Games like Blast in the Past
If Blast in the Past is your kind of game, the closest matches are Operius DX, Stellar Valkyrie and Hello Space — 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 Blast in the Past: Blast through 28 levels in this FPS inspired by classic retro games. Levels span across 3 game modes ending with unique epic boss battles to test your skills. Find hidden medals, discover hidden objectives, and level up your character all while trying to survive an onslaught of nostalgic foes.
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Steam players who put hours into Blast in the Past 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.
Operius DX
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Top pick for Blast in the Past fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Blast in the Past.
Blast off into Operius DX, a high-speed arcade shooter where you navigate twisting polygonal tunnels, battle waves of enemies, and confront formidable bosses in an endless amount of procedurally-generated levels. How far can you get?
Stellar Valkyrie
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Second-strongest match for Blast in the Past fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Blast in the Past.
Space bounty hunter Falco must explore the solar system in search of his ex-girlfriend and destroy the Black Star cult. Collect bounties, upgrade your equipment, explore planets, crack wise & fight aliens in this GZDoom-powered Retro-FPS adventure.
Hello Space
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Third-strongest match for Blast in the Past fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Blast in the Past.
Dive into a 2D action game where you control a spaceship, defeat enemies and overcome deadly traps. Extend your arsenal by collecting new weapons and technologies for your ship that you will need to conquer four different dungeon-like worlds, all connected by an open space full of surprises.
Virtual Ricochet
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Ranked #4 for Blast in the Past fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Blast in the Past.
“Death-defying tennis with robots and laser guns!” Virtual Ricochet is built from the ground up as a fusion of the best of VR shooters and tennis-style mechanics in a retro-futuristic synthwave arena - IN SPACE!
Space Warpster
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Ranked #5 for Blast in the Past fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Blast in the Past.
A fast-paced retro arcade shooter inspired by classic 1980s side-scrolling space combat. Weave through organic obstacles, survive relentless enemy waves, and defeat powerful end-level bosses in a pure, skill-driven singleplayer experience.
Viral Reload EX
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Ranked #6 for Blast in the Past fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Blast in the Past.
Viral Reload EX is a shoot-em-up with a dash mechanic where you shrink down to fight infections at a microscopic scale! Can you defeat the evil Kyle Kaboom before he destroys the moon?
OMEGA SPACE
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Ranked #7 for Blast in the Past fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Blast in the Past.
Ω-SPACE - The last dimension you can reach
Spaceman Defender
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Ranked #8 for Blast in the Past fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Blast in the Past.
Defend the Little Spaceman Dudes from aliens! Blast waves of Alien Abductors and UFOs across 50 challenging levels in this fast-paced ’80s-style arcade space shooter.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Blast in the Past at current Steam store prices.
QUICKERFLAK
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Priced ~51% under Blast in the Past on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Blast in the Past.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
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Priced ~51% under Blast in the Past on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Blast in the Past.
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
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Priced ~51% under Blast in the Past on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Blast in the Past.
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
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Priced ~51% under Blast in the Past on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Blast in the Past.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
Shotgun Legend
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Priced ~51% under Blast in the Past on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Blast in the Past.
Eugene must battle aliens and the undead in search of a truck rim, as it seems to be his ticket home.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Blast in the Past.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Blast in the Past.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Blast in the Past.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.).
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Blast in the Past.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Blast in the Past.
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!
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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Frequently asked about Blast in the Past
- How much does Blast in the Past cost?
- Blast in the Past is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Blast in the Past?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Blast in the Past are Operius DX, Stellar Valkyrie, Hello Space.
- Who developed Blast in the Past?
- Blast in the Past was developed by Deniro and published by A Mil To One Games.
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 Blast in the Past.
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