Games like Vortica
If Vortica is your kind of game, the closest matches are Scrapstorm, Gunblade Ranger and RIFTSTORM — 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 Vortica: Vortica is a 2D action roguelite set in a solar system overrun by hostile aliens. Suit up, loot up, and shoot up as you battle against enemy hordes, explore derelict outposts, and hunt giant bosses. Each mission gets you one step closer to returning to Earth and saving the human race.
Players who liked Vortica also play
Steam players who put hours into Vortica 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.
Scrapstorm
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Top pick for Vortica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vortica.
A 1-4 player bullet-heaven roguelite where the whole city is hunting you. Draft cards every level until one pistol turns into a screen-clearing mess, and watch out for the traffic, the third rail and whatever is running each district.
Gunblade Ranger
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Vortica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vortica.
An action shooting Roguelite focused on relentless attacks and brutal executions. Fight through the wasteland, execute enemies to restore ammo, collect weapons and mutations, and create your own killing build. Local 2 player co-op supported.
RIFTSTORM
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Vortica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vortica.
RIFTSTORM is a co-op PvE looter-shooter where squads of Weavers deploy to take on missions, fight escalating hordes, collect powerful weapons and resources, and extract.
Zap Blastum
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Ranked #4 for Vortica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Vortica.
Zap always dreamed of saving the galaxy, and now it's time! Snap into cover, lock onto targets, and outsmart an army of robots in this fast-paced top-down cover shooter. The odds are against you, but anyone can be a hero.
Dead Broke
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Ranked #5 for Vortica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Vortica.
An arena roguelite where money is your life, your ammo, and your currency. Shoot, gamble, and survive in a casino from hell: every bullet costs, every coin saves you. 13 characters, 5 endings, and local co-op. The House always wins... until you stop owing it.
Geometry Rift: Apocalypse
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Vortica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Vortica.
Imagine the frenetic chaos of Geometry Wars colliding with the addictive progression of Vampire Survivors. That's Geometry Rift — a relentless auto-fire action experience where geometric enemies flood the screen and your only option is to shoot, dodge, and survive.
Hollow Orbit
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Ranked #7 for Vortica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vortica.
Loot a dead generation-ship before the dark wakes up and hunts you by scent. A top-down extraction roguelite of greed and the lights going out: kill for cores, carry the power home, escape the BLACKOUT — or push one deck deeper for richer loot and a worse death.
NINE ROUNDS RAPID
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Vortica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vortica.
Blast your way to freedom, solo or with a friend in online or local co-op, through a possessed, fragmenting space station. Upgrade abilities, mod your weapon builds, and manipulate time to defeat the station's nine gatekeepers. Power up, progress, and learn the ugly truth with every escape attempt.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Vortica at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~61% under Vortica on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Vortica.
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 ~61% under Vortica on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Vortica.
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!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~45% under Vortica on Steam right now. Shares Action with Vortica.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Vortica on Steam right now. Shares Action with Vortica.
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.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~41% under Vortica on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Vortica.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~51% under Vortica on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vortica.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
How to Fish
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Priced ~61% under Vortica on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Vortica.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~61% under Vortica on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vortica.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vortica.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Vortica.
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 Vortica.
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 Vortica.
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.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Vortica.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Vortica.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Vortica.
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!
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Frequently asked about Vortica
- Does Vortica run on Steam Deck?
- Vortica 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 Vortica cost?
- Vortica is listed on Steam at 12.74 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Vortica have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Vortica supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Vortica?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Vortica are Scrapstorm, Gunblade Ranger, RIFTSTORM.
- Who developed Vortica?
- Vortica was developed by Vortical Studios and published by Caketown Interactive.
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 Vortica.
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