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Games like Danmaku Fighters

If Danmaku Fighters is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sepak U - Sports Fighting Game, Blueblood Arena and Flame Up — 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 Danmaku Fighters: 《Danmaku Fighters》is a new feeling, fast-paced 2D bullet-hell fighting game. Choose your favorite character, and fight against other players in online play!

2026ActionIndieEarly Access11.69 USDWindowsby Baby Bear Fish
Danmaku Fighters — Steam game cover

Players who liked Danmaku Fighters also play

Steam players who put hours into Danmaku Fighters 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. Sepak U - Sports Fighting Game

    WHY THIS

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

    Smash-Like Volleyball - Fighting Game meets Volleyball and Football with 1-4 players, 21 characters, 21 arenas, with over 10 hours of solo/co-op content, minigames, and epic boss battles. Based on Sepak Takraw, a cultural Asian sport.

    2027ActionSportsIndieSteam ↗
  2. Blueblood Arena

    WHY THIS

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

    Simple controls, premium gameplay! Blueblood Arena features a variety of characters with wildly different playstyles, with a free-flowing combo structure where anything is possible!

    2026ActionIndieEarly Access6.74 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Flame Up

    WHY THIS

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

    Flame Up is a simplistic fighting game with no jumping, no blocking, no health, and no fuss, only you and your neutral. Featuring easy to learn systems, intuitive controls, and ROLLBACK NETCODE.

    ActionSportsIndieSteam ↗
  4. Bounce 2

    WHY THIS

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

    Bounce 2, the 1-4 player PONG killer, built with the warmth and comfort of 2D analog graphics, and the cold precision of modern computing and networking. Challenge your friends, together or online, in the Bounce Arena.

    2026ActionSportsIndie8.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. The Amazing Crackpots Club!

    WHY THIS

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

    A spellslinging dueling game for up to 4 players. Choose among seven cracked mages and use their unique abilities to shoot down your opponent’s magical flask while defending yours! Destroy your friends (and loved ones) in local or online modes!

    2026ActionSportsIndie14.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Thumps & Blows

    WHY THIS

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

    Chaos and fun are guaranteed in this two-player fighting game! Pick your stickman, master ridiculous techniques and humiliate your friends. An easy-to-learn yet hard to master game.

    2026ActionIndieCasualSteam ↗
  7. Duelists of Eden

    WHY THIS

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

    Build a deck and battle online in real-time action with rollback netcode!

    2024ActionIndie4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. StudioS Fighters: Climax Champions

    WHY THIS

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

    An entire generation of StudioS characters all fighting to be #1! Fight your way to the top with satisfying and easy to execute combos! A unique retro-style game inspired by 90s era handheld fighting games!

    2022ActionIndie4.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~57% under Danmaku Fighters on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Danmaku Fighters.

    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 ~57% under Danmaku Fighters on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Danmaku Fighters.

    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 ~40% under Danmaku Fighters on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with Danmaku Fighters.

    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. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~62% under Danmaku Fighters on Steam right now. Shares Action with Danmaku Fighters.

    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 ↗
  5. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Danmaku Fighters on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Danmaku Fighters.

    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 ↗
  6. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~57% under Danmaku Fighters on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Danmaku Fighters.

    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 ↗
  7. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~57% under Danmaku Fighters on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Danmaku Fighters.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~92% under Danmaku Fighters on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Danmaku Fighters.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

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

    The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

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

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  4. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

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

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. 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 Danmaku Fighters.

    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 ↗
  6. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  7. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  8. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗

Frequently asked about Danmaku Fighters

How much does Danmaku Fighters cost?
Danmaku Fighters is listed on Steam at 11.69 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Danmaku Fighters have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Danmaku Fighters supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
What games are most similar to Danmaku Fighters?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Danmaku Fighters are Sepak U - Sports Fighting Game, Blueblood Arena, Flame Up.
Who developed Danmaku Fighters?
Danmaku Fighters was developed by Baby Bear Fish.

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 Danmaku Fighters.

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