Games like Heavy Bullets
If Heavy Bullets is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ziggurat, Tower of Guns and Delver — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its methodical corner clearing gameplay, atmospheric and challenging. 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 →Heavy Bullets is a roguelike first-person shooter from Terri Vellmann and Doseone, published by Devolver Digital in 2014 for 9.99 USD. It starts with six revolver bullets that must be retrieved from the ground after firing, making its way through a colorful procedural maze toward resetting a security mainframe on the eighth level. Built around bullet retrieval, limited ammo, and methodical combat, it rewards checking corners and deciding when to push or retreat. Reviewers describe it as atmospheric, challenging, and tense, and highlight how bullet retrieval forces tactical positioning and the punishing-but-fair difficulty. Runs last about fifty minutes. It scored 72 on Metacritic, holds 81% positive of 1,006 Steam reviews, and is rated Playable on Steam Deck.
About Heavy Bullets: Heavy Bullets is a randomized FPS dungeon crawler where players make their way through a colorful maze, while protecting themselves from aggressive creatures and malfunctioning security devices. The goal lies at the end of the 8th level, where they must reset the security mainframe to restore order and reap the rewards.
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Ziggurat
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Heavy Bullets.
Top pick for Heavy Bullets fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Bullets.
Dungeon-Crawling First Person Shooting at its finest! Fast-paced combat! Dozens of perks, spells and enemies! Level ups! Random Dungeons! Traps! Badass bosses! Carrots!
Tower of Guns
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Heavy Bullets.
Second-strongest match for Heavy Bullets fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Bullets.
Tower of Guns is a fast paced first-person-shooter for the twitch gamer... with a few randomized elements to keep it fresh with each playthrough. It's a short burst "Lunch Break FPS"... not unlike Binding of Isaac mixed with Doom 2. Tower of Guns was made by a guy named Joe (with his brother Mike composing the music).
Delver
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Heavy Bullets.
Third-strongest match for Heavy Bullets fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Bullets.
Delve into the shifting dungeons on your hunt for the Yithidian orb, but getting it might just be the easy part. Delver is a single player first-person action roguelike dungeon crawler, just like you wished they used to make.
STRAFE: Gold Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Heavy Bullets.
Ranked #4 for Heavy Bullets fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Bullets.
STRAFE® is the worlds bloodiest roguelike first-person shooter! Featuring mind melting secrets and persistent gore that allows you to paint levels red with the excessive entrails of your enemies. 30+ weapons, 20+ enemies, & a red hot soundtrack.
Soulslinger: Envoy of Death
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Heavy Bullets.
Ranked #5 for Heavy Bullets fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Bullets.
You are a gunslinger in limbo, involved in a gritty war against "The Cartel", a ruthless organization harvesting souls to break free of the shackles of the afterlife. Grow stronger with each new run, gather the essence of lost souls to take on the biggest threats in this rogue-lite FPS!
Immortal Redneck
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Heavy Bullets.
Ranked #6 for Heavy Bullets fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Bullets.
Immortal Redneck is a FPS set in Egypt with rogue-lite elements. Frantic gameplay, twitch controls and an arcade-style feel meet randomly generated dungeons, a complete skill tree, permanent death and 9 classes with different traits.
City of Brass
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Heavy Bullets.
Ranked #7 for Heavy Bullets fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Bullets.
A first-person action adventure, inspired by Arabian Nights, from senior BioShock developers.
Paranautical Activity: Deluxe Atonement Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Heavy Bullets.
Ranked #8 for Heavy Bullets fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Bullets.
Paranautical Activity combines the classic FPS action of games like Doom and Quake, with the randomness and difficulty of modern roguelikes like Binding of Isaac and Spelunky.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Heavy Bullets at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Heavy Bullets on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heavy Bullets.
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 Heavy Bullets on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Bullets.
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 Heavy Bullets on Steam right now. Shares Action with Heavy Bullets.
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 Heavy Bullets on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heavy Bullets.
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 Heavy Bullets on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heavy Bullets.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Heavy Bullets on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Bullets.
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 Heavy Bullets on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Bullets.
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 Heavy Bullets on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Bullets.
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.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Heavy Bullets.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Heavy Bullets.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Bullets.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Heavy Bullets.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Heavy Bullets.
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 Heavy Bullets.
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 Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Heavy Bullets.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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More from Terri Vellmann
Other recommendable Steam games by Terri Vellmann, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
SLUDGE LIFE
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Heavy Bullets.
Another title from Terri Vellmann, the studio behind Heavy Bullets. Shares Indie with Heavy Bullets.
SLUDGE LIFE is a first-person / open-world / vandalism-centric stroll through a polluted island full of cranky idiots and a vibe so thick you can taste it.
High Hell
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Heavy Bullets.
Another title from Terri Vellmann, the studio behind Heavy Bullets. Shares Action and Indie with Heavy Bullets.
High Hell is a neon-soaked, arcade-action first-person shooter from Terri Vellmann (Heavy Bullets) and Doseone (Enter the Gungeon, Gang Beasts).
SLUDGE LIFE 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Heavy Bullets.
Another title from Terri Vellmann, the studio behind Heavy Bullets. Shares Indie with Heavy Bullets.
SLUDGE LIFE 2 is the grimiest first-person vandalism sim since the first SLUDGE LIFE—but, like, twice as dense. Explore a huger, weirder, gnarlier open world loaded with secrets, weirdos, jokes, and, of course, plenty of spots to tag.
SLUDGE LIFE: The BIG MUD Sessions
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Heavy Bullets.
Another title from Terri Vellmann, the studio behind Heavy Bullets. Shares Indie with Heavy Bullets.
Munch down a bite-sized SLUDGE LIFE experience in this free self-contained interlude.
GUNCHO
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Heavy Bullets.
Another title from Terri Vellmann, the studio behind Heavy Bullets.
In this small scale, turn based tactics game, you spin Guncho's revolver cylinder to keep his bullets aligned to enemies. Fight your way through randomly generated shootouts. Upgrade your bullets and use tactical abilities to defeat your foes. Ride your donkey and become the ultimate Pistolero.
Frequently asked about Heavy Bullets
- Does Heavy Bullets run on Steam Deck?
- Heavy Bullets is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Heavy Bullets cost?
- Heavy Bullets is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Heavy Bullets?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Heavy Bullets are Ziggurat, Tower of Guns, Delver.
- Who developed Heavy Bullets?
- Heavy Bullets was developed by Terri Vellmann, Doseone and published by Devolver Digital.
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