Games like Rex Rocket
If Rex Rocket is your kind of game, the closest matches are Environmental Station Alpha, Rebel Transmute and La-Mulana — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and retro. 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 Rex Rocket: Inspired by the retro glory days of 8-bit games, Rex Rocket is a traditional 2D platformer brought into the 21st century. Paying tribute to classic NES games like Mario, Mega Man, and Metroid, old-school platformer fans will find Rex Rocket a breath of fresh air.
Players who liked Rex Rocket also play
Steam players who put hours into Rex Rocket 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.
Environmental Station Alpha
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Rex Rocket.
Top pick for Rex Rocket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rex Rocket.
Explore an abandoned space station in this retro-themed explorative action platformer.
Rebel Transmute
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Rex Rocket.
Second-strongest match for Rex Rocket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rex Rocket.
Rebel Transmute is a challenging 2D action-platformer epic with heart! Explore the twisting caverns of an alien planet, augment your play-style to fit your strengths, battle deadly bosses, and uncover a dark truth as Moon Mikono searches for her long lost mother.
La-Mulana
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Rex Rocket.
Third-strongest match for Rex Rocket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rex Rocket.
LA-MULANA is an “Archaeological Ruin Exploration Action Game,” bringing the classic appeal of adventure with the punishing difficulty of retro-inspired gaming. Search inside ancient ruins, seeking out the “Secret Treasure of Life” – which sleeps in the sprawling ruins of “LA-MULANA” and is said to be the beginning of all civilization.
Horace
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Rex Rocket.
Ranked #4 for Rex Rocket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rex Rocket.
"The best platformer of 2019."Horace is a huge platforming adventure which pushes the boundaries of the genre with a profound story of a small robot learning of life, the universe and Douglas Adams. Made by videogame lovers for videogame lovers!
Axiom Verge
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Rex Rocket.
Ranked #5 for Rex Rocket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rex Rocket.
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
Castle In The Darkness
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Rex Rocket.
Ranked #6 for Rex Rocket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rex Rocket.
Castle In The Darkness is a fun and challenging shout out to the early days of video games! It's an action exploration platformer with some RPG elements, much like games from the Castlevania or Metroid series. It's super fast-paced, challenging, and full of secrets!
Gato Roboto
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Rex Rocket.
Ranked #7 for Rex Rocket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rex Rocket.
Pounce inside of your cozy armored mech and set off on a dangerous trek through an alien underworld full of irritable creatures and treacherous obstacles in a valiant effort to save your stranded captain and his crashed spaceship.
The Mummy Demastered
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Rex Rocket.
Ranked #8 for Rex Rocket fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Rex Rocket.
A powerful ancient evil has arisen, and the war to save humanity has begun! As an elite agent in the monster-hunting Prodigium organization, you must use a variety of weapons, upgrades, and mysterious artifacts to defend mankind against the supernatural hordes of Princess Ahmanet.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Rex Rocket
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Summum Aeterna
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Rex Rocket.
Reviewers of Rex Rocket cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Rex Rocket.
Summum Aeterna is a fast-paced Roguelite inspired by the Metroidvania Aeterna Noctis. Create your own worlds, challenges, difficulty and influences in each new run. Die, learn, become stronger, and achieve victory. Death is inevitable, but glory is only for the chosen.
Mega Man X Legacy Collection
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Rex Rocket.
Reviewers of Rex Rocket cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Rex Rocket.
Mega Man X Legacy Collection includes the legendary 16-bit titles and the series’ exciting foray into the 32-bit era: Mega Man X, Mega Man X2, Mega Man X3, and Mega Man X4. Test your skills in the new X Challenge mode, which pits players against two deadly bosses at once.
Mutant Mudds Deluxe
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Rex Rocket.
Reviewers of Rex Rocket cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Rex Rocket.
Love pixels? Fond of platformers? Is there a special place in your heart for the 8-bit and 16-bit era? Want to have fun? Yes!? Well, you’ve come to the right place, my friend. Mutant Mudds Deluxe is a “12-bit” action platformer full of pixels and platforming fun!
Super Win the Game
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Rex Rocket.
Reviewers of Rex Rocket cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Rex Rocket.
Throw on your nostalgia goggles and travel back in time with Super Win the Game, a retro-core explosion of exploration and platforming action!!
Mega Man Legacy Collection
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Rex Rocket.
