explosive science fiction arcade-shooter that resurrects a much revered franchise in an epic single player and co-op multiplayer campaign.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Pulstar.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Pulstar.
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 Pulstar.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Pulstar.
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 with Pulstar.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pulstar.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Pulstar
- Does Pulstar have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Pulstar supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player).
- What games are most similar to Pulstar?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Pulstar are Rainbow Laser Disco Dungeon, Cerberus: Orbital watch, Xatrom Command.
- Who developed Pulstar?
- Pulstar was developed by Concave Studio, Colorful Media, Emagica and published by Indietopia Games .
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