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Games like Shelf Life

If Shelf Life is your kind of game, the closest matches are Shelf Life 2, Devinica and Future? No Thanks! — 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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About Shelf Life: Shelf Life is an action FPS set in a near future conglomerate, that will seem eerily familiar if you spend your time around online dumpster fires. Use your arsenal of weapons to shoot, burn and fungible-ize your way through the Edison facility fighting a lizardy hostile takeover.

2024ActionIndieAdventureFree To PlayFree to playWindowsby Bongwater Productions
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Players who liked Shelf Life also play

Steam players who put hours into Shelf Life 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. Shelf Life 2

    WHY THIS

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

    Shelf Life 2 is an action fps set in a world where the global elite are struggling to maintain a united front, after a financiers suspicious death you set out to protect your trillionaire patron from exposure. Traveling to more varied locations and wielding newer weirder weapons, business continues.

    ActionIndieSteam ↗
  2. Devinica

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Shelf Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shelf Life.

    A corporate artificial intelligence simulator.

    2023ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Future? No Thanks!

    WHY THIS

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

    Future? No Thanks! is a narrative-driven, open-world adventure set in an ecosocialist utopia. You're old, bitter, and scheduled for euthanasia. Enjoy your last day in a future that works for everyone but you.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  4. Deus Ex: The Fall

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Shelf Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Shelf Life.

    Deus Ex: The Fall is set in 2027– a golden era for science, technology and human augmentation, but also a time of great social divide and global conspiracy. Powerful corporations have seized control from governments and command the drug supply needed by augmented humans to survive.

    2014ActionAdventureRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. USAC: Code Breach

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Shelf Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shelf Life.

    USAC: Code Breach™ is a unique coop experience set in a cyberpunk universe. As a special police unit, you and your partner are called in to investigate the unexpected shutdown of a high-tech research facility. Between reflection and action, you must survive a situation that is beyond you.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Cruelty Squad

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Shelf Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shelf Life.

    An immersive power fantasy simulator with tactical stealth elements set in a sewage infused garbage world

    2021ActionIndieSimulation19.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Antro

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Shelf Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shelf Life.

    ANTRO. The underground revolution. Join Nittch and Los Discordantes in the race to overthrow La Cúpula. In this rhythm, action, puzzle and 2.5D platforming game, music will be your ally!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. The American Dream

    WHY THIS

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

    Look down the barrel of a future where all your everyday needs are solved with guns.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Shelf Life

Is Shelf Life free to play?
Yes — Shelf Life is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
What games are most similar to Shelf Life?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shelf Life are Shelf Life 2, Devinica, Future? No Thanks!.
Who developed Shelf Life?
Shelf Life was developed by Bongwater Productions.

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 Shelf Life.

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