Games like Heartbeats
If Heartbeats is your kind of game, the closest matches are NIDUS, ULTRABUGS and Chippy — 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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Players who liked Heartbeats also play
Steam players who put hours into Heartbeats 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.
NIDUS
WHY THIS
Top pick for Heartbeats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heartbeats.
A symbiotic Flower and Wasp struggle to complete their lifecycle, in a challengingly twisted arcade experience. Control both characters at once in mind-bending Single Player, or team up with a friend in hectic Local Co-Op. Master the symbiotic duet, devour the swarm, and ascend the leaderboard.
ULTRABUGS
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Heartbeats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heartbeats.
Vlambeer's ULTRABUGS is a fast-paced high-score game in which you fight endless space bugs that split up into MORE space bugs as you fight and defeat them.
Sektori
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Heartbeats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Heartbeats.
Sektori is an intense, fast paced twin-stick shooter infused with hard hitting techno music. A game where the high-adrenaline gameplay, visuals, and music come together to transport you into another state of consciousness.
Waves
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Heartbeats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heartbeats.
Waves is an Arcade Twin-Stick Shooter that's all about High Scores. Build your combo and drop bombs in pursuit of Leaderboard dominance over seven game-modes!
Debris Infinity
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Heartbeats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heartbeats.
Be elusive! Be intense! Be constant! Put your reflexes to the limit, manipulating time itself to make impossible maneuvers, using an advance scoring system to rank your performance!
Cyberpulse
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Heartbeats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heartbeats.
Slam your way through waves of viruses and hurl your friends through cyberspace in this flashy arcade thrower that combines classic twin-stick action with inventive physics for an electrifying adventure.
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Heartbeats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved is a old school style shooter, but remixed for the 21st century with next generation graphics and deep, modern gameplay. Playing is simple: you are a geometric "ship" trapped in a grid world, facing off against waves of deadly wanderers, snakes, and repulsars.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Heartbeats at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Heartbeats on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Heartbeats.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Heartbeats on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heartbeats.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Heartbeats on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heartbeats.
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 ~75% under Heartbeats on Steam right now. Shares Action with Heartbeats.
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.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Heartbeats on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heartbeats.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Heartbeats on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heartbeats.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Heartbeats on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heartbeats.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Heartbeats on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Heartbeats.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Heartbeats.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Heartbeats.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Heartbeats.
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.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Heartbeats.
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 Heartbeats.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
![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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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Sektori
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Heartbeats.
Sektori is an intense, fast paced twin-stick shooter infused with hard hitting techno music. A game where the high-adrenaline gameplay, visuals, and music come together to transport you into another state of consciousness.
Waves
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Heartbeats.
Waves is an Arcade Twin-Stick Shooter that's all about High Scores. Build your combo and drop bombs in pursuit of Leaderboard dominance over seven game-modes!
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box.
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved is a old school style shooter, but remixed for the 21st century with next generation graphics and deep, modern gameplay. Playing is simple: you are a geometric "ship" trapped in a grid world, facing off against waves of deadly wanderers, snakes, and repulsars.
Frequently asked about Heartbeats
- How much does Heartbeats cost?
- Heartbeats is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Heartbeats?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Heartbeats are NIDUS, ULTRABUGS, Chippy.
- Who developed Heartbeats?
- Heartbeats was developed by First Impact Studio.
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 Heartbeats.
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