Reviewers of Rex Rocket cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Rex Rocket.
Mega Man Legacy Collection is a celebration of the 8-bit history of Capcom’s iconic Blue Bomber featuring faithful reproductions of the series’ origins with the original six Mega Man games.
STEEL STRIDER
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Rex Rocket.
Reviewers of Rex Rocket cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Rex Rocket.
STEEL STRIDER is the follow up to the acclaimed GIGANTIC ARMY and pays homage to the great run and gun games such as Turrican and Super Contra, but adds mouse / dual analogue stick-operated weapons!
Mega Man Legacy Collection 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Rex Rocket.
Reviewers of Rex Rocket cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Rex Rocket.
The Blue Bomber is back in this second collection of classic Capcom titles! Featuring faithful reproductions of Mega Man 7, 8, 9, & 10, this collection is bursting with additional content, from time trials and remix challenges to a music player and an extensive gallery of rare illustrations.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Rex Rocket at current Steam store prices.
Miss Neko
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Rex Rocket on Steam right now. Shares Action with Rex Rocket.
Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)
QUICKERFLAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Rex Rocket on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Rex Rocket.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Rex Rocket on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rex Rocket.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Gachi Heroes
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Rex Rocket on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Rex Rocket.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Rex Rocket on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Rex Rocket.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Rex Rocket.
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.
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 Rex Rocket.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Rex Rocket.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rex Rocket.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Rex Rocket.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
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More from Castle Pixel, LLC.
Other recommendable Steam games by Castle Pixel, LLC., ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Blossom Tales: The Sleeping King
WHY THIS
Another title from Castle Pixel, LLC., the studio behind Rex Rocket. Shares Action and Adventure with Rex Rocket.
Explore a huge open game world in classic action-adventure fashion! Prove your worth by fighting through monster-infested dungeons to save the Kingdom of Blossom!
Cattle Country
WHY THIS
Another title from Castle Pixel, LLC., the studio behind Rex Rocket. Shares Indie with Rex Rocket.
Howdy partner! Welcome to Cattle Country, the Cozy Cowboy Adventure Life Sim. Become a determined pioneer traveling west to start a new life. Make a home in the mountains, take on bandits, discover dastardly plots, build a farm, develop your town, and make friends with fellow residents.
Blossom Tales II: The Minotaur Prince
WHY THIS
Another title from Castle Pixel, LLC., the studio behind Rex Rocket. Shares Action and Adventure with Rex Rocket.
The Minotaur King has returned...and it's all your fault! Lily's back for a new "classic" action-adventure set hundreds of years after The Sleeping King!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Environmental Station Alpha
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Rex Rocket.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Rex Rocket.
Explore an abandoned space station in this retro-themed explorative action platformer.
Rebel Transmute
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Rex Rocket.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Rex Rocket.
Rebel Transmute is a challenging 2D action-platformer epic with heart! Explore the twisting caverns of an alien planet, augment your play-style to fit your strengths, battle deadly bosses, and uncover a dark truth as Moon Mikono searches for her long lost mother.
La-Mulana
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Rex Rocket.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Rex Rocket.
LA-MULANA is an “Archaeological Ruin Exploration Action Game,” bringing the classic appeal of adventure with the punishing difficulty of retro-inspired gaming. Search inside ancient ruins, seeking out the “Secret Treasure of Life” – which sleeps in the sprawling ruins of “LA-MULANA” and is said to be the beginning of all civilization.
Horace
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Rex Rocket.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Rex Rocket.
"The best platformer of 2019."Horace is a huge platforming adventure which pushes the boundaries of the genre with a profound story of a small robot learning of life, the universe and Douglas Adams. Made by videogame lovers for videogame lovers!
Axiom Verge
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Rex Rocket.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Rex Rocket.
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
Gato Roboto
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Rex Rocket.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Rex Rocket.
Pounce inside of your cozy armored mech and set off on a dangerous trek through an alien underworld full of irritable creatures and treacherous obstacles in a valiant effort to save your stranded captain and his crashed spaceship.
Frequently asked about Rex Rocket
- How much does Rex Rocket cost?
- Rex Rocket is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Rex Rocket?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Rex Rocket are Environmental Station Alpha, Rebel Transmute, La-Mulana.
- Who developed Rex Rocket?
- Rex Rocket was developed by Castle Pixel, LLC..
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 Rex Rocket.
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