Games like Gung Beetle
If Gung Beetle is your kind of game, the closest matches are Tankron, Kill the Reaper and Genome Guardian 2 — 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 Gung Beetle: Gung Beetle is a twin-stick action roguelike where you play as Rollo, a dung beetle just trying to protect his ball by covering it in as much firepower as possible, swap and upgrade the parts in your guns to create insane and devastating combos, and decimate the ant menace.
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Steam players who put hours into Gung Beetle 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.
Tankron
WHY THIS
Top pick for Gung Beetle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gung Beetle.
Tankron is a top-down wave survival roguelike in which you fight an ever-increasing amount and variety of enemies. Choose from a variety of upgrades to stand a chance. Discover and choose between different tank specializations to enhance your Build.
Kill the Reaper
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Gung Beetle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gung Beetle.
Grim Reaper's perfect vacations was interrupted. Zombies wants revenge and now all hell breaks loose. Hold back armies of the dead and find out, how long does it take to Kill the Reaper?
Genome Guardian 2
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Gung Beetle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gung Beetle.
COMBINE WEAPONS in the microscopic shooter with macroscopic depth. BUILD YOUR NANOBOT from hundreds of parts. SURVIVE the microbial onslaught once more in this psychedelic dive to the Abyss, full of mutations, minerals, anomalies and powerup polyps. SHMUP mode turns it into a vertical shoot 'em up!
Sharded World
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Ranked #4 for Gung Beetle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gung Beetle.
Sharded World is a reversed bullet hell, rogue-lite, ARPG game combining simple gameplay and great rpg progression. Each level has its own unique features and challenges. Upgradable characters, weapons and orbs. Challenges, daily quests, and leaderboards. Fight, get stronger and defeat the Lich!
NIMRODS
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Ranked #5 for Gung Beetle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gung Beetle.
Assemble a limitless arsenal in this survive-em-up roguelite shooter. As a Gun Manufacturer's testing force, your mission is simple: test the latest gun tech and scavenge alien planets. Collect insane weapon parts to invent crazy guns that slay thousands. You may not survive, but your guns will!
Maniac
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Ranked #6 for Gung Beetle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gung Beetle.
Ever just tired of it all? Ready for change? Wanna bet it all on sheer mayhem and destruction? In comes Maniac, a rogue-lite crime action game in which the world goes against you, and your insanity creates chaos!
Atomicrops
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Gung Beetle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gung Beetle.
A twin-stick, bullet-hell, roguelite where you must cultivate and defend the last farm in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Farm mutated crops, upgrade your weapons, marry townsfolk, and kill every mutant creature that tries to invade your homestead! Yee-haw!
SYNTHETIK 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Gung Beetle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gung Beetle.
SYNTHETIK 2 is a unrelenting tactical-shooter rogue-lite. Play alone or with friends. Loot powerful tech. Experience the next level in gun-play. Upgrade your androids to rival the machine gods!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Gung Beetle at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Gung Beetle on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Gung Beetle.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Gung Beetle on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Gung Beetle.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Gung Beetle on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gung Beetle.
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 Gung Beetle on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gung Beetle.
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 Gung Beetle on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gung Beetle.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Gung Beetle on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Gung Beetle.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Gung Beetle on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Gung Beetle.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Gung Beetle on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gung Beetle.
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.
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 Gung Beetle.
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.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Gung Beetle.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Gung Beetle.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Gung Beetle.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Casual with Gung Beetle.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Floating Point
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Gung Beetle.
Floating Point is a peaceful, free game about using a grappling hook to swing yourself gracefully through randomly generated spaces. The only objective is to collect points, and the only thing that increases your points is swinging swiftly, smoothly and elegantly without hitting anything.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Gung Beetle.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
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Frequently asked about Gung Beetle
- How much does Gung Beetle cost?
- Gung Beetle is listed on Steam at 6.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Gung Beetle?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Gung Beetle are Tankron, Kill the Reaper, Genome Guardian 2.
- Who developed Gung Beetle?
- Gung Beetle was developed by Secretly Ants Studios.
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 Gung Beetle.
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