Games like Retaliate
If Retaliate is your kind of game, the closest matches are ShapeNeon Chaos, Blast'N Bounty and Always Surrender — 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 Retaliate: You are valiant space hero who is not as fortunate as those in the golden age of scrolling shooters who had infinite ammo. Instead you must absorb your enemies' weapons and retaliate!
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ShapeNeon Chaos
WHY THIS
Top pick for Retaliate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Retaliate.
ShapeNeon Chaos is an old school style space-shooter. You are a ship facing off waves of deadly enemies. This game was made to give you a shot of adrenaline in a couple of minutes. Lots of bullets and neon in an arcade psychedelic shooter!
Blast'N Bounty
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Retaliate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Retaliate.
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
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Retaliate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Retaliate.
Battle a never ending swarm of enemies, but be sure to surrender before you die...
Astro Fighters
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Retaliate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Retaliate.
Astro Fighters is a tough old school vertical scrolling bullet hell shooter designed to test your skills with non-stop arcade style action. Fight against large bosses at the end of every level and compete for the high score across 4 difficulty modes to be the best fighter pilot in the game.
Nova Swarm
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Retaliate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Retaliate.
Pick a ship, dive into readable bullet chaos, take down huge angry bosses, grab the bonus core you probably should have left alone, and chase one cleaner run in Nova Swarm.
Heliocide
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Retaliate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Retaliate.
Heliocide is a relentless top-down scrolling action! Arm your shields, lasers, guns, bombs and missiles to defend the solar system from a massive invasion!
ActionSteam ↗Stratogun
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Retaliate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Retaliate.
An ultra-fast arcade space shooter where every split second counts. Fight through endless swarms of enemies, upgrade your ship, and conquer the deadly Red Orbit or be consumed by it.
Space War: Infinity
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Retaliate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Retaliate.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Retaliate at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Retaliate on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Retaliate.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Retaliate on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Retaliate.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Retaliate on Steam right now. Shares Action with Retaliate.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Retaliate on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Retaliate.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Retaliate on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Retaliate.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Retaliate on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Retaliate.
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 ~70% under Retaliate on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Retaliate.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Retaliate on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Retaliate.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Retaliate.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Retaliate.
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 Retaliate.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Retaliate.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Retaliate.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Retaliate.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Retaliate.
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!
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Frequently asked about Retaliate
- How much does Retaliate cost?
- Retaliate is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Retaliate?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Retaliate are ShapeNeon Chaos, Blast'N Bounty, Always Surrender.
- Who developed Retaliate?
- Retaliate was developed by Romans I XVI Gaming.
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 Retaliate.
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